Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-12
THE CAPITAL HALLS.
The Senate Hammering at
the Tariff.
DEADLOCK IN THE HOUSE.
A Democratic Caucus Takes
Measures to Relieve the
Situation.
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WASHINGTON, April 11.-In the
Senate to-day Sherman, from the
Committee on Foreign Relations, re-
ported back the Riddleberger resolu-
ton amended SO as to request the
President to furnish any information
in his possession relative is the dis
pute understood to exist between
Venezuela and Great Britain, concern
ing the boundaries between British
Guinea and Venezuela. 1t was
adopted. The Senate then proceeded
to the consideration of executive
business.
The Senate at 1926 went into Sc
scret session to vote upon the nomina-
.tion of Rathbone to be Consul General
at Paris. The nomination was con-
firmed by vote OF "A to s. The doors
were re-opened at II :35. The Sem
ate took up the motion to refer the
Presidents annual message, and
was addressed by Morrill,.
He said the president appeared to
deprecate the discussion of protection
and free trade, and with wonderful
simplicity forthwith proposed to rec
ommend absolute free trade in wool.
He would by this measure cut the
iugular OF every sheep in the country,
and argue with the owners that they
would be better off without them,
or that they lost more than
they gained by protection. Reducing
the protective duty imposed for the
benefit of American wool of ten cents
per pound, the value OF Texas wool
in New York and Boston markets
would suddenly drop to 4 or 6 cents
per pound. No State would continue
to raise wool at that price. Wool
growing in the great State of Texas,
with an area larger than that OF Ger
many, France, Spain or Italy, would
pe known as one of the lost ats.
The prodigious loss to landed estates
from the abandonment of sheep hus-
bandry was a problem difficult of
solution. He deprecated the attempt
to excite panic in financial affairs
because Of the annual surplus OF
$50 .0O0, 900. The maintenance OF the
bi-metallic system of coinage and the
preservation of currency of both
gold and silver was liable to be
affected, were the rates of duties to
be placed merely trifie in favor OF
FOREIGN IMPoRTATIoNs.
An excess of imports over exports
would soon appear and turn the bal
ance of trade against this country.
This could not continue long before
gold would command a premium and
find it's best market as a commodity
to be shipped abroad.
The Senate resumed the considera-
ton of the bill to provide for the ad-
mission of Dakota and for the organl-
ton of the Territory of North
Dakota, and was addressed by
Mr.. Davis. He said the Senator
from South Carolina (Butler) was OF
the opinion thai the admission OF a
State was purely within the discre-
ton OF Congress. He Davis denied
that proposition. He denied it from
the light Of law and from the light OF
history. AS to the claim of the Sen
.ator from South Carolina that there
was g;eat opposition in Dakota to the
bill, he asked why petitions Of dis
sent had come to the Senate from
Dakota? The whole territory, he
said, contained some six hundred
Thousand inhabitants, OF which about
$50, 900 were in Southern Dakota. "
the latter, twenty thousand were ex-
Union soldiers who we're denied en-
reimbursement by the country which
they had
FOUGHT TO SAVE.
They were in all that constituted a
State more fully equipped than many
States which were now persistently
denying their admission. Why delay
longer that great act of National
Justice? The question should be
stripped OF all pretence, evasion and
sham, and it should be plainly adj
mitted that the commonwealth OF
South Dakota had been denied adj
mission as State for the sole rea-
son that the party in power with the
solid south, was determined not to
lose its political ascendency.
Dl0 ODbslllCN tuO AACSA eAio VII "
bill was laid aside until tomorrow.
The following bills were taken from
the calendar and passed: The House
bill to purchase of the widow of the late
General James Shields certain swords
at cost not exceeding 10000; for
the erection of a monument to the
memory of Joseph Warren who fell at
Bunker Hill; authorizing the con-
struction of a railroad bridge
across the Snake river and
the Clear Water. river by
the Oregon Railway and Navigation
Company appropriation of $4,000
for monument to Brigadier- General
William Lee Davidson, who fell in
the battle of Cowensford in February
1881; for the purchase from Miss Vir
.ginia Taylor Lewis of a sword OF Wash.
ington's for $40, 900, was taken up and
read. After long debate, the mat
tor went over without action, and the
Senate adjourned.