The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-29

Dill us uHllilSU6u BUSINESS.
Gray moved to continue the consideration
Ct the Revenue Marine Bill.
Frye said the friends of the Revenue Bill
had occupied but an hour and half upon
1t and its enemies, small majority, all the
rest of the time. 1t was as evident to the
Senate as If their purpose had been an
nounced that the time had been occupied
for the purpose of preventing vote on the
measure. That only indicated (what he
believed I'M, the necessity of the previous
question in the Senate or some way to stop
debate, or some way to prevent Senator
from getting up every morning for three or
four mornings in succession and reading
from the report of the Clerk in the Treas
ury Department. Why should not the vote
be taken on the bill if there is majority of
the Senate in favor of it? Why should it
not be permitted to say SO? The Senator
from Ohio (Sherman) had made four speech
es upon the BILL and in the course of them
read the same identical articles which the
Senator from Missouri has occupied the
last three mornings in reading.
Finally Gray's motion was reject ed-ayes
IA, noes a.
Vest addressed the Senate in opposition to
it. The advocates Of high tariff taxation,
he said, were confronted by Il great peril
Depression in agricultural interests, and
the emphatic demands of the farmers for
something besides lying statistics and
l.
Harrison and Secretary Blaine to urge upon
Congress legislation for subsidies to steam
ships and for reciprocity treaties with South
American States in order to obtain for
eign market for American products Very
little was heard now of the home market
but great deal of the South American
market. So at last protecti0nsts have been
driven from their pretentious humDug,abOut
a home market and were forced to adopt
the principle of free commercial inter-
course which they had so long opposed and
derided. Vest went-on to criticize the pro-
visions of the pending bill that are sup
posed to be for the benefit of farmers, and
said what the farmers wanted was the OPEN
ing and enlargement Of the foreign mar
kets for their surplus wheat, corn, cattle
and pork, and decrease of the tariff duty
on clothing, hardware, tins and other nee
essary articles of daily and incessaut use
by the farmer and his family. The pend
ing bill, he declared, was TO repay mill
owners their contributions to the campaign
fund of the Republican PARTY during the
last Presidential canvass, and as the plant
erS of the South were Democrats the du-
ties on northern manufacturers were in
creased, while the duty on rice was dimin-
ished Consumers in the United
States were being Systematically plundered
under the pretense of protection to home
industries. No further concealment is pos
sible. The truth Is at last revealed. Man
higher duties to exclude foreign competi-
tion were availing themselves of the mo-
nopOly given by an exclusive tariff to
charge the people of this country from 20 to
70 per cent higher for their goods than they
could sell the same articles for in unpro-
tected markets of the world. IL was no
longer protection, but pure, simple, naked
plunder. Americans boasted of their free
Institutions, of liberty and equality. but
who, he asked, could call himself free
man, save in mockery, when by course of
law the proceeds of his life and labor were
unjnstly taken to enrich anotherP
Turpie addressed the Senate briefly on
McPherSon'S resolution to recommit the
DILL with instructions to report a bill to re-
duce the revenue aud to equalize the duties
on imports in which the average ad vaorem
rate of duty on all dutiable articles shall
not exceed the average ad valOrem war
tariff rate of 1864. He declared himself not
satisfied with the instructions. If there
was choice to be made between the pend
ing bill and the Morrill, tariff of 1884, he
would choose the Morrill, tariff. But as the
proposed instructions were simply an ex-
preston of opinion of that great leader of
the people who p0lled majority of the
people for his reelection, the scheme
would be an imposition of lower du-
ties on things in general use and
of higher rates on articles of luxury
and refinement the total sum Of the levy
not to exceed the necessary expenses of the
Government and the interest on the national
debt.
The question was taken on the motion to
recommt and was defeated by strict party
vote-ayeS 10, noes 90.
The reading OF the bill by paragraphs for
amendment was begun, the first schedule
being that as to chemicals, oils and paints.
Mcpherson moved to reduce the duty on
acetic or hyroligneous acid not exceeding
specific gravity of 0.147 from 1h cents
to l cent per pound and on acid exceeding
that specific gravity from to cents per
pound. The vote was: Ayes To- noes %
no quorum.
Plumb offered resolution, which was
agreed to, calling on Secretary Carr for in
formation as to tire rules established for
admission to Soldiers homes, and inquiring
if such admissions are based wholly or in
part on the amount of pension, and whether
exceptions to those rules are made aud in
what cases and for what reasons.
The Senate bill approprating $4,000 for
public building at Sheboygan, Wis. was
reported and placed on the calendar.
Vest presented to the Senate the remon-
STRANGE of large number of persons of st.
Louis protesting against the passage Of the
Federal Election Bill. Adjourned.