Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-08-26
The Vote on the Tariff Bill to be
Taken September g.
SUNDRY CIVIL BILL AGAIN
Another Long Debate in the Sen
ate on the Irrigation Clause.
LARD BILL CONTEST IN THE HOUSE.
SENATE.


was reported by Mr.. Hoar from the judiciary
committee and was placed ON the calendar.
THE FEMALE EMPLOYEES WANT % PER DAY
Mr.. Blair presented memorial from the
female employees of the Government Printing
Office, asking that they be paid not less than
81 day. Referred to the committee on ap-
preparations.
THE PROHIBITION RESOLUTION.
Mr.. Plumbs resolution, directing the COM
mittee on rules to prohibit the sale of spirit
GUS. vlnous or malt liquors in the Senate wing
OF the Capitol was taken up.
MIR. Blair moved to amend the resolution by
inserting after word liquors the words land
their use as a beverage"
In the absence of Mr.. Butler, who had offered
an amendment directing the daily search of
committee rooms and other apartments, the
matter went over till tomorrow.
THE TARIFF CLOSURE MEMORANDUM.
The memorandum offered yesterday by Mr.
Aldrich fixing the time for consideration OF
and voting on the tariff bill was presented, the
presiding officer stating that unanimous con-
sent was asked for having it entered as an
order OF the Senate.
Objection was made by MIR. Morgan and
other democratic Senators to having the
memorandum take the shape OF an .'order Of
the Senate, and after an interchange Of
opinion on that point Mr.. Aidrich withdrew
that form and confined his motion to a re-
quest for unanimous consent to the memo
randum.
MR. PLUMB SUGGESTED
that there was something behind the matter
that was not perfectly apparent to the public
The solemn interchange of suggestions yester-
day between the Senator from Rhode Island
and the Senator from Maryland reminded him
somewhat of the historic remark between the
governor OF North Carolina and the governor
OF South Carolina. tLaughter.l 1t recalled
also the remark that two Roman augurs could
not look in each others face without smiling.
1t was time (Mr. Plumb thoughO that the cur
tain was rung down and the lights put out.
AN AGREEMENT HAD BEEN MADE
by which democratic Senators were to forego
their opposition COR. at all events their de-
batting opposition) to the tariff bill, which had
been described as SO utterly and abhorrently
Objectionable; and, of course, he presume ed
that that was in order that something else
might be had which was desirable to them.
He would interpose no objection to the memo
randum.
AGREED TO UNANIMoUsLY.
The memorandum was then agreed to by
unanimous consent
CONFERENCE REPORT ON THE sUNDRY CIVIL BILL
The conference report on the sundry civil
appropriation bill was presented and read.
The paragraph in regard to reservoir sites.
which aggregates and reserves from entry all
such sites heretofore made or hereafter to be
made. was criticised by Mr.. Sanders, who
thanked the Senate conferees (ironically) for
having sacrificed the interests of the people of
Montana TO the Unsuitable NAV of the House.
DEFENDING THE SENATE coNFEREEs.
MIR. Allison defended the action of the Sen
ate conferees, and explained the extreme diff
Guilty which they had encountered in dealing
with the subject He reviewed, briefly, the
history Of the irrigation survey, and spoke of the
hostility which the first appropriation of $780,
GOO for the purpose met from every memb er
of the Senate committee on appropriations
That appropriation had been made in the
sundry civil appropriation bill in 1888, and the
House had added to the item the legislation
which had caused the whole mischief preserving
from settlement the lands within the arid
regions). In view of that fact
HE WAS AMAZED
at finding the Senate now charged by the
House with interpolating legislation in order
to cure the great injustice and wrong that had
been done by the House in 1888. when it was
forced on the sundry civil bill. that important
legislation depriving the people Of the right
and privilege of occupying the public lands
in nearly one-third of the country.
He avowed it as having been the intention of
the Senate conferees to have the whole irriga-
tlon survey wiped out OF existence far as
possble-not to have a vestige OF it left But
they had been confronted by people who
INSISTED THAT THE SURVEY SHOULD GO ON
and should become a part of the settled and
permanent policy of the government He
begged Senators who thought that the Senate
conferees had fallen short OF their duty in that
regard to remember that the Senate conferees
had been confronted with q determine
tion to preserve, protect and continue that
survey. The result had been the provision
now proposed to be inserted in the sundry civil
bill. That provision was not what he would
have wished il to be. 1t was not what the
Senate conferees wished; but 1t was
THE BEST SOLUTION THAT THEY COULD SECURE.
1t was simply that the reservoir sites, located
or selected under appropriations heretofore
made, snouid be reserved, but he believed it to
be the duty of the Secretary OF the Interior to
see TO it that they were not unnecessarily
iarge-that they should not cover tas
one Of them was stated in the report to
coyer) 3S2 square miles. The site was
at the head waters Of the Missouri
river aud had been selected with the idea of
a thousand miles. Was there, Mr.. Allison
asked. sane man who believed that such di-
version would be made within the next century?
The Senate conferees, Mr.. Allison added, had
made plain and substantial progress in the
direction of accomplishing that which the
people OF the new states so much desired,
apd which was, he believed, so necessary to
the growth and development Of the country
They had yielded to a proposition made by the
House conferees to allow only $40 acres to be
taken by any one person under all the land
laws of the United States The Senate con-
ferees had entered on that domain reluctantly;
but they had been obliged to enter on it in
order to secure an agreement He tho ught
that the Senate committee on public lands
should take up the question Of public lands
and deal with it irrespective Of that PROPOSE
ton
MR.. REAGAN DEPENDED THE PAST ACTION
Of Congress and Of the director Of the irriga-
tion survey in the matter of reserving reser-
voir sites from settlement, and said that, il it
had not been for that reservation, those lands
would have been seized upon by SPECTATORS
and syndicates, to the serious injury OF the
settlers.
MR.. TELLER RIDIcULED THE soLIcrTuDR
expressed by Mr.. Reagan for the people of the
arid region, and said that it would have been
more touching il that Senator had not talked
for two hours yesterday in favor of de-
hvering over the interests Of the miners
NIB. RxAaAK's REPLY.
After long discussion Mr.. Reagan, who had
not distinctly heard Mr.. Teiiers' remarks. but
who had in the meantime been informed Of
their purport, took exception to them. He dis
claimed having assumed the championship Of
the great northwest; he had but tried
to vindicate truth and justice. without
regard TO latitude or longitude.
he had been charged BY the Senator from