Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-07-29
CONGRESSIONAL.
YESTERDAYS PROCEEDINGS IN THE
TWO HOUSES.
The senate Takes Up the Tariff BiIi--Mr.
Vest Thereon-Republlcsn In
eonsistencies.
tBy telegraph TO the Dispatch.I

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| hour Of meeting at IL A. vi.
| Mr.. Cockrell suggested that there should
be an understanding as TO the hour of adj
| journment.
Mr.. Aldrich. We ought not to adjourn
earlier than 6.
Mr.. Allison Orr.
| Mr.. Cockrell: Ironically ore.
| Mr. Adrich: There is no objection on
| this side TO an understanding that we shall
| adjourn at daily.
| Mr. ingalls, suggested further under
| standing that the business of the morning
| hour shall be considered closed NJ o'clock.
Mr. Allison did not wish IT TO be implied
that the Senate would devote two hours a
| day 10 morning business.
Mr.. ingalls, said that he did wish Just
| such an implication. He remarked that as
soon ~ the tariff BILL theappropriation bills,
| and the election bill were passed Congress
would undoubtedly adjourn promptly.
| There would be no waiting on the order
Of their going" but they would $50 at
once" Therefore, Whatever was 20 be done
| between now and the time of adjournment
| in the consideration OF measures on the
| calendar would have to be done IN the
! morning hour. lie respectfully submitted
| thatthcre were several hundred bills on the
calendar that were entitled TO cOn,idera-
| ton that had been reported from commit
| teos and that oughtto receive the attention
| Of the Senate Of sometime. Solar rs ne was
concerned, he should by his yots. when
ever opportunity afforded. proceed 10 the
consideration of bills on the calendar for
two hours after the Senate met. believing
| that that was the only way in which mat
tiers Of general business would have any
consideration at all.
THE GENTLEMAN ~ cHARGr or rur HOUSE,.
Mr. Cockrcll asked what was the use ofthe
Senate passing bills when the distinguished
gentleman IN charge OF the House did rot
| give any attention to them. There were
now on the calendar Of the House hum
| dreds and hundreds Of bills passed by the
| Senate and no attention was paid tothem.
| Among them was the bill TCfuBding the
direct tax. Among them were also twO
| bills recently passed aud regarded on the
| other side OF the chamber as erynportant
measures (the shipping bills) and they
! were being left 10 sleep the sleep that
knows no waking
Mr.. Hawley did not quite agree with Nr.
| Cockrell. lie wanted his own ammunition
g. be IN order SO that lac could 20 home
with a clean record. A. 20 what was done
elsewhere that was not his direct business.
The resolution rs TO meeting at II \. VI.
was agreed to with the understanding that
the Senate shall adjourn at e.
REVENUE MARINE TRANsFTH Bill.
Mr.. Aldrich moved TO proceed to con-
eideratiOn Of the tariff bill. That motion
was antagonzed by motion (by MIR. Gray
TO proceed 10 consideration of the House
bill for the transfer of the revenue marine
service 20 the Navy Department, and the
latter motion was agreed tO-yeas. Is;
nays, %
The Republican senators voting in the
affirmative were Mcssrs. Cameron, In
gals, Henderson, and Spooner. Mr.. Cock
rell was the only Democratic senator who
voted in the negative. SO the Senate re-
sumed consideration of the bill to transfer
the revenue marine service from the
Treasury Department 10 the naval estap-
lishment and Mr.. COckrell continued his
argument i'll opposition TO It,
Mr. Cockreli had not concluded his
speech when, at 2 o'clock, the presiding
officer laid before the Senate the tarltl bill
as unfinished business
Mr.. GRAY moved to continue cOnsldera-
tion Of the revenue marine bill. not de-
siung he said, TO antOgOnize the tarih bill,
but desiring 10 have the revenue marine
bill brought to a conclusion. The same
view Of matters was sustained IN some re-
marks by Alessrs. Cullom and Butler.
Mr.. Dawes opposed the motion, and cri-
ticised the persistency of the friends OF
the bill in pressing il upon the Senate in
the face of the tariff bill.
MR.. FRYE on THE PREVIOUS QUESTION"
Mr.. Frye declared himself a friend of
the revenue bill and friend after thorough
investigation. The friends OF that mea-
sure had occupied but an hour ana half
upon it. It's enemies Ga small minority
all the rest Of the time. II was as evident
TO the Senate n if the purpose had been
announced that the time had been occupied
for the purpose Of preventing vote on the
measure. That only indicated what he
believed in-the necessity of the previous
question in the Senate-ofsome way To stop
debate--of some way to prevent senator
from getting mp every morning for three
or four mornings in succession and read
ing from the report OF clerk IN the treas
ury Department. Why should not vote
be taken on the bill? If there is "A majority
of the Senate in favor Of IT, why should 1t
not be permitted to say so?
Mr.. Gray motion was rejected-yeas. IA
nays 81.
THE TARIFF BILL TAKEN UP.
The tariff bill was then taken up. and
Mr.. Vest addressed the Senate III opposi-
tion 70 it. The advocates of high-tarif
taxation, Mr.. Vest said, were confronted
by great peril. For years the farmers
had been told that the home market was
all they needed. and that the foreign mar
ket was a bagatelle, almost worthless.
Now a great change had come. Depression
in agricultural interests and the emphatic
demands of the farmers for something be-
sides lying statistics and frothy de-
clamation had caused President Har-
rison and Mr.. Blaine to urge
upon Congress legislation for subsl-
dies TO steamships and for reciprocity
treaties with the South American States IN
order TO obtain foreign market for Amerl-
can products. Very little was heard now
of the home market. but q great deal OF
the South American market and OF the ras
callv devices by which England had robbed
the United States of that valuable trade
Mr.. Blame now deprecated the putting of
raw sugar on the free list or of increasing
the duties Oh wool, and suggested that the
duties on sugar and wool should be utli-
lied 10 secure free trade with the South
American States. SO that at last the pr0tec-
tionists had been driven from their preten-
tious humbug about the home market, and
were forced 10 adopt the principle OF free
commercial intercourse, which they had 20
long opposed and derided. The high
priests of protection were now burning IN
cense on the affairs OF free trade, ana were
yelling for reciprocity treaties, subsidies,
to steam and sailing vessels, Pan-Ameri-
can conventions anything to bring about
free trade with the South American States
80 as to enlarge the foreign market TOR
American products.
PYRAMID OF FRAUD AND HUMBUG.
Mr.. Vest spoke of the proposed increase
of duties ON wheat, oats, barley, rye. ana
other farm products, and asked how 1t was
possible to protect the American farmers
against "a competition which did not exist
The whole thing he said, was nothing but
pyramid Of fraud and humbug. As
to the proposed reduction OF tho
duty on rice and rice flour he
referred TO il as an evidence OF not
only the unjust and wicked, but the
sectional character of both House and Sem
ate bills. Why, he asked, was that brutal
discrimination made against the rice
planters of the South? There could be
but one answer-they voted the Demo
cratic ticket. The pending bill. he de-
clared, was TO repay the mill-owners their
contributions to the campaign fund OF the
Republican party during the last presl-
dental election, and as the planters of the
south were Democrats and the negroes were
regarded by the Republican managers as
mere political chattels who could contri-
butte nothing. The duties on northern
manufactures were increased while the
duty on rice was diminished. The