Morning journal and courier., 1890-08-21
THE FIFTY-FInsr CoNcnEss.

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MIR. Quay.s Resolution Fixing the
Time for Voting on the Tariff Bill
Laid Before the Senate-Passage OF
the Senate Bill Providing for the I'M
sPection ofMeats for Export.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. 20.-Mr Ed
munds asked and obtained leave of alb
sence for six days from tomorrow on ac-
count of his health
Mr.. Quay's resolution fixing the time for
voting on the tariff bill and designating
the other legislative business to be taken
up at this session was laid before the SEN
| ate.
Mr.. Hoar demanded the yeas and nays
ON agreeing to the resolution, and then
| offered as a substitute for Mr. Quay's
resolution his own proposition, making it
in order 'when any bill or resolution shall
have been under consideration for rea-
sonable time" for any senator to demand
that debate thereon be closed He also
moved to amend Mr.. Quay's resolution by
adding to it provision to include in the
business to be taken up the federal cleo
ton bill, and to have the vote on it taken
| on September A.
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time he would demand division of the
question, meaning that he would ask
separate votes on his own resolution and on
| Mr.. Hears amendment.
Mr.. Hoar then addressed the senate at
great length in advocacy of his amend
| ments.
Messrs. Frye, Hiscock and Edmnnds OPP
posed the resolution.
While Mr.. Edmunds was speaking the
and he fo,- 4,
laid before the senate as the unfinished
business.
/ Mr.. Aldrich was asked to let the tariff
bill be laid aside temporarily, but he de-
clined to do So and SO the senate proceed
ed with its consideration, the pending
| question being on Mr.. McPherson's amenn-
| ment to strike out paragraph 159, page 80
| zors), the classifcations and the compound
| duties, and to substitute uniform rate of
| 40 per cent. ad valorem.
The paragraph and amendment to it gave
rise to long discussion, carried on by
Messrs Mcpherson, Vest, Gray, Carlisle
and Daniel on the democratic side, and
Messrs Aldrich, Platt and Hawley on the
republican side. Mr.. Daniels remarks
| were not confined to the subject of cutlery
but took in the whole question of protec-
| tive tariff and its evil results on the agri-
cultural interests.
Taking up an allusion of Mr.. Daniels to
the wooden nutmegs" in Connecticut in
connection with falsely labelled manufac-
| lures Mr.. Hawley said that if wooden
| nutmegs ever were made in Connecticut
| they could not get fool there to buy
them, but they had to be sold elsewhere
laughter. The wooden nutmeg, Mr.. Platt
| interposed, is chestnut now.
| Mr.. Hawley went on to speak of the
ifrI, oboy ofo nd If af
| necticut manufactures and working men
and said that their honor was just dear to
| them as the honor of the knight who
| charged with Charles in England, or with
Lee in Virginia. Connecticut has never
been a laggard in war on land or on sea.
She was proud of her "old Puts" her
Hulls, her Foote's and her Sedgwick.
| After further debate the bill was then
laid aside-only one page having been dis
| posed of to-day.
Mr.. Plumb gave notice of an amend
ment as to tin plates. 1t provides that af-
ter July l, 1891, and pending the procla-
nation of the president Ito place tin-plate
on the free-list in a certain contingency
the duty on tin-plate shall be one cent a
pound, and that a bounty of one cent
pound shall be allowed for tin plates man
ufactured in the United States.
The house amendments to the agricul-
ton bill were laid before the senate and
were concurred in. These bills now go to
| the president for his signature.
The senate at 6:1O p. m. adjourned.
HOUSE.
The house resumed in the morning hour
the bill exempting mining lands from the
| provisions of the alien land law. After
brief discussion the bill was laid on the
table by vote of 90 to 81.
| The bill for the adjustment of accounts
of workmen and mechanics under the eight
hour law was then taken up, but went
over on expiration of the morning hour.
Mr. Hit of Illinois, from the committee
on foreign affairs, reported and the house
adopted a resolution requesting. from the
president information concerning the en-
| forcement of proscriptive edicts against
| the Jews in Russia, and whether any
American citizens have, because of their
religion, been ordered to be expelled from
! Russia or forbidden the exercise of the
| ordinary privileges enjoyed by the inhab-
| itants
The house then proceeded, under the
| special order, to the consideration of the
| senate bill providing for the inspection of
meats for export.
| An amendment offered by Mr. Morgan,
bringing lard under its provisions, was
defeated, as was also an amendment by
Mr.. Sayres of Texas, providing that Texas
fever shall not be considered an infectious
disease. The bill was then passed.
| The house proceeded, under the special
order to the consideration of the bill de-
filming lard.
| Mr.. Brosius of Pennsylvania, who re,
| ported the bill from the committee on
agriculture, advocated the measure. Its
object was to compel the branding of mix
lures compounded of Ingredients other
than lard to relieve the manufacturers of
pure lard of the unfair competition of an
imitation article made of cheaper ingredi-
ents, and to relieve to some extent the ex-
listing condition. He proceeded to protest
against the foisting upon the market of
| what was known as refined lard as pure
lard, presenting the conundrum ''when is
lard not lard?" and answering it with the
reply "when it is refined" This spurious
commodity had gone out to the markets
both home and abroad with the advantage
of one-half cent pound over the ordinary
steam rendered lard of commerce. We
could not continue in this country to fool
the markets of the world, and until we
were ready here at home to compel honest
action We must expect hostile action
abroad.
Pending further debate, the house at
5:25 adjourned.
ECHOES FROM THE CYCLONE.