The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-27
In the Senate.

WASHINGTON, July 20.-Mltchell 0fered
concurrent resolution, which was referred
to the committee on finance, stating that
the United States would hail with approba
ton any reciprocal arrangement, by treaty
or otherwise, between the government of
the United States and the governments of
all or any of the South American or Cen
trail American states whereby there shall be
admitted to the ports of such nations. free
from all national, provincial, municipal and
other tariffs or taxes, the products of the
United States, Including flour, corn meal
and other Dreadstutfs, preserved meats,
fruits, hides, vegetables, cotton seed oil,
rice. and other provisions; al articles of
food, lumber, furniture and other articles
of wood; agricultural implements and ma
chinery, structural steel and iron and steel
rails, locomotives, railway cars, supplies,
street cars, refined petroleum and such
other products of the United States as may
be agreed upon, but declaring that is not
the sense of the United States that
by any such treaty of reciprocal
arrangement the articles of foreign wool or
hides, in any form, should be admitted free
into the ports of this country, and it de-
clares that in any treaty or reciprocal ar
rangement that may be entered into looking
to the opening of such foreign ports to the
products named, it is the sense of the
United States that the articles of wool or
hides produced in any of those countries
shall be admitted free of duty into the ports
of the United States, and it requests the
President of the United States to admit
! the article of wool in any of its forms, and
also hides.
The Senate resumed consideration of the
| tariff bill, and was addressed by Morgan.
He said the pending bill bore more heavily
on the laboring classes than on the capital
| ist class, or any other class.
Morgan went on to speak of the colored
people, who, not being capitalists, manu-
facturers or skilled workmen, could not
| possibly derive any advantage from protec-
ton and who yet had to bear the burdens
which 1t imposed upon the people. He
! yielded to an interruption by Hawley, who
said that in Alabama and other states the
| colored men were being employed as skilled
| workmen in factories and Hoar, who men
| toned the case of the colored man who was
selected recently by his fellow students at
Harvard university to deliver the valedic-
| tory.
His response to Hoar was that the case
which he mentioned was an exceptional
one, something to 'build to'' and his re-
Spouse to Hawley was that what he Nor
GAM had been trying to find out was
whether any negro operatives were EN-
ployed in northern factories
He also yielded to Vest, who presented
au advertisement from Springfield, Mass,
where an insurance company was showing
a prohibition to its agents against insuring
| houses occupied by negroes, or negro
churches or school houses.
In reply TO a remark by Hoar that the
prohibition applied only to the southern
states, Vest asserted it applied to the
whole country Morgan went oh to crit
else the bill in detail and showed how hard
it would be on the negroes of the south
Morgan remarked in closing that he had
tried to segregate the negroes from the
whites for the purpose of showing that the
party which professed to be their best
| friend had no use for them in the world ex-
cept to do its voting,
Colquitt addressed the Senate. He was
as much opposed to the House bill as he
was to the Senate bill. Colqultt went on
to discuss the provisions of both bills in
reference to agricultural products in order
to show the futility of the proposed duties
on farm produce so far as any benefit to
farmers was concerned. The American
farmers were becoming conscious of their
wrongs; they were Joining hands IN organ
ization and cooperation. Endowed with
good practical sense, vigorous in character,
moral in habits, lovers of home and'its
traditions, the farmers of America would
never allow themselves to be degraded tc
and Egypt. From his heart he wished them
success and babe them God speed.
Spooner gave notice of an amendment he
would offer to the tariff bill, providing or
and after October, 1884, tin plates thinner
than No. 2S wire guage shall be admitted
free of duty unless the quantity of tir
plates of csuch guage produced in the
United States during the proceeding fisca
year shall equal in amount such tin plates
| imDOrtpd durinp S11ph fiscal wear
Vest obtained the floor and the tariff bill
went over till Monday.
On motion of Wilson, of Iowa, the House
amendments to the original package bill
were non concurred in and a conference
ordered.
The bill passed granting pension O.
$1,000 year to the widow of the late Gen
eral Crook. Bills also passed giving lik,
pension to Mrs. Fremont and Mrs. Nc
Clelland. Adjourned.
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