The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-07-22
YESTERDAY IN CONGRESS.

WAAHM01ON, July Zl.-1n MS prayer shlo
morning the chaplain feelinRly alluded TO
the death Of Representative Walker, Of
Missouri. The COMMITTEES ON public lands
reported the resolution calling on the sec-
rotary of the interior to inform the house by
what authority and why he has authorized
dan directed the issue Of patents to the Union
Pacific Railroad company, for lands granted
to the company prior. to the payment Of the
debt due the United States from said COM
pany; that he also report to the house the
amount Of land patented or certified to
each of the land grant corporations
of the Union Pacific railway sys-
tenn up to this date. Adopted.
On motion Of Dockery, Of Missouri. BY
unanimous consent, IL wss ordered that the
vote ON the original package bill be taken
cy bill by Thursday morning. Dookery
then announced the death of Representa-
tive Walker from congestion Of the brain,
at Dexter. Mo-. Saturday afternoon, and
delivered brief euloey.s Appropriate reso-
lutions were adopted and the house ad
iourned.
In the senate at o'clock the revenue
marine bill was laid aside without action,
and the senate proceeded to the considera-
tion Of the tariff bill. and waS addressed by
Voorhees, in opposition to it. He criticised
the tariff bill in detail, oharadterixing It a.
q financial monster. The reduction on
sugar and molassee was no reduction at all
in the light Of the proposed bounty
to planters. The increase in wool
en- goods amounted to 1915, 5,OOO, 900 q
year. This was simply protection
run mad. VOORHEES, referredto the recent
Stanley wedding in London and the we'd
ding presents Of fabulous 1rice. Among
these was the gift of Carnegie gift richer
and rarer and far more costly than any that
could be offered by the queen of England
or king Of Belgium. The Gift Was an uncut
diamond of such size and quality that
neither the richest of the crown jewels Of
England nor the moonstone Of India could
can king OF steel and iron to have such dia-
mond? The farmers Of the United States
had paid for that dimond ten Thousand
times over in the last twenty years by pay
ing an average duty Of over 80 per cont. on
every article of iron and steel they used.
made necessary by the high duties on steel
and iron rails and rolling stock. II
the pending bill became Law tho farmers
would have to pay on iron and steel an in
crease of duty from 1924 to 5l.75 per cent.
Voorhees, passed on to the discussion of the
proposed increase of 100 per cent on tin
plate in order to protect an infant industry
yet unborn and to give employment to a.
600 workingmen now idle. II would be far
cheaper for the country to pay 24,O0O idle
men average wages than to tax every square
Of tin roof, every dinner pail, tea pot and
milk can simply to build up . dozen mill
ionaires and enable them to give coaching
parties to protection leaders and TO found
libraries from the savings of Ii
per cent reduction of the wages of
workingmen. Tin plate had the first right
to be on the free list, and he would, at the
proper time, move to put it there. There
was no manufacturer of it in the country,
and there was nothing to protect, even If
protection were right. All internal revenue
taxes on manufacturers, brokers and deal
ers in bank checks and incomes had been
swept away, while the dnticg ON trace
chains. tin buckets. flannel ssirts and the
like had manifold growth. fh