St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-11
WILL n EVER END3
The Senate Continues Its Discus.
sion of the Tariff.

sion OF the IarlH.
Special to the Globe
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.-The senate
to-day continued the discussion of the
tariff bill. A letter from the secretary
of state transmitting the certificates of
election of presidential electors in Ala
bama, New Jersey, Missouri and Lou
isiana was laid before the senate. MFR.
Frye presented resolution instrueting
the committee on foreign relations to
inquire into the condition of affairs at
Samoa and report to the senate what
steps have been taken to maintain the
neutrality of the island, and what ac-
ton, if any, is demanded. Mr.. Frye
gave resume of the recent occurrences
at the island, and said that the United
States should resist the encrOachmentS
OF the German and English govern
ments. Mr.. Gray replied to Mr.. Frye
that the power to commit the government
toactlOn that would amount to war rested
with congress. The resolution was sent
to the committee on contingent ex-
penseS. At o'clock the senate resumed
the consideration of the tariff bill. Mr.,
Harris temporarily withdrew his amend
ment to reduce the duty on structural
iron and steel, and Mr.. Mcpherson
moved to amend the paragraph relating
to pig iron so as to make the rate Sc a
ton instead of LILO cents pound. The
amendment was rejected, after brief
argument by Mr.. Mcpherson and Mr..
Allison. by party vote of 90 to %. BY
the same vote, another amendment of
Mr.. McPherS0n'S making the rate on
iron bars, blooms or billets, in which
charcoal is used as fuel, $40 per ton in
stead OF S22 ton, was rejected, and and
an amendment proposed by him, maxi
ing the tariff OH cast iron pipe Clio cents
instead OF $40 cents pound, was re-
jected by a vote of 10 to "a. Several
other amendments proposed by Demo-
cratic senators having been rejected,
Mr.. Mcpherson said that the Demo-
cratic party might as well
CEASE IT'S OPPOSITION.
Referring to the statements in the
daily papers, that Democratic senators
had been remiss in opposing the substi-
tute and exposing its weak points. he
said that the Democratic members of
the finance committee had no OppOrtu-
nifty to examine the substitute before it
was reported to the senate, and that
they were not familiar with it. He be-
lieved, however, that if it was adopted
that it would bankrupt the country in
five years. He moved to postpone con-
sideration Of the bill until Jan. 10. Mr..
Dawes wanted to know if the senator
did not think disaster might come to
the country from the surplus in the
meantime. Mr.. Mcpherson replied that
better progress could be made if time
was given the senators on his side to
become familiar with the bill. Mr..
Dawes-Then the senator's motion is
for the purpose of education? Mr.. Nc
PhersOn-ThiS has been an educational
campaign all the way through. Laugh.
ter. At the suggestion OF Mr..
Harris, Mr.. Mcpherson withdrew his
motion for pOstponement, at which
there was some laughter on the Repub-
lican side. Mr.. Harris renewed his
amendment to reduce the duty on
l lilo cents pound to CLIO cents. He
spoke of Mr.. Carnegie's profit on $4,000
tons of steel beams manufactured i'm
one year, as over million dollars, and
described the steel trust in this country
as one 'hoary with age" How long,
he asked, was the trust to exist. Mr..
Sherman desired to state, once for all,
the grounds of his several votes on the
bill, because it was neither matter of
pleasure for the senate, nor matter of
public utility, to waste time in repeating
over and over again the same argument
on different clauses of the bill. I'm
dOubtedly the Mills bill represented the
general sentiment of the Democratic
party, while the senate substitute has
been carried before the people of the
United States, and there debated, ADJ
vocated and supported. The one bill
looked to tariff for revenue only; the
other tariff for protection. He asked
his Democratic friends to abide by the
Judgment of the people on the question.
That judgment had been in favor of
American industry. At the conclusion
of Mr.. Sherman's remarks the senate at
A n m adjourned