The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-12
HOUSE,

A conference report was ordered on
the land forfeiture bill, and Holman, of
Indiana, Stone, of Missouri, and Pay
son, of Illinois, were appointed con-
ferees-
Hatch, of Missouri, submitted re-
port OF disagreement on the agreul-
tural appropriation bill, stating the
amendment making an appropriation
of 500 eco for sorgham sugar expert
ments.
Ryan moved q continuance in the
Senate amendment, and after debate
his motion was agreed to-yeas 2I6,
nays SO.
This completes the consideration o.
the bill, and it stands as finally passed
Clements. of Georgia, submitted the
conference report on the District OF
Columbia appropriation bill, and it was
agreed to.
The House then went into commit
tee OF the whole on the tariff bill. The
pending amendment was that offere d
by Phelps, of New Jersey, fixing the
item at 40 per cent. ad yoI0rem duty on
flax, on linen threa ', and on all m anu
factories Ct fax. He did not
expect anything he could say
would be change upon his
amendment. There was no hope.
After the majority of the committee n
ways and means had formulated their
bill in the dark, they summoned ma
jority of the House before them ard
imposed an oath in caucus that no
Democratic member should vote in
favor of any amendment unless it was
first passed upon and approved by the
Democratic caucus. This provoked an
angry debate of political nature be-
tween Phelps, Weaver, Wilson, O: Min
nesota and Henderson of Iowa, in which
Phelps interview on the Chicago nomi-
nation, Ingalls, letter and Viewers
political record were the chief sub
jects. Finally Phelps amendment YVES
rejected. The amendment was adopted,
changing the rate of duty on bags and
bagging from 10 per cent Gd UaLOrem to
Is cent. per pound. Other amend
ments were offered and rejected.
The third section of the bill,
relating to woods and wooden
manufactures being reached, Mills pro-
pesed that the entire siXty-one lines of
the section be read and considered as
one paragraph. as in the case of the
sugar paragraph, amendment to be in
order at any place. Mills tried to reach
an agreement as to the time to be
allowed for debate on the section, pro-
posing two days, but Read objected to
fixing any time bsfore the debate bad
been fairly started The entire section
was read without objection, however.
The committee lose and tie House
took recess till p. m, the evening ses-
sion for the consideration of the census
b II.
The House met this evening for cor-
s'deration of the bill for taking eleventh
and subsequent censuses. The report
accompanying the b IL, says: In report
ing this oil the cummittee would state
in it the salient features. 1t is the same
bill; substantially which provided for
taking the tenth census to number
twenty-five volumes. The committee
propose to omit the publication
on all subjects except the follow
ing: Population and social statistics re-
lating thereto; manufacturers, mining.
agriculture, mortality and vital Stats
tics, valuation and public Indebtedness,
all of which are indispensable to the
taking of the census. These which are
omitted, although very useful for gen
eral information, political discussions
and social science, are omitted be-
cause the same Information may
be gathered by, and published
from other bureaus of the government,
and because they can well be dispensed