The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-07-31
TIE FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
SENATOR'S DECIDE 10 WORK kIGHT
HOURS A DAY HEREAFTER.

Business - Mr. morrill, and Mr. Carlisle
Talk Abont the Tariff - The House StIiI
wrestling with the Sundry Civn Bill.
WAsHtNGToN July 30.-1n the Senate to-day
the resolution offered yesterday by Mr.. shor-
man. fixing tho daily hour Of meeting at 10 A.
H., was taken up.
Mr. Cockrell Dem, Mo- said that he would
support the resolution, and wanted 10
give few reasons why. Some taunts
lad bsen made recently by the Senators from
Rhode Island and Maine tAldrich and Fryel
about delay on the part Of tho Democratic
minority, and the Senator from Maine had
sR!d something about having the previous
question introduced in the Senate. lI9 wanted
those Senators to see the relative amount OF
work done in the two Houses Tho Senate had
up to July 2S passed $40 bills and 400 other
bills had boon acted on by committees and
been indefinitely postponed, making the whole
number OF senate bills actually disposed OF
1.445 That was considerably moro than one
third OF all the bills introduced in tho Senate.
No such record had ever been made before.
Tho House, out Of over 10000 bills introduced
there. had passed S65, O fraction OF the whole.
Out OF all the Senate bills passed, the House
had only passed 231, while OF the House bills
the Senate had passed els. On tho House cal
ondar Of bills pending In Committees Of the
ate bills, while there were pending in tho
House Ills public bills. including % Senate
bills, and 967 private bills. including 1877 sem
ate bills Then there wore on tho calendar OF
unfinished business 9S cases pending, OF which
81 were Senate bills That made q total OF
1,Gl7 cases pending before the House. OF which
844 were Senate bills On the Senate calendar
there were only 800 casos, all told, Of which only
81 were House bills. There we're 34i Senate bills
Gaoted on by House cummittees) now on the
House calendar. with the iron heel OF the one
man power securely resting on that calendar.
How, he asked could SO much work have boen
done in the Senate had the minority boon vast
ing time by interposng objections or by I'M
necessary discussions? Had the minority con-
sumed time. rs tho majority had done under
the last Adminslr ration In crticisng the Exec
ntiye or in pleading the Civil Service law to
prevent the removal of Democratic officials
before the end OF their terms OF office? Nothing
OF the kind Had not the bills for tho ad-
mission OF Idaho and Wyoming as States
boon allowed by the minority to pass
although every one knew that neither OF
thom had sufficient population to entitle
1t to a Representative in the House,
Those bills had passed only through the in.
conceivable iorDearance and conservatism or
tho Democratic minority And yet Democrats
were criticised tho moment they wanted u lit
Ito explanation ana a lllCle nknt on inc 1AriU
pill. Ii there, was u democratic majority in
tho Senate. and had It made an attempt to pass
the bills for the admission oil New Mexico aud
Arizona as states. the Senator from Maine
tAlr. fryel would have pranced up and down
the centre aisle AMI the Senator from Yer
voice They would have roared like Gagged
lions and screamed like chained hyenas laugh
ior eGaiRSt The Metion Of the ne, Democratic , ma
disposed OF more bills than It had disposed OF
The reason was that i IGNORED in IT, organ
mental PRINCIPLES OF parliamentary discussion.
iHe quoted tron letter w written by Mr.; Thomas
he said. that Mr.. Reed was once q member OF
the House OF Representatives. One OF the
IN these WORKS: iuI, Tree, frank discussion
is the very HE Of Intelligent action" Another
cusslon Is tyrannic. whether dono by n king or
q majority. lie challenged any Republican
cratic no Su~ had @G any ' unRecss
sary de .ay. democratic Senators had been In
TIER soats when the ena;or from Maine Mr.
senator from Vermont JMr. Edmun .sj was
tMr. Hiscock) said yesterday that the Republl-
cans had captured the democratic. II the
eSssp TO r Tbe Would SoH inc
the chamber Mt 10 In the morning, but they
would expect Republican Senators t" come.
and facilitate the transaction OF business, II
they were treated as a decent, respectable
minority ought to be.
The res oluIion was then agreed to.
a ne IHrln pr. was TAX mp ana r Morrill,
was persuaded that whom the bill became the
law OF the land it woul d give staOil.tI and new
lille to all the business interests Of tho Amorl-
workingmen. and cover tho republic with
countless blessings.
sideration OF the bill by paragraphs was con-
tinued. The amendment offered yesterday by
Mr.. MlePherson. to ma ke the duty on chronic
acid 10 Der cent. ad valorem. instead of Il cents
per pound, was rejected Numerous amend
ments for the reduction OF the proposed rates
on sulphur c acid, fannie acid, alcoholic per-
1umery. carbonate OF ammonia, backing, and
borax were offered, discussed pro and con, and
on by yeas and nays tho votes were divided
strictly by party lines.
% In the c9ur-e Of the discussion on boiax; Mr.
stewart lNep. New asked Mr. Aldrch (Rep..
4. l. what, would be the per capita revenue
that would be collected undel the pending
about 49, and on further inquiry by Mr. Butler
said that that estimate was based upon the
Mr.. Butter Dem, i. G. said that he had been
r informed by Mr CARLISLE that the per capita
Mr.. Carlisle Dem. Ky. said tina, Mr. Butler
had misunderstood him His statement was
ts ssd the revenue collected from imports IN
made by Mr.. Stewart! that that Senator had
omitted to state tha,all the taxes collected on
treasury. ON the contrary, it was the opn-
ion oi many that In the United Suites three or
four times rs much went into the pockets Of
private individuals as went into The public
Treasury. consequently that did not appear In
The per capita statement. The policy OF Great
britain WAS TO impose taxes mainly, not en-
tlreiy, on articles not produced In that couu-
Try. The result was that the tax did not en-
nance the price to the consumer Of any domes-
tic ~ oduct. The policy OF the United States,
on tho contrary and II was still further carried
out by the Iending bill-was to put on the Tree
list articles not produced In this country, and
TO impose taxes on articles similar to those
produced at home. The effect, II not the
object Of tina. policy, was to Increase tho price
OF the domestic article. In other words Il i'm
posed on american citzens, In the form Of on.
hanced prices largo amount OF taxation that
did not appear in the statistics at all. II there
was any means u ascertaininR the amount OF
taxes imposci on the people Of the Uniicd
states BY existing law ipcuding those re-
sultinR from the enhanced prices OF the do.
mestlc articles MS we'll ms those that went into
tho treasury he Lentured 10 say that 1t would
not not be loss than SO PER CAPITA; Re Thought
article OF q certain kind and quality was
actually imported and sold in the American
market. in competition with domestic article
Of the same Kind and quality, the duty was
added to the price OF the domestic article,
This proposition was challenged and denied