The morning call., 1890-07-27
CONGRESS-.
THE SENATE.

Concurrent Resolutions offered On a Reel
procity Arrangemeni-The Tariff
WASHINGTON, July 26.-In the Senate
this morning Mitchell offered a concurrent
resolution, which was referred to the Com
mittee on Finance, stating that the United
States would hail with appreciation any re-
ciprocal arrangement, by treaty or other
wise, between the Government of the
United States and the Government Of all
or any OF the South American OF Central
American States, Whereby there shall be
admitted to the ports of such nations, free
from all national, provincial, municipal and
other tariffs or taxes, products of the
United States, including flour, cornmeal
and other breadstuffs, preserved meats,
fruits, hides, vegetables. cotton-seed oil,
rice and other provisions, all articles of
food, lumber, furniture and other ar
ticles of wood, agricultural imple-
ments and machinery, structural steel,
and iron and steel rails, locomotives, rail-
way cars and supplies, street cars. refined
petroleum and such other products Of the
United States as may be agreed upon; but
declaring that it is not the sense OF the
United States that in any such treaty of re-
ciprocal arrangement the articles of foreign
wool or hides III any form should be ad-
mitted free into the ports OF this country !;
and. -aseiaEes-that.-in- any treaty Or IT,
ciprocal arrangement that may be entered
into looking to the opening of such foreign
ports to the products named, 1t Is not the
sense of the United States that the articles
of wool or hides produced in any of those
countries shall be admitted tree of duty
into the ports OF the United States; aud it
requests the President CT the United States
to omit in any such nation from the list of
products OF such countries to be admitted
into ports of the United States. the article
of wool in any of its forms and also of
hides.
The Senate then resumed consideration
of the Tariff Bill, and was addressed by
Morgan He said the pending bill bore
more heavily on the laboring classes than
on the capitalist class or any other class.
Morgan went on 10 speak of the colOred
people, who, not being capitalists, manu-
1acturers or skilled wOrkmen. could not
possibly derive any advantage from prOtec-
ton, and who had yet to bear the burdens
which it imposed upon the people. He
yielded to Interruptions by Hawley, who
said that in Alabama and other States the
colored man was being employed as a
skilled workman in factories and foun-
dries, and Hoar, who mentioned the case
of the cOlOred man who was selected re-
Gently by his fell0w-studentS at Harvard
University To deliver the valedictory.
His response to Hoar was that the case
which he mentioned was an exceptional
one, somewhat akin to Blind Ton" and
his response to Hawley was that he Nor
gam had been trying to find out whether
any negro operatives were employed in
Northern factories. He also yielded to
Vest, who presented an advertisement from
the Springfield Mass Fire and Insurance
Company, showing the prohibition 10 its
agents against insuring houses occupied by
negroes, or negro churches or school houses.
In reply TO a remark by H0ar that that
prohibition applied only TO the Southern
States, Vest asserted that it applied to the
whole country.
Morgan went on to criticize the bill in de-
tail and show how hard it would bear on
the negroes of the South. Morgan remarked
in closing that he had tried to segregate the
negroes from the whites for the purpose of
showing that the party which prOfeSSed to
be their best friend had no use for them i'll
the world except TO do its voting.
ColQuitt addressed the Senate. He was
as much opposed to the House bill as he
was to the Senate bill. Colqutt went on to
discuss the provisions of both bills in refer
ence to agricultural products, in order to
show the futility of the proposed duties on
farm produce, so far as any benefit to farm
erS was concerned. American farmers were
becoming conscious of their wrUrgS. They
were joining hands in organization and Co.
operation. Endowed with good practical
sense, vigorous in character, moral in hab-
its. lovers of home and its traditions, the
farmers of America would never allow
themselves to be degraded to the condition
of the tilers of the soil in India and Egypt.
From his cart he wished them success and
babe them gedspeed.
Sp0oner gave notice of an amendment
he would offer to the Tariff Bill, providing
that on and after October l, 1894, tin plates
thinner than No % wire gauge shall be ad-
mitted free of duty, unless exceeding the
quantity of tin plate, of such gauges pro-
duced in the United States during the pre-
ceeding fiscal year.
Vest obtained the floor and the Tariff
Bill went over until Monday.
On motion of Wilson of Iowa the House
amendments to the Original Package Bill
were nop-concurred in and conference
was ordered.
The bill was passed granting pension of
$1,000 year to the widow OF the late Gen.
era Crook. The bills were also passed
giving like pensions to Mrs. Fremont aud
Mrs. Mcclellan. Adjourned.