Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-06
WORDY WARFARE.
Pithy Points from the Debates
in Congress.
THAT NAVY YARD ATKITTERY, ME.

Cummings and Bouteiia Don't Harmon
ize as to the Facts in the Case-serry
and Wilson I'm the Senate Continue the
Illumination of the Tariff Question--A
Drastic Anti-Chinese Measure That
Hit Can Not Indore-St. Paul Men Adj
nit Some Census Irregularity.
WASHINGTON CITY, Aug. 6-The senate
yesterday, as usual nowadays, opened the
session with general debate on the tariff
| bill, Berry of Arkansas beginning, aud
| denying at the start that the election of
| 1888 had decided in favor of protection.
He said the people had declared in favor
of tariff reform. He sympathized with
| Plumb, whose constituents wishes were
disregarded in the present bill, and hoped
this fact would teach them to love
| their southern brothers better, rs fellow
sufferers. Berry bewailed the condition
of the farmer and worEingmap, the
former weighted down with mortgages
and both forced to pay high prices for
| necessaries because of the burdensome
tariff, which was made worse by the bill
under discussion.
/ "hsoh Teti
| Wilson of Iowa replied to Berry and ex-
pressed the discomfort which he always
felt at hearing a senator discuss a subject
in regard to which he mad so small an
amount of definite information as that
senator evidently possessed in regard TO
the subject of protection. He read for
Berry's information AN article from The
Fort Dodge Iowa) Messenger, contrasting
the condition of the farmer and working
man now and ten years ago, and showing
| the great reduction that has taken place
| in prices of household and agricultural
1 implements and of necessary commodities
| within that decade. The general sum
ming up of the article was that never in
human history would days labor pur-
chase as much rs it would to-day
The Oppressed Husbandman.
As to the talk about depression in farm
ing interests and about the enormous
amount of farm mortgages, Wilson said
| that the farm mortgages of Iowa had been
published at s567, 600 600; that he had a
profound conviction (when he saw that
publication) that it was not true; that he
had set about to discover where the in
| ventor of that falsehood had obtained his
data, and discovered that the sum named
| was the appraised value of all the farms
| in the state. The outside limit of mort
cages WAS 81, OOO, O0O, as ascertained by an
inquiry made by the governor
| Advocated Free Iron Ore
German pleaded for free iron ore during
the debate, and quoted Mai Bent, of
| Pennsylvania, who said that with free ore
he could sell pig iron in Liverpool and
| steel rails in London. He declared that
no steel could be produced east of the AL
leghanies because the cost of transporting
the ore from the Lake Superior region
amounted practically to prohibition.
| Bayne said this was an error; last year
400, 600 tons of the Lake Superior BESSIE
mer ore possibly the best in the world
had been brought east of the Allegheny
| mountains and used by the furnaces there.
| German, however, asserted that the cost
of assembling the raw materials was
greater than if we had them free of duty.
AWlNDY DAY IN THE HOUSE.
The Speaker Again Attacked. This Time
from Navy Yard Point of View.
The house INDUCED in another partisan
debate, the foundation therefor being the
Inauguration of work in the navy yard at
k1ttery, Me. A large appropriation passed
congress some weeks ago for this yard and
a few days ago Cummings of New York
| introduced resolution to inquire what
| necessity there was for resuscitating that
yard, implying that the purpose was to
use it TO help elect Reed to congress again.
He declared yesterday that the ships to be
repaired there ought to be sent TO the bone
yard, but that the exigencies of Repub-
| lican politics required that they be kept
afioat for purposes of repair" SO that they
| would always be on hand when voters
were wanted in the navy yard.
Suspicious of the COMMITTEES.
His resolution, he said, had been
changed so that the reply of the secretary
of the navy would be sent to the commits
| tee on naval affairs, whose chairman had
| characterized his Cummings resolution
as perfect rot" The men who would be
| employed in the yard would come princi-
pally from Maine and the object of their
employment was TO get votes for Thomas
Bracket Reed. The whole scheme was to
use executive power for political purposes.
| He asked when the secretary of the navy
| had been directed TO repair the ships re-
| terred to.
Boutelle Explains Matters.
Boutelle said that the question demon
strated the ignorance of the gentleman
or the subject he had discussed He felt
ike making an apology for replying to
such remarkable demonstration. The
| secretary of the navy was obeying the di-
| rect mandate of congress, and for the ne
| cessity of the work ordered he referred
Cummings to the report of the chief of
the bureau of yards and docks. The ma
val committee had unanimously recon-
mended the appropriation, the Democrats
on the committee voting for it. Cum
mings resolution was founded on a chron-
illogical error. Although the elections
generally were held in November, the
congressional elections in Maine were held
in September, so that if there were 10000
men transported to the Kittery yard, not
one of them could have voted for Speaker
Reed or the representative from New
Hampshire. In concluding Boutelle OBJ
served that the greatest majority ever
cast for Thomas B. Reed was 2 1872 over
his Democratic opponent, and ,62S round
majority in 1888, when the navy yard had
been packed by Democratic administra-
ton.
Senate and House Proceedings.
WASHINGTON CRY, Aug. 6.-The senate
yesterday worked industriously at the
tariff bill all day. The glassware and stone
schedule was finished A number of
amendments proposing to reduce the COM
mittee rates, offered by the Democrats,
were rejected Slate pencils were put on
the free list. The metal schedule was
taken up, and pending a discussion of an
amendment offered by Morgan to admit