The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1889-01-04
NATIONAL AFFAIRS.
Tariff the Topic in the Senate, While
the House Adjourns for Lack
Of a Quorum.
TO FIX THE LAND LAWS.
Montana Highly Endorsed as Natur-
ally Adapted for Testing the
Storage Reservoir System
Military Appointments.

WASHINGTON jan IN 'ne seha'e 'he
resolution heretofore offered by voorhees,
calling iupon the secretary OF the interior
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cancelled after the issuance OF the final TO
ceint and certificate therefor during the
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present hu"iinis'iau"h i"i V"usos "'hoi
than voluntary REIMBURSEMENT was agreed
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''"e" ono'ou ioso'u',on Nas'oee w
calling on the secretaries u war and the
Interior department Tor copies OF records
and papers relative 10 tne service OF volun-
teers In washington and Idaho territory In
the Nez Perces war OF 1871; ,,
The senate tnen resumed the consldera
iion OF the tarln biil, the pending question
being Vests amendment 10 paragraph SlS
TO change the duty on COTTON thread, yarn:
warps, etc, valued at not exceeding %
cents per pound, from lO cents per pound
TO 10 per cent ad valnren. Alter speech
OF some length from ance, Ntsts amend
ment was rejected Dy the usual partylsote,
yeas ~, nays ~
Vest called M,ention 70 the otner items
In paragraph 5l5 but said ne would not OF
fer any amendment or ASK any vote on
duty on these items was increased In order
TO exclude all foreign competition, as lar
as possible, so as TO enable American man
ufactnrers 10 hOlu the market ~ Whatever
price they saw nj 10 Impose. lie moved,
however, to amend paragraph 3l4, relating
TO spool thread OF cotton, by striking out
cents per dozen spools and inserting 40
per cent. advalorem. lie quoted from the
statements made by the spool cotton man
nfQllurars hfltpTl the tNrlH pAmnlasi0n in
1882 and before the ways and means COM
mittee In INA, TO show that they asked q
less rate OF protection In 1874 than In lsSz.
After lengthy discussion the amendment
was reiected-yeas IL, nays Fl. No fur
ther amendment was offered 10 paragraph
Sl4, nor was any offered 10 paragraphs 5lb,
Sl6 or 8l7, all relating 70 cotton cloth.
Vance moved two amendments TO para
graph SlS and one to Sls, all OF which were
rejected. Pugh then proceeded TO address
the senate In set speech on
the tariff. In concluding his remarks
he adverted to the question OF
race supremacy In the south. and said as to
that there could be no concession or no
compromise snune s ~n,ae ho Pvupe, no
gard 10 snnremscy in government was his
friead irrssnectiye of poIitics. and who
aver was ths enemy OF The white race on
the ouestions inyoIying race supremacy
WAS his anemy The ndslItv ~ ths whit.
men N each other n, The race ouestion has
hasn ~nfaliaring and bopnd 10 nroye itself
In action on the side of MAINTAINING ihe
actual sunre macy OF the white race In The
nossessiop and eyer,iseo nil covernmeptaI
rowers such fdelity of white man to
esch other i'm the southern states for such
nnynoses had h, an estahIished under the
dira nacsssitv M self INTERPRETATION. and
white men everv where might rest assured
that no allursmsnts of office and no dIffsr-
enc.. ma 10 the tariff laws could ever degrade
than IN the recognition of negro eonaIiza.
ton
Vance moved 10 amend parapraph 820
relating to stockinys. by reducing tbe rate
from s5 10 no per cent. adyalorem. and
AL ed for The yeas and nnys AIdrich an.
nssiea ~ Ws5cs not ~ 3s,nand the xsss
and navs AZ there was probably no auorun
present. and he wished IN get tbrouph the
Common schedule TO-DAY. bnt Vance would
mot consent, as he did moi want the
schaduia f,nishsd todav The senate then
bsving disnosed of three and a half naces
of ihe hiII to-dav' adionrned
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On motion OF Toole, OF Montana, the
senate amendment was concurred In to the
house bill appropriating $3.50 10 enable
the secretary OF war TO issue 10 the governor
OF Montana military stores for the use OF
the militia OF that territory. On motion OF
Mckenna, OF California, the senate bill
was passed appropriating SS,SOO for the
relief OF William X. Wheaton. ex-reglster,
and Charles II. Chamberlain, ex-recelver,
OF the land Office at San Francisco. Reed,
Maine, reported resolution providing that
during the remainder OF the present session
there shall be no call OF states and terri
tories on the ilrst and third Mondays OF
each month. These Mondays are what are
known AS suspension days, and the object
OF the resolution IL 10 prevent the opponents
OF the Union Pacific funding measure and
the Oklahoma bill from tilibusterinR against
an attempt to pass these measures under a