, 1888-10-11
OTHER SENATE BUSINESS.
A Grant to chief Justice Waits's widow
-..The Tnrim Debnie.

| ---The Gnfih Dehhie'
WAsufNaToN, Oct. l0.--The house bil
for the retirement of Andrew j. Saith
colonel of the 7th calvary, was taken NJ
and passed with amendment, making The
retirement with the rank of colonel OF cav
airy. instead of brigadier general. The
senate then took up Tor consideration th,
bill TO pay sS475 to the widow OF ChieI
| Justice Waite, being the balance of his
years salary. Iloar advocated the bill
Berry opposed the BILL arguing that every
dollar due to the chief justice had been
paid to himself or his widow, and the sun
proposed to be paid was simply donation
or gift. IL the chief justice had not been
able to save money out OF his SALARY OF
| $4,000 year, he must have lived IN a
very extravagant way. Coke, men ber
| of the judiciary committee, sad he had
opposed the bill in the committee and was
opposed to IL now. George, another mem'
| ber of the judiciary committees, also OPP
posed the bill. After further discussion
the bill was passed, Berry having with
| drawn his call for the yeas and nays.
| The senate then resumed tue considera'
tion of the tariff billand was addressed by
Bates. The democratic house of represeu'
tatives, he said, had discharged its duty
| by sending 10 the senate u bill, which, in
in its genera scope partially complied
with the demands of the people, the
pledges Of the party aud the bold manly
and emphatic coMmendutlons OF the presi'
| dent. The senate bill was a superstruc'
ture of protection erected on L frame
| work Of revenue reform. That much, at
least. the president and his purity had
wrested from the grasp Of monopoly. The
| reduction of duties on one article was at
tended by an increase OF duties IN tue
| other, but it was to be remarked that the
| reduction was on the products of ugricul-
ture, and the increase on those OF manu-
facturies. At the close of Bates speech
Cullom obtained the floor and the tariff
bill went over until tomorrow.
A message from the president was pre-
sented and read vetoinV the Dill for the re-
lief of the executors of Josh II Maddox.
| for payment ON account vt losses and dam
age sustained by the seizure OF tobacco
during the war. Tne president refers to
the fact that the claim was barred by nd
verse decisions of the courts, that IL had
been then presented to congress, beginning
with the forty.second congress and had
passed now when favorable conditions ex-
ist, and that he fails TO appreciate the
equities that entitle the claimant to a
further hearing. The bill aU.. message
were referred to the cor t-p ~. s!Hius
Doipn introduced JOINT resolution au-
thorizing the executive and other depart
ments of the government national mu-
scum, Smithsonian Institution, etc, TO
send for exhibition at the Paris eXpOsi-
tion of 1889, such articles as they may
have on hand and to use for that purpose
the unexpended balance from the appro-
priation for their centennial exposition.
Hoar criticized the phraseoloRy OF The JOINT
resolution as "unmeaniDg and utterly un'
worthy of the senate" DOlph said 10 mad
been prepared at the state department.
The resolution was placed on the calendar.
Adjourned.
WAsmrNoroN, Oct. 0.--The senate
to-day resumed the consideration Of
the tariff bill, and was addressed
by Mr.. Hiscock. 1t was proper, he said,
to criticise the recent attempt OF the pres.
ident and of his party to explain away
aud to misrepfesent the effect and pur'
pose of the Mills bill, which they clttmed
to be calculated to benefit rather than TO
injure American labor and capital. The
issue was fairly drawn between the two
political parties, and the question was'
Free trade, or protection to American
labor? Neither subterfuge nor new con
fessions of faith would conceal or obscure
the real question. The democratic orators
were attempting, in manufacturing dis.
tricts. to shift their ground and TO conceal
the purposes OF their plrtyi but the olhnial
utterdpces of the president and the reports
of the secretary OF the treasury, empha-
sized by the Mills bill, which had been
endorsed by the national democratic con
vention. and which bad passed the house
by a strict party vote, left no DOUBT what-
ever as to the true position of the demo
cratic party ON that great question. Inc
aanate hi n left no doubt rs TO the position