Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-05
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National Legislators Do Rath-
er Windy Days Work.
VERY LIVELY TIME IN THE HOUSE.

The Speaker Again FuriousIy Attacked
and Vigorously Defended-Piumb and
Teller in the Senate Express Them
selves Forninst "Gsg" Law-Ingall's
Rebukes Tendency to Forget Dignity
I'm Criticlsing the Representation
Straying Statesmen Getting Back to
Their Duties
WASHINGTON CrTY, Aug. 5.-There was
much talk in both houses of congress yes
terday, so much in the house that it occu-
pie1 the VIII ole time. The senate did bet
ter, for it got through with nineteen pages
of the tariff bill. The first matter brought
up in the senate was a resolution call ing
for information as to the accident by
which the Sault Ste. Marie canal was made
useless. 1t was stated that the closing of
the canal was costing the commerce of
the nation $500, 900 per day. Tho feature of
the debate was the reflections INDUCED in
on the iuaction of the house by Cockrell,
who sneered at that body as "the business
branch" of congress, repeating the re-
mark several times, the foundation for
the sheer being the fact that the senate
had passed bill providing for new lock
at the $780, which the house had not yet
acted upon. 1t appeared during the de
bate, however, that this inaction of the
house had nothing at all to do with the
repair OF the present lock, which was pro-
ceeding as rapidly as possible with abun-
dant means
Called Down by the Chairman.
Payne also animadverted upon the house,
while the Republicans generally depre
Gated this kind of talk, and the pres iding
officer-Ingalis-a the close of the debate
said that he had observed with regret the
growing tendency to allude in terms of
severity and disparagement to the pro-
ceedings of the other house of congress 1t
was a violation of the fundamental prin-
ciples of parliamentary law to refer in one
house to what was done or said in the
other house He hoped that the senate in
the preservation of its own dignity and in
the protection of its own immunity from
recrimination would observe those rules
and refrain from such illusions in the
future.
Democratic Points Made.
Then the tariff bill came up and in the
course of a discussion Edmunds illus
trated remark by Vance to the effect
that one of his arguments was an old
story by an anecdote of a thief who when
told that one of the ten commandments
was, Thou shalt not steal" said that
was an old story; and Vance retorted, to
the amusement of the Democratic side
that protectionists had got to the point
where they did not even make an excuse
for stealing. Later Edmunds and Dawes,
having denied the correctness of But
ler's quotation of testimony from Mr.
TObey, a New England manufacturer as
to 1.-THE degradation of American labor in
New England" Butler sent for the vol
urs of hearings before the house com.
mittee of ways and means, and read ex-
tracts from 1t showing that, on three sep
arate occasions, Mr.. Tobey had made use
of that precise expression.
Plumb In Favor of Going Slow.
Blair having suggested the adoption of
rule that would shut off so much talk,
Plumb said that so far as he knew the
western people were not specially hungry
for tariff legislation. He admitted that the
tariff bill ought to pass, but it was better
not to pass a tariff bill than to pass one
that was not right If it was meant that
the senate should have a rule TO cut off de-
Ddte tudJ WOulu De perVerSlOn OF leglS-
latiye power and blow at free institu-
tions He had never heard from any
other interest than the manufacturing in
terest a demand for increased tariff
duties; and if that statement was heret-
ical, he wished to add to 1t by saying that
in his judgment if the Republican plat
form of 1888 had been supposed to mean
tariff revision by an increase of duties,
the result of the election would have been
different
Teller Zines Drives" with Plumb.
Teller said that he did not yield to any
senator in his devotion to the protective
system, which he believed essential to the
prosperity of the American people But
he did not share in the view of the senator
from New Hampshire, as taken from one
of the leading newspapers of the country,
that there had been any unnecessary de-
lay in the discussion of the bill He was
prepared to resent vigorously, and as eff
ficiently as he could, any change of the
rules for the purpose of Fastening the
passage of the tariff bill OF any other bill
Several Democratic senators observed
shat is right" A feature of the voting
was that on several Democratic motions
to reduce duties Henderson, Plumb, Pad
dock, and ingalls, voted aye at different
times.
PARTISAN TAI " IN THE LntcC