The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-01-03
CONGRESS- ATWORK
The Senate Resumes Tariff
Bill Consideration.
THE RIVER AND HABeoE BILL.
Utah Not to be Admittea-CeIIecs
Of custons for Puget Sound
Appointed

NAsHlSGT0S, Jas z-pn the resssea-
bling of the senate there was nnore than 4
I quorum Of senators present. Anuur TIE
+ memorials presented and referred vas the
/ following
/ BY Edngads, from the branch of the wo-
/ fnan's Relief board of salt Lake Clty. r.
nlousiEatiHg against any action Of congress
I looking - the admission Of Utah as a STATE.
/ EdmsEds sa.d he was happy 10 think there
( Was i-oi Ia1ch danger Of any such action
/ al thls session
+ By Hosr. % prohibit disfraacAIssmento ON
1 account Of SIX.
By sherman, from the Boston hoard Of
/ trade. for Suspension 81 the purchase OF
si4NEr tuitss2 a4zs4 cOf na.-r ii SILVER dollars
The senate then resumed consideration
I OF the tariff bill. Allison, going back To
paragraph sA as 10 chains, moved 10 amend
i By reducing iae rate on chains '-lsss than
F. = inch IN diameter from to 2is cents per
pound He stated thai this 1as the rate
under fhe existing law. Tne amendment
vas sereed 10 without division.
las bill was then taken Up At the point
a. y hicn Il had been left when last before
The senate, schedule !. cotton fnauufae
tures, tae question being on the amend
meat offered by Vest, TO reduce the Gntv
on cotton thread. yarn, warps, etc, valued
a. not exceeding p cenr per pound, " from
20 cenis per pound 10 5j per cent. ad va
loren. Vest confessed MS objection 70 Il
high protective tarif was the enormous
price watch she people Of the West, the real
producers. bad 90 pay under IL Ia order 10
increase the profits of New England manu-
facturers.
stewart said he found the TART question
SO intimately connected with the question
OF money that he VAS unable to seEarafe
the two He thgreupou proceeded to read
Z a spaefsh ON tho Suhiqqf Of silver a8s,,aya
Al the close of stewards speech Jones of
Arkansas read from the testimony OF d cot
ton Manufacturer in Georgia, Mr. Wm- H.
Young, showing that his mills hal been
paying average dividends of IL per cent
since 1870; that the tariff was of no adyan-
tage to him, and ii he were to make the
same class OF coarse cotton goods that are
sold ia England he could sell them in
England and make good profit on them.
Aldfieh suggested that the reason why
Southern cotton mills paid such large diyi-
dends was that sorle OF them did not pay
more thga two thirds nj the wages paid 10
similar operatives in New England
Jones stated in reply that testimony
showed that southern operatives were con
tent With their wages and did not go On
strikes. while strikes were common in New
England.
AIdfieh said he did not know of any
cotton mill strikes in Rhode Island ia fiye
years aud that there bad been very few
stTlkSs there IN generation.
The debate was then contiuued at some
length regarding various sections Of the
country, being participated in by Sagls-
bury Morrill,, Teller. Vest, Vance
Coke, Hoar aud Chandler. Finally, the
| bill was laid aside without action on the
pending amendment
The presiding officer laid before the sen
ate a message from the president IN regard
TO the correspondence on the subject OF
the treaty with China, that was pending
/ last September. The reading OF the mes.
sage was interrupted by Sherman, who
suggested that il referred 10 an executive
matter. Presiding Officer Ingalls, said il
had been sent to the senate in a legisla-
tive session, and that il would be laid on
the table for further examination. The
senate then adjourned.
The message mentioned above contain
I'D nothing new except translation of a
cipher message dated September Il SAYING
China would not consent to ratify the
treaty, unless time was given for discuss
ion OF tie proposition 20 lessen the term
of restriction.