, 1890-07-31
THE CONGRESS.
Relative Work of the
Two Houses.
WHERE CREDIT IS DUE
Mt Cockrell to the Defense
of the Minority.
The TARIFF DEBATE RESUMED
Senator Morrill, Talks on the Ad-
vantage of Protection to the
Farmers.
The TARlFF DEBATE RESUMED

To-Day MT. sherman oHefeo ah u"'e"u
ment to the deficiency appropriation Dill
which wss referred to the committee on
appropriations, sppropriating *o,Uoo ior
fixing the boundary line between the
United States and Mexico. and called
attention TO It's urgency.
The resolution offered yesterday oy
Mr.. Sherman fixinh the daily hour OF
meeting at 10 A. nj. was then taken up
Mr.. Cockreil said he would support
the resolution, and wanted TO give lew
reasons why. Some taunts had been
made recently by senators OF khode
Island and Maine (Aldrich and Frye
about tho delay on the part OF the
democratic minority. He wanted those
senators TO see tho relative amount Of
work done In the two houses. The sen.
ate had up TO the 2sth OF July passed ete
bills, and 400 other bills had been acted
poned, making the whole number OF sen
ate bills actually disposed OF LAB. That
was considerably more than one-third of
all the bills introduced In the senate.
No such record had ever been made be'
fore. The house ont OF over l0Voo bills
introduced there, had passed s6o, a mere
fraction Of the whole. Out OF the whole
number Of senate bills passed, the house
had only passed 22l, while OF
the house bills the senate had
passed 61a. How. he asked, had so
much work been done In tho senate 7
Had the minority been wasting time by
interposing objections or by unnecessary
discussion? Had the minority con-
sumed the time, as the majority had
done under the last administration, in
pleading the civil service law TO prevent
the removal Of democratic officials be-
fore tho end Of their terms Of office?
Nothing of the kind. Had not the bills
for the admission Of Idaho and Wyom-
ing rs states been allowed by the minor
ity TO pass, although everyone knew
that neither OF them had n sufficient
population TO entitie them to
representation In the house.
These bills had been passed
only through the inconceivable forbear-
sncs and conservatism OF the democratic
minority, and yet the democrats were
criticised the moment they wanted .
little explanation and little light on the
tariff bill. II there was a democratic
majority in the senate. and 1t had made
an attempt to pass bills for the admis-
sion Of New Mexico and Arizona ms
states, the senator from Maine tFrye)
would have pranced up and down the
center aisle. and the senator from YER
mont tEdmunds) would have raised his
voice. They would have roared like
Gagged lions and screamed like chained
kyenas fiaughterl against the action OF
the democratic majority. Why, he asked,
had not the house disposed
of more bills than 1t had
disposed of? For the reason that
II had ignored In its organization and In
its changed rules the fundamental prin-
cipIss of parliamentary discussion. He
quoted from a letter written by Thomas
d. Reed In June lssb, and pubiished IN
the Chautnuquan. IL would be remem-
bered, he said, that Mr.. Reed was once u
member OF the house OF representatives.
One oil the sentences In that remarkable
production was In these words: Full,
free. frank discussion Is the very life OF
intelligent action" Another sentence
was: THE needless Suppression Of dis
cussion is tyrnnnical. whether done by q
-.n,,h,,can .sna,c, 10 .box an irs,ancs
p ...,s ,',n-,,.. 80 :.
whsre 'ne uen'oeia'ic n'i"or'y n1o NJ
tempted any unnecessary delay
MIR. Shernian's resolution was then
agreed to.
The tariff bill was then taken nm and
AZ Mo,r,Il sddr.s..d IN. sen,,.
ua saia shs, iIIsna,ursd dsn,no,a.
ho soA~ '"ss '""'oeu ue"u"eta-
lions oil American manufactures by
piratical free traders indicate that they
preferred the prosperity of foreign man
ufacturer. 70 that of their own countrv
-, a., ,h.,, v,o,,,d cor,,,.I ,ha I.,,.,
anu 'nA. my "o1'o oonPo' '"o 'A.'e'
70 manuiae'ure as eheapiy Us any lot
eigner, ana pay no higher wages, OIL
abandon the business. The real pur-
r,ose vux finally 70 break down and de-
rr.d. ,n. n,.sent .cala NJ waga. q,
Amsrca" "oIhihe"'
coming 70 ,he question OF AGRICULTURAL
depression. Mr.. morrill, said that there
was q great deal of misinformation dis
seminated on that subject. The only
,~...,hIs r.r,esv within ths reach of r.,
f-,- ,.r,'.r -,.. ro-,,i,,. vs,,.
Amef'chn iaine' was Pos''No Piotec-
ton against the foreign composition,
and such encouragement to other avoca-
tions as would increase the
consumers OF their productions.
He asserted that In 1885 had il not
wheat India would have snatehed the
market of Newly ork from the state ofWis.
consin, as well rs from all the other
Western states.
The farm mortgage Indebtedness had
been grossly exaggerated, and he main.
tanned that the reports would show that
the farm mortgases In Kansas and
Maine were less than one-quarter Of the
amount which had been represented.
The charge that the American farmers
were hugely in debt, or more so than
the farmers OF any other country. was