Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-10
Fiftieth Congress--First Session,
THE DEFICIENCY BILL.

| WARRINGTON, OcS. '. | SENATE.-The conference report on the de- I fciency bill was presented and read in full. MT. Edmunds inquired of MT. Hale why | the Senate conferees had agreed to the strik- | ing out of the provision granting the balance | of the years salary of Chief Justice Waite to 1 his widow.
 Mir. Hale stated in reply that the subject had been fully discussed over and over again and the House conferees had taken the ground that they could not assent to it be- cause there was no precedent for such grant.
 Mr. Edmunds in reply said that the seem ing lack of precedent was owing to the fact that Chief Justices Marshall, Fancy and Chase had died without leaving @ widow. Mir. Edmunds then cited the case of 8 United States judge who, after career not one-fourth as long as that of the chief jus- tice, died in Florida, at his post in his field of duty, of disease peculiar to that climate yellow fever. Congress has given to the widow of that judge his whole years salary, not the balance of it. In this instance the chief justice had died at his poit in Washing ton of pneumonia-a disease incident to that climate-and the House of Representatives could not find it it's heart to make provision for his widow. He would try the experi- ment to-day or tomorrow of introducing speciel bill, and he hoped that both houses would pass it.
 MT. Hale remarked that all the efforts of the Senate conferees in the matter had met with 8 broad and unrelenting nay on the part of the House conferees. The conference re- port was agreed to.
 MIR. EDMUND's TRIES AGAIN.
 After the consideration of several other measures Mir. Edmunds introduced bill to pay to the widow of Chief Justice Waite $S, S,745, sum equal to the balance of his salary for the year in which he died, and asked unanimous consent for it's immediate consideration. Mir. Berry objected, and the bill was referred to the committe on the judiciary MT. Edmunds immediately left the Senate chamber, stating in an undertone that there would be meeting of the judiciary committee in about two minutes.
 The resolution offered yesterday by MT. Blair calling on the President for information in the matter of the trial, conviction and exc 1885 was taken up, and after some remarks by Mr. Blair referred to the committee on foreign relations.
 MT. Edmunds then reported from the com- mittee on the judiciary the bill to pay to the widew of Chief Justice Waite the balance of his years salary, and, as MT. Berry still ob- iected to it's immediate consideration the bill was placed on the calendar.
 THE TARIFF BILL.
 The Senate resumed the consideration of the tariff bill and was addressed by MT. Hiss book (a member of the finance comzaittae).
 It was proper, he said, to criticise the at- tempt of the President and of his party to ex- purpose of the Mills bill, which they claimed to be calculated to benefit rather than to in jure American labor and capital. After lay- ing down the economic principle that pro- lection by stimulating production reduces prices, he said that the last ten or fifteen years had been remarkable for the constantly decreasing cost of production, and he claimed that the Raru h1ican administration of kha United States, in enforcing the policy and system of protection, had been the chief fac tor in that successful war on high prices.
 CLEARLY DEFINED ISSUE.
 The issue, he said, was fairly drawn be- tween the two political parties. The question was free trade or protection to American ls- bor. Neither suhterfuge nor new confessions of faith would conceal or obscure the real question. Democratic orators were attempt ing in manufacturing districts to shift their ground and conceal the purpose of their par ty. But the official utteIances of the Presi- dent and the reports of the Secretary of the Treasury emphasized by the Mills bill, which had been endorsed by the national Demo- cratic convention and which had passed the House by strict party vote, left no doubt whatever as to the true position of the Dem ocratic party on that great economic ques- tion. The Senate bill left no doubt as to the position of the Republican party. h6ferrlDR LO the M1i1S D1ll the spe8keT S6lQ that the assumption as to the small average reduction under that measure was false. Quitting sugar, liquors and tobacco and wines on which the sd valorem duties were large the reduction would be from 40 to 50 per cent. The Senate bill, he said, was the opposite of the Mills bill. Industries north, south, east and west were equally protected by it.
 When Mr. Hiscoek concluded Mr. Bates obtained the floor and the bill went over till tomorrow.
 Mir. Berry to withdraw his objection to the that he would tomorrow move to take it up. The Senate then adjourned.
 HoUsE-The point of no quorum was rais- ed against several measures proposed in the House to-day, and it was only because MT. Kilgores attention was diverted that the Senate bill was passed, appropriating $75, ,000 to secure to the Cherokee freedmen their DOT tion of certain proceeds of lands under the act of March 3, 1885.
 On motion of Mir Peel the Senate bill was passed, supplemental to the act of February 3, 1887. It provides that the certificates shall be forwarded to the president of the Senate forthwith after the second Monday in January.
 Mr. Burns, of Missouri, submitted the con- ference report on the general deficiency sp propriation bill. The clause recommended by the President, appropriating $276, 900 for Chinese indemnity, provoked much opposi- tion. On motion to agree to a conference no quorum was again raised and the House adjourned.
 WHEAT TAKES TgMBLB.