The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-08-07
FURTHER CONSIDERATION
OF THE TARIFF BILL.
PLUMB WITH THE DEMOCRATS.
Mn the House, Cummings of New Yorl,
Raises Muss Over Political Trick
cry at Navy Yards.
FIFTY-FIRsT CONGRESS.
SENATE.

hENATE.
WASHINGTON, August 5.-The senate me
at 10 a. m. and at once proceeded to the
consideration of the tariff bill the pending
item being paragraph 107 on page 19-
Cylinder and crown glass polished.
Senator Berry addressed the senate on the
general subject of tariff legislation and op-
posed high tariff.
Senator Wilson, of Iowa, replied to Sen
.ator Berry. Discussion was continued for
long time and at its closes an amendment
offered by Senator MCPHERSON to paragraph
106 as to the sizes of window glass was ac-
cepted by Mr. Aldrich and. was agreed
to. No amendment was offered to para
graph 1O7, fixing the duties on cylinder and
crown plass polished. Paragraph los re-
ferring to fluted, rolled or rough plate glass
was on motion of Mr.. Aldrich .agreed to as
it came from the house except that the des-
.cription in the proviso was modified so as
to make it apply to all such glass when
ground or otherwise obscured and the COM
mittee amendment was disagreed to.
The next paragraph, 100, as to cast pol
ished plate glass, unsilvered, was on mo-
ton of Mr.. Aldrich made to read cast
polished plate glass finished or unfinished
and unsilvered Next paragraph, ITO, re-
fered to cast polished plate glass silvered
and looking glass plates.
Senator Vest moved to reduce the rate
on the lowest size from to 4 cents per
square foot on the ground that this Ger
man looking glass was used in cheap fur
niture and was not produced in this coun-
try.
was taken by yeas and nays. The amend
ment was rejected. Yeas II, nays 20.
Senator Plumb was the only Republican
voting with the Democrats. No amend
ment was offered to either of the two fol-
lowing paragraphs, Ill and 112
On the next three paragraphs, 113, Ia
and 1l5 referring to spectacles, The finance
committee recommended an amendment to
the substitute for mixed rates fixed by the
house and increasing existing rates very
largely.
Senator Mcpherson moved to reduce the
rate TO 40 per cent Rejected. Yeas II,
nays 20. Mr.. Plumb voting with his own
party associates. No amendment was
Offered to the first paragraph in the schedule
12U, putting duty Of 15 per cent ad valorem
on chromate of iron of chronic ore.
Ihe senate tnen auJourned.
HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-After the reading
eot the journal Mr.. Bingham, of pennsyl-
vania, moved to lay on the table a motion
(Which has been pending for some time) to
reconsider the vote by which the house
passed the bill to grant a leave Of absence
to clerks in first and second class postoffices.
The motion to reconsider was tabled. Yeas
49, nays 100.
Mr.. Mckinley, of Ohio, from the COM
mittee on rules, reported, as substitute for
Mr.. Cummings resolution, resolution
asking the secretary of the navy for the rea-
sons for the increase of force at the Kittery
navy yard.
In speaking of the res olution Mr. Cum
mings of New York said that the standard
of public morality and public law which
had been menaced by high official order
increasing the force OF Kittery navy yard
looked as though the design was to use ex-
.ecutive power for partisan purposes. He
referred to the great evil which would re-
suit from the introduction of politics into
the navy yard and going back to the ad-
ministration of the navy department by
upon the action of that official
in filling the yards with par
tisan friends just previous to
a congressional election. He charged that
the Kittery yard was used for public pur-
poses and quoted figures to show that ad-
ditions 10 the election list of the employees
was larger than it was month or two after
wards. A majority of the men employed
came from Maine, the State of Thomas
Bracket Reed. He quoted at length from
testimony taken by the Whitaker com
mittee in 1876 to show that the policy of
the Republican party to use the navy yard
to expedite political ends. This policy was
worse than the shotgun policy.
The committee on rules had reported. as
substitute for his resolution, resolution
which referred the whole otfense to the OF
fender himself, secretary of the navy. The
answer of the secretary would be sent to
the committee on naval affairs, the chair
man of which, in an interview in New
York paper, had characterized his Cum
mipgs') resolution as the most perfect rot
Imaginable, and stated that when the re-
port came in that would be an end of the
matter.
MIR. Boutefle of Maine, said that he felt
like making an apology for answering the
remarkable demonstrate that had been
made by the gentleman from New York.
The gentleman in search for sensation had
worked himself up to high state of excite
merlt over the fact that the secretary of the
navy had really possessed the hardwood of
obeying the mandatory instructions OF con-
gress of the United States. He suggested
TO the gentleman from New York that
though the elections generally were held
in November the congressional cleo
tion in Maine was held i'll
September SO that if there were
10000 men whether clad in buckram
or not. transported to the Kittery yard
under the certificate of he secretary of the
navy, not one of them could vote for
T5omas B. Reed, Thomas Bracket Reed or
a representative from New Hampshire.
Applause on the Republican side.l The
Eonstitution of Maine provided that every
voter snould have legal residence of three
months at the place where he was to vote.
The Gentleman from New York did him too