Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-07-18
AT THE CAPITOL TO-DAY.
POLITICS IN THE HOUSE.
Lively Debate on the Tariff Bill.
TO ADMIT WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
The Bill Discussed in the Senate

The Bill Discussed in the Senate.
The senate.
ANOTHER PENSION VETO.
A message from the President returning with
out his approval bill TO increase the pension OF
J. F. Balliere was presented read and referred to
| the committee on pensions The ground Of disap-
proval Is that the beneficiary Is now receiving the
maximum OF pension allowed for total disability
to ex-soldiers OF his rank, and that as Lne bill
limits the increase to the rate f1Xed by Law IT
would accomplish nothing for his benefit
REPORTS FROM COMMITTEES.
Bills to reduce the postage ON fourth-class mail
matter; to regulate commerce carried on by tele-
graph; to improve and encourage the cultivation
and manufacture Of max and hemp, and IN rela-
tion to harDOrS and waterways were reported from
committees and placed on the calendar.
TO EXTEND THE EINTERsTATE-CoxMERCE ACT.
A resolution inStructing the committee on inter-
state commerce to inquire into the propriety OF
extending the interstate-commerce law to tele-
graph and express companies and to railroad com.
cess OF Congress, and TO appoint CLERK and
stenO.rapher was offered by Mr.. CullOm and re-
ferred TO the committee on contingent expenses.
Mr. CRAIGs TELEGRAPH INVENTION.
The resolution offered yesterday by Mr.. Blair to
set apart place In the Capitol for testing the in
~
David H. Craig, was taken up and agreed to after
REMARKS IN It's favor by senators Blair and Edmunds.
TOO UNwELL TO SPEAK ON THE FISHERIES TREATY.
Mr.. Teller, who was to speak to-day on the
fisheries treaty, said that he was quite unwell,
and as he understood that tomorrow was set
apart for some special executive business he
would ask to address the Senate on subsequent
day, unless the friends or the treaty desired to
press 1t to an early voteto which course he wOuli
make no objection.
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THE UNION.
The Senate then proceeded to the consideration
OF the Senate bill for the formation and admis-
sion into the Union OF the state OF Washington, to
be composed OF the present territory OF Washing
| ton and part or Idaho Territory.
THE FISHERIES TREATY.
Mr.. Hoar interrupted the reading of the bill and
gave notice, at the request Of Mr.. Frye who has
the fishery treaty in charge Tin the absence Of Mr..
Sherman), that Mr.. Frye would next Friday ask
the Senate TO proceed with the consideration OF
the treaty and would urge the Senate to continue
the discussion until 1t Is ended and then that the
vote be taken without further delay.
When the reading OF the bill was finished Mr..
on 80 Sa Of lGl he
tory OF Washington.
sIxTY-NINE THOUSAND SQUARE NILES OF PARADISE.
Mr.. Stewart proceeded to address the Senate in
favor OF the bill. He said that Washington Terri
tory proper had an area OF 60 900 square miles,
Win DAYS ana narOOrS (Ine QneSt In the WOrlQ),
covering between three and four thousand square
miles. The lands surrounding these bays and
harDOrs were covered with the finest timber.
the eastern AIs side ''A Of + the Csscads az T Noun. IN
tains These lands produced every variety
9i Of, crop s,or The territory , was growing
be allowed to take the place OF state, and to reg
ulate It's own institutions, instead OF being gov
erned as an alien country. subject 70 the dsad-
vantageS and 1ncOnventenceS or terr1tOrta al form
OF government. The only cOntroverted point in
the bill was as to the inclusion within the new
North Idaho or W the pannande lie stated the reas a.
SOILS why the annexation should take place.
House Of Representatives.
After unsuccessful efforts had been made by Mr..
Stahlnecker (N. W and Mr.. Burrows (Mich) TO
secure consideration of bills for the erection OF
public buildings at YonKers, N. T., and Kalama-
ZOO Mich. the House went into committee OF the
whole. tMr. Springer Ill In the chair.) on the
tariff bill.
on motion Of Mr.. Tracey IN. ~ primuline was
The first paragraph, which had been passed over
Informally (Lhat placing cotton ties or hoops on
tn. free list), was then considered.
Mr.. Turner GAY argued In favor OF the action Of
the committee IN making cutton-tieS free, and con-
tended that II was Iallacy that the purchaser OF
cotton paid the ice OF cotton for the ties with
Mr.. E B. Taylor lOhio) inveighed against the in
justice OF making cotton-ties ree while hoop-iron
was retained on the dutiabe list.
Mr.. Bayne Pa-) could not understand how
Northern democrat could vote to place duty on
hoop-iron and to place cotton-tes on the free list
unless 1t were true that, as before the War; cotton
was king. King cotton was again making the
Northern dOughfaceS come to tine front. The
people OF the West were going TO remember this
thing and would see that the South should not
again sit in the saddle an dominate the North
ern states, controlling legislation In the interest
OF the South as against the North.
Mr.. Townshend uiL) inquired whether Mr. Bayne
list, and was an Sered BY an emphatic negative: I i've
KING HOOP IRON.
Mr.. Townshend suggested that there was hoop
iron nanufactury In the gentlemans district, and
that therefore the gentleman was arguing In the
interest OF monopoly which was levying tribute
on every honest farmer. The gentleman said
not put hoop iron on the free list, that he loved
the men who were engaged In the hoop iron in
day and needed iron 10 bale their hay.
Mr. Bayne inquired why the gentleman has not
offered an amendment placing on the free list the
hoop iron which his constituents consumed In
Mr.. Townshend replied that the bill, unlike the
tarin oili OF the republicans IN the Forty-seventh
been prepared by the proper committee. It was
not the outcome OF caucus action, and he had not
gentleman had had when in the Forty seventh
Congress. The bill had been put through the
House under the whip and spur Of caucus COM
Mir. Stewart lGa-) was glad that An opportunity
was presented 70 test the sincerity OF the repub-
lican party in its prOfessed love for the colOred
man, for two-thrdS OF the g 600 600 bales OF cot.
ton produced In the South were produced by COL
Ored labor, and the tax on cotton ties was q tax
directly affecting their interests.
A sKIRNIsH BETWEEN Mr.. TAYLOR AND Mr.. TOWN.
SHEND.
Mr.. ]. D. Taylor (Ohio). in behalf of the farmers
OF his district protested against the unjust dts
elimination which he asserted the bill made
against them.
Mr.. Townshend inquired whether the gentleman
was not interested In the stock OF OF the manu-
facJuries Of hO0p-irOn.
One OF them, replied Mr.. Taylor amid laughter
Was the gentleman serving his country, when for
two months, he was at home trying TO be re-
nominated.
1 was, responded Nj. Townshend. was speak
Ing against the protective tarin, and was re-
nominated.
Mr.. Taylor-How could you afford to draw your
salary during those Two months?
Oh! interrupted Mr.. Reed, sarcastically, don't
think you ought TO complain OF his being at home
NR. N'KINLRY CRIrICIsEs THE FRI. LIST.
Mr.. Mckinley (Ohio) said that the pending para
graph was, OF the many indefenstble features Of
the bill, the most indefensible. In the free-trade
list generally, what was made free was made free
10 everybody. He was opposed TO the entire
free list OF the bill, but with the exception
every section OF the country equally. II he were
democrat, tarln reformer, q free trader, and
proposed TO make hOop-iron free for any purpose
ne WOuld make free for all He however.