Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-02
THREE INCIDENT SENATORS.
But they are Simply Resting After {
Long Period of Very Hard Work.
THE SEVERE STRAIN UPON MEssRs. ALLISON, Al
DRIcH AND HrscocK DURING THE PREPARA.
OF THE SENATE TARIFF BuL-THE GREAT
NUMBER OF HEARINGS

NUMBER OF HEARINGS
The most enjoyably indolent members of the
Senate to-day are those three republicans who
wrestled for SO long with the Senate tariff bill
-Messrs. Allison, Aldrich, and Hiscock.
But few people have any idea
as to the immense amount of work done by
those gentlemen, and no one, unless it is the
clerk to the House ways and means committee
can appreciate their toll. The work of the
Senators commenced on May 26 and it has been
as near continuous as possible up to the day
when the bill was passed. From early morn
ng until late at night they have worked at
THE GREAT NATIONAL 14-13-15 PUZZLE,
and at the same time they had to attend to the
thousand and one matters which worry the av-
erage senatorial existence. The regular ses-
sions of the Senate occupied the time from
noon till pm, yet that was probably the
lightest part of the work. Every day there
were hearings accorded to interested parties
no one was refused. The first session was at 10
O'Clock and it lasted until u; when the Senate
adjourned there would be another meeting
and a final session would commence at p. m.
Hardly manufacturing or agricultural inter-
est in the country brN at some time or
other represented at the hearings
and ON some days there were as
many as fifty orators in and around the finance
committees room awaiting all opportunity to
demand protection for their particular lines of
business. Six days week were too few for the
busine ss of the subcommittee,
so THEY SAT- on SUNDAYS,
with bu one single exception, and while wait
ing congregations were wondering how much
longer that sermon would last. the Senators
were hard at work figuring out ad valorem and
other kinds Of protection. There was only one
break In the monotony of eight months steady
work. and that was just previous to the
presidential campaign. Then the trio sepa-
rated and instead of talking tariff to each other
they discoursed Of it's benefits to the great null
titude. The value of the services of that SUBJ
committee to the republican party would be diff
ficult to estimate. The employees of the COM
mittee were by no means idle. During the
two weeks Immediately preceding the election
they addressed and mailed more than 200, 900
dOcuments-protectiOn testimony scattered
broadcast. The printed record of the hearings
will be more than 5000 closely-printed pages,
and then to these will have to be added the
hundreds of other pages occupied by the COM
mittee's eport and the many tabulated state
ments.
SENATOR ALLISON DID HIS SHARE
of the great work as methodically as possible;
the Iowan is the personifcation of method In
addition to his fnance-tariff duties Mr.. Allison
had to attend to the immense labor attendant
upon his being chairman of the committee on
appropriations. The other committees on
which he had also to work were engrossed bills.
examine the several branches of the civil serv-
ice, and relations W it'll Canada.
Senator Aldrich had also to look after the
committee on rules, of which he is chairman
the committee to examine the several branches
of the civil service, and the committee on
transportation routes to the seaboard
Senator Hiscock came out surprisingly in the
tariff consideration. He developed talent
for hard work and lots of it that he was not
supposed to possess. In addition to his finance
work he attend the meetings of the committees
on the centennial of the Constitution (of which
he is chairman), coast defenses, interstate COM
merce and patents.