The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-20
QUAY'SSLAP AT CANADAY
SENATOR CAMERON PROPOSES A
COMPROMISE.

He Suggests the Employment of an
Extra PaRe-Senetor Sherman Takes
Crack at the Pennsylvania Boss
The Legislative Appropriation Bill
Taken Up - Latin-Americen Reci-
procity. .
WASHINGTON, June 19.-In the Senate
to-day the resolution of Mr.. Quay, offered
yesterday, forbidding the sergeant arms
to remove any OF his subordinates before
July, without the consent OF the Senate
was taken up.
Mr.. Cameron offered a substitute for Il,
directing the employment as an additional
page for the present SESSION. of George H.
Mann, the employe whose removal was the
cause of Mr.. Quay's resolution being
offered.
Both resolutions were referred 10 the
committee on contingent expenses after a
short discussion, in which Mr.. Sherman
spoke Of Mr.. Quay's resolution as Shaping
man in the face just as he was leaving his
office" and said that the employe had been
removed because he had passed the limit of
age for a page and because of 'the urgent
request of a senator who had a right to
claim something at the hands of the
sergeant alarms for another very worthy
person."
THE LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATION BILL.
The Senate then resumed consideration
| of the legislative, executive and judicial
| appropriation bill. In the course of the
| consideration of the bill Several omissions
| or defects having been noticed and sup
Piled, Mr.. Cockrell said that the recent re-
ported interview with Speaker Reed, in
which the speaker Is represented as having
| thanked heaven that the House is not a
deliberative body,n might account for the
shape in which this and other bills came to
the Senate. In the same connection he re-
called the circumstance that one OF the
| House clerks, with message from the
| House, had announced some weeks ago the
passage of certain bills by the speaker.
| OPEN TO GENERAL AMENDMENT.
All the amendments of the committee on
appropriations having been disposed of, the
| bill was open to general amendment
| Mr.. Paddock moved to increase the salary
| of the commissioner of the general land
office from $4,000 to So, 900 aud of the as
sistant commissioner from 50, 900 to IS, 800
Mr.. Allison, the Vice President being in
the chair, renewed the point of order which
he had made when the amendment was
offered, and when Mr.. Platt was in
the chair, and which was then overruled,
that the salary was fixed in the general
statute and could, not be changed on an
appropriation bill. If it could be done as
to one officer it could be done as to all
officers of the government and as to SEN
ators and representatives.
| OF THE SAME OPINION.
Messrs Cockrell and Ingalls, took the same
view of the question aud argued in support
| of it.
MIR. Manderson opposed it. The qusxion
had not been decided at O'Clock, the hour
fixed for the memorial exercises on the two
deceased New York representatives, Messrs
Nutting aud WILDER. The bill was laid
aside.
A message of the President vetoing the
bill to change the boundaries of the Uncom-
| pahgre Indian reservation was presented,
read and referred TO the committee on In
| dian affairs.
| A message from the President in relation
to reciprocal commercial treaties with the
| Latin-Amerioan nations was laid on the
table.
| OPENING OUR CUSTOM HOUSES.
In connection with the last mentioned
subject, Mr.. Hale presented an amendment
to be offered to the tariff bill in the words:
| "And the President OF the United States is
hereby authorized, without further legisla-
tion, 20 declare the ports of the United
States free and open to all products of any
nation Of the American hemisphere upon
which no export duties are imposed. when
ever, and SO long as such nation shall ad-
NIT to its ports free of all
national, provincial, state, municipal
and other taxes, -four, corn
meal and other breadstuffs; preserved
meats, fish, vegetables, fruits, cotton seed
oil, rice and other provisions, including all
articles of food; lumber, furniture and all
other articles Of wood; agricultural imple-
ments and machinery. mining and mechan-
ical machinery, structural steel and
iron, steel rails, locomotives railway
cars and supplies, street cars, refined
petroleum and such other products of the
United States as may be agreed upon.
Eulogies on Messrs. Nutting and Wilber
were delivered by Messrs Evarts and His
cock. The usual resolutions Of regret and
sympathy were adopted, and, as a further
mark of respect to the memory Of the de-
ceased, the Senate at AS o'clock adjourned.
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