The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-07-09
NATIONAL LEGISLATORS.
The Tin Plate and Lead Ore Bills
Passed Under Suspension.
DISCUSSING HOMESTEAD AFFAIRS
Democrats OF One House of Congress At
tack Labor and the Party In the Other
Processes Hypocriticsl sympathy
Free Trade and Wages.

WARRINGTON, July Elm the House
u was tho turn of Mr.. Townsend
OF Colorado, to make, before the reading
of the journal, the suggestion that there
was no quorum present; and the Speaker
directed the clerk to call the roll. Two
hundred and twenty members responded
to their names, being more than quo
rum. .-t
Mr.. McMillin of Tennessee moved to
suspend the rules and approve the jour
nal. The Speaker stated that the first
vote would be on the motion to adjourn.
The motion to adjourn was defeated;
Yeas "a; nays 22l: The Journal was then
read. Mr.. McMillin's motion TO suspend
the rules and approve the journal was
agreed to without opposition.
This being (under q special order OF the
House, suspension day, the Speaker
stated that the pending motion was that
made by Mr.. Grout OF Vermont, to sus-
pend the rules s,. and pass Senate bill 70 es,
railway between Highgate and Burling-
ton, Vermont.
The motion to suspend the rules and
pass the bill was lost. Yeas, 163; nays
o.; not the necessary two-thirds In the
affirmative. Mr.. Shiveley of Indiana,
moved to suspend the rules and pass the
Mr.. DalEell Of Pennsylvania demanded
q second, which was ordered, 1853 to moth
ing, the Republicans refusing to vote In
the hope Of breaking quorum.
The tin plate bill was passed, yeas, 207; /;
nays, 66, and the lead ore bill was called
mp.
It provides that on and after October
4, 1897, the duty on tin plates, terne
plates and taggers' tin shall be one cent Q
pound, and that on and after October 1,
1894, tin plates, terne plates and taggers
tin shall be admitted free of duty. It
provides that block, bar and pig tin shall
be retained on the free list and contains
the usual rebate or draw back provisions
in the interest of our foreign trade.
Mr.. Whiting at Michigan, moved to
suspend the rules and pass the lead ore
bill. After discussion the motion to sus-
pend the rules and pass the bill was agreed
to, yeas, 1876; nays, 62.
The bill provides that ores containing
silver and lead In which the values Of tho
silver contents shall be greater than the
value of the lead contents according to
sample and assay at the port OF entry,
shall be considered silver ores, and as
such shall be exempt from cut.
In the Senate.
Mr. Hill introduced bill changing the
date for the dedication of the buildings
of the Worlds Columbian Exposition
from the 18th to the 21st of Octo Der, 1892,
and after a statement by him rs to the
reasons for the bill and one from Mr..
Cullom asserting to 1t, the bill was
passed.
Mr.. Gallinger, referring to the resolu-
tions which he had offered last Wednes-
day as to the Homestead conflict, said
that he had expected 1t would have been
agreed to without q partisan discussion;
but in that he had been disappointed in
asmuch as the Senator from Indiana had
seen At to arraign the Republican party
and hold it and the tariff responsible for
the unfortunate outbreak and bloodshed
In Pennsylvania.
At the close of Mr.. Gallinger's remarks
The Senate resumed consideration of the
sundry civil appropriation bill.
The bill was after . while laid aside
without complete action.
The interview OF Manager Frick OF the
Carnegie Company, with an Associated
Press reporter was read and consequently
made part of the record.
The clerk then read the labor side, pre-
oented by F. s. Smith.