The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-29
In the Senate.

teers raised during the war with Mexico,
passed.
Aldrich offered resolution fixing the
daily hour of meeting at II a. N.
ingalls, suggested an understanding that
the business of the morning hour shall be
considered closed at o'clock.
Allison did not wish it implied that the
Senate would devote two hours a day to
morning business.
Ingalls, said he did wish just such an i'm
plioation. AS soon as the tariff bill, the
appropriation bills and the election bill
passed, Congress would undoubtedly ad-
iourn promptly, therefore, whatever was
to be done between now and the time of
time of adjournment in consideration of
the measures on the calendar would have
to be done in the morning hour. There
were several hundred bills on the calendar
entitled to consideration.
Cockrell asked what was the use of the
Senate passing bills when the distinguished
gentleman IN charge of the House did not
give any attention to them. There were
now on the calendar of the House hundreds
of bills passed by the Senate and no atten
ton was paid to them. Among them was a
bill refunding the direct tax. Also two
bills recently passed, and regarded on the
other side of the chamber as very import
ant measures, the shipping bills, and they
We're left to ''sleep the sleep that knows no
waking"
Hawley did not agree with Cockrell. He
wanted his own ammunition in order so he
could go home with a clear record.
The resolution as to meeting at II was
agreed to with the understanding that the
Senate shall adjourn at G..
Aldrich moved to proceed to the consid-
Grafton of the tariff bill That motion was
antagonized by motion by Gray to pro-
coed to the consideration of the House bill
FOO IS 81
the navy department. The latter motion
was agreed to-yeas, 26; nays, %.
Cockrell continued his argument in OPP
position to the bill
Cockrell had not concluded his speech
when, at o'clock, the presiding officer laid
before the Senate the tariff bill as unfin-
ished business.
Gray moved to continue consideration of
the revenue marine bill.
FRYE said the friends of the revenue bill
had occupied but an hour and half upon
it; its enemies (smal1 majority all the rest
of the time. 1t was as evident to the Senate
as if the purpose had been announced, that
| the time had been occupied for the purpose
! of preventing vote on the measure. That
| only indicated, what he believed in, the ne
cessity of the previous question in the Sen
| ate, of some way to stop debate, of some
way to prevent Senator from getting up
every morning for three or four mornings
in succession and reading from the report
of a clerk in the treasury department.
Why should not vote be taken on the bill
if there isa majority of the Senate in ia
vor of it, Why should it not be permitted
to say 500 The Senator from Ohio (Sher-
luan) 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 mo-
ton was rejected, Il to 81. The bill was
| taken up and Vest addressed the Senate in
opposition to it. The advocates of high
tariff taxation, he said, were confronted
by a great peril-the depression in
agricultural interests and the emphatic
demands of the farmers for something be-
sides lying statistics and frothy declarations
| had caused the President and Secretary
Blaine to urge upon Congress legislation
| for subsidies to steamships and for recipro-
city treaties with South American states in
order to obtain foreign market for Amer
lean products Very little was heard now
of tue home market but great deal of the
| South American market. So at last the
protectionists had been driven from their
pretentio1s humbug about home market
and were forced to adopt the principle of
! free commercial intercourse which they
had SO long opposed and derided.
Vest went on to criticise the provisions of
the pending bill that was supposed to be
for the benefit of farmers, and said what
the farmers wanted was the opening and
/ enlargement of the foreign market for
their surplus wheat, corn, cattle and pork,
and decrease of the tariff duty on cloth
| ing, hardware, tins and other necessary
articles of daily and incessant use by the
farmer and his family. The pending bill,
he declared, was to repay the mill-owners
their contributions to the campaign fund OF
| the Republican party during the last presi-
Dental canvass, and as the planters of the
south were Democrats, the duties
on nothern manufactures We're largely
increased, while the duty on rice
| was diminished The consumers of the
United States were being systematically
plundered under the pretense of protection
to home industries. No further conceal
ment was possible; the truth was at last
revealed. The manufacturers who were
persistently asking for higher duties to ex-
clude foreign competition were awaiting
themselves of the monopoly given by an
exclusive tariff to charge the people of this
country from 20 to 20 per cent. higher for
their goods than they could sell the same
articles for in the unprotected markets of
of the world. 1t was no longer protection
but pure, simple, naked plumber
The Americans boosted of their free
institutions, of liberty and equality; blu,
man, some in mockery, when by the course
of law the proceeds of his life and labor
were unjustiy taken to enrich another.
Turpie addressed the Senate briefly on
lMcPhersous resolution to recommit the
bill with instructions to report bill to re-
duce the revenue and to equalize the duties
on imports, in which the average ad valo
rom rate of duty on all dutiable articles
shall no. exceed the average ad valoron
war tariff rate of 1861 He declared him
self not satisfied with the instructions il
there was choice to be made between the
pending bill and the Morrill, tariff of 1865
He would choose the Morril tariff, but as
the proposed instructions over simply an
expression of opinion of that great leader
OF the people who polled majority of the
people for his reelection scheme would bt
the imposition of lower duties on things ir
general use and of higher rates on articles
of luxury and retinement-the total sum Of
the levy not to exceed the necessary ex
penses of the government and interest or
the national debt. The question was taker
on the motion to recomm { and was dc
feated by strict party vote-yeas 10, nays
29. The reading of the bill by paragraph
with no amendment was begun, the frs
schedule being that as to chemicals, oils
and paints
Mcpherson moved to reduce the duty or
acetic acid not exceeding specific gravity
Of 147100o from 4 cents to 1 cent, and OF
acid exceeding that specific gravity from 4
to 3 cents per pound. The vote was yeas
Is; nays, %. No quorum.
The Senate bill appropriating $4,000 fol-
public buildings at Sheboygan was re
ported and placed on the calender. The
Senate then adjourned.