The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-13
HALLS OF CONGRESS-.
The Tariff Bill Debated and
DiSsected.
CAUSE OF DEMOCRATIC DEFEAT
The Senators Opinions on the Late
Election - Doings in the
House-Etc., Etc.
SENATE,


~ WASHINGTON, December 12.-But
little morning business was transacted.
so the tariff bill was quickly taken up,
the question being the amendment
offered by Jones, of Arkansas, to
admit hoop or band iron Cotton ties
etc. free of duty, instead of taxing it
2 30 cent per pound additional. The
question whether or not this would be
a tax on the cotton planter, and if so,
how much, was discussed at length by
Berry and Hisoock.
Hiscock replied to Berry at some
length in a speech championing the
Senate bill and protective tariff. In
closing, he said imperative action on
this question had been demanded by
the people. The Democrats will have
g chance four years from now to try it
over again. This is
NOT THE TIME NOR THE PLACE,
Sc soon after this full discussion, so
-ASOon after a rebuke of that sort of de-
clamation, to indulge in it again, and 1
maintain it will have no effect on this
side of the chamber and none on the
country. We don't believe the tariff is
a robbery. We believe in building up
American industries. We have raw
material here to make these cotton ties,
and we believe the industry can be so
successfully established that the effect
will be to force down the price of cotton
ties. A colloquy in reference to cotton
and to the question as to whether its
price was fixed in the Liverpool market
took place between Senators Reagan,
Hiscock and Chace.
WHY THEY WERE DEFEATED!
After it closed, the cause of the Dem
ocrats' defeatin the last election brought
up Regain, claiming the tariff had not so
much to do with it as had the veto of
the dependent pension bills and the
Democratic discomfort with the civil
service policy.
Chace asked whether the discomfort
was because the President had not car
ried out his pledges.
REGAN-The discomfort was because
he did not carry out his pledges and be-
cause he kept Republicans in Office in
Gases where the law did not require him
% do go.
DAwEs-Does the Senator mean to say
the Presidents party deserted him be-
cause he would not break his pledges :?
REAGAN-No, sir; l do not mean
that.
DAwEs-Whst do you mean?
REAGAN-It was the Presidents duty
to carry out the law, but not his duty
TO carry the principle of law to the
offices that were not covered by it. l
mean, that there was discomfort with
the doctrine of
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM,
and the gentlemen on the other side
will soon have the evidence of that dis
content.
Hiscock asserted there was no evil
dence of Democratic discomfort in the
State of new York with the Presi-
dents civil service policy during the
last year. Then replying to Reagan's
remarks about the agricultural inter
ests on the tariff question, he reminded
him of the fact that the Republicans of
the State Of New York came down to
Harlem River with $1,000 majority, and
that that part of the State was fairly
agricultural. That Iowa, a fairly
agricultural State, gave the Republi-
cans a majority of 10000, and that
Kansas gave the Republicans a ma
jority of $4,000 or $4,000. That proved,
he said, that the agricultural interests
of the country did not consider it was
BEING INJURED BY THE TARIFF.
Reagan accounted for it by suggest
ing that for the last twenty years the
fallacies about the lessenings of tariffs
4 had been preached to the farmers, and
What the last campaign was too short to
undo the fact of such preaching.
Hale stated that the Presidents
tariff message had been more extern
siVely circulated among the farmers of
the north and northwest than any
other document for years, the circula-
ton being millions on millions of
copies, which the farmers had read and
which they answered in the election.
AFTER RECESS.
The presiding officer, at 2 o'clock,
presented as the special order for that
hour, the Union Pacific funding bill,
but as Allison insisted on proceeding on
the tariff bill, the funding bill went
over, retaining all its rights as q special
order.
Thetarif debate was then resumed.
The cotton tie tax amendment
was voted, and rejected by a strict
party vote.-yeas IS, nays 20.
Coke moved an amendment reducing
the duty on cotton ties to So per cent.
0d UGlOrenl, but without action, the
Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, December 12.-Blan-