Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-06-02


 gineering of a financial battle on Wall street in which one of the editors of The Times had acquitted himself not >-ltogether creditably, and that ever since he had been followed by lying reports printed in that paper. Mir. White concluded by saying: "The world unites in it's execratiOn of coward, but in the roll call of cowardice the most execrable devil that answers to his name is the news paper man who, armed with a printing press, uses it to gratify personal spite by scat terlng world wide false statements against citizen, who has no equal means either of contradiction or of retaliation. And such a case is the case at bar"
 The appeal of MT. Peters, of Kansas, which was pending last night, to the effect that the legislative appropriation bill must be again considered in committed of the whole, was overruled.
 The bill was then passed with the blank salaries filled in. s<sz
 The house went into committee of the whole on the tariff bill, with the understanding that debate on the first paragraph should be im- ited to forty minutes.
 MT. Holman, of Indiana, spoke in favor of cheap lumber.
 MT. Mccormick, of Pennsylvania, main taincd that there was no such thing as a lumber trust, and that the existing tariff on
 
 Mir. Farquhar, of New York, thought it was unfair to the lumbermen and the trans portation trade to hazard their contracts by the passage of the bill without the proposed change of date.
 Mr. Nutting, of New York, thought the only beneficiaries under the lumber clause would be the Canadian lumbermen, and that the passage of the bill would not cheapen lumber.
 The vote was then taken on the Adams amendment changing the date for the bill to go into effect to Jan. 3, 1889, and it was re- jected--yeas 81.
 Several amendments were then offered by various members, but were all rejected.
 When the timber section was reached Mir. Struble, of Iowa, moved to strike out the paragraph placing timber hewn and sewed, etc., on the free list.
 Something approaching sensation was caused when MT. Taulbee, of Kentucky Dem ), announced that he desired to give notice that he did not propose to be bound by party caucus. At the proper time he would move an amendment to the tariff bill put ting lumber on the dutiable list at 10 pel cent. ad valorem He was immediately ap preached by Messrs. Mills, Breckinridge and other Democratic leaders, and an earnest col loquy ensued. AILor 8 long OlSCuSSlOU Ol LUG 1unlDoT ClduSt l by Messrs. Outhwaite Boutelle, Dingley ] Guenther, Reed and others, MT. Mills re ! quested that the paragraph be passed over He said that the articles affected by the tw, lines in the bill which had been under con sideration all day had yielded revenue O but $198S 80 last year. His request was re fused, and the committee rose. The chief features of the senate proceed ings yesterday were the prompt confirma tion of the nomination of Lieut.. Gen. Sheri dan to be general of the army, and discus sion of the subject of education of tn l Indians.
 Senator Blair, in discussing the subject o the education of the Indians, spoke of tn progress made by the five civilized tribe in the Indian Territory, and in support 0 this progress mentioned the fact tha newspapers published there contained a much civilized blackguardism and criticism as the metropolitan journals did.
 MT. Dawes intimated that these tribes ha reached a certain grade of civilization an had stopped there, or perhaps retrogradeG The Indian, as an Indian, could find no plae on this continent, but the race would col tinue and would increase and multiply unde it's new conditions. The Indian had to | made self-supporting citizen of the Unite States or he would certainly be a vagabon savage tramp.
 Mr. Plumb said that the condition of tl Indians in the Indian Territory was wor now than it had been for many years
 The bill was finally passed, and the sena adjourned till Monday.
 While discussion of the Indian appropri tion bill was in progress in the senate u nomination of Lieut.. Gen. Sheridan to general of the army was received. The SCI ate at once went into secret session, co
 frmed it. and a few moments later resume l ..,..:lo o.o A;o,, of kl,o Y,ndin.n hall