Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-08-27
Mr.. Plumbs Prohibition Resolution
Referred to the Committee on Rules.
THE TARIFF BILL COMES UP.
The Fight on the Lard Bill Goes
on in the House.
ANOTHER DAY Of FlLlBuSTERlNC.
SENATE.

The resolution heretofore offered by Mr..
Plumb instructing the committee ON rules to
issue such orders as will wholly prevent the
sale Of spirituous, vinous and malt liquors in
the Senate wing of the Capitol was taken up
the first question being on Mr.. Buffers amend
ment directing the sergeant-at-arms to make
daily inspection of committee rooms and other
apartments.
MIR. Hawley expressed his regret at Mr..
had no doubt had been offered as a satire or a
joke. He protested against putting on record
anything so offensive.
The amendment was rejected.
TO PROHIBIT ALL LIQUOR DRINKING IN THE SEN
ATE WING.
The next question was on tho amendment
offered by Mr.. Blair to add the words, and their
use as a beverage"
MIR. Blair said that the great evil was not in
the sale of liquors, but in their consumption
1t was idle to talk of the selling of an occasional
glass OF liquor III the restaurant while the real
evil was omitted That real evil was tho con-
sumption of liquor by Senators in their conf
mittee rooms
Mr.. Harris remarked that the committee on
rules had complete jurisdiction over the Senate
wing of the Capitol, and he was inclined to
think that the best policy would be to let the
resolution and amendment go to the committee
on rules. which would Che had no doubt give
prompt attention to the matter and determine
what ought to be done.
GOING TOO FAR.
Mr.. Teller said that he had no sympathy with
the amendment. 1t was a proper thing that
no liquor should be sold in the Capitol, but the
attempt to say what a Senator should Or should
not do, in regard to the use of liquor. seemed
to him to be going too far. He had never
tasted a drop of Intoxicating liquor in his life.
lie thought that it might be assumed. and
ought to be assumed, that every member OF
the body was a self-resp Getting gentleman.
As had been said the other morning. he knew
of no other body of men so temperate as the
Senate. For the last two years at least there
had been no exhibition of drunkenness in the
chamber, such as was said to have occurred
1orty or hfty or sixty or seventy years ago. The
American Senate was temperate body, and
all lntimatlons that there was some necessity
for a rule to restrain Senators from the exces-
sive use OF intoxicating drinks were entirely
without foundation. Nobody knew better than
the Senator from New Hampshire that that was
not the case. He would, therefore. vote against
the amendment and for the resolution.
MIR. SHERMAN voUCuEs FOR THE TEMPERANCE OF
SENATOR'S.
Mr.. Sherman concurred in the views ex-
pressed by Mr.. Teller. When he compared the
habits of Senators today with what they used
to be twenty or thirty years ago he thought
believed that the Senate was rs temperate as
any body of men to be found in the United
States. The COMMITTEES on rules, he was sure.
would deal with the question more wisely than
tho Senate could. Tho resolution had con-
sumed very valuable time, and he moved its
reference to the committee on rules.
TEEToTALERs IN THE SENATE.
Mr.. Frye favored that motion. His reputa-
ton a temperance man would justify him in
lo,p ba hnl ,,.x Al
habit of saving that the Senator from New
Hampshire (AIr. Blair) and himself were the
only teetotalers in the United States Senate. but
that was not correct. There were within reach
OF his voice scores of Senators who were tee
totalers. He could see one on the democratic
side. Laughter In fact, he could see more
than one. which was rather remarkable. Re-
newed laughter. He knew the keeper of the
Senate restaurant. He was proud to say that
he had been his personal and warm friend
good many years. He (Mr. Frye had been
Mr.. Pages guest when he was a man of wealth,
and his character was as good now as 1t had
been when he was rich man. Mr.. Page would
obey implicitly any instructions that the COM
mittee on rules would give him.
Mr.. Gibson concurred in the good character
given of Senators. He had asked himself the
explanation Of il. and (seeing that Senators
we're mostly elderly mem had found it in Roche
foucaults maxim: .'As we grow old our vices
leave us and we call ourselves virtuous."
MR.. BLAIR IEPELLED THE INITIATION
that he had done anything to befoul the sena-
torial nest.
MIR. Frye took for granted that what he had said
about teetotalers on the democratic side was
understood to be said in n jocular manner. lie
knew that there were as many temperance Sem
ators on the democratic side as there were on
the republican side
REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON RULES.
Mr.. Sherman's motion was agreed to and
the resolution and amendment were referred to
the committee on rules.
THE LAFAYETTE MONUMENT RESOLUTION.
The concurrent resolution offered bv Mr.
Date on Monday directing a suspension of the
work in the erection of the Lafayette statue
until further action by Congress was taken up
and was, after a statement by Mr.. Evarts of the
objection to its adoption, laid over till tomor-
row.
THE TARIFF BILL
was then Q115) taken up, the question being
on substitute offered by Mr.. Mcpherson YES
terday for schedule D-"wood and manufact-
ures of wood"
Mr.. Davis addressed tho Senate. He spoke
of the genera, impression that the country was
entering on an era Of unexampled material
prosperity, and said that the renewal of pros
perity was largely the result Of wise legislation
tariff bilD. The latter was in its general aspect
q wisely devised measure, and he should criti-
else it. not in its entirety. but in the hope of a
modification OF some OF its items. He thought
that il should be amended
IN THE DIRECTION OF RECIPROCITY,
so as to secure to American farmers trade with
foreign nations, especially with South America
Mexico and the West India Islands. But there
was one item in tho bill of extraordinary inn
portance to the people Of Minnesota; that was
the item of binding twine.
SHOULD GO ON THE FREE LIST.
In his opinion that article should 60 on the
free list, and should be subject to no duty or
tax whatever. The matter affected the farmers
of every state in the Union. 1t affected the
people OF Minnesota to the amount of nearly
million dollars year. The entire business
(including the sources from which that COM
modify was supplied) was governed by a COM
bination of all Cor substantially the manufac-
turers OF cordage and binding twine That
combination controlled absolutely the raw ma
terial (sisal, jute, &c. in the places where it
was grown. and Also limited the product OF the
manufactured article and fixed its price,
That combination Mr.. Davis went on to saw
consisted of AZ manufacturing companies in the
United States and or 9 in Canada These
companies were banded together by
THE COHESIVE FORCE. OF COMMON INTEREST.
They were superior to all law. In the
Philippine Islands they limited and controlled
the price of one-half OF the raw material, and
in Yucatan they controlled the other half.
They Ind one man in Nav York To cb,s so o.