The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-05
ENOUGH OF IRON RULE.
SENATORS PLUMB AND TELLER
WAGE WAR ON CLOSURE.

The Former Fails to Find Any Hue an d
Cry in Favor of Additional Tariff Bur-
dens-Closure Perversion of Legis
lative Power-Hasty Legislation Bad
Legislation.
WASHINGTON, Aug An the Senate
this morning an allusion having been made
to the non-action of the House on Senate
bills, the presiding officer (Mr. Ingalls, said
that he had observed with regret the grow
ing tendency to allude in terms of severity
and disparagement to the proceedings of
the other house of congress. 1t was a
violation of the fundamental principles Of
parliamentary law to refer in one house to
what was said or done in the other house.
He hoped the Senate, in the preservation of
its own dignity, and the protection of its
own acts from recrimination, would observe
these rules and refrain from such illusions
in the future.
The resolution offered ON Saturday last
by Mr.. Plumb, as to the reinterment of the
remains of Gen. Grant in the National cem-
etery, was on suggestion by Mr.. Plumb
allowed to remain on the table to be called
up some other time.
THE TARIFF BILL.
The tariff bill was then taken up, the
pending question being on Mr.. Vests
amendments to the chinaware paragraph, re-
reducing the duty ON decorated ware to 50per
cent. ad valorem and on plain, undecorated
ware to 40 per cent. instead of 55 and 80,
as recommended by the finance committee,
and instead of 60 and IS, as in the House bill.
After the debate had proceeded some
time Mr.. Vest modified his amendment by
1l,s.-
to As instead of 40 per cent. The amend
ment was then rejected by a vote of 19yeas
to 25 nays. Messrs. ingalls,. Manderson,
Paddock and Plumb voted with the demo-
Gratis, and Mr.. Payne voted no with the re-
publicans.
The next vote was on Mr.. Buffers amend
ment to make three instead of two
categories of chtnaware and to make rates
of 80, As and 40 per cent. 1t was rejected
without division.
The amendment of the finance committee
making rates of 55 and 90 per cent was
agreed to without division.
THE RATE ON ALL OTHER CHINA.
The next question was on the committee
amendment to paragraph 101, as to all other
china, etc.. striking out the House para
graph, which fixes the rate on decorated
ware at go per cent. and on undecorated
| at So per cent. and substituting another
in which the rate of so per cent. is fixed.
Mr.. Plumb moved to make the rate 45
per cent. 1t was rejected.
The committee amendment was agreed to.
The next question was on paragraph
1929, "Glass and Glassware" The COM
mittee amendment was to strike out the
paragraph in the House bill fixing four rates
on bottles according to size with different
classification, with two rates of one cent per
pound on bottles holding not less than a
pint, and on demijohns and carboys; and
| 11Sc. per pound on bottles holding less than
a pint. The committee amendment was
| agreed to.
CUT GLASS.
The next question was an amendment of
| the finance committee, to strike out para
graphs Nos 119, ITO, III, 112, 103, and 104
of the House bill, and substitute for them
one paragraph, No. 104, taxing glass and
| glassware, cut or ornamented, As per cent
| ad valorem.
In the course of long discussion Mr.
Edmunds illustrated remark male by Mr..
| Vance, that one of his arguments was an
| old story, by an anecdote of thief who
said. when told that one Of the ten COM
mandments was "thou shalt not STEAL" that
that was an old story.
Mr.. Vance retorted, to the amusement of
the democrats, that protectionists had got
to the point where they did not even make
an excuse for stealing.
After several Intellectual attempts to
| amend by reducing the rate named, in
which attempt Messrs. Ingalls,, Paddock and
| Plumb voted with the democrats, the COM
mittee amendment was agreed to.
The next question was on paragraph No.
! 116, fixing the duties on unpublished, cylin-
! der, crown and common window glass. The
! committee amendment was to reduce the
rates named in the House bill one e-eighth of
a cent all around.
Mr.. Vance moved to amend by fixing a
uniform rate of so per cent. ad valorem.
BLAIR WANTS CLOSURE.
After about an hours discussion on the
glass question Mr.. Blair expressed some dis
| gust at the slow rate of progress of the bill,
made q suggestion as to the adoption of the
previous question, and proposed to read anG
have printed in the Record an article in to-
days New York Tribune beginning with
"The courtesy Of the Senate is an expensive
| luxury"
Mr.. Plumb objected. Mr.. Plumb quoted
from the platform of the convention re-
Gently held in Kansas to nominate candi-
| date for representative in congress, re-
| ferring to an adjustment and reduction of
the tariff schedules, and said there was
nothing in that platform about an increase.
| So far as he knew the sentiment of the
| western people was not specially hungry
for tariff legislation. He admitted that the
| tariff bill ought to pass. but he did not
regard the Tribune or any other newspaper
or half dozen papers as representative of
| the sentiment Of the American people on
that subject, It was better not to pass a
tariff bill than TO pass one that was not
right.
PERvERSIoN OF POWER.
If it was meant that the Senate should
have a rule that would cut off debate, he
| would regard that as perversion Of legisla-
| tive power and as a blow to free institutions.
He did not regard newspaper talk as to
| what the Senate should do as having any
great degree of consequence. Such talk
| might have been prompted by interests
that were expecting to profit by the bill.
| He had never heard from any other inter
est than the manufacturing interest a de-
mand for increased tariff duties. If that
were 80 he wished to add to it by saying
that in his judgment if the republican plat
| form of 1888 had been supposed to mean
that it favored tariff revision by an increase
| of duties the result of the election would
have been different.
| TELLER DENIES DELAY.
| Mr.. Teller said that be 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
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