Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-03
NO TINE TO TALK.
Long Debates Not in Order in
Congress Now.
PUSH THINGS" Is THE WATCHwoRD


Resume of the Days Business-Appro-
pristions Being Rapidly Agreed Upon
Final Passage of the Mail Subsidy
The Civil Service Commission In
dorsed In a Report-Increase of the
Public Debt.
WASHINGTON CITY, March g. One of the
first things the senate tackled yesterday
was the mail subsidy bill as passed by the
house. Vest expressed himself opposed to
all manner of subsidies, and stated his OBJ
jections to them. The subsidy did not APP
ply merely to vessels to be built hereafter
The Red Star line, with four American
built ships running from Philadelphia,
would receive a large subsidy without ex-
pending single dollar even for repairs;
and the Pacific Mail company would re
ceive S6O0,nO0 a year without any further
expenditure. These companies were al
ready making money without any aid
from the treasury. But, at the risk of ap-
pearing Inconsistent, he was willing Gf it
would terminate the matter and prevent
bringing worse, TO agree to the house
amendment.
The Bill Brought to a Vote.
Morrill, moved that the senate concur in
the action of the house, and Cameron, re-
ply to Vest, said that so far as the Red
Star line of steamer was concerned it had
been doing business at loss. The ques-
ton being on Morrill's motion to concur,
Cockrell, Harris, and Reagan stated their
intention to vote against it, and Vest
stated his intention to vote for it, because
otherwise it was certain that the confer
ence report would make a worse bill.
After voting down half a dozen amend
ments offered by Vest, Mcpherson, and
Morgan Oor free ships, reduction of sub
sidy, etc }, the vote was taken on Morrills
motion to concur in the house amend
ment for postal subsidies. 1t was agreed
to-yeas 81; nays, 33-sending the bill to
the president.
How the Senators Were Recorded.
The vote in detail was as follows: Yeas
-Aldrich, Allen, Blair, Carey, Carlisle,
Casey, Chandler. Cullom, Davis, Dawes,
Dixon, Edmunds Evarts, Farwell, Haw-
ley, Hiscock, Hoar, Ingalls,, Jones of Ne
vada. Mcconnell, Mcmillan, Henderson,
Morgan, Morrill,, Pierce, Pugh, Sanders,
Sawyer, Sherman, Shoup, Spooner, Stan
ford, Stewart, Stockbridge, Warren, Wash
burn, Wilson-37
Nays-Bate. Berry, Blackburn, Butler,
Call, Cameron, Coke, Colquitt, Daniel,
Faulkner, Frye, George, German, Gray,
Hale, Hampton, Harris, Jones of Arkan-
sas, Kenna, Mitchell, Mccoy, Pasco,
Payne Pettigrew, Plumb, Ransom, Rea-
gan, Teller. Turpie, Vance, Vest, Wal
thall, Wolcott-33
The French Spoliation Claims.
The general deficiency bill was reported
to the senate with number of amend
ments, the most interesting of which was
the addition to the bill of the French spo-
liatlon claims. carrying an appropriation
OF 81, 3O4, O93, with proviso that in case o {
bankruptcy of the original sufferers tue
awards shall be made on behalf of the
next of kin instead of the assignees An
other amendment was Plumb's providin =
for the transfer without examination to
the classified departmental service of the
clerical force of the census office.
Plumb Talks Out in Meeting
While the proposition in the agricul-
tural bill as to the use of untaxed spirits
IN the manufacture of sorghum sugar was
under discussion Plumb made a bitter at
tack upon Morrill,, who had spoken
against it. He asserted that when the
tariff bill was before the senate bounty
of cents pound was put upon maple su-
gar as a matter personal to Morrill,, and
on the statement made by members of the
finance committee that it would help to
re-elect him to the senate from Vermont
And it had been kept in the bill be.
cause the other senator from Vermont
(Edmunds) had threatened, in writing,
that if it was not kept in he would vote
against the tariff bill. He plumb did
not like to.say these things, but they were
facts, The whole tariff machinery of the
government had revolved around the
point of cents pound ON maple sugar.
The time would come when the finance
committee and all the people who stood
by interests of that kind, would be over
thrown.
Morrill, Replies and Plumb Reiterates.
Morrill, professed Ironically to be very
much alarmed at Plumb's threat that,
young as he (MorrilD was, he was so soon
to be overthrow. laughter. He (Mor.
rilD had been an early and constant advo-
cate of the production of sugar from sor-
ghum. The senator from Kansas was a
free lance. and did not wish to be associ-
ated with any party, except by himself.
Laughter.
Plumb repeated, so that it might go into
permanent history that Republican sena-
tors had been solicited as a matter personal
to the senator from Vermont, who was
absent sick, to vote for the bounty on ma
pie sugar because it would help him to be
reelected, and he plumb had voted for
1t, with the distinct understanding that it
should be rejected in conference Laugh
teri. When 1t did get in conference, the
Yankee came to the front, in the PROPOSE
ton of the senator's colleague (Edmunds)
in writing, which was now in the pocket
of a senator, that, if that bounty on maple
sugar was not continued, he would he
paired against the tariff bill That was
the way that Vermont "came it over" the
people of the United States on the sugar
question. lLaughterl.
Had tn Propitiate Sampson.
Morrill,, while not knowing what had
occurred when he was absent from the
senate asserted that he had never asked a
man in Vermont to vote for him; and yet
his election was unanimous, so far as the
Republican members or the legislature
were concerned.
Plumb said that the senator from Illi-