Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-07-30
PROTECTIVE POLICY.
Defended in the Senate by Mr.. Nor.
rill Today.
SENATE TO MEET AT 10 A. M.
Mr.. CockreII Defends the Senate
Minority From Criticism.
DISTRICT APPROPRIATIONS IN HOUSE
SENATE.

SENATE.
Mr.. Hoar presented memorial Of the North
Carolina Republican Association of the District
OF Columbia in favor Of the passage Of the
national election bill.
Mr.. Vest presented memorial Of the Wage
Workers Alliance Of the District Of Columbia
denouncing the bankrupt law.
THE MEXICAN BOUNDARY LINE.
Mr.. Sherman offered an amendment to the
deficiency appropriation bill (Which was re-
ferred to the committee on appropriations) ap-
propriating $4,000 for marking the boundary
line between the United States and Mexico
| and called attention to its urgency.
WHY MIR. CoCKRELL FAvoRs MEETING AT 10 Am.
The resolution offered yesterday by Mr..
Sherman fixing the daily hour of meeting at 10
a. m. was taken up.
Mr.. Cockrell said that he would support the
resolution, and wanted to give a few reasons
why. Some taunts had been made recently by
the Senators from Rhode Island and Maine
(Aldrich and Frye about delay on the part of
Maine had said something about having the
previous question introduced in the Senate.
He wanted those Senators to see the
RELATIVE AMOUNT OF WORK DONE IN THE TWO
HOUSES.
The Senate had, up to the 28th of July,
passed 946 bills, and 499 other bills had been
acted on by committees and been indefinitely
postponed, making the whole number OF SEN
ate bills actually disposed Of 1,445 That was
considerably more than one-third of all the
bills introduced in the Senate. No such record
had ever been made before. The House, out of
over 10000 bills introduced. had passed S65,
a mere fraction OF the whole. Out of all the
Senate bills passed the House had only passed
231, while of the House bills the Senate had
RtO A. I'm
pending in committee of the whole there were
36l, OF which 103 were Senate bills while there
were pending In the House LIS public bills
including % Senate bills, and 967 private bills,
including 1877 Senate bills. Then there were
on the calendar of unfinished business 80
cases pending. of which 81 were Senate bills
That made a total of 1,617 cases pending be-
fore the House, of which 344 we're Senate bills
On the Senate calendar there were but 3O9
cases all told, of which only 81 we're House
bills. There were 344 Senate bills (acted on
by House committees) now on the House cal
endar, with the iron heel of the one-man
power securely resting on that calendar.
THE MINORITY OF THE SENATE DEFENDED
How Che asked) had so much work been done
in the Senate? Had the minority been wasting
time by interposing objections or by unneces-
sary production? Had the minority consumed
time Gas the ma iority had done under the last
administration in criticising the executive or
in pleading the civil service law to prevent the
removal of democratic officials before the end
of their terms Of office? Nothing of the kind.
Had not the bills for the admission of Idaho and
Wyoming as states been allowed by the minority
to pass? Although every one knew that neither
of them had sufficient population to entitie il
to Representative in the House, those bills
had only passed through the inconceivable for
bearance and conservatism of the democratic
minority. And vet democrats we're criticised
the moment they wanted little explanation
and little light on the tariff bill.
Ifthere was a democratic majority in the
Senate and had it made an attempt to pass the
bills for the admission of New Mexico and Ar
iZona as states the Senator from Maine (Mr.
Frye would have pranced up and down the
center aisle and the Senator from Vermont
(Mr. Edmunds) would have raised his voice.
They would have roared like Gagged lions and
screamed like chained hyenas flaughterl
against the action of the democratic majority.
Why, he asked, had not the House disposed of
more bills than it had disposed of The reason
was that it ignored in its organization and in
its changed rules the fundamental principles
of parliamentary discussion.
REPREsENTATIvE REED QUOTED AGAINST SPEAKER
REED.
He quoted from letter written by Mr.. Thos.
B. Reed in June, 1886, and published in the
Chautauquan. 1t would be remembered Che
said) that Mr.. Reed was once a member of the
House OF Representatives. One of the sem
tences IN that remarkable production" was in
these words: "A full, free frank discussion is
the very life of intelligent action"
Another sentence was: Needless suppress
sion OF discussion is tyrannic whether done by
a king or IA majority" He challenged any re-
publican Senator to show All instance where
the democratic minority had attempted any
unnecessary delay. Democratic Senators had
been in their seats when the Senator from
Maine (Alr. Frye was enjoying the refreshing
~. l,,ly
when the Senator from Vermont (Mr Ed
monds) was also rusticating.
The Senator from New York (Mr. Hiscock)
had stated yesterday that
THE REPUBLICANS HAD CAPTURED THE pRMo-
Gratis.
If the democrats were captives they would stick
the closer to their captcrs. They would come to
the chamber at 10 in the morning but they would
expect republican Senators to come too and
they would stay till q in the evening and facil-
ltate the transaction OF business ii they were
treated as decent, respectable minority ought
to be.
The resolution was then agreed to-
MIR. MOI aILL FOR THE TARIFF BILL.
The tariff bill was taken up and Mr.. Morrill,
addressed the Senate. Party discipline, he
said, appeared to compel free-trade democratic
Senators TO assail the tariff bill with all the an
clients stock OF vltuperative epthets. His calm and
excellent frlend MIR. McPherson), whose state
was so much Indebted to tariff protection for its
prosperity, alter giving the bill a death blow
in set speech came in fresh every day to
add another blow punishment alter death
HE (Mr MorrilD had hoped not to contribute
to any consumption OF time, but as some Sem
ators on the other side seemed to be provoked
at the silence on his side of the chamber he
would claim a short time and try not to thresh
any of the old straw of tariff debates.
AMERICAN GOLD FOR ENGLISH TIN.
The bill offered in several instances (conspic-
uously in that of TIM an increase of duties for
the purpose of giving employment to larger
numbers of laboring men and for the purpose
OF keeping ut home many millions OF money now
sent abroad. This country had the tin ore, the
iron and the coal, and why then should it an
nually send abroad twenty y-eight millions in
gold for tinl he had no idea that the increased
duty would cause much, if any, increase in the
cost OF sheet tin, and he felt assured that in no
long time after the law took effect tin would
be much lower in price than il ever had been
Protection would serve, as in the case OF Bes-
semer steel, to cheaper the article vastly.
Mr.. VOORHEES, ACCUSED OF MISREPRESENTATION
Referring to the assertion in Mr.. Voorhees,
gpeech that none of the war taxes or