Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-06
Fiftieth Congress-second Session
WAsHIseToN, Dec. 5.

! w AonAH0ACHN1 OcS' Os DEBATE ON THE TARIFF BILL. I SENATE.-After the consideration of vari ous miscellaneous business the tariff bill wal l taken up and Mir. Harris of Tennessee moved 1 to lay on the table the amendment to the House bill proposed by the committee on finance, which is the whole Senate bill, and demanded the yeas and nays. The motion was rejected by strict party vote, yeas 19, nays 26.
 The clerk then proceeded with the reading of the substitute for amendments. Mir. Vance moved an amendment to the tobacco section reducing the limit of claims for rebate from $10 to S5; rejected. No other amendment was offered to the tobacco section.
 ALCOHOL USED IN THE ARTS.
 The next subject Commencing at section and ending with section ID was that of aleo- hol in the industrial arts. No amendment was offered, but MT. Sherman said that he had very grave doubts as to the practicabili- ty of applying these sections without enoour- aging fraud. He was, however, anxious to see the experiment tried.
 Mir. McPherson called attention to the fact that the rates of duty reported for chemical products made no allowance for the remit tance of the tax on spirits used in medicines. This remission would, he said, simply operate as an additional bounty to the manufacturers of chemical products. No member of the f- nance committee would deny that there would be great frauds on the revenue under the provisions for free alcohol in the arts and manufactures. He therefore regarded those provisions as the first step toward the total abrogation of the whiskey tax, and he called for a yea and nay vote on the provisions as to alcohol used in manufactures.
 MIR. ALLISON EXPLAINS.
 MT. Allison thought there was some force in Mir. McPherson's suggestion that this was tine proper time to test the question whether the sections relating to alcohol in the arts and manufactures should remain in the bill or be excluded from it. As to the supposed difficulty of executing the provisions of the bill as to free alcohol in the arts and manu- features he did not believe that there would be any such difficulty. He denied that the proposed legislation was @ step in the elimi- nation of the tax on distilled spirits. It was rather step leading to the perpetuation of that tax because it eliminated from the prob lem one great interest that was now suffering because of that tax.
 The question then took political turn and after drifting off into 8 dispute between Mr. Dawes and MT. McPherson the vote was taken to strike out all the sections as to alcohol yeas IT, nays 24. MT. Sherman voted with the other Republicans in the negative. MT. McPherson gave notice that he would renew the motion hereafter.
 After disposing of thirty pages of the bill and reaching the end of schedule A, no amendment being offered to it, the Senate proceeded to executive business and at 3:50 adjourned.
 HoUsE-After the introduction of num- Der of bills, MT. Springer, (Dem., III. asked unanimous consent for the immediate con- -s1 ,G 1I--ks1 o1-s nibus" bill for the admission of Dakota, Montana, Washington, and New Mexico 8 special order for to-day, the bill to be con- sidered from day to day until disposed of.
 MT. Grosvenor Rep., Ohio,) objected to this last resolution remarking that the gen. tleman from Illinois had not appeared very anxious last session to admit Dakota.
 The direct tax bill was made a special or der for Thursday, Saturday and Tuesday, a
 final vote to be taken at four o'clock on the latter day.
 MT. Payson, of Illinois, from the commit tee on public lands, reported as 8 privileged matter the bill to quiet the title of settlers on the Des Moines river lands in Iowa. After long discussion the bill was passed. It declares all lands improperly certified to lows by the department of the interior under the act of August 8, 1846, to be public lands ot the United States, and it confirms and makes valid the title of all bona fde settlers under color of title from the State of Iowa and its grantees or the United States or it's grantees, which does not come in conflict with prior bona fde pre-emption of homestead claim ants. The House then adjourned.
 TO MAKE TWO STATES OF CALIFORNIA. Representative Vandever of California in, troduced bill today to divide the State oi California into two States. MT. Vandevel has not yet perfected the measure but he secured leave from the House to send it te the appropriate committee when it is put il shape. MT. vandever said that in explana tion of his bill that the great length of ths
 State of California had resulted in a diversity of interests and that it was thought the in terests of the people of the two sections would be advanced if each section could leg islate for itself alone.
 BILL TO OPEN THE SIOUX RESERVATION. Delegate Clifford of Dakota to-day intro. duced bill amendatory of the law providing for the division of the great Sioux reservation iu Dakota and for the relinquishment of the Indian title to the remainder. That law was enacted at the last session of Congress. The commission appointed under 1t to treat with the Indians failed to reach 8 satisfactory set clement as to the proposed division. The bill introduced to- day amends the law as follows The reservation is to be opened without the
 
 last session required such consent; the sum of $2, 900, 900 is to be deposited to the credit of the Indians instead of the $1 ,000,- 900, provided for by the law of last session The lands thrown open to settlement are to be paid for at the following rates: On all lands centered for settlement during the first two years after the opening of the reservation $1 per acre; all lands taken during the next two years seventy five cents per acre and if. ty cents per acre for the residue undisposed of at that time. The law of the last session proposed to pay for the lands at fifty cents per acre. A feature of the amendment is ar appropriation of $200, 900 to defrsy the ex penses of surveying the lands opened to set clement.
 Appointed Page By Daniel Webster WAsHINaToN, Dec. 5.-Captain Isaac Bas. sest, assistant door keeper of the Senate, eel. ebrated to-day the 57th anniversary of hii appointment through the influence of Danie Webster to be page in the Senate. He is the oldest government employe in time oi service, here.