The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-09-04

SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRE-
SENTATIVES.

5 Our National Lawmakers and What They
Are Doing for the Good of the Country
Various Measures Proposed, Discussed.
and Acted Upon.
/ In the Senate the proposition offered on
the previous day fixing a day for taking the
vote on the tariff bill was agreed TO on the
26th. The conference report on the sundry
civil appropriation bill was agreed to. The
tariff bill was then taken up, the question
being on the lead paragraph, to which Mr..
! Coke had offered an amendment TO make
! the lead extracted from silver ores free of
| duty, and Mr.. Plumb had offered one re-
ducing the duty on lead ore and lead dross
from one and one-half cents to three.
quarters of cent. Before proceeding
/ with that paragraph Mr.. Plumb gave
| notice of an amendment to the bill,
which he would offer at the appropriate
time. The amendment was read. 1t is, with
some few notifications, the bill for reci-
procity with Canada, introduced by Mr..
| Butterworth in the House of Representa-
| tives. Senator Plumb proposes to restrict
| the operation of the reciprocal arrange
ment to manufactured articles and min
| erals. In the House the entire day was
spent in wrangling over parliamentary
questions. The delay caused by the
| opponents of the compound-lard bill, who
resorted to dilatory tactics to keep the bill
| from coming to a vote
THE feature of the tariff debate in the
Senate on the 27th was the speech of sena-
| tor Cush Davis, of Minnesota, in favor OF
reciprocity with South American countries.
| He spoke of the general impression that the
country was entering upon an era of unex-
ampled material prosperity, and said that
the renewal of prosperity was largely the
result of wise legislation enacted (the sill
yer bil) and to be enacted (the tariff bilI.
He thought that the tariff bill should be
amended in the direction of reciprocity SO
as to secure American farmers trade with
foreign nations, especially with South
America, Central America, Mexico, and the
West India Islands. But there was one item
in the bill of extraordinary Importance to
the people OF Minnesota; that was the item
of binding Irvine. In his opinion that ar
ticle should go 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 peo-
pie of Minnesota to the amount
of nearly a million dollars q
year. The entire business, including the
sources from which that commodity was
supplied was governed by a combination OF
all, or substantially all, the manufacturers
of cOrdage and binding Irvine, They were
in no need of protection. They were amply
able to protect themselves and to Spoliate
the world. They were amenable to the law
against trusts, and certainly the Senate
should not Iegislate in favor of men under
the ban of Outlawry. The House spent the
entire day again in Wrangling over parlia-
mentary points.
THE lOng-expected reciprocity amend
ments to the tariff bill were introduced in
the Senate on the 2sth by Senator Aldrich.
The vital one relates to sugar, molasses,
coffee, tea, and hides. 1t is set forth in the
declaratory statement that the object is
reciprocity. The President is not given any
wide discretionary powers, for he simply
carries out the direction of Congress in i'm
posing certain duties on specified articles at
a given time-July 1, 1S91-if countries
having the benefit of the United
States markets do not reciprOcate.
The only thing left to his judgment is
the time of this suspension, and that is
necessary discretion. The sugar duties are
set forth in detail in the amendment in Or
der to prevent any ambiguity. The time
given the various countries to open up then
markets is shorter than has been heretofore
talked about. Assuming that the tariff bill
will be in effect Oct. !, it would be nine
months. The relation of sugar to reciprOci-
ty is still to be determined. The second
amendment in relation to fish is purely
retaliatOry and is aimed at Canada. In the
House, after four days of flibustering, the
bill regulating the manufacture and sale OF
compound lard was passed, 1875 to 81. The
House also passed the bill establishing the
eight-hour day on all Government works.
Mr.. BLAIR presented in the Senate, or
the goth, a memorial of the WOmens Ma
tiOnal Industrial League for the suppress
sion and punishment of the earned assas-
sins known as the Pinkerton detectives"
Referred to the Judiciary Committee. Mr.
Edmunds offered the following concurrent
resolution, which went over for the present:
ReSOlUed, That when the two houses adjourn
the 10th of September, 1890, it be to meet
the 10Th of November, 1890. HOUSE
bill authorizing the erection of pontOOr
bridge across the Missouri River, between
the City of St. Charles and the County
of St. Louis, in Missouri, was reported by
Mr.. Vest, and passed without amendment
In the House, the first bill considered was
that which has been pending for the last
sixteen weeks-the omnibus Southern war
claims bill. Mr.. Thomas (Wis.), who ha6
objected. to its passage on the ground thai
some of the claimants were disloyal, Offered
a substitute striking out the Objectionable
features, and by unanimous consent it was
agreed to. The bill carries about $500, 900.
WHEN the tariff bill was taken up in the
Senate on the Both, the pending question was
on Mr.. Carlisle's motion to strike out the
wool paragraphs (357 to 369), so as to place
wool on the free list Mr.. Daniel addressed
the Senate in support of the amendment
Mr.. Hawley replied to some of Mr.. sDan1ePs
allusions to Connecticut agriculture, and
reminded him that the tendency OF pOpu-
lations toward towns and cities was COM
mon in all states and nations. The
effects of that tendency were modified
by keeping up the manufactures, without
which the population OF COnnectlcut WOulC
be reduced. He was convinced that there
were more landhOlders in Connecticut now
than there used to be. The land was in
creasing in value, and the population OF
the State h&d grown since the census OF
1880 by 11S,0O0 The money in savings
banks Ga fair indication) was growing yea1
by year. The vote was then taker
and Mr.. Carlisle's motion to strike
out all the wool paragraphs was re-
jected-yeas, II; nays, ga strict party
vote, although Mr.. Payne, if present, would
have voted, Mr. Sherman said, in the mega
tive. The bill introduced last June by
Judge Gest, providing for the adjustment OF
accounts of workingmen, laborers, and
mechanics arising under the eight-hour law,
was passed by the House. The intention OF
the bill is to secure to employees of the Gov
eminent pay for time they have been re-
CURED to work in excess of eight hours
day since the passage of the eight-houl
law, June IS, 1868.
THE FIELD OF LABOR.