, 1888-12-13
The Senate.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-There was but
little morning business. 90 the tariff bill
was quickly taken up, the pending ques-
tion being an amendment offered by Jones,
of Arkansas, to admit hoop or
band iron, cotton ties, ETC.,
tenths of cent per pound additional.
The question whether or not this would be
tax on the cotton planter, and If so. how
much, was discussed at length by Berry
and Hiscock. After long debate the
cotton tie tax amendment was rejected,
yeas eighteen, nays twenty-three. The
Pacific railroad funding bill, which was
the special order for o clock, passed over
without action.
Hiscock replied to Perry at some length
in a speech championing the senate bill
and protective tariff. In closing he said
the verdict on this question had been rem
dered by the people. The democrats have
a chance four years from now to try it over
again. This is not the time nor the place,
so soon after this full discussion, so soon
after rebuke of that sort, of declama-
tion to indulge ir it again, and imagine
it will have no effect on the country. We
don't believe that tariff is robbery. We
believe in building up American indus
tries. We have raw material here to
make these cotton ties and we believe the
industry can be so successfully established
that the effect will be to force down the
price OF cotton ties.
A colloquy in reference to cotton and to
the question whether its price was fixed in
the Liverpool market took place between
Senators Reagan, Hiscock and Chace. Af-
ter it closed the causes Of the defeat
OF the democrats in the last election
was brought up, Reagan claiming the tar
i'll had not 80 much to do with it as had
the veto of the dependent pension bill and
democratic discomfort with the presidents
civil service policy.
Chace asked whether the discomfort was
because the president had not carried out
his pledges.
Reagan-The discomfort was because he
did not carry out his pledges and because
he kept republicans in Office in cases where
the law did not require him to do SO.
Dawes--Does the senator mean to say
the presidents party deserted him because
he would not break his pledges?
Reagan-No, sir do not mean that.
Dawes-What do you meanP
Reagan-It was the presidents duty to
carry out the law, but it was not his duty
to extend the principle of the law to offices
that were not covered by it. mean that
there was discomfort with the doctrine of
civil service reform, and gentlemen on the
OtnVA ciuC WAh bOohl uuNc cNlucuCc OI IQaC
discomfort.
Hiscock asserted there was no evidence
OF democratic discomfort in the state of
New York with the presidents civil ser
vice reform policy during last year.
Them. replying to Reagan's remarks
about the agricultural interests in the
tariff question, he reminded him of the
fact that the republicans of the state Of New
York came down to Harlem river with
81. 900 majority, and that that part of the
state was fairly agricultural; that Iowa, a
fairly agricultural state, gave the repub-
licans majority of 10000, and that
Kansas gave the republicans majority Of
IS 900 or $4,000. That proved. he said,
that the agricultural interests of the
country did not consider 1t was being in.
jured by the tariff.
Reagan acco ounted for il by suggesting
that for the last twenty years fallacies
about the blessings of the tariff had been
preached to farmers, and that the last