Los Angeles herald., 1890-07-30
FORCED TO SPEAK.
The Tariff Debate in the
Senate.
The Republican Senator's
Silence Broken.
German GOads HiScOck Into Making
Some Remarks.
.Strubel, of Iowa, Gives Speaker Reed
Dressing Down in the House.
Both Houses.
Associated Press Dispatches. |


WASHINGTON, July 29.-In the senate
today, Morgan presented resolutions
adopted at public meeting of Repub
licans of Birmingham, Alabama, against
the passage of the election bill.
The postoffice committee reported
back the senate bill to establish limited
postal telegraph service. Calendar.
Ingalls, introduced bill to establish
department of communication, and said
it was prepared by and introduced at the
request of the Wage Workers. Alliance.
The tariff bill was taken up, the pend
ing question being on McPhersons
amendment, offered yesterday, to reduce
the duty on ascetic or pyroligneous acid.
The amendment was rejected by party
vote-yeas, 20; nays, 27.
The clerk proceeded with the reading
of the bill, but only got through two
lines when he was stopped by McPher-
son, who said he had something to say
about the first line, fixing the duty on
boracic acid at five cents a pound. At
the present rate (four cents) a duty on
boracic acid was 1873 per cent, and now
it was proposed to make it 91.91 per
cent. ad valorem. He quoted state
ment of Representative Niedringhaus
before the finance committee, to the ef-
feet that boracic acin could be produced
in California at two cents a pound, so
that the proposed duty would amount
to 225 per cent. ad valorem. He moved
to reduce the rate from five cents to
three and one-half cents pound. Re-
jected-25 to 80.
Jones, of Arkansas, then addressed
the senate in opposition to the bill
which, he said, was declaration on the
part of the Republican party that the
war tariff was never to be reduced He
firmly believed the present period OF
protection had gone, and would inaugu-
rate a movement that would in it's
effects and consequences, surpass pre-
vious upheavals of the kind. The pro-
cast out as an utter abomination. Com
ing to the question of bounty on
sugar, Jones asked why not protect the
wheat grower by bounty as we'll as the
sugar grower? The proposition to take
the duty off raw sugar and pay bounty
on American grown sugar, simply meant
sugar free for the refneries sugar free
for the sugar trust sugar taxed for all
who consume it for food"
The next line of the bill having been
read by the clerk, "Chromic acid, six
cents per pound" Mcpherson moved
to substitute the existing duty, Is per
cent. ad valorem.
German said the Democratic senators
wanted a free discussion of the bill and
nothing more, but the Republican sena-
tors wanted to rush it through at rail-
road speed.
Aldrich said in 1888 the tariff had
been discussed in every field and work
shop and on every hustings. The coun-
try understood that the talk about ex-
plantations and the attempt to drive the
Republican senators to make stump
speeches for political effect was simply
to delay action on the tariff bill, which
delay was destructive to every business
interest.
German reminded the Republican side
Of Plumb's statement that the party was
in danger, and of his warning that it
would have to increase taxation within
eighteen months. He also said Mr..
Blaine had, through the senators from
Maine, told the Republican senators that
if they passed the bill as reported they
would not only destroy the possibility of
increasing trade with the countries south
of the United States, but would bank
rupt the. treasury in eighteen months
(for that was the meaning of it).
Hiscock made the general charge that
the Republican success at the last elec
ton was not the result of the influence
of the manufacturers or monopolies, and
asserted that in the state of New York,
wherever Democratic majorities were
rolled up, the steps of the whiskey in
terest could be marked. In reference to
the statement as to the refusal of the
finance committee to give hearings to
persons interested, Hiscock said it had
refused to give hearings to representa-
tives of manufacturers of Germany,
France, England and Belgium. The
place for them to be heard was where
the Democratic members of the COM
mittee were in conference. He did not
know how much money had
been contributed to the Dem
ocratic election fund by those
interests, but he knew every day the
tariff bill was delayed was largely to the
profit OF foreign manufacturers. They
were interested in its defeat.
Voorhees, congratulated German on
his great victory in breaking the prede-
termined silence on the Republican side
of the chamber. AS to the speech of the
senator from New York, which had
been extorted under the lash, it was the
same old TRADE of calumny and abuse
against the Democratic party.
After further debate, the bill was laid
aside, and the house joint resolution to
continue the appropriations under the
existing laws up to the 18th of August,
was presented, discussed and passed.
After executive session, the senate ad-
journed.