Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-07-22
NATIONS CAPITAL.
The Senate GiTts its Time To
The Tariff Bill.
Senator VOORHEES, Iakss 4 Long Speech
In Opposition to II.
Testimony Before Senate commitsss
oo Defsncss OF the Pacific Coast.

WAsnNGroS. July 2I-On motion of
Hoar. the selected committee on relations
With Canada was authorized TO continue in
vestigAtions during the coming recess and
the next session.
Gray made . motion TO proceed TO the
consideration Of the House bill and to trans
fer the revenue marine service from the
treasury to the navy department.
agreed to.
Frye was ooe of the II republicans TO
vote yea The bill having been read, Gray
moved to change the date for the appoint
ment Of marine officers to be Off ,ers Of the
navy. from July /. 1890. ID october L..
1880.
Allison suggested that the date should be
postponed until January 1891, when the
senate would be in session to confirm 81
poirtmrnis. Gray acee pied the suggestion
and the date was fixed for January st,
1891. Sherman opposed the bill as one of
the worst measures before the Senate in
many years. 1t wouii destroy service or
sanized fer hundred years would reverse
the decisions of at least half a dozen Con
gresses, it would di,srrange the revenue
marine so that practically it would be of no
Sc vice in the collection of customs reve-
mug oHiy bpjtNt Va Nhe W
advance the pay OF ofiicrrs to the extent OF
Sl2 600 year and have them entitled to be
placed on the retired H., Of the Spoon, ad-
vocatsd bill, which was still being ds
cussed when at o'clock il was laid ASIDE
without action. Tariff bill then taken up,
Voorhees, addressed the Senate in oppC
sltiOn to the bill, which he characterized S
a financial monster. every claw and tooth of
which has been carefully inspected in The
lobbies. and found sound and reliable. l.
was only an impure political and moral Al
mosphere, generated by the corrupt mo
nopoly of wealth. aud tnat a financial
measure like the one nov pending would
dare to show the hard outlines of its guilty
face, much less would it expect to be treat,
ed with respect, spoken well of, and passed
as law. Voorhees, spoke of it as an AS
tonishing fact that in the fourteen schedules
Of dutisble articles. the only reduction
made were in the schedule relating TO sugar
and molssses, (which in the light of The
proposed bounty to sugar planters. was not
reduced at all, and in the section relating
TO wines, spirits, and other beverages. 10
taxes were increased.
10 regard to woolen goods that increase
amounted to SIS 900, coo a rear. There is
no pretension, Voorhees, said, that the in
crease 10 put on for the sake of the rese
nue.. II is simply an instance of protection
run mad and developed into Chinese wall,
prohibition.
Voorhees, passed on to the discussion of
proposed increase Of l20 per cent. on tin
plate in order to protect the nfsut industry
yet unborn, and in order to give employ
ment to "a 0O0 workingmen now idle. 1t
would be far cheaper he said for the couh
try to pay u 900 idle men their averge wages
than to tax every square of tin roof, every
dinnerpall, teapot. milkcan, simply TO build
up half dozen millonaires aud enable
them to give coaching parties to protection
l. aiers and found llbraries from savings Of
Is per cent reduction of the wages of
thsir workingmep. Tin plate, he said had
the first right to be IN the free list, he
would, at the proper time, move to put it
there. No manufacture of il in this country
therefore nothing to protect. eve n if prote C.
ton rights. 1t was materis in universal use,
a common want with laboring people and
ought therefore to pay no tax. Might he
not with propriety, in leaving the tin plate
schedule, call on all men and women
Who use tin pans, pals, cups, strainers,
teapots, coffee pots, wash basins, cooking
pans pie plates, cans for fruits and veeeta
bles, tin for roofing houses, to 'n in pro
testing against this I'LL.
voorhees, spoke at considerable length
and when he finished Cockrell offered reso-
lu,ions, which were agreed to, expressing
the Senates regret at the announcement of
the death of Representative Walker of
Missouri and for the appointment of com
mittee Of three Senators to attend the fur
eral. Vest, Plumb and Berry were sp-
pointed and the Senate as a further mark
of respect adjourned