Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-01-23
CONGRESSIONAL pRooEED1NGs.
In the Senate.

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WASHINGTON, January 22d.- Senator
Dolph laid before the Senate petition and
resolution adopted at meeting of the peo.
pie of Washington Territory. held at
Ellensburg January Sd, praying for the ad-
mission of that Territory with the northern
counties of Idaho as State.
A letter from the Secretary of War was
laid before the Senate containing all the
papers on file in the department relative to
the services of volunteers from Washing
ton and Idaho Territories in the Nez Perce
War.
The discussion of the wool schedule in
the tariff was resumed.
Senator Morrill, spoke in favor of the bill
and Turpie against it.
Reagan offered an amendment reducing
all the duties on wool to 25 per cent. ad
valorem. Rejected.
Vance offered an amendment that no
article in the schedule shall pay higher
rate than 75 per cent ad yalorem. Re-
jected.
In the lumber schedule the duty on white
pine was made 81 so per NJ.
A motion to put pine clapboards on the
free list was rejected.
Stanford offered an amendment to the
bill heretofore introduced by him to author
ize the producers of pure sweet wines, who
are also dislillers. to use, free of tax, wine
spirits necessary 10 fortify such pure sweet
wines up TO an alcoholical strength of IA
per cent. Agreed to.
The amendment heretofore offered by
Brown to the rice paragraph was re-
jected. On this vote Senators Cam
eron, Mitchell, Plumb and Quay voted
with the Democrats, and Senators Bate
Berry, Blodgett, CockrelI, Coke, Faulkner,
Harris, Jones of Arkansas. Reagan, Tur-
pie, Vest aud Walthall with the Republi-
cans.
Allison offered an amendment (agreed
to) repeating the provision requiring a
stamp to be affixed to every box of i'm
ported cigars to indicate inspection thereof
by the Custom officera.
The amendment reported from the FL
nance Committee to add to paragraph 533,
putting rough diamonds, etc., on the free
list, the words land jewels to be used in
the manufacture of watches" was agreed
to-yeas 80, nays "a.
The amendment reported from the FL
nance Committee, to paragraph SGT, as TO
oranges, lemons and lines, was agreed to.
1t increases the rate per package-accord-
ing to the capacity-from ten, twenty and
forty cents to thirteen, twenty five and fifty
cents, and eight cents for every additional
cubic foot to ten cents.
Various amendments were offered and
rejected.
On motion of Allison the date for the
bill to into effect was changed from the 1st
OF February, 1889, to the 1st of July, 1889.
There being no further amendments Of
tered, vote was taken first on agreeing to
the substitute, and then on the passage of
the bill. Both votes were identical-yeas
80. nays 30-as follows:
Yeas-Aldrich, Blair, Bowen, Cameron,
Chase, Chandler. Cullom, Davis, Dawes,
Dolph, Edmunds, Evarts, Farwell. Frye,
Hawley, Hiscoek, Hoar, ingalls,, Jones Of
Nevada, Manderson, Mitchell, Morrill,,
Paddock, Palmer, Plat. Plumb, Quay,
Sherman, Spooner, Stockbridge, Teller,
Wilson of Iowa-32.
Nays-Bate, Berry, Blackburn, Brown,
Butler, Call, Cockrell, Coke, Colquitt,
Daniel, Eustus, Faulkner, George, Gibson,
German, Gray, Harris, Jones of Arkansas,
Morgan, Pasco, Payne, Pugh, Ransom,
Reagan, Turpie, Vance, Vest, Voorhees,,
Waltball, Wilson of Maryland-20.
The Senate at P. NJ. adjourned.
In the House.
WASHINGTON. January 22d.-When the
House convened this morning there was a
fight for possession of the floor by rival in-
terests, but the river and harbor bill was
victorious, and consideration of that meas
ure was proceeded with.
The Secretary of the Treasury submitted
to the House an estimated appropriation of
$4,000 for connecting Tillamook Rock with
Fort Stevens Point Adams), Or, by cable
and land telegraph line. Accompanying
the report is letter from Admiral Rowan
recommending the appropriation.
The House adjourned at 5 o'clock, hav-
ing accomplished but little on the river
and harbor bill, owing to filibustering by
Snrden