, 1890-07-26
SENATE AND HOUSE.
Senator'S Vance and Mcpherson
Speak on the Tariff Bill
The Latter Scores Postmaster
General Wanamaker.
An Antilottery Bill to be In
troduced in the House.


WASHINGTON, July 25.-Blair pre-
sented a memorial from the headquarters
of a Grand Army post expressing abhor-
renee at the action of congress in allowing
pension agents a fee OF $40 in each case
under the recent dependent pension act,
and inclosing the circular Of a Washing
ton claims agent offering to active men
half the fee in all cases sent TO him. He
said he with the memorialists
il. the expression OF their adherence.
Cockerell presented a memorial from
st. Louis protesting against the passage
by the senate OF the federal electoral bill,
and stating that the masses of the people
we're so dazed with the enormity of the
proposed outrage on the s~anctity of the
ballot that they had not yet formulated
words in condemnation of it.
Another memorial against the bill was
presented from Adrian. Mich.
The house bill on that subject, on mo
ton Of Hoar. was referred TO the commit
tee on privileges and elections.
Sherman offered a resolution instruct
ing the committee on printing to report
whether any abuses exist ii printing mat
ter in the Congressional Record that
Oukut hOt " bt pilutta lutIClu hDu q
port such bull or regulation AS will limit
su,h printing to the actual proceedings in
both houses; also whether it is expedient
to edit the debates of congress by the
omission of such parts as are immaterial
and of such papers as are already printed
as public documents. The resolution gave
rise to some discussion. but was finally re-
TERED to the committee OIL printing.
Morrill, moved TO proceed to the considera-
ton of the tariff bill.
Gray antagonized the motion with one
to resume consideration of the house bill
to transfer the revenue marine service to
the navy department The latter motion
was agreed to-yeas 30, nays %, and the
revenue marine bill was taken up.
On motion of Frye an amendment was
adopted extending the application of the
bill to the life saving service.
After some argument and without action
the bill went over and the tariff bill same
up as unfinished business. Vance pro-
oeeded to address the senate thereon.
He showed that as a result the bill
might reduce the revenue to a certain ex-
tent, but would not reduce the taxes.
What the people wanted was a common
sense reduction of the revenue and a cor
responding reduction from the payment
OF taxes. The Mckinley bill was an out
rage on human patience and an insult to
the intelligence OF mankind. Ii neither
reduced the revenue in the sense of
equallzlug taxation, nor equalized the
duties on imports. On the contrary, it
increased taxation aud made the duties
more unequal by imposing heavier bur-
dens on the poor than on the rich, and by
settling the taxes on the necessaries of
life as to shock the moral sense of every
Just man.
Vance ret on To arraign the Republi.
can party Tor the evils winch he claimed
protection had brought upon the country.
He quoted from Bisine's letter to Frye,
and said the unmistakable wisdom of
what that dis iugulshed man said illus
trsted the wisdom of what he left unssid.
II 1t were important to extend American
trade to Central aud South America it
could not be uuimportant to extend to
the European continent. which in wealth
and population was ten times greater. If
free trade with the people of the Latin
races was desirable and profitable, no
reasoning could show that a little tree
trade with the people of Teutonic blood
was not desirable aud prof able.
Plumb said that before proceeding to
the Consideration of the bill by paragraphs
he would like to know what the finance
committee believed would be the effect of
the bill on the revenue.
Mcpherson said the almost unanswer-
able speeches OF the senators from Indiana
and North Carolina VOORHEES, ana
vance, seemed to preclude the necessity
OF any further defense of the Democratic
position, and now the senator from Kan
sas (Plumb), in the simplicity OF his
nature, inquired from his own committee
Tor some information on the bill. Did
not the honorable senator know that for
the past three or four days the newspapers
had been full OF reports that it had been
resolved, not only by the finance commit
tee but by the Republican caucus also.
not to attempt any defense OF the pend
los bill. If the bill could not be defended
it could not be passed. He, therefore. in
order to expedite business, would move
that the pending bill be recommitted 10
the c,mmh tee on finance, with Instruc
tons to report at the earliest possible mo-
ment a bill to reduce the revenue and
equalize the duties on the basis that the
average of duty should not exceed the
average ad valorem war.tariff rate OF 1864.
MCPHERSON her hranched into a review
OF the tariff question 10 general aud tho
peniing bill in particular. He undertook
to show that neither the farmer nor the
consumer would be benefited by it.
de referred to the campaign of
1888 as one in which immense
sums of money had been corruptly raised
and corruptly used in behalf of the Re-
publican ticket. That money had been
raised, he said. among the beneficiaries of
the pending bill. Chief among them was
a Dious citizen of Pennsylvania, who,
since had been rewarded with a seat in the
cabinet as the price of his villainy.
After some further discussion, and with
out action on McPnerson's motion (which
Is pending), the senate adjourned.
In the House.
WASHINGTON. .Tulv Ok -Tba noet.