Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-11
Fiftieth Congress--First Session.
WASHINGTON, May 10.

E1ft1eth C0ngreSs--F1rst Session. WAsHNaroN, May 10. SExATE.-Mr Sherman moved that the Senate proceed to the consideration of the resolution offered by MT. Hoar and reported adversely yesterday from the committee on foreign relations providing that when the fisheries treaty shall be under consideration a stenographic reporter shall be admitted to report the debate and proceedings, such re- port to be subject to the order of the Senate as to it's publication.
 Mir. Hoar suggested that MT. .Riddleberger's resolution in favor of considering the treaty in open session should be first taken up and disposed of and was informed by MT. Sher- man that both questions would be disposed of together.
 The motion was agreed to.
 stIn the consideration of this resolution" said MT. Edmunds, ''I move that the doors be closed" The motion was seconded by MT. Harris, whereupon the presiding officer directed at 2 p. m. the sergeant. t.at-arms to clear the galleries and close the doors of the Senate. |.
 The doors were reopened at o'clock and business proceeded with. A number of bills were passed, among them the Senate bill ap- propriating $25,000 for monument to the memory of Major General Henry Knox at Thomaston, Me MT. Berry expressed his opposition to the erection by the general governments of monuments except in the District of Columbia.
 The conference report on the House bill authorizing the President to arrange con- ference for the purpose of promoting arbi- tration and reciprocal commercial relations with Central and South American States and Mexico and Brazil was presented and agreed to.
 The Senate at 5 p. m. edjourned till Mon day.
 ba int mi on the tariff bill. MT. Wilkinson, of Louisi- ana, said that extremists were wrong when they held that there wes no constitutional authority for the imposition of protective du- ties. A duty that furnished revenue and gave protection when it could, revenue as the object and protection as the incident, had the highest constitutional justification. He could not agree with the speakers who held that an industry which required protec tion to bring into existence was not worthy of cultivation.
 Mr. Brumm said the President of the United States had solemnly proclaimed a doctrine which was the spawn of the cotton combine of the Wall street sharks and of the Kentucky whiskey ring. By protection only could fair remunerative wages be paid. He was therefore for protection and against class legislation in tke interest of cotton, whiskey and Great Britain. English goods were sold for less than the cost of production
 
 do this, it was the junk that must be gotten rid of. This country, boundless in its do- mains, was the dumping ground for the sur plus products Of the old world. The great fathers of silver-Bland and Mills-no longer said a word in it's favor. All of the fault was their god and were wershipping idols.
 Mir. Bland interrupted to ask what was the use of coining silver if it could not be gotten out of the treasury, if it only went to increase the surplus.
 Mr. Brumm replied that the money might be gotten out of the treasury if Congress would pass the resolution offered by Mir. Plumb, of Illinois, that proposed to investi- gate the change of the law which prevented the government from redeening it's bonds at will. Why was it Mir. Bland's committee which talked so much about being silver men, ehoked that resolutioni Bring it into the House and not dozen Democrats would dare vote against it. 1t was not the fault of the tariff that caused distress in the coal and iron regions. It was the tyranny of Scott and Cox and others like them which pitted the men against each other.
 MT. Bland called the speakers attention to the fact that England's exports exceeded her imports.
 Mr. Brumm replied that it was apparent that England had great sources of revenue from transportation service and from bonds. She held vast sums of our railroad bonds in return for English railroad iron, and was sucking our blood in interest.
 Mr. Bland remarked that the United States might have been in the same position but for the tariff.
 Resuming, MT. Brumm denounced the tsga11' of the southern Democrats, who set up great regard for labor. That element had reduced it's labor to @ more abject slavery than ever before the war.
 Mir. Clements of Georgia, the next speaker, deprecated the unbusinesslike treatment which the proposition to revise the tariff-a business matter-had received from the Republicans. The present condition would lead to certain financial panic. Should the House go on quibbling over who was to do the work-a Democratic or Republican House in the face of the great perila Would it not be well to do this thing at once and together as Americansi He asked what protection was doing for labor. The iron master got his labor as cheaply as he could, even if he had to go into other countries for it. even if he had to employ Pinkerton detectives to keep the laboring men from revolting against him. That was the practical illustration of about organized labor being peculiar to the North and not to the South was meaningless. There had risen up great organizations of federations of farmers. There were labor unions of one kind or another. All were the outgrowth of the condition in which the peo-
  tenn of taxation. They were not pc culiar to one section or another. They were peculiar to the distressing conditions which surrounded the men of this country and were only an indication that they were seeking in every way to better their condition. He adjured the gentlemen to abandon their discussion of the Confeder- ate constitution and of slavery and to deal with this vital question.
 At the conclusion of MT. Clements' speech the committee rose and the House at 5:30 took recess until o'clock, the evening to be for debate on the tariff bill.
 Speeches were made against the tariff bill at the evening session by Messrs. Belden of New Fork, Atkinson of Pennsylvania, Yard ley of Pennsylvania, Post of Illinois, and in favor by Messrs. Tracey of New York, Dar- gan of South Carolina, Newton of Louisiana, Lane of Illinois and Candler of Georgia. MT. Vance, of Connecticut, in a humorous little speech declined in view of the lateness of the hour to inflict upon the House formida- ble looking manuscript address lying upon his desk and yielded his time to MT. Whiting, of Michigan. The House at il o'clock ad- journed.