Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-08-12
TALKING TIN PLATE.
Senators Morgan and Daniel Oppose
the Tariff Bill.
THE CL0TURE RESOLUTIONS,
Speaker Reeds Reply to Mr..
Rogers Complaint.
sUNDRY CIVIL BILL DISAGREEMENT.
THE CL0TURE RESOLUTIONS,
SUNDRY CIVIL BILL DISAGREEMENT
SENATE.

compel the attendance of quorum.
EXPRESS COMPANIES IN THE CENSUS RETURNS.
Mr.. Hale reported back the House bill to ex-
tend the census law so as to require informa-
ton to be obtained from unincorporated ex-
press companies, and, in response to inquiries,
stated that 1t applied to all unincorporated ex-
press companies or copartnerships, whether
dolnS only local or general business; that only
some three or four of the great express COM
panies OF the country were Incorporated; that
over 5000, 600 year were paid annually by
express companies to railroad companies, and
thatlt was verydesirabe that of all these
express companies should be obtained and in
corporated in the census returns. The in
FORMATION would be obtained chiefly by corre-
spondence and would apply simply to the ex-
tent OF their business and property and to the
amounts paid by them to railroad companies.
THE SMALL EXPRESS COMPANIES.
MIR. German asked Mr.. Hale to have the bill
confined to companies doing railroad and
steamboat business, SO as to exclude the idea
of small companies doing a, mere local busi-
ness.
Mr.. Hale replied that there was no danger Of
the Census Office extending the inquiry to
private companies or individuals The Adams
Express Company, for instance, was not an in
corporated company and was therefore under
existing law not required to furnish statistics
OF Its business and declined to do so.
THE BILL PASSED.
After further discussion the bill was passed
without amendment.
Mr.. Edmunds, from the Judiciary committee,
reported an amendment to be offered to the
river and harbor bill and explained that its
purpose was to make it unlawful to obstruct
the navigation OF any of the navigable waters
of the United States
1t had been discovered, he said, that except
IN one or two specially named localities there
n To mic halx 80, oL,x-,
ing rivers, and there was at least one case in
which railroad company was blasting cliffs on
the bank OF river (for the improvement of
which appropriations were made by the United
states) aud allowing rocks to be blown into the
channel and obstruct navigation.
Mr.. Reagan cited another instance Of the OBJ
structlon of a river in Texas by the debris of
saw mills, and said in reply to a question that,
while he had no doubt that the state Of Texas
could pass statute to prevent it, it had not
done so.
The amendment was laid on the table and
ordered printed.
TO LIMIT DEBATE ON THE TARIFF BILL.
Mr.. Edmunds presented the motion for a
change Of the rules by limiting debate on the
tariff bill which he had offered at the time of
adjournment yesterday, and it was laid on the
table and ordered printed.
Mr.. Blair also offered resolution for such a
change of the rules as will permit the previous
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been considered two days, and the same dispo-
| sition was made OF it.
RAILROAD INDEBTEDNESS.
MIR. Frye asked unanimous consent to have
the Senate bill taken up and passed which
authorizes the Secretary OF the Treasury to
settle the Indebtedness to the government of
the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad COMPANY
Mr.. Sherman intimated that that was too
important matter to be disposed of quickly
Mr.. Frye-lt is of no importance at all. This
road is practically owned by the Northwestern
and Chicago Railroad Company
Mr.. Sherman-The bill authorizes the Secre-
tary OF the Treasury to settle the Indebtedness.
How much is it?
Mr.. Frye-OnIy million and half dollars.
Mr. Sherman-I must object.
TIN PLATES IN THE TARIFF BILL.
The tariff bill was then taken up, the pend
ing question being on Mr.. Vests amendment
Offered yesterday reducing the duty on tin
plates paragraph 1877, page 49, from 2 2-lO
cents per pound to l cent (the present rate)
Mr.. Morgan resumed his argument (beeun
yesterday against the increased duty provided
in the paragraph. He referred to the remark
made last week by Mr.. Edmunds-that the
tariff bill was the
BURNING QUESTION OF THE HOUR
(and to that made on the same occasion by Mr.
Hawley) that the material interests OF the conn.
try were suffering greatly from the Jar caused
by the discussion of the bill, and SAID that he
had construed these remarks into an ex-
preston OF opinion by these Senators
that the bill was to be pressed to its
passage or rejection and nothing would be al
lowed to impede its progress SO far as he was
concerned he conceded in that view of the
case-not because he thought that the pending
bill was IN the slightest degree beneficial inn
provenent on the act of 1883, but on the con-
trary was
VERY MUCH WORSE MEASURE
Still some measure of tariff reform has been
promised by the party i'll power and he as
sImed that it intended to redeem that promise
and would do SO by the pending bill. Whether
or not there would be significant or fatal di
visions on the republican side on the subject
of sugar or other disputed items the bill wonld
pass Ill some form or other. The House
would then take it up and nom
concur in the Senate amendments and the bill
would be sent to conference committee
There would then be repeated in 1890 what had
occurred III 1888 when the tariff bill of that
year enacted by conference committee
No Senator on either side of the chamber
could now foresee the form in which the pend
ing bill was even likely to become law,
WHEN THE coSFEREEs GET TOGETHER
they would frame measure independently of
the action of either house. They would bring
1t in in the nature OF surprise, and Senators
would then be so handicapped by the standing
rules of the Senate not to be able to amend
the bill in any particular. They would have to
swallow 1t whole, as it came from the confer
ence committee, or else reject it entirely.
Mr. Sherman explained that the bill passed
by the House in 1888 was an in
ternal revenue bill, and that the Sen.
ate bill was substitute for it. and
that in that way the conference bill had been
passed. He admitted that that was not a good
a
however. in this case, the bill that would 90
bill with Senate amendments to il, and the
conference committee could not 90 outs;ds
Of the bill and amendments.
MIR. Morgan said that in the light of recer.
history he was not prepared to admit the dis
that Senator had been a member of the confsr.
reported back measure that had NOT heen
spoken OF in either house Of Congress.
MR. SHERMAN EXPLAINS
Mr.. Sherman-That was because the ser...
struck out the whole of the House bill. and hx
that action of the Senate the whole .pb,sc.
was thrown open.
MIR. Morgan-And here We havo .trucl
out all of the House bill relating 70
internal revenue. The cases are not
dlnerent and there will be no
difference In the outcome. The Senator from
Ohio will probably be one Of the Senate con
ferees on this bill; and / am rather pleased
that this little prelude has occurred this morn