Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-07-22
TIE TARIFF MEASURE.
Senators Debating Its Merits
and Dement'S.
OUR RELATIONS WITH CANADA.
Verdict Of the Jury in the
Tioga Disaster.
PROFESSIONAL ROWERSAT DULUTH
A Fireman COnfesses to a
Murder.
PROFESSIONAL ROWERSAT DULUTH
THE FIFTY-FIRsT CONGRESS.

The Tariff Bill Taken Up In the Sem
ton to the Measure By mr.. voorhees,
Of Indiana-A Vote to be Taken ON
the Original Package Bill In the
House To-day.
WASHINGTON, July a. On motion of Mr..
Eoar the select committee on relations with
Canada was authorized to continue it's inves-
LEGATIONS during the coming recess and the
next session. -. en-.
The house bill to amend the act of June
%, 1884, for the relief of settlers on railroad
lands was reported and placed on the cal
endar.
Mr.. Dawes moved to proceed to the consid-
Grafton of the Indian appropriation bill.
Mr.. Gray asked him to yield and permit
the bill to transfer the revenue marine to the
naval establishment to be taken up.
Mr.. Morrill, informed Mr.. Dawes if he did
not proceed with the Indian appropriation
bill he (Mr. MorrilD would move to proceed
with the tariff bill.
Mr.. Gray made motion to proceed to the
consideration of the bill (house billy to trans
fer the revenue marine service from the
treasury to the navy department.. Agreed to
yeas 80, nays %. The republicans who
voted yea were Messrs. Cameron, Casey, Cul-
yer, Spooner, Teller and Washburn. The
democrats who voted nay were Messrs. Bate,
Cockrell, German and Puah.
The bill having been read. Mr.. Gray moved
to change the date for the appointment of
revenue marine officers to be officers of the
navy from July /, 1890, to October /, 1890.
Mr.. Allison suggested that the date should
L. yHnv, . ,n
senate would be In session to confirm the ap-
pointments. IL might perhaps be in session
in October, but he hoped not.
Mr.. Gray accepted the suggestion, and the
date was fixed tor January !, 1891.
Mr.. Sherman opposed the bill as one of the
worst measures that had been before the sen .
ate in many years. It would destroy serv-
ice that had been organised for hundred
years; would reverse the decisions of at least
half q dozen congresses, and would disarrange
the revenue marine 80 that practically 1t
would be of no service in the collection of
customs revenue. The only object of the
bill was to advance the pay of the officers to
the extent of $121 600 a year, and to have
them entitled to be placed on the retired list.
Mr.. Spooner replied to Mr.. Sherman's ar
pument and advocated the bill.
The bill was still being discussed when at
O'Clock it was laid aside without action
and the unfinished business, the tariff bill,
was taken up for consideration. Mr.. Voor-
bees addressed the senate in opposition to
the bill, which he characterized as o iuan-
cial monster, every claw and tooth OF which
had been carefully inspected in the Hobbies
and found to be sound and reliable. 1t was
only an impure political and moral atmos-
phere generated by corrupt monopoly OF
wealth that a financial measure like the one
now pending would dare to show the hard
outlines of its guilty face, much less would
it expect to be treated with respect, spoken
we'll of and pressed as law. Passing to q
criticism of the details of the bill Mr.. Voor.
hees spoke of 1t as an astonishing fact that
in the fourteen schedules Of dutiable
articles the only reductions made were in
the schedule relating to sugar and
molasses, which in the light of the proposed
bounty to sugar planters, was no reduction
at all, and in the section relating to wines,
spirits and other beverages. In every one OF
the twelve schedules the tariff tax had been
increased. In regard to wooden goods that
increase amounted to SIS, 000, 600 year.
There was NO pretension, Mr.. Voorhees, said,
that that increase was put on for the sake of
revenue. 1t was simply an instance of pro-
lection, run mad and developed into q
Chinese wall of prohibition. Mr.. Voorhees,
passed on to the discussion of the proposed
increase Of 100 per cent. on tin plate in order
to protect an infant industry, as yet unborn,
huo III oIoeE " kNo ouPLoJ ueas " ~1,eso
workingmen now idle. 1t would be far
cheaper, he said, for the country to
pay "a, 900 idle workmen averages than to
tax every square of tin roof, every tin pail
teapot and milk can simply to build up half
dozen millionaires aud to enable them to
give coaching parties to protection leaders
and found libraries from the savings of 4
aftsen Per cent reduction of the wages of
their workingmen. Tin plates, he said, had
| A. oh fo ho "a froa HAT and hA
| would at the proper time move to pat Il
| there. There was no manufacture OF 1t In
this country and therefore nothing to pro.
tect. II it was material in universal use II
| ought to pay no tax. Might he not with
propliety, in leaving the tin plate schedule
| call on all the men and women who use tir
pans, pals, cups, strainers, teapots, coffee.
pots, wash basins, cooking pans, pie plates
| cans for fruits and vegetables and tins of al
kinds to join In protesting against this bill
Mr.. Voorhees, spoke at considerable length
and when he had finished the senate ad
journed.
Mr.. Payson of Illinois, from the committe
on public lands, reported q resolution callinl
on the secretary of the interior to Inform tn
house by what authority aud why he has an
thorized and directed the issue of patents +
| LQo OulOu IdCluU hhllIOhu COupnuy ~
lands granted to the company prior to tn
pay ment of the debt due the United State
from said company. and that he also repoI
to the house the amount of land that ha
been patented or certified to each of the Ian
grant corporations of the Union Pacific rail
way system up to this date. Adopted.
On motion of Mr.. Dookery of Missouri b
unanimous consent it was ordered that th
vote on the original package bill shall
taken tomorrow and the vote on the banH
ruptcy bill Thunaay morning.
Mr.. Docksry then announced the death
Representative ames P. Walker OF Missou
and resolutions were unanimously adopte
expressive of the sorrow with which th
house heard of the death of Mr.. Wake
and providing for the appointment Of a CON
mittee of seven members of the house an
three members of the senate to take aetio
for the funeral ceremonies.
The house then at 1915, as mark of r
| snect tn the memory of the deceased, az