The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-04

printers and to capital, as in the case OF
other products Of the country. II the bill
became Law without amendment he be-
lieyed it would be the most unpopular law
on the statute books Ii was the spirit Of
monopoly and the desire for absolute pre-
hibition that lay at the foundation Of the
opposition to the amendments.
Hiscock, one of the confereeA, supple
mented what Plntt had said about the
failure Of the bin unless the Senate rcceded
from those amendments by saying that If
the Senate did not recede in the matter it
was of no consequence whether the bill
failed or not. He asked Sherman whether
he proposed TO give them the exclusive
right Of sale of their books in the United
States. Hiscock remarked that IL would
be no exclusive right when purchasers
could import books under the present law
By paying duty Of . per
eign author would avail himself
of the copyright act with the Sherman
amendment in it, because his hook would
be piratcd somewhere else and would be
imported into the United States. As to
ingalls, amendment, admitting news
papers and periodicals. Hiscock said under
1t the work of American authors could be
published abroad in serial form and could
be imported without paying duty; that
the amendment struck directly at Ameri-
can authors. and took from them the bene-
fits of their copyright.
After long discussion Platt's motion to
recedc from the sherman and Ingalls,
amendments was divided and vote taken.
On the first, receding from the Sherman
amendment, the motion was defeated
yeas ., nays 81. The Sherman amend
ment was retained, and the Ingalls, amend
ment was retained without division, and
further conference was ordered.
The Senate bill to incorporate the ma
ti0naI conservatory of music of America
was taken from the calendar and passed.
The Senate then proceeded to considera-
ton of the House pension bills on the cal
endar. After passing about sixty Of such
bills business was laid aside temporarily.
A resolution was reported and agreed to,
directing the committee on finance to
ascertain in every practicable way and re-
port from time to time the effect of the
tariff laws upon imports and exports, the
growth, Development and production and
prices of agricultural and manufactured
articles at home and abroad, and upon
wages, domestic and foreign, with author
ity to sit at such time and places as the
committee may deem advisable.
Henderson was appointed a member of
the committee on rules, in place of ingalls,,
resigned; Casey member of the commit
signed, and Mcpherson member of the
select committee on Pacific railroads, in
place OF Hearst, deceased
A resolution to paxex-Senator Melon
aid of Arkansas interest on his pay as
senator from March 4. 1867, till
he was paid was reported and
agreed to. A resolution similar to
the one in the case Of Mcdonald was re-
ported from the committee on contingent
expenses in the case Of Senator Warner, of
Alabama. Objection was made. and it was
placed or the calendar and motion was
made to reconsider the Mcdonald resolu-
ton.
The Senate then went into executive SEES
sion, and at 6 o'clock took q recess till 8
o'clock.
At the evening session the Senate in
sisted on the Hawaiian cable amendment
to the diplomatic and consular appropria-
ton bill. and agreed to a further confer
ence, Hale stating that it was the only
matter in dispute
The pension bills that were on the cal
endar were passed. In all 163 of them
were passed today and tonight, the pas
sage not occupying much more than an
hour.
The concurrent resolution to print TO-
000 copies of the testimony taken before
the coinage committee Of the House was
objected to by Teller on the ground that it
was worthless and misleading. Those
who decided to understand the question
had other sources of reliable information; ;
that testimony seemed to have been taken
for the purpose of obscuring and hiding
the truth. The objection was sufficient to
defeat the resolution.
Gray moved TO take up the House bill
for the transfer of the revenue marine
service from the treasury department to
the naval establishment; agreed to--yeas
35, nays -. and the bill was taken up for
considerations
Cockreli opposed the bill. but yielded the
floor and the conference report on the In
dian appropriation bill was presented and
agreed to.
Conference report on the postoffice
appropriation bill was presented and
agreed to.
The conference report on the copyright
bill was then presented and explained by
Platt. He said it was the only agreement
that could be reached. and failure to agree
to it would be equivalent to defeat of the
provide that books which were on the free
list under the Mckinley bill 1.-TWO cop
ies) could be imported free of duty.
1t left out the Sherman amendments.
1t left everyone at liberty to import two
copies of any foreign books by paying
duty on them, and 1t left newspapers and
magazines to be imported, provided they
was all there was to the agreement, and it
took the place of all that the Senate had
been quarreling about.
Sherman said the Senate conferees had
surrendered what had been twice voted
for by decisive majorities of the Senate.
Contrary to parliamentary usage, a major
ity of the Senate conferees had been made
up of senators opposed to the action of thu
Senate on the bill. The effect OF the pro-
position. as it now stood, was to make
copyright an exclusive monopoly. 1t also
took the heart and life out of the Ingalls,
amendment, and he would vote against it.
Cockrell defended the report and Gray
stated why he had not signed it. Gray
said he should mourn the defeat of the
bill, defeated by reason of the publishers.
They had not shown Willingness to con-
cede a single iota of their claim. The bill
had to be made water-tight in their inter-
est
The conference report on pension appro-
priation bill was agreed to.
Debate on the copyright conference con-
tinued and finally the conference report
was agreed to, as follows:
YEAST.
Aldrich, Hawley SAWYER
Allen, Hiscock Shoup
Chandler Hoar Spoouer
Dawes Jones (Nev.) stanford
Dixon. Mcmillan stewart
pelph Morrill, Warren
Edmunds Pasco ~ashbbru
Farweli Pierce Wilson
Frye Platt Walcott
NAYs-la
Rate Daniel Morgan
Berry Faulkner Pettigrew,
Call torman Plumb
Carlisle Gray Ransom
Casey Ingalls, sherman
Coke kenna Walthall
Collum
Conference report on the agricultural
bill was presented and agreed to, and at
1. 10 A. m the Senate proreedeI to exeru-