Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-09-19
CONVERSATIONAL PROCEEDINGS.


limiting the discussion on each subject
to five minutes for each senator. Mr..
Gibson withdrew the amendment Of
fered by him last Tuesday to the sugar
schedule, there having been mis-
take in It," and he offered another
amendment striking out that schedule
and substituting for it the sugar pro-
visions of the Mills bill. Mr. Butler
presented a communication received
by him from the state department
showing the relative expectations of
cotton goods by Great Britain and the
United States. He thought the infor-
nation might be valuable in view of
the reciprocal propositions. Presiding
Officer Ingalls, announced that the gen.
eral debate on the tariff bill had closed
with the exception Of the reservation
of the day the final vote is to be taken
and when three hours time is to be al
lowed each side. In the house the sem
ate bill passed to establish port of
entry at Sioux City, Ia. Mr.. Lacy of
Iowa then called up the Clayton Brock
enridge election case, the previous
question to be called at o'clock to-
morrow. Mr.. McRae of Arkansas made
an earnest attack upon Powell Clayton.
The case then went over. The senate
bill was passed authorizing the secre-
tary of the interior to survey the sew
enth standard parallel between the
states of North and South Dakota,
The session of the senate on the 9Th
was entirely given up to consideration
of the tariff bill. In the house the
Clayton Breckenridge case was again
taken up and Breckenridge was ac-
corded the floor to argue in his own
behalf. He charged the chairman of
the committee on elections (PowelD
with improperly in judging cases.
That gentleman, in discussing another
election case, referred to the case
from the Second Arkansas district and
had declared that in that district five
political murders had occurred. He
called upon the gentleman to name the
murdered men. Powell said that they
were Benjamin, Smith, Bentley and
Clayton, while an attempt had been
made to assassinate Wahl. Brecken-
ridge denied the correctness of the
statement and called attention to the
fact that the gentleman himself
concurred in the report which
said that there was suspicion
only of these things being true.
The debate having been closed, Mr..
Crisp of Georgia moved to recommit
the case with instructions to the COM
mittee on elections to report which of
the gentlemen received a majority Of
the votes of the Second district of Ar
kansas. Lost yeas SO, nays 101. The
vote was then taken on the minority
resolution confirming Breckenridge's
right to the seat. Lost, yeas 81, nays
103. The resolution declaring the
seat vacant was agreed to; yeas 105,
nays 90. The house then took a re-
cess until o'clock-the evening ses-
sion to be for the consideration of pri-
vate pension bills.
In the senate on the 9th the tariff
bill was again considered, and on mo-
ton of Henderson an amendment was
agreed to fixing the duty on white pine
shingles at 20 cents per thousand. The
committee amendment placing shingles
on the free list was lost and the rate OF
duty per cent ad valorem restored.
Germans amendment to reduce the
duty on soaps to 8 cents per pound was
rejected. Vest moved to place salt
on the free list Rejected
26, nays &c. Vance offered an
n rod, ~
the duties on foreign produce
purchased with the profits of Ameri-
can farm products Rejected by a
party vote. On motion OF Gibson sor-
ghum seed and sugar cane seed were
placed on the free list. In the house
the bill was passed granting u pension
of 500 month to General Henry A.
Barnum. The house then proceeded
to the consideration Of the conference
report on the river and harbor bill
After debate the report was agreed to
and the house adjourned.
The senate on the 8th, after agree
ing to the conference report on the
river and harbor bill without discuss
ion and without an yea and nay vote,
resumed consideration of the tariff bill
The debate on the bill and amend
ments to be limited to thirty minutes
for any senator on any one subject. A
number OF changes and amendments in
the bill reported from the finance com
mittee were made. The sugar section
was taken up, the immediate subject
under consideration being the finance
committee amendment imposing duties
on all sugars above 10 Dutch standard.
The question was further discussed by
Senators Hale, Hoar and Evarts in fa-
vor of the amendment, and by Sena-
tors Plumb, Hiscock, Allison, Sherman
and Gibson against it. One of the ar
guments made against the amendment
was that with bounty of one cent a
pound on molasses sugar, all the sugar
from Cuba would be imported in the
form of molasses. The section was
adopted. Yeas, 20; nays, 23. Sem
ator Henderson offered an amend
ment for the admission, free of duty,
of machinery for the manufacture of
beet sugar and for the refunding of
duties collected on such machinery
since January, 1890. Senator Eustis
moved to amend the amendment so as
to extend it to machinery for beet or
sorghum sugar. Senator Henderson
opposed Senator Eustis' proposition,
and so did his colleague, Senator Pad
dock. The amendment gave rise to
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