The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-03

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.-The Senate met
at 10. A call of the roll showed forty nine
Senators (six more than aquorum) present.
The resolution offered yesterday by Blair,
instructing the committee on rules to re-
port, within four days, rule for the incor
poration of the previous question or some
method for limiting and closing debate in
the parliamentary procedure of the Senate,
was taken up. Blair said that Senators had
spoken to him indicating their desire to be-
heard before action should be taken on the
matter and who were not ready to proceed.
He should, therefore, not press the resolu-
ton this morning. But he desired to saw
that he had offered the resolution not with
special reference to any pending bill.
but with a feeling that there
was necessity for the proposed change.
The period had arrived when in the trans
action of the country's business the Senate
must have some way by which larger
number OF important pub bic measures could
be decided. AS it now was, the whole bus
mess of the country was at the mercy Of
one or two individuals, who might be op-
posed to the measure, and the majority was
practically under the control of the minor
ity. Nobody could complain that there had
been disposition to procrastinate or to
obstruct the ordinary course of debate and
discussion on the tariff bill. vet. althongh
the Senate had already spent ten DAYS
upon it, only fifteen pages had been dis
posed OF out of a total of lS2 pages in the
bill and ali the great subjects OF discussion.
sugar, reciprocity, etc, were still to come.
There was no reason to suppose therefore.
that under the existing rules the bill would
| be concluded before next December. He
| had not offered the resolution with q view
to any pending measure, but with view
! to fundamental, radical and indispensable
change IN the parliamentary procedure of
| the Senate.
| Morgan remainded Blair of the long time
(six or seven weeks consumed in consid-
Grafton of the education bill and said thst
no time had been wasted as a result of dis
cussion; that bill had been defeated, lust as
he hoped the debate on the tariff bill
would result in the defeat of that measure
The resolution was referred to the com
mittee on the rules.
| The tariff bill was then taken I'D the
Question being upon Vests amendment to
| reduce the duty on decorated china to 20
per cent ad volorem and on plain white
| ctipG 40 per cent. instead of 65 and 50 per
| cent, in the House bill and 50 and so as
proposed by the finance committee The
amendment was discussed pro and con at
! length.
German thanked Allison for his frank
S6dLclIISuG. AIIST IuTIH6r discussion oil the
chinaware paragraph, George took the floor
and made long speech en- the general sub
iect of tariff.
! Platt repealed and denounced an assertion
made by George to the effect that while the
duty on steel rails was 81 ton, labor in
! producing the article cost only S1.54. The
| fact was, if the production of ton of steel
cost S24 the labor portion of that cost was
not elly l.54 but ten times that amount
| Jones, OF Arkansas, supported Georges
] statement about steel rails and also spoke
on chinaware matters, at the close of which
he read from papers report from Findlay.
Ohio, as to the purchase by an English
syndicate of various glassware factories,
and said the effect of tariff legislation was
to encourage such trusts and syndicates.
| Regain warned the Senators that the
Farmers alliances and workingmen's assoc
Citations were not to be ignored .
] A conference was ordered on the sundrv
civil appropriation bill At o'clock Aid
rich, intending to move an adjournment,
proposed that vote on the pending cues
ton be taken Monday without further dis
cusslon- Take a vote now. We are ready;
we are always ready to vote as soon as dis
cusslon IS over,n were the responses from
several Senators on the Democratic side.
Aldrich did not think there was G quorum
present. but he was willing to try. The
vote was taken on Vests amendment, ard
the result was, yeas, 81; nays, 20: no
quorum. Paddock and Plumb voted with
the democrats. The Senate then adj
J iourped