Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-07-29
CONGRESSIONAL.
IN THE SENATE.

WASHINGTON, July 2Sth.-The Senate bill to
pension all the surviving officers and men of
Powelfs battalion of Missouri Mounted Volun-
teers. raised during the war with Mexico, was
passed.
Aldrioh offered resolution fixing the daily
hour OF meeting at ii A. NJ
Ingalls, suggested an understanding that the
business OF the morning hour snail be consiG-
cred C osed at o. clock.
Allison did not wish it implied that the Sem
ate would devote two hours day to morning
business.
ingalls, said he did wish just such an implica-
tlon. As soon as the Tariff bill, the apprOpria-
tion bills and the election bill had passed, Con-
greSs would undoubtedly adjourn promptly:
therefore, whatever was to be done between
now and the time of adjournment in cousidera-
tion OF measures on the calendar, would have
to be done in the morning hour. There were
several hundred bills on the calendar entitled
TO consideration.
Coekrell asked what was the use of the Senate
passing bills when the distinguished gentleman
IN charge OF the House did not give any atten-
ton 10 them. There were now on the ca endar
OF the House hundreds and hundreds of bills
passed by the Senate and no attention paid to
Them. Among them was bill refunding the
direct tax, also two bills recently passed and re
garded on the other side of the Chamber as very
important measures, the shipping bills, and
they were being LEFT to sleep the sleep that
knows no waking"
Hawley did lot agree with Cockrell. He
wanted his own ammunition in order, so he
could go home with clear record.
lCsO4utlbu rs W meeting aL Ii was agreed
to, with the understanding that the Senate shall
adjourn at e.
Aldrich moved TO proceed to the consideration
of the taliH bill. That motion was antagonized
by Gray to proceed to the consideration of the
House bill for the trans'e of the Revenue Ma.
rine to the Navy Department. The latter mo-
ton was agreed to-ayes 26, noes %.
Coekrell continued his argument in oppo-
sition to the bill He mad not concluded this
speech when, at = O'Clock, the presiding officer
laid before the Senate the tariff bill as unfin.
ished business
Gray moved to continue the consideration of
the revenue marine bill.
Frye said the friends of the revenue bill had
occupied but an hlur aud half upon it, all the
rest OF the time it was as evident to the Senate
as il the purpose had been announced, that the
time had been occupied for the purpose of pre-
venting vote on the measure. That only indi-
Gated (what he believed inl the necessity of the
previous question in the Senate of some way to
stop debate; of some way 10 prevent the Senator
from getting up every morning for three or four
mornings in succession and reading from the
report of clerk in the Treasury Department
Why should not a vote be taken on the bill? If
there is majority OF the Senators in favor of 1t,
why should il not be permitted TO say so? The
Senator from Ohio tSherTnan) had made four
speeches upon the bill, and in the course of
them read the same identical articles which
the Senator from Missouri had occupied the
last three mornings in reading.
Finally Gray's motion was rejected-ayes II,
noes 81.
The tariff bill was taken up and Vest ad-
dressed the Senate in opposition 10 it The ad-
vocates of high tariff taxation, he said. We're
confronted by great peril. Depression in the
agricultural Interests and the emphatic de-
mands of the farmers for something besides
lying statistics and frothy declarations had
caused President Harrison and Secretary Bisioe
10 urge upon Congress legislation tor subsidies
to steamships ana Tor reciprocity treaties with
the South American States, in order to obtain a
foreign market for American products. Very
little was heard now of the home market, but a
ore AZ H.aal of ha
at least tine protectioniss had BEEN driven frs N
their pretenlious humbug about the home mar
ket aud were forced to asopt the principie OF
free commercial intercourse which they had so
opposed and derided.
Sess went on TO criticize the provisions of the
pending bill that are supposed 10 be FOR the ben
eft OF farmers, aud said that wnat the farmers
, wanted was the opening and enlarg' nent OF
the foreign markets for their surplus wheat,
corn, cattle and FORK, and decrease of tariff
duty on clothing, hardware. tin and other ne
ceSssry articles of daily incessant use by the
! farmer and his am!ly. The pending bill, he
declared. was 10 repay the mili-owpers their
contributions 10 the campaign fund of the Re
publican party duri1g the last Presidential can
vass, and as the planters of the South were
Democrats the duties on Northern manufactures
were increased. while the duty on rice was
diminished The consumers of the United
States were being syst maticaliy plundered
under the preteDse of protection TO home iDous-
tries No iurther concealinent was possible The
North was at iast revealed The manufacturers
who were = rsisient asking higher duties Ia
exclude foreign competition. were availing
: themselves OF a monopoly given by the exclu-
siye tariff 10 charge The people OF this country
! from 20 to y per cent. higher for their goods
than they could sell the same articles tor in the
unprotected msrkets of the word. Il was no
logger projection, but simple plumber. The
Americans bs.ased OF their free institutions, oi
I their liberty sud eqva.iiy; but VINO ne ssked
!! could cal. himself a free man save in niockery,
when by the course of law the proceeds of his
life ana labor we're u justly taken to enrich an
! othcr9
Iurpie addressed the Senate then on Nc
Pherson's resolutions 10 recomfnit the hill, wifi
instructions to report Q bill TO reduce the Teye
me and 10 equslize the duties on imports 10
which the average I'D va,orem rate OF duty or