Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-10-19
IT HAS COME AT LAST
The Senate Votes to Adjourn
 Sine Die Tomorrow.
CONQUERED IN BY THE HOUSE.

an Impromptu Debate on Tariff and Politics-The Vexed Chinese Question. WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.-After the trans action of minor business MT. Allison's reso- lution for recess from Saturday next to Nov 19 was taken up in the senate. MT. Paddock moved to amend so as to make the time of recess from Oct ? tc Nov. 12. Mir. Allison said that he had consulted senators on both sides of the chamber, and he thought the prevailing sentiment was in favor of adjournment. Mir. Allison yielded the floor to Mir. Brown, who offered an amendment to the resolution of MT. Allison. making the adjournment Saturday final He said that if the Democrats were success full at the coming election, then a bill some thing like the Mills bill would undoubtedly pass the senate; if the Republican party was successful the senate bill would be passed by congress He did not think prolongation of the session would facilitate work on the bill MT. Evarts favored the amendment of MT Brown, but Mir. Paddock said that he thought his amendment ought to prevail.
 MT Cockrell said that MT. Paddock's talk about passing the bill or doing any business Ras perfectly farcical. If they wanted to pass the bill before Nov. 6, Democratic sen. ators would stay with them, but they dij not.
 Some discussion ensued as to the amount ci time consumed by the finance committee in preparing its substitute. Finally Mir. Allison said that he was willing to accept the amend ment of Mir Brown and the question was taken without division, resulting in the adop tion of the resolution as amended. ma jority of the Republicans present voted against the resolution and a ma ajority of the Democrats voted for it.
 Mir. Teller offered a resolution instructing the Indian affairs committee to inquire as to the truth of the report that the secretary of the interior has purchased wagons for the In. dian service that were manufactured with prison labor in Tennessee. He said that he had heard that the secretary of war bought English blankets at a saving of thirty cents apiece. He thought that was below the dig nifty of great government Making of alien labor was as bad as using convict labor
 Mir. Bate said that the contract in question was made with the state of Tennessee by ad vertisement and petition, and that the firm was perfectly responsible, and paid to the state of Tennessee S1OO, 900 year. The sys- tenn of convict labor in Tennessee had, he said, been borrowed from a report of James G. Blaine.
 MT. 1eLeT SdlO UudC Lne party seemed to follow MT. Blaine whenever he made mistake, but they never followed him in any of his good works.
 MT. Cockrell said that the resolution was purely political If the department bought these wagons it was compelled to buy them where it did by law. Referring to the charge that the secretary of war had bought Eng fish blankets, Mir. Cockrell said that he had a letter from the secretary saying that the blankets had been bought from the lowest bidder
 The discussion drifted to the tariff, and re marks were made by Senators Allison. Aid rich, Dolph, Teller and Cockren.
 After the conclusion of this discussion the resolution went over under objection, and the senate took recess of half an hour
 On reassembling MT. Aldrich addressed the senate on the tariff bill He illustrated by a reference to an official statement of the bureau of statistics the absurdity of an at tempt to show the character of the house and senate bills by a system of ad valorem rates and percentages. This statement he said was entirely inaccurate, and the bureau off cials must have known it. Misstatement. had also been made he said, in the Wal street speech of Speaker Carlisle, as to tn. effect of the bill on woolen cloths, knit goods woolen shawls and dress goods These state ments MT. Aldrich proceeded to analyze H, claimed that the table exhibited by Mr. Yes in the senate a few days ago was full of in accuracies. This table, he said claimed tha the senate bill increased the duty on tin plat and needles 100 per cent The house bill pu them on the free list Why was S, TOO, ,OO the 100 per cent. of nothing! Why not cal the increase l ,0O0 per cent?
 MT. Frye criticized the statements whicl had been made in the house and senate abou the profits of cotton mills. By calculation which omitted expenditure for fuel gas salaries, etc, they had been fixed at B pc cent. A mill iR his own town had made onl per cent. in 1882. By the Democrat process of calculation that profit would hay been placed at 19 per cent. The cotton mill in his state had not averaged per cent profits for ten years past. The woolen mill of New England had not made on an averag per cent. per annum in that time.
 Mir. Teller drew gloomy picture of tn prosperity of the American people, and aske if they wanted to change that condition c affairs.