The morning news., 1890-07-30
HISCOCK IN A PITFALL.
oopyAN CAUSES a BREAK IN THE
oUAY-LIKB SILENCE.

re,r+ Nsede a Butt of Ridicule-Gor-
avoiding All Appearance of Fill
mastering in His Tactics-Detalls OF
the Debate.
m.surVcroN. July Ex-senator Cor
,a,, is loading the democrats In the Senate
very skillfully By avoiding the appearances
90 flihustering. he has given the repuoh-
oons no opportunity to say that the gag
law must be applied at once IN 0ruer 'na'
the tariff bill should be gotten tnrougn
without unnecessary delay. When senator
F-va denanded the adoption OF the prevl-
ous question in the caucus last nlghe' ne
nos told nv his colleagues that the demo-
...ts had not as yet done anything 20 JUS
tifv such action. This is why the caucu 3
broke I'D with no CONCLUSION e1-
oont To press the tariff and
ohanoa the hours of sitting from IL to $3.50
70 from 10 to 6o'clock, a change whlch tne
Semocrats will resist on the ground that IL
is unreasonable and impracucaole.
HrsCoCK AMBUsHED.
Az tba sarne time Senator Gorman has
succeeded in getting debate on the tarlH
hill He did not resist when the consldera-
tion of the tariff bill by paragraphs was
begun Yesterday. He knew he could have
discussion enough. He drew 1t out
himself in fine style this afternoon,
nrodding Senator Hiscock, one OF the man
agers Of the bill. to break the Quay-like
republican silence with a chara cteristlcally
ungrammatical speech, which Senator Blair
nromptly made ridiculous The Senate ad-
vanced three lines into the bill TODAY. At
tbis rate it would be October before it
passed.
THIS SCENE IN THE SENATE
(By the Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. July 29-The Senate met
at II o'clock this morning after call OF
the roll, in order to procure the required
ouorum Mr. Morgan presented the resolu-
tions passed by large meeting of republi-
cans in Birmingham, Ala, against the
passage of the election bill.
The postoffice committee reported back
the Senate bill to establish a limited postal
and telegraph service. 1t was placed on the
calendar.
Mr.. Sherman offered q resolution, which
went over till tomorrow, that the hour for
the daily meeting of the Senate be at 1O
o'clock in the morning.
Mr. Ingalls, introduced bill to establish
adepartment of communication, and said
that it was prepared by and introduced at
the request of the wage-workers alliance.
The tariff bill was then taKen up, the
pending question being on Mr.. McPherson's
amendment offered yesterday to reduce the
duty on acetc or pyroligneous acid not ex-
ceeding specific gravity of 147-1 900 from
IL cents to l cent per pound and exceeding
that gravity from cents to cents per
pound. The amendment was rejected by a
4 party vote Of 20 yeas to q nays.
MCPHERSON CALLS HALT
The clerk proceeded with the reading of
the bill but had only got through two lines
when he was stopped by Mr.. Mcpherson
with a remark that he was moving a little
too hasty He (Mr. McPherson) had some
thing to say about the first line, fixing the
duty of boracic acid at 5 cents a pound
A the present rate "A cents per pound the
duty on boracic acid was 1873 per cent. and
now it was proposed to make it 81 per cent.
ad valorem 1t could be put on board a
vessel N Italy at cents per pound, 80 that
the proposed duty would be 1875 per cent.
tie quoted statement of Mr.. Nledringhaus
before the finance committee TO the effect
that boracc could be produced in California
or = cents per pound. so that the proposed
duty would amount to 225 per cent ad
4 valorem. He moved to reduce the rate
from cents to 81 cents per pound. Here,
ne sad, was an article manufactured in
natures own laboratory, requiring neither
steam power nor fuel, nor anything in the
world but Gods sunlight and little
water Taken from the lake and
exposed to the sun and air it
gave reslduum of borax and boracic acid.
II cost only cents per pound according to
autnenuc testimony, and yet a duty of 5
cents per pound was TO be imposed upon it.
For what purpose? TO protect q great
Jrust and combine which had agreed to
Amit the production of borax and boracic
aclu 10 The amount which the market would
take
Mr. Stewart remarked that when this
aIVlce was on the free list the price was &c
cents per pound.
MORGAN ENTERS PROTEST.
mr. Morgan argued against an increase
Ne ungy on borax and horacic acid as
ns strong discrimination against the
.ion industries Of Alabama, in which borax
a. anu oofaclc acid are largely used. He was
~ ~ IaVor OF the reduction recommended by
~ ~. -dcf herson, and thought if Jus tice wert
tne free list f' VI
Mf. McPherson's amendment was rejected
Oy party vote of yeas to 80 nays.
RoBBER POLICY.
Ar. Jones of Arkansas addressed the sen.
ese t III opposition to the bill, which he called
--o most radical and extreme measure OF
P;,o5eG t;og3 ION ever presented. 1t was prac.
iioe ioal qeciaration on the part of the Repub
,oau party that the war tariff was never
II o9 reduced, but that exorbitant taxes
tio. De permanent and TO be declara,
b. VI war against foreign commerce.
bilAS TO the farmers alliance
~ sad that the man reaC
tbo asos OF the times amiss who believed
ia iiNt party was to continue much longer
- nI.niy believed that the present period
polecuon gone mad would inaugurate a
c9csenleat that would in its effects and
If tEo5 nenGes surpass all previous upheayals
81 ba @ one @.!ld. The protective system would
nation. '' Ou' as an utter apomi
+bda, dne o!ll having been read by the clerk
a15 1ItedGit on chronic acid was reached
snEs+-lr.. Hr. cPherson moved to amend by
the existing duty of 10 per cent
n. POLITICAL DEBATE.
y poitio,{d i4s debate on this amendment took
e1ca character and had no refer
y Tia "uateVer to the amendment
*. AJdrios speakers were Messrs German
SI-Ica, Mcpherson, Hiscock RIair
rnart-9 mar, and Voorhees, Mr.. Hiscock re.
ring w. Ina. nat SO much had been said refer
~ ~ ~ tae Influences which had uroduced
sorne,Giri-l1a1 --a1 II seemed proper to him thai
ch rga5 Snould be said in reply to those
G1r,6Sces. The senator from MARYLAND mr.
sls,aI'1.7 nad said that the republican ma
tsc,'1 a' convention had pledged itself +, nro
a. ,1in...t I,, IL mad, and the pending bill wa
peIaI tttiIatton OF that platform He re-
O., .at ''9 . cIarge that the republican sue