Los Angeles herald., 1890-07-26
IN THE SENATE.
Memorials on Various Sub
jects introduced.
The Debate On the Tariff Bill
Resumed.
Vance Goes for the Pending Measure
ROugh-ShOd.
Plumb Complains of the Bills vagueness
and Mcpherson Strikes Some
Telling Blows.

ana McFherSon Strikes Some
Telling Blows.
Associated Press Dispatched
WASHINGTON, July 25.-In the senate
today, Blair presented memorial from
the headquarters of Grand Army post
expressing adherence at the action of
congress in allowing pension agents fee
OF $40 in each case under the recent de-
pendent pension act, and enclosing a
circular of Washington claims agent
offering to active men in localities half
the fee in all cases sent to him. He
said he concurred with the memorialists
in the expression of their adherence.
Call introduced resolution instruct
ing the committee on interstate COM
merce to prepare a bill to compel ele-
yator proprietors to accept grain for
storage at reasonable rates. It is intended
chiefly against the combination of ele-
vator proprietors on the Northern Pa
citc, who threaten to refuse grain and
compel the farmers to sell at once. Laid
over.
Cockrell presented memorial from
st. Louis, protesting against the passage
by the senate of the federal election bill,
stating that the masses of the people
were so dazed with the enormity of the
proposed outrage on the sanctity of the
ballot that they had not yet formulated
words in condemnation of it.
Another memorial against the bill was
presented from Adrian, Michigan.
The house bill on that subject was,
on motion of Hoar, referred to the COM
mittee on privileges and elections.
= Sherman offered resolution instruct
ing the committee on printing to report
whether any abuses existed, in printing
matter in the Congressional Record that
ought not to be printed therein, and to
report such bill or regulation as will
limit such printing to actual proceedings
in both houses; also whether it is ex-
pedient to edit the debates of congress
by the omission of such parts as are i'm
material, and of such papers as are al
ready printed as public documents.
The resolution gave rise to some dis
fcussion, but was finally referred to the
committee on printing.
Morrill, moved to proceed to consid-
Grafton of the tariff bill
Gray antagonized the motion with
one to resume consideration of the house
bill to transfer the revenue marine
service to the navy department.
The latter motion was agreed to-yeas
80, nays 22-and the revenue marine
bill was taken up.
On motion of Frye an amendment was
adopted extending the application of the
bill to the life-saving service.
Cockrell had not concluded his re-
marks on the marine bill at l O'Clock,
when the tariff bill came up as unfin-
ished business. On motion of Aldrich
it was agreed that the formal reading of
the bill be dispensed with, and Vance
proceeded to address the senate.
Vance said the result of the bill
might be to reduce the revenues to a
certain extent, but not to reduce taxes.
What the people desired was common
sense reduction of revenues and CORE
spending relief from the payment of
taxes. The Mckinley bill was an out
to the intelligence of mankind. 1t
neither reduced the revenues in the
sense of reducing taxation, nor equalized
the duties on imports. On the contrary
it increased taxation and made duties
more unequal by imposing heavier bur-
dens on the poor than on the rich, and
by settling such tax on the necessaries
of life as to shock the moral sense of
every just man.
Vance went on arraigning the Repub
lican party for the evils which Che
claimed) protection had brought upon
the country. He quoted from Blaine's
letter to Frye, and said the unmstaka-
BILE wisdom of what that distinguished
man had said illustrated the wisdom of
what he had left unsaid. Ii it
were important to extend Amer
ican trade to Central and South
America, it could not be unimportant to
extended it to the European continent
where wealth and population was
ten times greater. Ii it's
extension to the people of the Latin
races was desirable and profitable, no
reasoning could show that little free
trade with the people of Teutonic blood
would not also be desirable and profit
able.
Plumb said before proceeding to the
consideration of the bill by paragraphs
he would like to know what the finance
committee believed would be the effect
OF the bill on the revenues.
Mcpherson said the almost unanswer-
able speeches of the senators from In
diana and North Carolina (Voorhees
and Vance) seemed to preclude the
necessity OF any further defense of the
Democratic position. And now the
senator from Kansas (Plumb), in the
simplicity of his nature, inquired from
his own committee for some information
>on the bill. Did not the honorable
senator know that for the past three or
four days the newspapers had been full
of reports that it had been
resolved not only by the finance
committee but by the Republi-
can caucus also, not to attempt any de-
fense of the pending bill? II the bill
could not be defended it could not be
passed. He therefore in order to expedi-
ate business would move that the pend
ing bill be recommitted to the COM
mittee on finance with instructions
to report at the earliest practicable
moment a bill to reduce the revenues
and equalize the duties on imports, on
the basis that the average rate of duty
should not exceed the average ad
yalorem war tariff rate of 1864.
Mcpherson then launched out in re-
view of the tariff question in general
and the pending bill in particular. He
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