Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-10
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Tariff and Other Matters in
the Senate.
EDMUND's PLEA FOR THE WIDOW.
The Cry of No Treason Used as an
Effective Instrument of
Opposition.
Associated Press DISPATCHES to the HERALD.

Associated Press DISPATCHES to the HERALD I
| WASHINGTON, October 9.-In the Sem
ate to-day the conference report on the
Deficiency bill was presented and read in
full. Some discussion followed as to the
reason why the Senate conference agreed
to the striking out of the provisions
granting the balance of the years salar y
of Chief Justice Waite to his widow. The
explanation was that the House on
ferees demanded it. Edmunds made a
strong plea in behalf OF the item as a
matter OF simple justice in recognition of
Waite's eminent services to the Nation.
The conference report was agreed to,
On motion of Hoar the bill as to the
counting of the Presidential votes was
passed. 1t directs that the certificates
and lists voted for President and Vice.
President of the United States be for
warded to the President of the Senate
forthwith after the second Monday in
January, on which the electors shall
give their votes, and that Section 141 of
the revised statutes of the United States
| hereby go amended to read as follows:
| Whenever certificate of the votes from
any State has not been received at the
seat of government on the fourth Mon
day OF the month OF January in which
tn cir meeting shall be held, the Secretary
OF State shall send a special messenger
to the District Judge in whose custody
one certificate of the votes from that S ate
has been lodged, and such Judge shall
| forthwith transmit that list to the seat of
| Government.
The resolution for an inquiry into the
assassination OF Joseph Hoffman, wit
| ness before the Committee on Privileges
and Elections in the investigation into
the political disturbances at Brenham,
Texas, was adopted.
Edmunds introduced bill to pay the
widow of Chief Justice Waite $S,745, a
sum equal to the balance of his salary
for the year in which he died, and asked
unanimous consent for immediate con.
sideration.
Berry objected and the bill WAS re-
ferred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Edmunds Immediately left the Senate
chamber, stating in an undertone that
there would be meeting of the
Judiciary committee in about two min
utes.
The resolution offered yesterday by
Blair, calling on the President for infor-
nation in the matter of the trial, convic-
ton and execution of Riel for high trea-
son in Canada in 1885, was taken up and
long statement in reference to it was
made by Blair who based the resolution
on the grounds that Riel was natural
lied American citizen. Referred to the
Committee on Foreign Relations.
Edmunds then reported from the Com
mittee on Judiciary, his bill to pay the
widow of Chief Justice Waite the balance
of his years salary, and as Berry still OBJ
jected to its immediate consideration the
bill was placed on the calendar.
The resolution heretofore offered by
Stewart directing the Committee on
Mines and Mining to inquire and report
as to the number of aliens, foreign COM
panies and corporations owning and
working mines in the Territories was
adopted.
The Senate then resumed considera-
ii on of the Tariff bill and was addressed
by Hiscock. 1t was proper, he said, to |
CT iticise the recent attempt Of the Presi. |
dent and his party to explain away and |
misrepresent the effect and purpose of |
the Mills bill, which they claimed to be |
calculated to benefit rather than to in |
iure American labor and capital. The |
issue was fairly drawn between the two |
political parties. The question was free |
trade or protection to American labor,
Neither subterfuge nor new confession of |
faith would conceal or obscure the real |
question. Democratic orators were
attempting in the manufacturing
districts to shift their grounds and |
to conceal the purposes of their
party. But the official utterances of the
President and the reports of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, emphasized by the |
Mills bill which had been endorsed by
the National Democratic Convention and |
which passed the House by strict party
vote, left no doubt whatever as to the |
true position of the Democratic party on
that great question. The Senate bill left
no doubt as to the position of the Repub-
lican party. Both parties conceded that
there should be reduction of revenue
and to about the same amount. There
fore the question of tie amount of taxa
ton Was not involved in the discussion,
but the question was as to the manner in
which the reduction should be made.
He examined some OF the details of |
Mills bill in order to prove that in the
proposed reduction they were discrimin-
atlng in favor OF the industries of the
Confederate States and against the in
dustries of the Northern States.
Howley suggested in explanation of
that fact that Of the Democratic Mem
bers of the House Ways and Means Com.
mittee which made up the Mills bill, six
were from Confederate and two from
Northern States.
Hiscock proceeded to illustrate his
point with further instances drawn from
the Mills bill, and intimated that the
of the Senators on the Com
mittee on Finance were acting on the
same policy. He declared the assump.
ton of Mills as to the small average re-
duction under his bill to be false, and
showed that those figures were made by
including sugars, liquors and wines, on
which the ad valorem duties were large,
but said that, with those articles omitted
from the calculation, the reduction by
the Mills bill would be from 40 to so per
cent. The effect of the Mills bill, Mr..
Hiscock declared, could not be disguised.
The Senate bill was equally pronounced
in character and principle. 1t fairly
illustrated the Republican policy of pro-
lection, and when its provisions became
law it would defend the American mar
ket against foreign competition. 1t was
not sectional the industries of the North
as we'll as the East and the West and