Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-27
CONGRESSIONAL.
IN THE SENATE.

some discussion, it was agreed to by unanimous
consent.
The conference report on the sundry civil ap-
preparation bill was then read.
The paragraph i'll regard to reservoir sites
(which reserves from entry all such stes) was
criticised by Sanders, who thanked his Senate
copferees ironically for having sacrificed the in
teress of the people of Montana to the Unsuitable
law of the House.
Allison defended the action of the Senate con-
ferees, and explained the extreme difficulty
which they encountered dealing with the SUBJ
ject. He reviewed briefly the history of the itri-
CATION survey, and charged that the House was
responsible for ENGRAVING the reservations in the
arid lands provision of our sundry civil appropria-
ton bill Of 1885, thereby causing all the trouble.
The result has been the provision now proposed
to be inserted in the sundry civil bill. That
provision is not what he would have wished it
TO be. 1t was not what the Senate conferees
wished, but it was the best solution they could
secure.
Reagan defended the past action of Congress
in the matter of reserving reservoir sites from
settlement, and said that if 1t had not been for
that reservation those lands would have been
seized by spectators and syndicates. He
avowed that it had been the intention of the
Senate conferees to have the whole irrigation
survey wiped out of existence as far as possible,
but they had been confronted by the people,
who insisted that the survey should go on and
become part OF the settled and permanent
policy OF the Government
After some debate the conference report was
agreed to and the tariff bill was again taken up,
the question being on the lead paragraph, 10
which cose had offered an amendment 10 make
lead extracted from silver ores free of duty, and
Plumb had offered one reducing the duty on
lead ore, ard lead dross;from IL to q of a cent.
Before proceeding with the paragraph Plumb
gave notice of an amendment to the bill which
he would offer at an appropriate time. The
amendment was read. II is with some few
notifications the bill Tor reciprocity with
Canada introduced by Butterworth in the
House.
Plumb proposes to restrict the operation of the
rec1prc cal arrangement to manufactured ar
ticles and minerals. Plumb then spoke in favor
of his amendments.
Sanders opposed the two amendments.
At the close of the discussion Plumbs amend
ment to reduce the duty on lead ore from %
cents to q of a cent per pound was voted on and
rejected.
NO other amendment was offered to the para
graph, and none to the next two paragraphs
lead in pigs cents pound and lead in sheets
"a cents pound.
The paragraph relating to metallic mineral
substances in crude state, not specially pro-
against the amendment reported by the Iii
nance Committee, striking out the duty of IS
per cent on mica. 1t went over without action.
The next paragraph, putting duty of three
cents per pound on crude nickel, was stricken
out on the recommendation of the Finance
Committee.
The next paragraph, relating to nickel and
nickel oxide, was amended under the report of
from fifteen 10 eight cents per pound.
The paragraph relating to watches was
amended on the recommendation of the FL
nance COmmi tee by making the duty on all
watches D per cent ad valorem.
The paragraph relating TO zinc in blocks was
amended on the recommendation of the FL
nance Committee by reducing the duty from
one and three.quarters to one and one-half
cents per pound
The committee substitute for the paragraph
as to metal manufactures not specially provided
for was agreed to as scheduled.
Wood and manufacturers wood having
been reached, Mcpherson wished to offer SUBJ
stitute for the whole schedule, but he reserved
it until the committee amendments should be
disposed of.
The paragraph relating to sawed boards, etc.,
was on the recommendation of the committee,
amended by reducing the duty from s. per cent
to 10 per cent, and Dy adding the words i'm
posing duty of 20 per cent. on veneers not
especially provided for
The next paragraph, "Pickets and palingsi
was amended by reducing the duty from 20 per
cent. to 10 per cent, and the next paragraph by
reducing the duty from 35 to so cents per
thousand.
Aldrich moved to amend the paragraph
which puts q duty of 10 per cent. ON chat
cane, manufactured but not made into finished
articles. by striking out the words. "manufact-
III ed. but not made into finished articles, and
inser ing in lieu the words. ''or reeds, whether
wrought or manufactured from rattans, or
reeds and whether round, square or any other
shape" Agreed to.
The schedule relating to sugar having been
reached Aldrich said the committee proposed
TO let that schedule be passed over informally
Tor the present. so the schedule relating to
tobacco aud its manufacture will be the first
thing to come up tomorrow.
Adjourned.
IN THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, August 26th.-In the House it
was commended that the first business was the
Co ger lard bill, the vote upon the passage of
VIII CO on Saturday was iDconclusive, owing to
the absence of the quorum.
Baker of New York argued that the other
business on the Speakers table must first be
disposed of.
After considerable debate on the subj ct,
the Speaker decided that the question before
the House was the ron-csll on the passage of
the lard bill
Mason of illinois appealed from the decision
On sustaining the decision the vote showed
no quorum, and call of the House was or
dered.
One hundred and ffty-nine members having
responded to their names, and nineteen mem
bers having reported their presence to the
Clerk, the speaker pro TEN. announced that
there was quorum present.
Morgan moved an adjournment, saying that
he believed some agreement on the lard bill
could be reached. The motion was lost
Cannon then offered a resolution directing
the Sergeant-at-Arms to notify the absent mem
bers to return to Washington without delay,
aud revoking all leaves of absence, except
those granted on account of illness. The reso-
luton lecites that twice to day the legislative
proceedings have been interrupted by want OF
a quorum; that certain members mentioning
their names) answered their names under cal 5,
but did NOT resp nd on regular roll-call
Blunt, Grain and Others protested against the
resolution, saying that it was an unjust arraign-
ment of every member mentioned in it, and its
adoption would be censuIe to those members.
There was great con usion in the House. Fully
a dozen mem 3efs were on their feet demanding
a recognition on question of personal privilege,
and their efforts TO secure such recognition was
[ heartily seconded by their friends. Finally
Grain was recognized, ard said that this was
nothing but petty species OF bull. doing. the
obi, ct beieg to threaten in order to compel us
to vote.
Henderson of Iowa said nothing in the resolu-
ton could be construed into a ceusure. and
Cannon said the naming of the gentlemen in
| the resolution was but showing exactly what
the roll call showed
Turner of New York said the gentleman from
| Illinois had been playing to the press gallery.
| He then criticized the resolution in speech
| three-quarters of an hour long. At the con.
I clusion OF the speech the House adjourned.