Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-03
Fiftieth Congress--First Session.
WASHINGTON, May 9

| WASHINGTON may z.
 SENATE-Mr. Edmunds introduced bill to increase the pensions of soldiers and. sailors who contracted heart disease in the service. Referred.
 The Senate then, on motion of MT. Sher- man, proceeded to executive business. This being the first secret session for several days the accumulation of nominations by the President, among them that of MT. Fuller to be chief justice, were referred to committees and number of reports, mostly upon post masters, were made by committees. The doers were reopened fifteen minutes later, when the Senate resumed considera- tion of the railroad grant forfeiture bill. At o'clock the bill and pending amendment went over till tomorrow with the under standing that final vote on the bill would be had then.
 The Senate took up and in sixty-five min- utes passed 105 individual pension bills on the calendar, 42 of them being House bills. Several of them were for volunteer nurses at the rate Of $25 per month and one was for the widow of General Charles P. Stone, 8 House bill, at $50
 The Senate passed a number of bills, among them Senate bills appropriating $75, 900 each for public buildings at Woonsocket, R. l., and Dover, N. H.
 At 5:10 the Senate adjourned.
 HoUsE-The House went into committee of the whole on the tariff bill. Mir. Wilson, of Minnesota, said that the surplus in the treas ury was demoralizing in the extreme In denouncing the protective system he asserted that protection did not exclude European manufactures from our market but did ex clude our manufactures from the markets of the world. The protectionists were accus- toned to point to the volume of domestic manufactures as the fruit of the tariff, while they did not state that eighty or ninety per cent. of these manufactures must of necessity be made in the United States, tariff or no tariff. He was opposed to the present tariff because while it enriched the few it prevent ed the expansion of our industries, and be. cause it was especially unjust to the agricu1- tural interest.
 MT. McComas, of Maryland, said that if any article of common use which our farmers could not proftably grow or our miners or workmen could not produce was not already on the free list he would vote to put it on. If any duty on any home product were high CT than the conceded high wages rate or this country he would vote to reduce it to the protective level because he believed the tariff was simply question of. wages. If it were clear that any clause fostered only monopoly he would vote to strike it out. If 8 revenue reduction bill was framed with an eye single to the relief of the treasury and the people from growing surplus he would vote for it. If the majority would suffer the Republican minority to deal for one day only with the problem of the surplus he believed they would in that single day reduce our annual revenues 70,O00,e0O, by repeating the internal revenue tax on tobacco, burden on the farms in sixteen hundred counties and fifteen States, by repeating the internal rev. enue tax on alcohol used in the arts, manu- featuring, medicines and drugs, and by reducing the tariff on sugar to 8 minimum yielding revenue enough to pay bounties to heme producers of sugar from cane, sorghum, corn and beets.
 MT. Lanham, of Texas, and MT. Caruth, of Kentucky, spoke in support of the bill and Mir. Allen against. The committee then rose.
 o'clock.
 The half dozen members who attended the evening session listened to 8 good speech from Mr. Stewart, of Georgia, from the anti protection standpoint.
 MT. Davis, of Massachusetts, followed against the bill and the House at 9:45 ad- journed.