Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-05
Mr.. Davis amendment the words "burlaps and
ha for Grain made of hnrlana "

Mr.. DAVIS amendment, the words "burlaps and
bags for grain made Of burlans."
Mr.. Turpie commented on the use by Mr.
Evarts of the word unity" in place of the
word ''symmetry." Perhaps unity was the bet
ter word to describe the bill. Sena-
tors on tho other side had boasted that
under the pending bill revenue was only
an incident In his view revenue under the
bill was not an incident; it was only acci-
dent Laughter
The vote was taken on Mr.. Jones' amend
ment and it was rejected-yeas &c; nays, %.
The republicans who voted aye were Messrs.
Allen, Mitchell and Plumb. Neither Mr. In
gals, Mr.. Manderson nor Mr.. Paddock voted.
REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS JOIN HANDS.
Mr.. Davis amendment was then agreed to
yeas, 3s; nays, 1s. All the democrats except
Mr.. Blodgett voted eve. in company with the
following named republicans: Messrs. Allen,
Allison, Culom, Davis, Ingalls,. Mcmillan,
Henderson, Mitchell. Moody, Pierce, Plumb.
Power. Sawyer, Spooner and washburn. The
negative votes were given by Messrs. Aldrich,
Blodgett. Cameron, Chandler, Dawes, Ed
munds, Evarts. Frye. Hawley, Higgins. HIS
cock. Hoar. Platt, Quay, Sherman, Stewart,
Stockbridge and Walcott.
WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR 1T.
Mr.. Paddock stated, at a subsequent stage Of
the proceedings that he was unavoidably abb
sent when the vote was taken on Mr.. Davis
amendment II he had been present he would
have voted for it, as he had done yesterday.
On the motion of Mr.. Carlisle the word
"degras" was struck off the FREQ list (para-
graph 573).
MIR. Plumb moved to strike off the free list
paragraph 579) hides, raw or uncured,
whether dry, salted or picked" and argued in
Mr.. Aldrich expressed the hope that the mo.
tion would not prevail
The motion was rejected-yeas, Is; nays. 20.
MIXED VOTE
The affirmative votes were all given by re-
publicans, as follows: Messrs. Allen, Allison,
Cameron, Cullom. Higgins, ingalls,. Mitchell,
Moody. Plumb, Pugh, Quay. Stewart Wash
burn, Wilson (lowa) and Wolcott
The democrats voted in the negative together
with the following republicans: Messrs. Al
drich, Chandler, Dawes, Frye, Hale. Hawley.
Hiscock, Hoar, Mcmillan, Pierce, Platt and
Sawyer.
FREE TIMBER.
Mr.. Vest moved to insert in the free list ''tim-
Der, hewn and sawed, squared and sided, and
sawed boards, plank, deals and other lumber Of
hemlock, white wood, sycamore, white pine and
bass wood"
Mr.. Henderson moved to strike ont of the
amendment the words ''hemlock, white wood,
sycamore and bass wood" leaving the amend
ment to apply only to lumber of white pine.
Mr.. Carlisle referred to the inconsistency of
the policy which on the one hand offers a
bounty for the planting of trees and on the
other hand offers a bounty Gn the shape of a
protective duty) for cutting down trees. and he
advocated the placing of lumber on the free
list, SO as to get the lumber from Canada.
PROTECTING THE LUMBER INTEREST.
Mr.. Platt argued in favor OF protecting the
lumber interest, as well as every other interest
Of the country.
Mr.. Spooner said that he was not surprised
frnm ha rat IL
side OF the chamber to put lum-
Der or any other product on
the free list. but he was surprised that SEN
aior who believed in the protective system
should propose to put white pine on the free
list. The proposition was peculiar one. 1t
left yellow pine and other wood products
dutiable at % Thousand feet and
it singled out the white pine
products OF Wisconsin and Michigan and one or
two other states to be put on the free list.
Why, he asked, should that be done? No pro-
duct represented labor more than white pine
lumber. What reason could be given for pro-
tectlng American miners against Canadian
miners and refusing to protect American lum-
bermen against Canadian lumbermen.
Mr.. Frye argued against the amendment
There was a capital of three hundred millions
invested in the lumber industry of the United
states and there were a million able-bodied
men employed in that business.
THE COMPETITOR OF THE UNITED STATES
in lumber was Canada where the wages of the
men employed in the business we're from IS to
35 per cent lower than in the United States How
could any Senator, he asked. who believed in
protection, or who said he believed in il, vote
to expose that million of laboring men in the
United States to competition with the lumber
men of Canada? What kind of protectionist
was such Senator? The Senators from Maine
had voted duties on iron ore. coal, wool and
scores Of articles which Names interest
was to have free. And why? Because
those Senators were protectionists And
now. should the Senators from Minnesota or
Kansas or Nebraska because they thought that
lumber might be cheaper in those states if on
the free llst)vote to remove duties on lumber and
| still announce themselves protectlonists? There
was no consistency in such protection. There
was no right and no justice in it, and the
declaration had better be mado by those Sena-
tors that they were free traders and would vote
for free trade.
CANADIAN DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THE UNITED
STATES.
Mr.. Stewart argued that of all the countries
in the world Canada was the last that ought to
be favored in an American tar
iff bill, because Canada Disseminated
against everything that came from the United
States. The amendment Was square give
away of the rights of the American people.
MIR. Blair also opposed the amendment, and
SAID that ii lumber were put on the free list the
tariff would not be worth whistling after.
MIR. Dolph also opposed it, and said that he
was not ready to JOIN the Senate corps of sap
pers and miners who were seeking to under
mine the wall Of protection.
HOUSE.
Immediately after the reading Of the journal
the Clayton Breckenridge case was again taken
up and Mr.. Breckinridge was accorded the
floor to argue in his own behalf He charged
the chairman OF the committee on elections
(Mr. RowelD with improperly in prejudging
the case. That gentleman, in discussing another
election case, had referred to the case from the
second Arkansas district and had declared that
in that district five political murders had oc-
CURED. He called upon the gentleman to name
the murdered men.
Mr.. Rowell said that they were benjamin
Smith, Bentley and Clayton, while All attempt
had been made to assassinate Wahl.
Mr.. BRECKINRIDGE DENIED
the correctness of this statement and called
attention to the fact that the gentleman him
self concurred in report which said that there
was suspicion only of these things being
true He denied that the murders were polit-
ical murders His distinguished and lamented
opponent had been foully and infamously mur-
dered. But no one had produced any evidence
that it was in any sense the result of public
antipatny or had come from collective or
organized effort. The state Of Arkansas had
done ten times as much in money and effort
as it had ever done before to detect
and punish the guilty. The crime was q stain
upOn the state and an injury to the state: and