The Portland daily press., 1890-08-09
IN THE SENATE.
Business Transacted During a Pause
In the Speech Making,

Business Transacted During Paust
In the Speech Making.
WASHINGTON, August SIN the Senat
today, Mr.. Call offered a resolution whicl
was agreed to, instructing the committee OF
foreign relations to inquire and report sucl
measure as may be necessary for the pro
lection OF citizens of the United States, form
erly residents Of Cuba and subjects of Spain
against prosecution by the Spanish govern.
ment for offences alleged to have been com.
mitted by them.
A concurrent resolution expressing the de-
sire OF Congress for the removal of tie re-
mains Of Ulysses S. Grant to, and their in.
terment in, Arlington National Cemeterv
and requesting the President to convey 70
the widow such desire, rendering her. ON
behalf the nation. all the necessary facilities
Tor the removal and interment, was agreed
to.
Dill was agreed to.
The conference report on the sundry civil
appropriation bill was taken up. Mr.. Call
argued against the action of the Conference
committee in striking out of the bill all the
appropriations for the payment to the fami-
lies of deceased Senators and members the
Dalance OF their years salaries. He thought
tnat on that ground alone the conference re-
port should be rejected.
Mr.. Sherman expressed regret at the strik
ing o9t Oh the Item for the families of de-
Waite. 0.0A 'u''ioo
:. Mr.. Plumb expressed satisfaction that the
Item as to Mrs. Waite was struck ont he
cause he did not think it should ever have
been in it.
At o'clock the conference report was
agreed to-yeas, 20; nays, Is. A further con-
ference was ordered on the irrigation items.
and Messrs. Allison, Hale and Morgan were
reappointed iconferees on the part of the
The tariff bill was taken mn. the nandino
paragraph being No. 1874, page 27, as to hoop.
Dand, scroll or other iron or steel, to which
Mr.. Bntler offered yesterday an amendment
providing that such hoops used for baling
eotton shall be taxed So per cent ad valorem,
Mr.. Mcpherson discussed the question as
70 70 the labor cost on a ton of steel rails in
Europe and the United States, taking as a
Text paper presented yesterday by Mr.. Ed
nunos = from the Assistant Commissioner of
Labor. He undertook to prove from Carroll
u. Wright's report that the cost in the
United States was only 27 cents in excess of
tne average cost on the continent of Europe
and in Great Britain.
Mr. Edmunds suggested that Mr.. McPher-
son argument was running away with his
arithmetic. He asserted that the difference
Oh the labor cost of ton of steel rails be-
tween the United States and Europe was be-
tween So and So.
MI. Butler declared the duty on cotton ties
nothing more nor less than deliberate and
Wanton piece of robbery and predicted if it |
was carried out, enabling combinations
and trusts to corner cotton ties, the farmers
Oh the South would return to the use of rope
% pale cotton. Further ON in the discussion |
MI. Butler asked Mr.. Aldrich whether the |
object Of the bill was not to reduce taxation.
Mr.. Aldrich-"One object of the bill is to |
reduce taxation on the article of sugar for |
me 6eneflt OF the Senator's constituents If /
ne Senator meant to ask me whether the |
IN Ms + B9urreqn 81 rreqnce eteeGtiys 6dpties. fQg The
for the purpose of reducing taxation"
Mr.. Aldrich-"Not by any means. l have |
stated as plainly as l could that the purpose |
If the bill is to reduce the revenue, and, in |
reducing the revenue, relieve the people OF /
his country from any burdens created by |
.arim or internal revenue laws"
Mr.. Butler-"Is the object of the bill to |
reduce the reyenue?"
Mr.. Aldrich-"I have already stated that is |
)ne of its objects"
Mr.. Butler said that what he complained |
IF was that the proposed tax on cotton ties |
would be prohibitory and combinations |
would be formed to put up prices. That was |
.he iniquity, enormity, outrage of the bill. |
He declared nothing was further from his |
purpose than to iDjure any manufacturing |
industry in the United States, but he could |
not support the proposed increase of duty.
The Senate joint resolution to accept from |
,he National Encampment of the Grand |
Army of the Republic the statue and pedes-
tai of the late Gen. U. S. Grant, to be erected |
IN the capitol, was passed, and the Senate