Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-08-05
Mr.. CUMMINGS TALKS
A Breeze From the Kittery Yard
Blows Through the House.
OLD SHIPS AND ELECTIONS.
The Senate Resumes the Debate
on the Tariff Bill.
AMENDING The CT ASS SCHEDULE.
OLD SHIPS AND ELECTIONS.
AMENDING THE GLASS SCHEDULE.
SENATE.


| MR.. BERRY's SPEECH.
| Mr.. Berry addressed the Senate on the gem
eral subject Of tariff legislation. He denied
the correctness of Mr.. Hiscock's assertion that
| the question had been finally settled at the
| last presidential election. The majority of the
American people (Mr. Berry asserted) had not
| then declared IN favor of the protective theory,
butrather in favor OF the party that advocated a
tariff for revenue only. Besides nothing that
was based on wrong and injustice could be
permanently settled. Sooner or later the right
would prevail, and then but not until then,
could 1t be said that a question was finally
settled: Both the Senator from New York (Mr
Hiscockl and the Senator from Rhode Island
| lMr. Aldrlch) had treated every objection to
the bill with impatience had assumed an air
OF superior knowledge of the subject and had
| answered In many cases with a sneer any Sena-
| tor who presumed to question the correctness
| OF their decision.
| sYMPATHIzEs WITH MR.. PLUMB.
He could not but sympathize with the Sena-
tor from Kansas (Mr. Plumb) and with the
people whom he represented in the present
contest He trusted that the people of that
| state would see how disregardfui Of their in
| terests the eastern states were, and that that
| would teach them TO have a more kindly feel
| Ing for their brethren of the SOUTH who were
| like them, to be sufferers under the pending
| Dill, and who were to receive no benefit what
| ever from ne denounced the Dill as Dill
! OF false pretenseS, sailing under false cOlors
| and neither honest on its face nor in its pur-
pose. 1t professed to reduce taxes, but il in
| creased taxes. 1t professed to equalize duties
on imports, but 1t made them grossly unequal.
| lie believed that taxes should be levied and
| duties imposed for the sole purpose of revenue
| on articles of luxury, and not on articles Of
| necessity. And II prices we're increased Incl
| dentally or accidentally he, for one would re-
gard IL as misfortune, as thing not to be
desired but that could not be avoided Under
| the wise, prudent and patriotic administration
| OF Grover Cleveland the surplus in the Treas
| ury had accumulated SO that the question was
| how it should be disposed of.
GUARDING AGAINST DEFICIENCY.
| But now, at the close Of one session Of Con-
| gress under republican administration. the
| question was how to guard against deficiency
And yet, instead of meeting that deficiency in
way somewhat just, instead of imposing an
income tax on the weather. classes it was pro-
posed to add to the burdens that were borne by
| the poor.
Mr.. WILSON'S REPLY.
MIR. Wilson Qowa) replied to Mr. Berry and
expressed the discomfort winch no always felt
| at hearing Senator discuss asubjec in regard
! to which he had 30 small all amount of def.
mite information as that Senator evidently pos
sessed IN reference to the subject OF rotec ton
he read for Mr.. Berry's information an arti-
Cie lIou DOuRe, iowa, 1ueSSeitgt1 con-
trastlng the condition of the farmer and work
ingman now and ten years ago and showing the
great reduction that has taken place in prices
of household and agricultural implements and
OF necessary commodities within that decade
The general summing up of the article was
that never in human history would a days
labor purchase as much as il would today. As
to the talk about depression in farming inter-
ests and about the enormous amount of farm
| mortgages MIR. Wilson said that the farm
| nf l,nI
s567, 200. 900; that he had profound conviction
when he saw that publication that it was not
true; that he had set about to discover where
the inventor OF that falsehood had obtained
his data. and that he had found that the
amount of the assessed valuation of Iowa farms
according to the census compendium of 1886,
was 1867 600 900. So that the man who had
been seeking for truth" had taken the
| assesse valuation Of Iowa farms and told the
farmers that that was the amount of mortgages
on their FARMS
The governor of Iowa had set about line of
| investigation to find out how much OF a lie
that wac and had found that the outside limit
OF farm mortgages in that state was SOL 200, 00O
So that the farming depression not the re-
suit OF actual facts but OF the lies told about it.
And that was the same in regard to other
states.
Mr.. Berry criticised some Of Mr.. Wilson's
statements and some of the figures set out in
the newspaper article from which he had read
a man employed by the sugar trust and the
coal oil trust.
Mr.. Wilson said that he knew the man who
prepared the article and that he had as good
| a standing IN the community where he lived
as the Senator from Arkansas had in the COM
munity where he lived.
The discussion WAS participated in by Messrs.
SpoOner, Paddock, Butler and Call.
ON THE GLASS SCHEDULE.
The discussion was kept up till 1:3O, when an
amendment offered by Mr.. Mcpherson to para
graph LOG as to sizes of window glass was ac-
cepted by Mr.. AldrIch and was agreed
to. No amendment was offered to paragraph
107, fixing the duties ON cylinder and crown
glass, polished Paragraph 10S. referring to
huted, rolled or rough plate glass, was. on the
motion OF MIR. Aldrich, agreed TO as it came from
the House, except that the description in the
proviso was modified so as to make it apply to
all such glass when ground smooth or other
wise obscured." The committee amendment
was disagreed to.
Mr.. Mcpherson moved to reduce the duty
on such glass, not exceeding 10 by Is inches
square, from three-fourths cent to one-half
cent per square foot; on the next size from
one cent to three-fourths cent; OH the next size
from = to cent, and on the next size from
to ~ cents. Rejected.
The next paragraph 109) as to 'cast polished
plate glass, unsilvered," was Con motion Of Mr.
Aidrich) made to read ''cast polished plate
glass, finished or unfinished and unsilvered."
Mr.. Vance called the attention of the Senate
and of the country to the fact that while duty
of 1l5 per cent ad vaiorem was placed on the
lowest grade of polished window glass used by
the poor the duty on the highest quality
of plate glass was only 18 per cent ad valorem
Mr.. Aldrch replied to that remark by saying
that there was no such thing as polished win
dow glass used by anybody and Mr.. Allison
added that the lowest grace of window glass
did not pay duty of 115 per cent.
Mr.. Mcpherson offered amendments to re-
duce the rates. on paragraph l09, but they were
| all rejected.
HOUSE.
After the reading of the journal Mr. Bing-
ham (Pa. moved to lay on the table the motion
(Which has been pending for some time) to re-
consider the vote by which the House passed
the bill to grant leaves Of absence to clerks in
first and second-class post Offices. This was
advocated by MIR. Flower On. Y.), who held
that the government should act toward its en-
ployes just AZ wise merchant or banker would
act toward his. No business man, who was
not mean, would decline to give his employees
two weeks leave of absence with pay, know
ing full well that he would benefit in increased
efficiency by the recreation accorded them.
The motion to reconsider was tablcd-yeas,
13s; nays, 60.
NE DID NOT sAY n.
xr. Snider CMinn.), rising to . question Of