, 1888-05-17
GRESSIONA AL.
Senate.

Senate.
WASHINGTON, May l6.--After the morn
ing business, the senate took up Vests res
olution providing for select committee to
examine the question touching the meat
products of the United States After long
discussion, the resolution was extended 80
= ~ to make the investigation embrace the
tTrunk Line association, Central traffic asso-
ciaiion and other agencies of transporta-
tion, and was then adopted.
After the adoption OF Vests meat in
vestigatiOn resolution the senate pro-
ceeded to the consideration OF the senate
bill to appropriate $500, 600 for the pur-
pose Of making final surveys and esti-
mates for and commen cement OF tho work
Of construction OF "a boat railway either
In Oregon or Washington territory
around the Obstructions to navigation In
the Columbia river at The Dalles and
Cello falls. After remarks by Senators
Mitchell and Dolph the bill passed.
The following bills we're passed: The
senate bill increasing the limit OF cost OF
the public building at sacramento, Cali
fornia, to $3.50 900, and appropriating
$4,000 additional for that purpose. The
house bill relating to crimes against the
postofiice department as to postal
orders, second class mail matter, obscene
or offensive postal cards and envelope
with amendments Senate bill for presen-
tation of badges to officers and men merely
for relief expenditions senate bill fixing
pensions for tho loss of one eye or sight
tha~,Of, SIG "a month aud proportionately
| 10. NE loss OF both eyes. The senate bill
11Duthorize the leasing ofschool and univer-
p lands in Wyoming. The senate bill al
lowing to states, homes for disabled sol.
diers, at the rate of 500 year for each dis.
sbled soldier aud sailor main tained there
and appropriating $3.50 600 tor that pur.
pose. The senate bill to confer brevet pro-
motion on army officers particularly dis.
tinguished by heroic action in Indian war.
fare. Having passed thirty eight bills the
senate proceeded to executive busin ess and
soon adjourned.
The house went into committee OF the
whole on the tariff bill. Baker, of New
York, spoke against the bill. He wished to
give an object lesson and produced three
pairs of stockings displaying the colors
of the American flag which were manu-
factured in Rochester. He presented the
stockings to the gentleman from Texas
(Mills) with the suggestion that he send
the red ones to the president. the white
ones TO Mr. Speaker, and keep the blue
ones himself, as typical Of his feelings at
the end of the session, when he behed the
account OF the Mills bill, that an increased
republican majority In the district would
he given for the republican candidate for
the presidency provided, ne steered Clear
Of alliterative divines. daughter
Sound, of Pennsylvania, regarded the
Mills bill as long stride In the direction of
free trade, and tho inauguration OF n traiff
policy which must eventually prove ruin
ous and disastrous in which his people
were largely interested.
Fargua, Of New York, said that nearly
half OF the manufacturers of the country
whose interests were placed at hazard by
this bill were democratic, and he had let
ters from prominent denhDcrats In his district
protesting against many features of the
measure. These men had come to
Washington and had had a partisan door
shut in their faces aud had gene homellEe
all Disappointed men, with reyenge in their
hearts. There were revising committees at
oil labor assemblies which would pass upon
the merits of this bill, and laboring men
would decide its fate at the ballot boz.
Bayne, OF Pennsylvania. criticised the
president for not having permitted the
house to formulate u proper bill for the
revision OF the tariff. No other president
in any emergency OF the country had sent
to the house q message 30 positive and NO
nearly indicating the line OF policy on an
economic question; The president had not
only done that; through the influence of
the administration democratic nominations
in vsrious districts had been controls ed in
the interest of the free trade policy. Dem
ocrats Of good standing ana iDhpence who
had heretotore been looked upotl as leaders
patronage, been denied access tn the presi-
dents councils, and were being driven by
every means at the command Of the admin.
istration from the ranks OF the democratic
party. 1t had even been asserted that pub
lie measures involving public interests had
been denied the executive sanction because
Of the attitude OF certain Representatives In
congress on the question of tariff revision,
and IT had been shown that the admin stra.
ton had rewarded
REcALcITRANT PkNNsYLvANIAS
for having espoused the cause of the Mills
bill on the floor Of the house. (Applause.) J
President Cleveland had been elected OH
u straddling platform which meant protec-
tion IN New York and Pennsy lvania, free
trade in the south. Was II fair play that
the president elected on . straddling plat
form should influence the house in favor Of
free trade?
Laird, OF Nebraska, declared that the sur.
plpSpolicy OF the administration had had
d,skherous effects upon the farming inter.
4 cy'I ~ the country. Whether the origin Of
that policy was iynorrnce In Difference or
mendHcity, its elimination had its result In
costing the farmer millions Of dollars iD
addition to interest charged on lands He
dwelt upon the dangers flowing from the
surplus and annolined his readiness to
attack 1t at both ends. but paying just debts
ut she government aud by reduction Vi Gus.