The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-29
SENATE PRocEEDINGs.
Democrats Talking to Kill Time-Tari
and Reyenue Marina.

Democrats Talking to Kill Time-TarifR
and kevenue Marine.
WASHINGTON CrTY. July 2s.-In the Sem
ate the bill to pension all surviving officers
and men of PoweII's battalion, Missouri
mounted volunteers, raised during the war
with Mexico, was passed.
Senator Vest presented to the Senate a
remonstrance of large number of persons
OF St Louis, protesting against the passage
of the Federal election bill.
Aldrich offered q resolution fixing the
daily hour of meeting at II a. M. Ingalls,
suggested an understanding that the busi-
ness Of the morning hour shall be consid-
cred closed at 1o'clock. Allison did not
wish 1t implied that the Senate would de-
vote two hours day to morning business.
ingalls, said he did not wish such an impli-
cation. As soon as the tariff bill. the APP
preparation bills and the election bill were
passed, congress would undoubtedly ad-
journ promptly. Therefore. whatever-Was
TO be done between now and the time of
adjournment in consideration Of measures
on the calendar would have to be done in
the morning hour There were several
hundred bills on the calendar entitled to
consideration.
Senate passing bills when the distinguished
gentleman in charge of the House did not
give any attention to them. There were
now on the calendar of the House hundreds
and hundreds OF bills passed by the Senate,
and no attention wss paid to them. Among
them was the bill rounding the direct tax:
also two bills recently passed and regarded
on the other side of the chamber as very
important measures-the shipping bills.
They were being left to sleep the sleep that
knows no waking.
Hawley agreed with Cockrell. He wanted
his own ammunition in order SO that he
could get home with clear record.
The resolution as to meeting at II q. m.
was agreed to. with the understanding that
the Senate shall adjourn ar 6.
Aldrich moved to proceed to the consid-
Grafton of the tariff bill. That motion an
tagonized motion by Gray to proceed to
the consideration OF the House bill for the
transfer of the revenue marine service to
the navy department., and the latter mo-
ton was agreed to. yeas 26, nays %, and
Cockrell continued his argumentin opposi-
ton to the bill. He had not concluded his
speech when at O'Clock the presiding off,
Ger laid before the Senate the tariff bill as
unfinished business.
Gray moved to continue consideration of
the tariff bill.
Frye said the friends OF the revenue bill
had occupied but an hour and half upon
it. Its enemies "a small majority had all
the rest of the time. 1t was as evident to
the Senate as if the purpose had been an
nounced. that the time had been occupied
for the purpose of preventing vote on the
measure. That only indicated what he be-
lieved in, the necessity of the previous
question in the Senate, of some way to stop
debate, of some way to prevent senator
from getting up every morning for
three or four mornings in success
sion and reading from the report of clerk
in the treasury department. Why should
not vote be taken on the bill? When
there is a majority of the Senate in favor of
il why should it not be permitted to say so
She senator from Ohio (Sherman) had
made four speeches upon the bill, and in
the course of them had read the same
identical articles which the senator from
Missouri had occupied the last three morn.
ings in reading.
Finally Gray's motion was rejected, IA
to "a.
The tariff bin was taken up and Vest adj
dressed the Senate in opposition to it. He
said:
Advocates of high tariff taxation are con-
hsnted by the great peril of depression in agri.
cultural interests. The emphatic demands of
the 'arfuers for something besides lying statis-
It's and frothy declarations have caused the
president and Secretary Blaine to urge upon
congress legislation for subsidies to steamships.
ard for reciprocity treaties with the Soutb
axse tata in, nrio To nh ofp
market for American products Very little is
now heard of a home market, but CREST deal
of the South American market So at last the
protectionists have been driven from their pre-
tenfious humbug sbout home market, and
are forced to adopt the principle Of free rom-
mercial intercourse, which they have long op-
posed and derided.
Vest went on to criticise the provisions
of the pending bill that are supposed to be
for the relief of farmers. and said that what
the farmers wanted was the opening and
enlargement of foreign markets for their
products of wheat. corn, cattle and pork,
and q decrease of the tariff duty on cloth
ing. hardware, tin and other necessary arti-
cles of daily life and incessant use by the
farmer and his family, TO the pending bill.
he declared, was to repay TO mill owners
their contributions. The campaign fund
of the Republican party during the last
presidential election. and as the planters of
the South were Democrats the duties on
Northern manufactures were increased.
while the duty on rice was diminished.
The consumers of the United States were
being systematically plundered under
the pretense OF protection to home
industries. No further conceslment was
possible. The truth was at last revealed.
exnrezsinn of the oninion of that great