The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-08-01
WASHINGTON NEWS.
German Tackles Sherman and
j Gets the Worst Of Il.
4. QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE
Causes II Little Breeze In tho House,
but Nobody Is Hurt - Tho Int.
est Democratic Trlck...Notcs
from, tho National Capital.

est Democratic Trlck...No,cs
from tho National Capital.
lEWAsuINaroN, d. G., July 3l.-Tll
rfsennte, In accordance with tho resolr
Ction adopted yesterday, met mt 10 o'cloc
this morning, but with less than doze
members present to listen to tho chap
lain's opening player. ~
Mr.. German at once raised the quet
ton Of quorum. A roll call shove
only 3s Senator'S present, but others 500
came, and by 1920 a quorum was pres
ont and the journal was read.
An executive communication fron
Secretary Noble, inclosing n long lette
from Major Powell, director OF tho Gee
Illogical Survey. on the subject OF irriga
ton and canal sites, was laid before th
Senate, aud Mr.. German asked to hay
| it read. -, ~ -
After the clerk Ind read part OF til,
letter objection came from the Rcpub
lican side Of the chamber to delayiny
public business by reading communi
cation that could he printed and laid be
fore members tomorrow morning. This
led to a sharp discusaion about printiu;
stch documents In tho Record, and somt
warm words passed between Mr.. Cor
man and Mr.. Sherman. The former in
sisted upon having tho letter read, al
though Mr.. Hawley, chairman OF the
Printing COMMITTEES, assured him he
could have the communication PRINTED
within four hours. Mr.. Sherman finally
objected to the further reading OF iht
letter. He did not want business de,
layed by it.
Mr.. German remarked that il the Sen,
ator from Ohio had been in the chamber
this morning under his own resolution,
the document could have been resd and
the pub!ic.business facilitated. He would
not submit to have any Senator intimate
that because no wanted public docu.
ment read, in order to get information
from it, his object was to delay the pub.
lie business.
Mr.. Sherman resented the emphasiz.
ing the fact that he had come into the
chamber this morning fifteen minutes
after the hour fixed for meeting. He
had been engaged during these fifteen
minutes in public business which he
considered OF more importance than
listening to the reading of'the journal.
lie was probably present in the Senate
four days for the one day that the Sem
ator from Maryland was present.
The Senate decided that the document
should not be read.
Mr.. German, with some warmth, again
resented the inslnuation that because he
wanted it read be was delaying public
business. -
The presiding officer said the letter
would bs printed as u miscellaneous doc.
umtnt.
TIE TARIfr BILL.
The tariff bill was then taken up and
it's reading by paragraphs was continued
beginning at paragraph 80, page six
the amendment reported from the Fl
nance Committee being to reduce the
rate on extracts OF licorice on the House
bill from six cents to five cents pound.
Mr.. Mcpherson moved to make the
rate four cents pound. He spoke OF
the bill as being "a big steal from be-.
ginning 10 end" -,sg a..
Mr.. Vance rose to ask Mr.. McPhersc n
a question, but in reply to question
from Mr.. lIiscock, said: II did not know
that | had constituted the Senator from
New York my guardian or mentor, for
the purpose OF anticipating what am
going to say. God forbid that should
ever intend to say what he thinks ]
ought to say in reference to this tariff
bill" Laughter.
Mr.. Aldrich said there was n little scrap
Of political history rs to the licorice para.
graph in the Mills bill. That bill origin
ally proposed a duty Of cents pound
on licorice paste, but when it was found
that the men engaged in the business
were Democrats, the rate was increased
to S cents. ,..T:
Mr., Mcpherson's amendment was dis
agreed to by the usual party vote. n
Several drugs were left as they We're,
Mr.. McPherson's amendments being in.
variably rejected. 49,.
He wanted to decrease the duty on
castor oil ironl fifty to twenty-five cents,
but Mr.. Plumb moved to increase the
rate to eighty cents per gallon (the
p,egent rate) which WAS agreed to.
Paragraph II, relating TO opium, was
amended to read "opium containing less
than nine per cent Of morphia and
opium prepared for smoking, SIC per
pound," instead Of $40, % in the House
bill. g's q
Mr.. Mcpherson offered similar amend.
ments to several other paragraphs unde,
the heading Of paints, colors and var
nishes, whiting" etc, and with the
same unyarying result.
Some increases were made in acetate
OF lead.
Four pages OF the dill having thus
been disposed Of to-day, the Senate I'D
journed aftera statement by Mr.. Blail
that by calculation which he had
made, the bill wonll be disposed Of, al
tho present rate Of progress, by the 20tl
OF next December. T. ~ a'Ir-