Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-13
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS
The Discussion On the Tariff Bill
Ends In a Tangle.
HAWLEY EAvoRs ADJOURNMENT
Very Little Business Transacted In
the House-Both Branches
OF Congress Adjourn
Till Monday.
Senate.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.-The senate resumed
consideration Of the tariff bill and MIR. Chace
continued the speech which he had begun
yesterday, and which was chiefly directed to
} a review OF the merits and dement's of the
two parties in regard to the postal service.
| AT the close of Mr.. Chacc's remarks, MIR.
Allison, with an assumption of gravity,
moved that the tariff bill be now taken up,
and feigncd surprise at being informed that
that bill was before the senate.
Mr.. Call then reviewed MIR. Platt's argu
ment of yesterday as to the sectional con
spiracy against labor. Ar attempt to con
meet financial and economic questions with
the difficulties that existed between the pco-
pie OF the United States was, he said, equally
unworthy of the senator and of a reasoning
mind outside the senate. II could not ad.
dress itself to the Judgment and intelligent
thought of any class Of people. He asked.
could taxes be reduced. The democratic
party had formulated and placed before the
country a proposition to the effect that
the method of reduction should be to reduce
taxes on articles of general consumption.
The republican party had antagonized that
proposition and insisted that the duty on a
large proportion of articles necessary for
human life should not be reduced, but should
be increased, and that taxation was a benefit
and not an injury to the people of the
country. That was the great issue to be con-
sidercd by the people.
MIR. Hawley said that he had brought his
notes and documents with the intention of
making a speech, but he confessed that he
had not the courage. His heart failed him,
partly because his heart was in another
place. He was glad that the senate bill had
been reported. He thought it IA very good
bill-perhaps the best first draft Of a tariff
bill ever submitted TO congress. 1t was built
on a definite. principle, and maintains of the
old doctrine of protection that which
had been the doctrine of the
country, and that was the doctrine of all
civilized nations with one exception. The bill
had been presented and its purposes set forth.
Those senators. who desired to speak on it
could do so, but the people were not looking
TO the senate, nor caring what it said or did
in the matter. Nobody believed that the bill
could be discussed, item by item, and disposed
of at this session. 1t had to go over till De-
cember. In his humble judgment, the best
thing that the senators could do was to go
home, and he for one was going.
Mr.. Reagan next addressed the senate. He
favored the house bill as against the senate
bill, though he would not say that he
would vote for every item in it or
against every item in the other. In
the course Of his speech u statement
by MIR. Reagan as to the amount annually
transferred to the pockets Of the manufac-
turers through the operation Of the tariff, and
which was stated previously at 81, 500. 900, 900,
attracted the attention of MIR. Aldrich, who
desired an explanation of the statement. But
Mr.. Aldrich's inquiry and Mr.. Reagan's ex-
plantations seemed to involve the matter
more and more, and after spending nearly an
hour over the subject the effort to olsen
tangle it was abandoned.
After q brief executive session the senate
adjourned till Monday.