Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-17
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
The Senate.

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| WAsHINeToN, May 16th.-The Senate to-.
dsy adopted the Vest resolution for an in
vestigation of the alleged trust to control
the price of beef. An amendment by Mr..
McCOilum was adopted extending the in
Testigation to rates charged by railroads for
| shipment of M eat.
!. Teller introduced bill for the relief of
certain Eettlers in the Wind River Valley.
| Wyo.
A petition was read from the G.. A. r.
Department OF Oregon, praying for a bill
| providing for headstones to the graves of
| Uaion soldiers.
| The following bills were psused Tt, pro-
vide aid for the Soldiers Home for the sun
| por5 of Union soldiers and sailors: to
| authorize the President to confcTthe brevet
homer on officers Of the army sor gallant
! services in Indian wars; to increase the,
appropriation for q public building at Sac
ramenso; and Senator Dolphs bill to
authorize the leasing of school and uni
versity lands in wyoming Territory.
THE House.
tIopyTigaB B7sss, by tt.af frmia Assoeiated F-es,.J
WASHINGTON, May 16th.-The petition of
citizens o7Michigan asking the immediate
passage of she per Gem rated service pen
sion bill w5s referred 70 the Committee en-
Pensions.
The following Houge- bills were passed
this morning; To authorize the location
Of branch home for, volunteer disabled
soldiers in Grant county Ind, and appro-
pItatipg $500, 800 therefor directing the
Secretary of he Inter5or' TO pay Abbie
sharp S25O0, who was captured and whose
family was killed by Sioux Indians at
Spirit Lake, Iowa, on the sth of March,
1857.
The House then went into Committee of
the Whole on the tariff bill, and Baker of
New York made good speech, arguing
that protection wasthe cloakunder which
the great industries of the country had
prospersd and that it had not been the
boon of rich men, hut of poor also.
Farquar of New York followed in the
same vein, saying that the Republican
party was not only willing but anxious to
have that the issue of the coming cam
paign.
Weaver Of Iowa supported the Mills bill.
Bound end Bayne CT Pennsylvania and
Laird of Nebraska spoke against the bill,
the latter making very strong speech and
attracting considerable attention from both
sides of the House.
McRae of Arkansas spoke after Weaver
in favor of the bill, and Ryan of Kansas
against it.
Russell of Massachusetts, spoke for free
wool, claiming himself to be wool
grower. He says it pays the farmer to
raise sheep even if they had no more wool
than cows. Ese raised sheep for the lambs,
mutton and wool. A Lowell carpet fac
tory had shut down because it could not
pay the tariff on carpet woods, none of
which were grown in this country.
Fitch (Rep.) of New York. spoke for
tariff reduction, saying that unless the Re-
publlcans offered better bill reducing the
tariff he would vote for the Mills bill.
Allen of Michigan spoke in opposition
to the bill.
Dalzell, who represents the Pittsburg dis
trict, took occasion to reply to Scott of
Erie, and prodded him about referring in
public speech in the House to private
business like the Edgar Thompson Steel
Works and Carnegie's Scotch castle. Then
he raped Scott on his own example as a
monopolist who now poses as great anti
monopolist. He ridiculed Scott, whom he
called 1.-The statesman from Erie for ap-
pearing as the advocate of the working
man, when it was known to all men that
his treatment of his own numerous laborers
was not creditable.
Scott, replying, said he had listened with
interest to the personal attack on himself
by the gentleman-if he could be called
such-from Pennsylvania. He had never
oppressed labor. lie challenged the proof
that he was not paying more wages than
does the Edgar Thompson SteeI-wo-ks. He
had never employed detectives to watch
his property to keep out labor that he had
discharged to employ cheaper labor, as
others had done.
Brumm-(interrupting)-" Do you mean
to say that you never gave any money to
the regular police force by the Miners As
sociation ?n Republican applausel
Scott never did, but you have as
serted it." [Demoeraticapplause
Brumm-" Yes, and l can prove it."
[Great applause.]
Scott Yes, and I am going to make
you prove it before the bar of this House.
1t is as false as hellitselfn [Sensation7
AT the night session of the House there
weie twelve members present. Wickham
of Ohio spoke in fayer of the bill. Trusts,
he said, are not due 10 the present doctrine
of protection, but are manifestations of
monopolies existing under any economic
policy, and it is natural for an individual,
or body of individuals, to gain advantage
over their competitors by forming trusts or
pools.