Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-13
WASHINGTON.
Sensitive Senator SpoOner
Resents a Sheer.
HIS ENDE HONORABLE.
The President FavOrs the Senate
With Information on the
Fisheries.
( Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD


I Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD |
WASHINGTON, September 12.-In the |
Senate, to-day, George offered an amend
ment to the Trust bill reported yesterday
from the Committee on Finance. The
amendment consists of four additional
sections, the most important being one
making it the duty of the President,
when satisfied that the price of any arti-
Gle of merchandise is raised in conse-
quence Of agreements or combinations,
to issue proclamation suspending tenn
porarily the collection of import duties
on such articles. He supported his
amendment in speech at some length.
Hoar made some sarcastic pointed re-
marks as to the connection of the Cabinet
and the Democratic party with trusts.
After referring to the various kinds of
trusts, he said there was another trust he
would like to have some information
about, alluding to Congressman Scott, OF
Pennsylvania. He said he would like to
know whether that gentleman had any
relations to any of these great trusts, or
to transportation interests, coal interests
or other interests; whether he was inter-
ested in the trusts which laid tax on the
fire of every workingman in the winter,
and increased the tax when he travelled
by railroad in summer, for pleasure or
business.
Reagan expressed his regret that a
t,o teaI in, M
Senate without partisan issue being
made out OF it.
PAYNE remarked that the Standard Oil
the mind of the Senator from Massachu-
sets. That company was very remark
able and wonderful institution. 1t had
accomplished within the last twenty
years as commercial enterprise what no
himself he had never dollars interest
in it; he had never owned dollar of its
stock; he had never rendered it any
service and had never received any SER
vice from it. In conclusion Payne init
mated that the Senator from Massachu-
setts was laboripg under q "Copiah ex-
perience enough and wisdom enough to
| The discussion closed and Mr.. Georges g
amendment was ordered printed.
| Spooner offered a resolution reciting
the fact that Joseph Hoffman, OF Bren-
ham, Texas. prominent Republican
on Privileges and Elections, had been
city; that his assassination was believed
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views and activity, and to the fact that
he had given strong testimony before the
Committee investigating alleged election
outrages, and instructed the Committee
on Relations and Privileges to investi.
gate the circumstances of the killing ol
Hoffman, with special reference to as
certaining whether it was due in any
sense to his testifying before the Com
mittee.
This resolution gave rise to an ex
tended and heated political discussion
the speakers being Senators Spooner
Pugh, Evarts and Reagan. The only
notable incident in the debate occurred
when Spooner began to read telegraph
ic dispatch in a newspaper. headed
"Riddled with Buckshot," looking over
to Butler, Spooner said: "The Senator
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Butler-The Senator from Wisconsin
is exaggerating his own importance i'm
mensely, if he supposes that was pay
ing any attention whatever to what he
says.
Spooner-I do not know that the
Senator was paying any attention to me.
Butler-Not the slightest.
Spooner-If did assume for moment
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titled to the slightest consideration in
that direction l confess my error.
Butler-I do consider it entitled to con-
sideration at the proper time. There are
proper occasions when such things may
be presented. The Senator, / repeat, is
magnifying his importance immensely
If he supposes was concerned about it.
Spooner-l beg to say to him that did
not assume that it possessed Importance
in his eyes. 1t is matter of Indifference
to me whether it did or not.
At the close of Spooner's speech he
recurred to the circumstance and said
81 owe the Senator from South Carolina
an apology Gin view OF the fact that he
did not interrupt me orally for alluding
to him in the discussion, and that
apology l certainly tender him."
| DuUiCi -AAdU 10 qulto SdIlSIacuOry.
The discussion as to the Texas matter
having been resumed, Salisbury said he
regarded it as disgrace to be constitu-
ting the Senate of the United States a
political machine, to advance the inter-
ests of the Republican candidate for the
Presidency. Such investigations were
got up merely for political effect, but they
were disgrace to the Senate, and repre-
hensible in every point of view as tend
ing to keep up the spirit of race animos.
ity in the South.
After further debate the bill relating to
postal crimes was concurred in.
The resolution for printing Is 900 ad-
ditional copies of the reports of the Paci-
fic Railroad Commission was agreed to.
Adjourned.
THE HOUSE.
| The Arid Lands Irrigation Meas
ure and Other Business.
| WASHINGTON, September 12.--The
| House resumed consideration Of tie re-
port of the Sundry Civil Appropriation
hill The Senate amendment relativa IN