Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-11
CONGRESS-.
Hate Speaks on the Tariff Bill In
the Senate.

Hate Speaks on the Tariff Bill In
the Senate.
WASHINGTON, October 10.-In the Sen
ate to-day Hale presented the report tt
the Select Committee on the operation o.
the Civil Service Law, and said the
Minority reporty will be presented here
after.
The House bill for the retirement ol
Andrew J. Smith, Colonel of the Seventh
Cavalry, was taken up and passed with
an amendment making his retirement
rank Colonel of Cavalry instead OF Briga-
dier-General.
The Senate then took up for considera-
ton the bill to pay $S475 to the widow
of Chief Justice White, it being the bal
ance Of his years salary. Hoar 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 sum proposed to be paid was simply
donation or gift. If 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, a member OF the Judiciary Com
mittee, said he had opposed the bill in
Committee, and was opposed to it now.
George, another member Of the Com
mittee, also opposed the bill.
After further discussion, the bill was
passed, Berry having withdrawn his call
for the yea sand nays.
THE TARIFF DEBATE.
The Senate then resumed consideration
of the Tariff bill and was addressed by
Bates. The Democratic House of Repre-
sentatives, he said, had discharged it's
duty by sending to the Senate bill
which in its general scope heartily com
piled with the demands of the people,
the pledges of the party and the bold,
manly and emphatic commendation of
the President. The Senate bill was a
superstructure of protection, erected on a
framework of revenue reform. That
much at least the President and his
party had wrested from the grasp of
monopoly. The reduction of duties on
one article was attended by an increase
of duties on another, but it was to be
remarked that the reduction was on
products of agriculture and the increase
on those of manufacture.
At the close of Bates speech, Cullom
obtained the floor and the Tariff bill
went over until tomorrow.
WAR CLAIM VETOED.
A message from the President was
the relief OF the executors of Joseph H.
Maddox, for payment on account of
losses and damages sustained by seizure
of tobacco during the war. The Presi-
dent refers to the fact that the claim
was barred by adverse decisions of the
courts; that it had been then presented
to Congress beginning with the Forty
second Congress and had passed now,
when favorable conditions existed, and
that he fails to appreciate the equities
that entities the claimant to further
hearing. The bill and message were re.
ferred to the Committee on Claims.
Dolph introduced a joint resolution
authorizing the Executive and other de-
partments of The government, the Ma
tional Museum, Smithsonian Institute,
ETC., to send for exhibition at the Paris
Exposition in 1889, such articles as they
have on hand and to use for that purpose,
with the unexpected balance from the
appropriation for the Cincinnati Expo
sition.
Hoar criticized the phraseology of tie
Joint resolution, "as unmeaning and un-
utterly unworthy of the Senate" and
Dolph said it had been prepared at the
State Department.
The resolution was placed on the cal
endar.
Adjourned.
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
Burnes, Of Missouri, called.up the Con-
ference report on the Deficiency bill,
and after debate it was agreed to. This
disposes of the last Of the General
Appropriation bills.
The House has agreed to the Confer
ence report on the bill granting the right
of way to the Yankton and Missouri
River Railroad Company through Yank-
ton Indian Reservation, Dakota. Ad-
journed until Friday.