, 1890-07-31
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.
Senators Still Tinkering on the
Tariff Bill.
Cockrell Denies that Democrats
are Retarding Business.
Morrill, Gives Blaine's Scheme
a Black Eye.

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G,rsd an amendment to the deficiency APP
nropriation BIZ (reierred to the committee
IN appropriations appropriating $50, 900
Gar marking the boundary line between
the limited States and Mexico and called
attention TO its urgency.
The resolution offered yesterday by
Sherman fixing the daily hours Of meet
ing at 10 u III, was taken up.
Coekrell said he would support the res
olution aud wanted to give a lew reasons
uhy. Some tauuts had been made re-
Gently by the senators OF Rhode Island
and Maine (Al1rich and Frye) about delay
on the part of the Democratic minority.
He wanted those senators to see the rela-
live amount Of work done in the two
houses. The senate had up to July %
nassed $40 bills and 499 other bills had
been acted on by committee and been in
definitely postponed, making the whole
number OF senate bills actually disposed
of /, AS That was considerably more than
ope.third of all the bills introduced in the
senate. No such record had ever been
made before. The house, out Of over
10000 bills introduced there. had passed
s65-a mere fraction of the whole. Out
of all the seDai bills passed, the house
had only passed 23I. while of the house
bills. the senate had passed 6lS. How,
he asked, had SO much work been done
in the ,enate? Had the minority been
wasting time by interposinc objections or
BY unnecessary discussion? Had the mi
nori,y consumed lime las the majority
had done under the last administration,
in criticizing the executive or pleading the
civil service la to prevent the removal Of
Democratic officials before the end of
their terms OF office? Nothing of tn,
kind. Had not the bills for the admis-
sion of Idaho and Wyoming as states
been allowed by the minority to pass, al
though every oae knew neither of them
had sufh lent population to entitle it to
a represent tive in the house.
Those biils passed only through
the iueonccivable fJrbearance and con-
servatism Of the Democratic minority,
and yet the Democrats were criticized the
moment they wanted a lutte explanation
aud a ! t lie light IN the tariff bill If
there was a Democratic msjority in
the senate and had it made an
HllGfupt bhoo Wis tut lut
admission OF Now Mexico and Ari-
IONA Az state, the senator from Maine
(Frye) would have pranced up and down
the c.nter Bi-le and the senator from
Vermont (Edmunds) would have raised
his voice. They would have roared like
Gagged lions and screamed like chained
hyebas lisughter] against the action of
the Democratic majority. Why. he
a.ked, had not the house disposed OF
more bills nan it bai disposed OF? He
luot d from a letter written by Thomas
B Reed Ia June, 1880, and published in
the Chdutapquaa IL would be remem-
bered, he said, that Reed was
once u member of the house
Of rrprtaestaures. One of the sentences
in that remarkable production was in
these words: "A full. free and fraok
discussion is the very life of intelligent
aciun Another sentence was: The
needless suppression of discussion is
tyriunc, whether lone BY a king or a
majority" He challenged any Repub-
licaD senator to show an instance where
the Democratic minority had attempted
any unnecessary delay.
The resolution was then agreed TO. The
tariff bill was taken up and Morrill, ad
dreSs ed the senate.
He said the ill-natured Senunciations OF
American manufacturers by the oratorical
Tree traders indicated that they preferred
the prosperity of foreign manufacture is to
that OF their own countrymen. and that
they would compel the latter to manu-
faciure as cheaply as any foreigner. pay
no higher wages, or abandon their bust
ness. The real purpose was to finally
ortak do yn aud degrade the present scale
OF wages of American workmen. Com
ing to the question of the agricultural de-
preston, Morrill, said there was a glut of
nslntOrDation disseminated on that SUBJ
lect aud concealment of the fact that the
prices oil farm products are depressed
throughout the world. The only possible
remedy within the reach of the American
farmer was positive protection against the
foreign competition and such encourage
ment to other avocations as would In
crease the OF their productions.
de asserted that in 1883, had it not been
Tor the duty of twenty cents a
oushel on wheat India would have
seaiened the market of New
iok IRON the state Of Wisconsin,
as y well as from all other Western states
me firm mortgage Indebtedness had
ueen r,rissly exaggerated, and he under
$1,000 the census reports would show that
larm mortgages In Kansas and Maine
were less than ore-fourth of the amount
wtnlch bad been represented. The charges
sust American farmers were hugely in
ueot, or more so than the farmers OF any
o'nef country, was a gross calumny. TIE
MARKETS which could not be found abroad
nn 10 be made at home, and they could
ouly be made by projection. Referring
the countries of Central and South
america, Morrill, said, of the agricultural
p~rouacts, OF cattle, sheep and horses, they
uad an abundant and cheap supply, not
ouy tr home consumption but for ex
porla'ion, To carry any of these products
tu.fe III the vain hope OF finding a mar
AZ. would be ike carrying Goals to New
,;am1Te On The question of sugar, Nor
u, SAD that the adding of free sugar 10
o %e breakfast table pr seuted a stronger
tass man tea and coffee presented In 1872
~ N IKE treatment. If, by a bounty, the
"nlued states could las had been done by
oEn'efai European countries) supply
.o.,ns W sugar, 800. 900, 600
"ouin be spent at home that was o
ITO cuba and elsewhere, never TO re-
s.o. In Conclusion Morrill, said any
nendinent offered in good faith that
would improve the bill would be cordially
,eecelved' but all attempts to enprait
;uotns upon 1t would. he hoped, be re-
AZ the close Of Morrill's speech consid-
,aauon Of the bill by paragraphs was CON
d iuuea. b amendment offered yester
e"soy McPherson was rejected.
mcrnerson continued to offer amend
c Jea;s LOT the reduction of rates on arti-
es IN the chemical schedule, but they
v ree al mercilessly rejected by a party
.oe- The only change in the schedule