Connecticut western news., 1890-08-06
THE FlFTY-FIRsT CONGRESS-.
Condensed Report of the Proceedings
 the Senate and House.

the Senate and House.
 WASHINGTON, July 28.-In the senate an order was agreed upon for meeting here after at Il a. m. and adjournment at p. m. During the discussion of the order MT. Ingalls, attracted attention by an- nouncing that the senate intended to pass the election bill. The bill to transfer the revenue marine to the naval service was discussed until ? o'clock, when 8 motion to continue its discussion to the displacement of the tariff bill was defeated-34 to IA. MT. Vest and MT. Turpie addressed the senate in opposition to the tariff bill. MT. McPherson's motion to recommit it was defeated-19 to 29-and the reading of the bill by paragraphs was begun.
 MT. Vest said that the advocates of high tariff taxation were confronted by great peril. The depression of agricultural in- terests and the emphatic demands of the farmers for something besides lying statis- tics and frothy declam ations had caused President Harrison and MT. Bla inc to urge upon congress subsidies for steamships and reciprocity treaties in the South Amer ican states to obtain foreign market for American products.
 At last, therefore, the protectionists had been drawn from their pretentious hum- bug about the home market aud were forced to adopt the principles of free com mercial intercourse. The high priests of protection were now burning incense on the altars of free trade.
 What the farmer wanted, said MT. Vest, was the opening and enlargement of for eign markets for their surplus wheat, corn, cattle and pork, and the decrease of tariff duties on hardware, clothing, tin and other necessary articles of daily and incessant use by the farmer and his family.
 
 WASHINGTON, July 29.-In tho senate . general debate on the tariff question then ensued, in which Senators Jones, German, Hiscock, Voorhees, and Aldrich partici- pated. The senate passed the joint reso- lution to extend current appropriations to Aug. IA. MT. Jones (Ark.) spoke in oppo- sition to the tariff bill, saying it was practical declaration on part of the Repub- licans that the war tariff was to be perma- nent and declaration of war upon for eign commerce. He said that in the action of the Farmers Alliance could be seen the signs of the times. He firmly believed that the present "period of protection gone mad" would inaugurate a movement that would in it's effects and consequences sur pass previous upheavals of the kind. Speaking of the proposed bounty on i sugar, MT. Jones thought that the govern ment might as we'll protect the wheat grower W1Cn 8 bounty aS Gne sugar grower. | What right had the American laborer who produced sugar to tax his brother who pro- | duced wheat? Wheat growing did not pay. l No agricultural employment paid. MT. German spoke of MT. Blaine as the one man who in twenty years had been able to bring the Republican party into line, the one man in the Republican party who had had the courage and ability to answer ex-President Cleveland's s tariff mes- sage, and he said that MT. Blaine had warned the Republican party that if it passed the pending bill it would destroy the possibility of increasing trade with the | countries south of the United States and would bankrupt the treasury in eighteen months.
 MT. Hiscock remarked that so much had been said in reference to the influence which had produced the pending bill that it seemed proper to him that sonnet hing should be said in reply to those charges. He repelled the charge that the Republican success at the last election was the result of the influence of manufacturers or mon- l opolists, and he asserted that In the stAts o1 New York. whsrsver Dsmoetatte me1qs.