Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-11

once more sailing to Samoa. What for |
no one knew, but there was no reason to
doubt that Germany intended to take |
absolute possession of those islands and |
why, he asked, should she not? Great
Britain had interposed no objection to |
her past action and the United States
had done absolutely nothing within the
past five or six months in regard to it.
Why then should not Germany assume
that the United States and Great Britain
we're ready to permit her to take posses
sion of the islands? Germany undoubt-
edly intended to do so and to raise the
German flag over them.
1t was undoubtedly proper (Frye re-
mark sarcastically and bitterly to fit out
ships of war and send them down against
the poor, miserable Republic of Hayti.
1t was well enough for the great Ameri-
can Republic, when Mexico took and
imprisoned some American tramp, to
threaten war and even 60 to the very
ragged edge of it, but would it not be
consistent with the dignity and power OF
this great Republic to protect the rights
OF her citizens against her equals,
against a country like England or coun-
try like Germany?
One vessel, he said, had been seized
in Hayti, one hundred vessels had be. n
seized in Canada: one was backed by
Great Britain, the other backed by no.
body. In his opinion the American peo.
pie demanded that if its power was to be
shown it should be shown against its
equals, and not against it's interiors.
He asked for present consideration of
the resolutions, and he hoped the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations would be
active and industrious in finding out the
| condition Of things in those islands, and
what the duty of the United States re-
quired.
GRAY ENTERS A CAvEAT.
Gray moved that the resolution be re-
ferred to the Committee on Contingent
Expenses, and it was SO referred. He
would not, he said, have objected to its
immediate consideration but for the atti-
tude assumed by the Senator from Maine
and the remarks with which he had
chosen to accompany the resolution.
| Whether the Government of the United
States, under the impulse of Jingoism
should Interfere in matters which con.
cerned islands in the Pacific Ocean
and should embroil itself with those
European powers whose foreign affairs
are governed by the Executive entirely
without the Intervention of the Legislative
or other popular branches of the Gov
ernment, was question to be determined d
by the legislative power of the United
States. There was certainly no power
lodged in the Executive or in any of the
Executive departments to commit the
Government to policy that involved
the assertion of physical force, or inter
ference IN matters of this kind, without
legislation by Congress, so that it seemed
to him that if such a policy was to be in
augurated it might as we'll be discussed
on the resolution offered by the Senator
from Maine as in any other way or al
any other time. He simply wanted tt
enter his caveat against the criticisms
with which that Senator had accom-
panied his resolution. The State Depart
ment could not without most fragrant
usurpation pretend to commit the Gov
ernment or the people of the Unitec
States to policy which antagonized al
| TARIFF BILL TAKEN UP.
At O'Clock the Senate resumed con
sideration Of the Tariff bill, the pendins
question being the Harris amendment tt
reduce the duty on beams, girders, joists
angles, ETC., and all structural shapes O
iron or steel, from IL cent per pounc
to Is of cent.
The amendment was advocated b,
Reagan, but as Mcpherson desired tt
offer amendments at the beginning O
the metal schedule, Harris temporaril,
withdrew the amendment.
Mcpherson thereupon moved to ament
paragraph 120, as to iron in pigs, etc.
by reducing the duty from g of cent 6
pound to Sc ton. Rejected; yeas 20
nays %. Plumb voted with the Repub
licans in the negative.
Mcpherson moved to amend the pro
viso (referring to iron bars, blooms OF
billets in which charcoal is used as fuel)
by reducing the duty from $22 per ton tc
$40. Rejected, yeas 20, nays 20.
Mcpherson moved to reduce the duty
on cast iron pigs from $40 cents pound
TO 6 10. He stated that the cast-iron
pigs industry had formed trust, unde,
which the price was the foreign cost plus
the duty and all expenses. The amend.
ment was rejected, yeas 10, nays "a.
These votes being all strictly party
votes, Mcpherson intimated that il
seem as if all opposition to the bill
might as we'll cease. Allison nodded,
"Then," said MCPHERSON, 1--WE are tc
understand, suppose, that the manu-.
facturers OF iron pipe may appear before
the Committee of the Senate and fix any
rate they choose on their production,
Here is absolutely prohibitory duty Of
$22. 40 a ton. | move to reduce it to S.lO
cents pound"
The amendment was rejected, yeas q,
nays "a.
Mcpherson then moved to reduce the
rate on anvils paragraph 1859 from 2 to
~ cents per pound. Rejected.
Next he moved to reduce the rate on
iron or steel anchors, etc. (paragrapb
| 127), from l 8 10 cents per pound to liz
cents. Rejected.
CRITICISMS MET.
Mcpherson alluded to the criticisms in
the press on the Democratic Senators for
their remissness in opposing the substi.
tqte and exposing it's weak points, and he
explained that the substitute had been
arranged by the Republican Senator'S of
the Committee on Finance, and that the
Democratic Senators knew nothing about
it except from cursory reading lust be.
fore it was repeated. In his opinion If il
were to become law it would bankrupt
the whole country in less than five wears.
and he moved that it's consideration he
postponed until June.
Dawes asked sarcastically whether the