Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-30
The Senate's Time Occupied by General
Deficiency Matters.
The House Listens to Various Conference Re-
ports and Discusses Quite Num-
Der of Questions.
Ii. CONGRESS-
SENATE

| passed
conference report on the deficiency
bill was presented by Mr.. Hale. The
| report having been read, Mr.. Dawes in
| quired what disposition had been made
| of he Freuch spoiIation claims. Mr..
| Hale replied that the house conferees had
come from that body after an animated
contest on that subject, and after the
house by @ yea and nay vote refused TO
agree TO the senate amendment, the con-
ferees had found the house conferees
very determined and firm in their atti-
! tude, and refusing under any circum-
! stances to agree to the senate amend
ment, or TO any proposition modifying it.
| The senate couferees therefore had been
! compelled TO yield TO the position taken
| by the house. He (Hale) did not By any
means consider the matter closed or
| ended. 1t could be taken up at another
session, but the senate conferees had be-
come convinced that nothing could be
done in the matter, and therefore the
amendment had gone out. Mr.. Dawes
bad no doubt that the senate co1ferees
had done all in their power to maintain
the position of the senate. He expressed
his regret at the refusal of the house to
pay claim so just and so long.
Mr.. Dawes then asked MIR. Hale to
make statement of the changes, and as
| well of the amount covered by it.
Bir. Hale replied that as the bill had
passed the house it appropriated So $50, =
535; the senate had increased the amount
hv 81, GA ,955, making it 81 ,SS5 40
This had been reduced in the conference
81 ,209 ,232, so that the aggregate Pppro-
priation now amounted to Sc 6G6 ,25S.
The largest item in the reduction was
that for French spoliation claims.
Another matter which occupied the
conferees long time was the tenn of
$40. 900 for explorations aud nHstiga-
tons in regard to artesian wells api irri-
CATION. An amendment had pen at
last agreed to by the house coaferees
with the provision that that app-Opria-
ton should complete the work, ana
these were to be completed by the irst of
July, 1891. The report was agreed TO.
A conference on the Iariff bill was pre-
scented and read ct length.
Mr.. Aldrich said the conference report
and bill as modified we're printed aud he
didn L deem any furtbur explanation of
its provisions necessary. He hop.d the
senate would be able to reach a vote on
the report at an early hour this after
noon. He had no knowledge of the in
tentions of the senators on the other side
of the chamber in regard to debate, but
was aware of the anxiety of senators on
both sides to arrive ut an early con-
cluson of the business OF the session,
and with that object in view be should
ask for q vote as SOON as it could be had.
Mr.. Morgan said the tariff bill as man
ipulated by the Republican conferees OF
both houses had many new features
MI iah hap ha
voted upon, put it was impossible to go
into discussion at the changes. They
are all of real Importance TO the people,
but the parliamentary law applicable to
present the stage of the bill denies to a
senator the privilege of separate vote
on any one of the numerous changes. 1t
was 9 bogus measure, that had to be
swallowed whole or to be rejected. All
that could be done was to discuss in a
general way the principles on which the
measure was founded. The only great
leading principle of the bill was higher
taxation of the people and greater pro-
fits to those engaged in the manipulation.
In the early part of his speech Mr.. Nor
gan commented upon some remarks
made by MIR. Hiscock during the tariff
debate rejecting upon Southern sena-
tors, and said it was not the state of
New York that sent the senator to de-
feat but gerrymaudering. He (Hiscock)
was the child of the gerrymander. The
language of his diatribe (Mr. Morgan
said) was in good New York style. The
soul of the senator had sat before mir
ros when he drew that picture. 1t diI
not show what Southern men had done,
but it reflected what would have been
the senator's conduct and feelings if he
had suffered " hat they had been COM
PEELED to suffer. The South was a mere
victim of the tariff bill.
The remarks on the tariff bill were
made by Messrs. Morton, Gray, Sher-
man and Paddock, after which the re-
port was laid aside without action.
A concurrent resolution for final ad-
journment tomorrow was presented and
referred to the finance committee.
Individual pensions on the calendar
were then taken up and passed Gorty-
four in twenty-five minutes.
After a short executive session the SEN
ate adjourned, Mr.. Aldrich stating he
would not ask for an evening session, as
he was satisfied that the tariff conference
report would be reached tomorrow.
HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.-The speaker
III III DtlUE6 Tue uOusc u " Otuu6 duu
regulate the jurisdiction of United States
courts with the senate amendment
thereto.
Mr.. Taylor of Ohio moved non- concur
renee in the amendments.
Mr.. Breckenridge of Kentucky sug-
gested that the bill go to committee
on judiciary as an important bill and
should 60 over till next session. Mr..
Taylor said he would prefer it to go to
confer ence with the expectation that it
go over until next session.
After some discussion the bill was laid |
aside temporarily.
Mr.. Henderson of Iowa submitted a
conference report on the general def |
clenoy bill.
Mr.. Clements of Georgia called atten-
ton to the differences existing COM
parativeIy between the number of sala- |
ried employees of the senate and house. |
AS an average each senator had three |
and one half employees to wait upon him,
while less than one employe was sufi-
cient to attend to the requirements of
Nobody was entitled to |
more dignity than q direct representa- |
tive of the people. There were some
occasions of uprising of public con-
science The late Mr. Randall had lad |