Thomas County cat., 1890-08-14
FlFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
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4 SAsO P2CvtOuS question: IN TUG IQte8 Oh tQc
senate was explained by its author as not IN
spired by interest In any particular measure,
but q 2 seeming necessity in order to reach
| dnd nnlsh important business. Heretofore
the senate has been usually in advance of the
house, but at this session the house has its
work nearer completion than the senate has.
IN oroer to reach and dispose of important
cOrporated in the new house rules are needed
| IN the senate.
SPEAKER REED DISCUSSED.
| While the house vas in committee of the
whole on the general deficiency appropria-
| ton i'll, Mr.. Rodgers. of Arkansas, assailed
| Spe .er Reed. He concluded with: ''May
| ted you, Mr.. Speaker, that they 1.-THE peo-
piel curse you and despise you, and hate
you, and when you are assalled IN private
and in public, they are silent"
Mr.. Henderson, of Iowa, defended Speaker
Reed. Said he: ''If the people of this re-
public did not appreciate what earnestness,
| courage and patriotism had done in this con-
gress. then there was no gratitude In the re-
public for loyalty to its best interests"
THE CHINA SCHEDULE.
The senate finished consideration of the
china schedule of the tariff bill; amendments
being offered to every clause and usually
voted down. Senator Plumb Offered good
many OF them; and Senator Ingalls,, with .
few other republicans, voted with him and
the democrats.
SUIT sTE. MARIE CANE.
Senator Davis offered resolution calling
on the secretary of war for information on
the subject of the accident to the lock of the
Sauit Ste Mare canal. He spoke of it as
most serious calamity to the commerce of
the nation, costing las he had been Informed
by telegraph) $4,000 day. Agreed to.
TEDIOUS TARIFF TALK.
The senate continued discussing the tarif
bill.
Senatur Berry sympathised with the senator
from Kansas. The south, with the west,
must suffer from this bill, which is entirely
in the interest of the eastern states.
Senator Wilson showed that there had been
great reduction in the price of household
and farming implements, and necessary
commodities during the past ten years: and
that never, in human history. would days
labor purchase as much as it would to-day.
CLAYTON -BRECKINRIDGE.
The house committee on elections submit
ted majority report III the Clayton Breck-
inridge election case from Arkansas. The
report declares the seat vacant, as Clayton
was elected. but has been killed. The report
was laid over.
Senator German spoke at great length in
favor of the reduction of the duty on Besse-
mer ore. He argued that with a reduction
of duty on foreign Bessemer ores, the result
would be that steel ships would be built as
cheaply in Baltimore as on the Clyde.
BLAINE EXPLAINED.
Secretary Blaine's letter to Senator Frye
having been frequently quoted as saying that
the Mckinley bill had not line in it which
would open up markets for American pro-
ductions, Senator Frye said that Mr.. Blaine's
La
markets for American manufactures: he
was in favor OF opening up foreign
markets to American producers of provi-
sions and breadstuffs. Mr.. Blaine had
criticised the bill in simply one re-
gard-the provision making sugar free.
In his Judgment Mr.. Blaine had simply criti-
cised it because the free sugar provision was
not accompanied with provision that woulp
open up the markets of the South American
countries to the products of American farms,
THE ORIGINAL PACKAGE BILL.
Mr.. Reed. of Iowa, presented the confer
ence report on the original package bill.
The report is the bill exactly as it passed the
senate. and is dissented from by Mr.. Oates,
of Alabama, one of the conferees.
After debate the conference report was
adopted-yeas. 40: nays, SO.
FULL RIGHT OF WAY.
Action in the senate seems to demonstrate
that the tariff bill will not be interfered with
until finished. Friends of the river and
barbor bill have been trying to have their bill
sandwiched with the tariff bill and be con-
cluded first, but have failed.
Senator Aldrich said that he was in hopes
that the consideration of the tariff bill would
be practically finished within the next week.
sUNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATION BILL
Senator Allison presented report of the
conference committee on the sundry civil
appropriation bill, and gave general ex-
PLANTATION of the report. The bill, he said, as
and had been increased by the senate about
100000 The net reductions agreed to in
the conference committee amounted to S3,-
zoe, ,NG, so that the bill carried under the
conference report S29, So. .0OO The changes
made in conference related first to public
Alexandria, Louisiana. had been reduced
5000: for Beaver Falls, Pa, 5000, and
Salina, Kan, 5000. The appropriation for
repairs of the Chicago custom house had
been cut down from 100000 to $4,000.
The amendment as to the Latin-American
memorial library had been struck out: also,
the provision for the expenses of two addi-
tional land offices. The appropriation of
$15O,OOO for military posts, had been reduced
to $4,000. and the provision for the acquisi-
tiOn of additional ground in the Crown Hill
cemetery at Indianapolis had been struck
out. All the senate amendments relating to
national soldiers homes (including that ap-
pointing managers) had been also struck
out. (The matter will now go to the mill
tary committees of the two houses.) The
provisions IN relation to irrigation surveys
had been postponed for further conference.
STATUE OF GENERAL GRANT.
In the senate joint resolution was
passed to accept from the national encamp-
ment of the Grand Army of the Republic
statue and pedestal of the late General
Ulysses S. Grant. to be erected in the capitol.
A QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE.
While there was call of the house Repre-
sentative Enloe was passing out and the
doorkeeper stopped him. He at once offered
q resolution to bring the doorkeeper to the
bar of the house for contempt of the house,
and for breach of the privileges of menu
Der.
The speaker. in ruling upon the question,
said that the rights and privileges of all the
members of the house in the discharge of
their functions Was sacred, and that the
house could undertake no higher duty than
the conservation of these rights and privil-
eyes intact. The chair thought this was a
question which ought to be passed upon by
the house. The rules of the house made pro-