Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-01
Fiftieth Congress--First Session.
WAsHrNaron. Anril a0.

WASHINGTON. April 30. SENATE.-The resolution offered last week by MT. Hale calling on the Secretary of the Interior for information as to appointments in his department below the civil service grade since March, 1885, was taken up and adopted.
 Mir. Spooner offered a resolution, which was laid over, calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for detailed information as to ap- pointments in the New York custom house since March, 1885.
 The international copyright bill was then taken up. The amendment heretofore offer ed by Mir. Morrill, Gas to republicatious of magazine and newspaper articles) was with drawn by his authority and another amend ment was offered for him by MT. Chace, who said he would accept it as matter of com- promise. It was that any publisher of newspaper or magazine may import for his own use, but not for sale, not more than two copies of newspaper or magazine published in foreign country. The amendment was adopted.
 MT. Vest moved to strike out the words "from type setn so as to have the clause "beok or dramatic composition printed with in the limits of the United States" Mir. Vests amendment was rejected without a division
 Mir. Jones, of Arkansas, moved. to strike out all of section 9, requiring as part of tine conditions of copyright-printed copies of books and works of art to be sent to the con- gressienal ibrary-the books to be printed from type set within the United States.
 The amendment gave rise to 8 discussion participated in by Senators Jones, Chace, Kenna, Call and Gray. MT. Chace opposed the amendment as tending to emaseulate the bill, destroy it's unity and throw it out of harmony with itself.
 The vote WAS: Yeas IA, nays 19-no que- rum voting,
 The Senate then at o'clock adjourned. 
 HoUsE.-The House went into committee on the tariff bill and MT. Grosyenor, of Ohio, spoke against the bill. There were, he con tended, no war taxes left save and except alone the system of internal revenue taxa tion, which was in this country what it had been in all other countries, g resort to which the country was driven by the exigencies of war and which ought to have been the final monument of taxation to be stricken down and removed. Turning to the question of the surplus MT. Grosvenor expressed no anxi- ety in regard to it. It was born he said of a political nightmare. It was 8 mirage which had occurred in the political desert and had deceived the Democratic party in regard to the condition of the country. If the govern ment would to-day pay it's honest debts there would not be dollar of surplus. Mir. Gresvenor said that he did not believe that the mission of statesmanship was to make it possible for the people to buy where they could buy cheapest and sell where they could sell dearest. The condition that surrounded the great labor problem in this country was so widely different from the situation which surrounded that problem in other nations that Congress would be false to it's duty did it not draw line of distinction between them. In concluding Mr. Grosve- nor insisted that under the administration of the Republican party the country had grown in wealth and prosperity in 8 ratio never witnessed in this or any other country, while nd oHT ivIa hA had stood still or retrograded.
 MT. Raynor, of Maryland, in supporting the bill said the Democratic party has issued tariff reform notes 10 the people, and the question was whether it would pay or repudi- ate. The people wanted the government to stop robbing then. The government did not require the surplus to pay it's debts. The contest was one between protected monopoly and capital on one hand and unprotected people and taxpayers on the other, and he stood with the unprotected people for reve- nue reform. MT. Raynor criticised severely the trusts of the country, especially the Standard Oil, which he pronounced one of fraud, corruption and oppression.
 MT. Cannon, of Illinois, asked Mir. Raynor if he did not know that the President had appointed one of the principal representatives of the Standard Oil, representative by rela- -tion if not otherwise, Secretary of the Navy, and another representative of that trust was the Senator of his party from Ohio.
 MT. Raynor replied that the fact of mans being the son-in-law of somebody connected with the trust did not mix him up with the fraud. MT. Raynor denied that any man could be Democrat and remain in favor of the protective system. If the party broke it's promise now to the people they would never believe it. If the pressure of local in- terest was regarded now the party was doomed and doomed it deserved to be, for the party did not deserve to live that had not the courage of its convictions. MT. Henderson, of Iowa, opposed the bill. The Democrats, he said snapped and snarled at the tariff laws, and none of them had 8 kind word to say about the revenue policy which had taken a bankrupt treasury and impoverished country out of the hands of the Democratic party and made the country the imperial, incomparably and prosperous country of the earth. He criticised the bill as crippling where it should support and tearing down where it should build.
 MT. Gallinger, of New Hampshire, in op- posing the bill said the pending trouble was one between England and America, and he characterized the bill as wicked assault upon the industries of New England. It should be entitled Ia bill to reduce New Eng- land to a position of dependency on Great Britain" When MT. Gallinger concluded the committee rose and the House at 5:30 adjourned,