The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-27
HOUSE OF CONGRESS-.
No Session Of the Senate ON
Saturday.
DISCUSSION ON THE TARIFF
Side in a False Position-The In
ter-oeeAnic Canal Question.


WASHINGTON, January 26. - The
Speaker laid before the House the Mills
tariff bill with the Senate substitute.
with the request of the Senate for a
conference.
Reed, of Maine, moved to concur in
the Senate substitute.
MCMILLAN, of Tennessee, raised the
point of order that the substitute must
first be considered in committee of the
whole.
Mills, of Texas, raised the point that
it must first be referred to the COM
mittee on ways and means.
Reed urged the necessity of speedy
action, and asked that no delays be
interposed beyond the necessary one of
reference to the committee of the
whole.
Mills, of Texas. declared that the
Senate, in presenting the bill in ad-
vance of its reception of the House bill,
was assuming the preroe atives OF the
House and was proposing an increased
taxation when the treasury was
eRoAN1NG WITH sURPLus.
Mckinley, of Ohio, followed Mills.
He said the question as to whether
there was to be any revenue legislation
before the conclusion of the present
Congress depended very much on the
action taken to-day upon the molten
made by the gentlemen from Maine.
II the bill, with the Senate amendment.
was sent to the ways and means COM
mittee, no practical agitation would
be had this session. So at this very
point the House would determine
whether the country would have re-
duction in the revenue and whether
excessive revenues were to continue to
be collected for twelve or fourteen
months. The Senate had respectfully
aske the House to grant committee
If the House would meet
the Senate in a free conference and
occupy the common ground as found
in both bills. it could reduce the rev.
enue from $35 ,0C0, 600 to $4,000 600 and
If that was necessary, examine the
items
COMMON TO BOTH BILLS.
The administrative features OF the
bill had nothing to do with politics.
They had nothing TO do with free trade
or protection. They had nothing to do
with high and low tariff. They were
mt hnr uth inn
to do with the honest administration of
the customs law, whether based on the
principle of free trade or the principle
of protection. Why not, as practical
men seeking relief for the condition of
congestion supply the remedy pre-
sented. l ask the gentlemen ON both
sides of the house 10 sgnalize the close
of this Democratic Congress with some
p! acticalal, patriotic results.
Mcmillan, of Tennessee, supported
Mills. ....-
Breckenridge. of Kentucky, said the
remarks showed that he merely made
his motion for the purpose of giving
himself Bnd colleague mckinley
AN OPP oRTUNITY TO MAKE SPEECHES
to the country, and seemingly for the
purpose of putting the Democratic side
in false position. The Mills tariff bill
had been sent to the Senate under the
provision of the Constitution which
gave the Senate the power to amend
revenue bills originating in the House.
The Senate had not done that. as the
gentlemen from Ohio had probably ad
nit ed. 1t had framed different bills
hill
came back from the Senate months ago
which was sent to it, and suddenly the
gentleman of the other side, who had
declared always that there WAS no ne
cessity for revision of the tariff, were
exceedingly anxious for speedy settle
ment. It seemed to him that this was
simply a proposition that the House
should empty itself, not of its rights
alone, but OF its duty, to consider
THE QUEsTIoN OF TAXES.
both external and internal. If the bill
was returned to the ways and means
committee. he would try to see that
the committee reported it back in &C
cordance with the bill of last session.
AS to the merits of the Senate bill, he
had nothing to say. Of course, if the
gentleman from Ohio was correct, and
the Senate bill was entirely different to
the House bill, he was opposed to it.
Mckinley asked unanimous consent
for the consideration of a resolution
making the tariff bill the especial order
for February, and providing for vote
on the concurrence or non-concurIence
in theSenate after twelve hours de-
bate.
Mills objected.
The bill with the Senate amendment
went to the committee on ways and
means.
McCreary reported Edmunds' resoIu-
ton declaring the sense of the govern
ment of the United States IN respect to
the connection of European govern
ments with the inter-oceanic canals on
THE IsTHMUs OF DARIKN,
and asked that the question might be
committed, and the committee granted
leave to report any time.
Cultivate, of Ohio, objected, and said
no compromise could be arrived at.
The demand for an order from