Los Angeles herald., 1890-07-29
51ST CONGRESS-.
Yesterdays Doings in Both
Houses.
The Senate Fixes Its Hour of
Meeting.
Argument on the Revenue Marine
Bill Continued.
The Tariff Bill Again Taken Up-vest
and Turpie Speak Against 1t.
House Proceedings.
Associated Press Dispatches. |

Associated Press Dispatched
WASHINGTON, July 28.-In the senate
today, the bill to pension all the surviv-
ing officers and men of Powells battalion
of Missouri mounted volunteers, raised
during the war with Mexico, was passed.
, Aldrich offered resolution fixing the
daily hour of meeting at II a. m.
Ingalls, suggested an understanding
that the business of the morning hour
shall be considered closed at O'Clock.
Allison did not wish it implied that the
senate would devote two hours day to
morning business.
Ingalls, said he did wish just such an
implication. As soon as the tariff bill,
appropriation bills and election bill were
passed, Congress would undoubtedly ad-
journ promptly, therefore whatever was
to be done between now and the time OF
adjournment in consideration OF meas
ures on the calendar, would have to be
done in the morning hour. There were
several hundred bills on the calendar
entitled to consideration.
Cockrell asked what was the
use of the senate passing bills
when the distinguished gentleman in
charge of the house did not give any at
tention to them. There were now on
the calendar of the house hundreds and
hundreds of bills passed by the senate,
and no attention was paid to them.
Among them was bill refunding the
direct tax also two bills recently passed
and regarded on the other side of the
chamber as very important measures
the shipping bills and they were being
left to ''sleep the sleep that knows no
waking"
Hawley did not agree with COckrell. He
wanted to fire his own ammunition in
order that he could 60 home with a
clear record.
The resolution as to meeting at IL
O'Clock was agreed to, with the under
standing that the senate shall adjourn
at 6.
Aldrich moved to proceed to consider
alton of the tariff bill. That motion
was antagonized by Gray to proceed to
consideration of the house bill for the
transfer of the revenue marine to the
navy department. The latter motion
was agreed to-Yeas, 26; nays, 25.
Cockrell continued his argument in
opposition to the bill.
Cockrell had not concluded his speech
when at 2 O'Clock the presiding officer
laid before the senate the tariff bill as
unfinished business.
Gray moved to continue considera-
ton of the revenue marine bill.
FRYE said the friends of the revenue
bill had occupied but an hour and half
upon it it's enemies "a small majority
all the rest of the time. 1t was as evil
dent to the senate as if the purpose had
been announced that the time had been
occupied for the purpose of preventing
a vote on the measure. That only indi-
Gated (what he believed in) the neces-
sitv of the previous question in the
senate, or some way to stop debate
some way to prevent senator from
getting up every morning for three or
four mornings in succession and reading
from the report of a clerk in
the treasury department. Why should
not vote be taken on the bill
if there is a majority of the senate in
favor of it? Why should it not be per-
mitted to say so? The senator from
Ohio (Sherman) had made four speeches
upon the BILL and in the course of them
read the same identical articles which
the senator from Missouri had occupied
the last three mornings in reading.
Finally, Gray's motion was rejected
IA to "a.
The tariff bill was taken up and Vest
addressed the senate in opposition to it.
The advocates of high tariff taxation, he
said, were confronted by great peril.
The depression in the agricultural inter
ests, and the emphatic demands of the
farmers for something besides lying sta
tistics and frothy declarations had
caused President Harrison and Sec
retary Blaine to urge upon con-
gress legislation for subsidies to
steamships and for reciprocity
treaties with the South American states,
in order to obtain a foreign market for
American products. Very little was
heard now of the home market, but a
great deal of the South American mar
ket. So at last the protectionists had
been driven from their pretentious hum
bug about the home market, and were
forced to adopt the principle OF Tree
commercial intercourse, which they had
so long opposed and derided.
Vest went on to criticise the provisions
of the pending bill, that are supposed to
be for the benefit of the farmers, and
said what farmers wanted was the open
ing and enlargement Of foreign markets
for their surplus wheat, corn, cattle and
pork, and decrease OF the tariff duty
on clothing, hardware, tin and other
necessary articles of daily and incessant
use by the farmer and his family.
The pending bill, he declared, was to
repay mill-owners their contributions to
the campaign fund of the Republican
party during the last presidential can
vass, and as the planters OF the south
were Democrats, the duties on northern
manufactures were increased, while the
duty on rice was diminished. The con-
sumers of the United States were being
systematically plundered under the pre-
tence of protection to home industries.
No further concealment was possible.
The truth was at last revealed. The
manufacturers who were persistently
asking higher duties to exclude foreign
competition, were availing them
selves of the monopoly given
by an exclusive tariff, to charge the
people of this country from twenty to
seventy per cent. higher for their goods
than they could sell the same articles
for in the unprotected markets of the
world. 1t was no longer protection, but
pure, simple, naked plunder. Americans
boasted OF their free institutions of
liberty and equality, but who, he asked,
could call himself freeman, save in