Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-15
CONGRESSIONAL.
Proposed Change in the Method of
Counting the Electoral Vote.
Amendment to the Tariff Bill Placing Bounty
on Sugar-A Member of the House Speaks
Against the Tariff Bill
Fiftieth Congress.
THE SENATE

Ink SENATE
WASHINGTON, Jan. I4.-Mr. Hoar in
troduced a concurrent resolution for the
counting of votes for president and vice
president, which was referred to the
committee on privilege and elections. 1t
provides that the two houses shall assem-
bic in the hall of the house of representa-
tives on Wednesday the 18th of February
next at 1 o'clock in the afternoon; that
the president of the senate shall be the
presiding officer; that two persons shall
be appointed tellers on the part of the
senate and two on the part of the house
to make the list of votes and TO report
the result to the president of the senate,
who is to announce the state of the vote
and the persons elected, and that that
shall be deemed q declaration of the
persons elected president and
vice-president of the United
States, and shall be entered in
the Journals of the two houses
The senate proceeded to consideration
of the tariff bill, and Mr. Allison on the
part of the finance committee reported
two new sections, which he proposed to
offer as amendments. They relate to the
bounty on sugar and provide that until
April, 1900, there shall be paid to the
producers of sugar, testing not less than
eighty degrees by polarization, from
beets, sorghum or sugar cane grown
within the United States, bounty of l
cent per pound, under such rules and
regulations as the commissioner of inter-
nal revenue, with the approval of the
secretary of the treasury shall prescribe.
The bounty is to be paid annually from
duties collected on imported sugar,
THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. IA .-Immediately
after reading of the journal, Mr.. Ran
dali, from the committee on rules, re-
ported a resolution resembling the rules
requiring daily adjournment at o 'cIOck
The proposition gave rise to an interest
ing debate, in which Messrs. Cannon and
Reed took the ground that it should be
agreed to as strengthening the rights and
powers of majority against tilibuster-
ing minority.
Mr.. Payson opposed it, declaring it
was the outcome of bargain between
Mr.. Weaver and the Democratic mem
bers of the committee on rules, and in
cidentally denouncing the Oklahoma
bill, pointing it out as ''mill in a
cocoanut resolution to locate town sites
Oh pdNlnOlIJ VI d plbIuuCO lILO tic
treasury, thus repeating as far as
Oklahoma is concerned, the law of 1864
providing that the proceeds out of the
location of town sites shall be used for the
benefit of the inhabitants of the town.
Mr.. Payson's remarks aroused great
indignation among the friends of the
Oklahoma bill, but they were unable to
obtain the floor to reply to him.
Mr.. Randall denied that there had been
any bargain made with Mr.. Weaver, and
declared that the resolution had been re-
ported in order to permit the house to
transact its business.
After further debate the resolution was
agreed to-yeas. 155; nays, So; and the
house then proceeded to consideration of
routine business.
A motion to refer the internal revenue
bill to the committee on appropriations
was agreed to-yeas 1873, nays 81.
Then Mr.. Brewer of North Carolina
introduced a bill to repeal the tobacco
tax, and moved its reference to the COM
mittee on war claims, and yeas and nays
were ordered.
Under call of states, Mr.. Coates of
North Carolina introduced bill embrace
ing the internal revenue features of the
Mills bill. On reference to the committee
on appropriations the members of the
ways and means committee opposed the
motion