Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-05-26
THE TARIFF FIGHT.
FIRST GUN IN THE SENATE.
A Call for Information Leads to q Brief
SkirmiSh.
THEN THE NAVAL BILL COMES UP.
DISTRICT DAY IN THE HOUSE.
SENATE.

Immediately after the reading Of the journal
the oath of Office was administered by the Vice
President to Mr.. Carlisle as Senator from the
state Of Kentucky for Mr.. Beck's unexpired
term.
INFORMATION ON THE TARIFF WANTED.
Mr. Plumb offered resolution instructing
the finance committee to prepare and report
Gin connection with the tariff bill) statement
showing the duties levied under existing law,
the duties as they would be under the House
bill and the duties under the bill to be re-
ported by the comm ittee, such duties to be
stated in parallel olumns. And especially, if
the committee should recommend new duties
or the increase OF existing duties, to state the
reasons in each case for such addition or in
crease.
In the course Of discussion Mr.. Sherman
suggested the difficulty and even impossibility
OF the committee on finance giving the reasons
Tor Its recommendation in each Of the 5000
items carried III the bill The reasons might
De given generally, but not in regard to every
Item. He moved to strike out Of the resolution
the words 'in each case"
MR.. PLUMB OBJECTS
Mr.. Plumb opposed Mr.. Sherman's amend
ment. He would rather have the whole reso-
luton disagreed to. He knew that the state
ment would require good deal of time, but it
had been given out that the present revision
OF the tariff would last for ten or fifteen or
twenty years. The report of the finance COM
mittee therefore ought to be ample, in every
individual case, to explain the position of the
committee, 80 as to satisfy those Of us who
are IN general accord with the protective idea,
which the bill is supposed to represent and to
enable us to explain why we voted to increase
duties when the expectation was that We would
vote to reduce them
fav ol,,%,ox
absolutely necessary for an intelligent discus
sion OF the subject matter.
MR.. sHERMAN's AMENDMENT LOST.
Mr.. Shermans amendment was disagreed to-
Mr.. Reagan moved to amend the resolution
so as to require Gin cases of compound duties
specific and ad valorem) a column showing the
equivalent ad valorem amount of the duty
Mr.. Morrill, stated that the clerk Of the COM
mittee WAS engaged nights and Sundays in
preparing the statement called for in the first
part Of the resolution; but as to the informa-
tion called for by Mr. Reagan, that could be
furnished better by the Treasury Department
than by the finance committee.
Mr.. Allison moved to insert in Mr.. Reagan's
amendment the words, 'where practicable"
Mr. Blair-And where not practicable the
committee can give US a reasonable guess.
Mr.. Reagans amendment, modified as sue.
gested by Mr.. Allison, was agreed to.
THE RESOLUTION WAS FURTHER AMENDED
(on motion Of Mr.. Hawley) by making 1t apply
also to reductions of duties, and, as thus
amended, it was agreed to.
Mr.. George, from the Judiciary committee,
reported bill subjecting national bank notes
and Treasury notes to state taxation. Placed
on the calendar.
THE CEDAR KEYS TROUBLE.
The resolution heretofore offered by Mr.. Call
calling for information as to the landing of an
armed force from the revenue cutter McLane
at Cedar Keys, Fla, was taken up, modified
and agreed to.
THE NAVY APPROXIMATION BILL
The Senate then resumed consideration Of
the navy appropriation bill, the pending
question being on Mr.. Cockrell's amendment
to strike out the provision for construction
Of three heavily armed battleships,
at a cost of S4,OO0,OOO each.
Mr.. Cockrell quoted a remark of Mr.. Hale's
in the discussion on Saturday to the effect that
all that was sought in that provision was to
begin; that it was only beginning; that it was
not intended to stop there; that it was a be-
ginning to put the United States in a position
where no nation could humiliate it
Nominations Today.
The President today sent the following nomi-
nations to the Senate: Assistant surgeons in
the navy, John Evelyn Page of Virginia and
Robert Morris Kennedy of Pennsylvania.
HOUSE.