Omaha daily bee., 1890-07-27
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
The Senate Continues to Wresle With the
Tariff Bill.
SENATOR MORGAN HAS AN OPINION,
He Expresses IL with Several Inter-
ruptions-M Many Friends of tho
cgro-CoIquit Loves tho
Farmers.

WAsuNGToN, July @.-In the SEM
ate today Mr.. CulOm offered
resolution which was agreed to rcQuCstiny
the president to transmit to the senate all tho
COrrcSpondcn not already submitted TO CON-
gresS and now ON tilcin the state department.
touching the efforts made by the government
toobtain modification or repeal OF ,av de-
cree OF the French government OF iSs pro-
hibitiug the Importation into rlnuCC Of
American pork and kindred American .SS.
ducts. Mr. Mitchell offered Il concurrent
resolution which was referred to the
committee on finance. stating that tho
United States would hail with approbatiop
any reciprocal arrangement by treaty or
Otherwise, between the government of tho
United States and the government of all or
any OF the South American or Central Ameri.
can states whether there shall be admittc to
the ports OF such nations free from all ma.
tional, provincial, municipal and other tariffs
or taxes the products of the United States,
including -four, cornmcal and other bread,
Stutfs, preserved meats, fruits, hides vcgctaA
blcs, cotton seed oil, rice and other provisions,
all articles of food, lumber, furniture and ali
other articles of wood, agricultural imple.
ments and machinery, structural steel and
cars and supplies street cars, refined
petroleum and such other products Of the
United States as may be agreed upon, but
declaring that it is not the sense of the
| United States that in any such treaty OF
reciprocal arrangement articles of foreign
woolor hides in any form should be ad
| mtted free into the ports of this country
tdcclareSthatin any treaty orreciprocal
| arrange ment that may be entered intolook-
| IN IN nt.Ns q
| the products named, it isnot the sense of tho
! United States that articles of wool orhides
produced in any of those countries shall ba
ad mitted free of duty into the ports of thd
| United States, and it request the president
of the United States to omit in any
such treaty or reciprocal awan cement
with any such nation, from the list Of pro.
ducts of such countries to be admitted into
the ports of the United States articles Of
wool in any of its forms and also hides Tho
senate resumed consideration of the tariff
bill and was addressed by Mr. Morgan
He said that the pending bill bore mora
heavily on the la boring classes than ON capb
taliSts orany Otherclass
Mr. Morgan went on to speak of the col,
ored people who, not being capitalists, manu-.
facturer or skilled workmen, could not pos.
sibg derive any advantage from protection,
and who yet had to bear the burdens
which it imposed upon the people.
He yielded tontewuptiOns to by Mr.. Hawley
who said in Alabama and other states that
tOlUtli NltIl were Del1lS c1llllONeu as 6kllleU
worklnen in factories and foundries, and Mr.
Hoar who mentioned the case of "a colorpd
man who was selected recently by his fellow
student Is at Harvard university todeliyer the
validct0ry. His response TO MIR HOar was
that the case which he mentioned was an OK,
ceptional one, somewhat akin to Blind
Tom" and his respon SO TO Mr.. Havvley was
what he Morgan ha d identifying to find out
was whetherany negro operatives were EN-.
ployed in northern factories He also
yielded to Mr.. Vest, who presented an
advertisement from the Sprin gheld fire and
insurance company, showing prohibition to
its agents against lns urng hOusesOccupied BY
negroes or negro churches or school houses
In reply toa remark by Mr.. HOar that the
prohibition applied to southern states Mr..
Vest asserted it applied to the whole country.
Mr.. Morgan went on to criticise the bill In
detail and show how hard it would bearOn
the negroes in the south. He rcmarkedn
closing that he had tried to segregate the ne
grOes. from the whites for the purpose Of
showing that the party which prOfesscd tObo
their best frlen d had no use forthem in the
world except to do it's voting.
Mr.. Colquitt addressed the senate. He
was as much opposed to the house bill as he
was to the senate bill. MIR Colquitt went on
to discuss the provisions of both bills in
reference to agricultural products, in order
toshow the futility ofthe proposed duties on
farm products, 50 far as any, benefit toths
farmers was concerned. The American
farmers Were becoming conscious of their
wrongs They were joining hands id
organization and cooperation, Endowed
with good practical sense, vigorous
in character, moral in habits.
lovers of home and its traditions, Kthc farm
eg of America ouldnevera allow themselves
TO be degraded to the condition of the tillers
of the soil In India and Egypt From his
heart he W wiShed them success and bade them
God speed.
Mr.. Spooner gave noticeof an amendment
he would Offer to the tariff bill, providing
that ON and after October |, 1894, tin plates
thinner than n o. % wire gauge shall be adj
mitted free of duty, unless the quantity Of
tin plates of such gauge pro-
duced in the United States dur
ing the preceding fiscal year shall
equal the amount of such tin plates imported
during such fiscal year.
Mr.. Vest obtained the floor, and the tariff
bill went over till Monday. On motion OF
Mr., Wilsonof Iowa the house amCndments
to tho Original package bill were noncon-
in, and con ference ordered.
A bill was PISSED granting pension Of
10000 year to the widowof the late eneral
Crook.
Bills were also passed giving like pensionS
to Mrs, Fremont and Mrs M cClellan
Adjourned.