Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-06
A PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGE
On the Subject Has No Effect on
Economical Southerners,
THE LEGISLATIVE MILL AT WORK.
Nearly 400 New Bills Thrown Into the
Hopper Yesterday.
CRANKS AND THEIR IDEAS IN PLENTY


bv a pretty full attendance of Senators,
particularly on the Republican side of the
chamber Vice President Morton occupied
the chair. The opening prayer was offered
by Chaplain Butler. The usual mass of
petitions was presented and referred COM
priSing several in favor of a S5, 000, 900 loan
10 the Columbian Exposition on condition
of the fair being kept closed on Sunday.
a number Of bills and memorials of no gen.
eral importance were then presented
Among the former were the following:
Bv Senator Peffer-To establish a bureau
Of irrigation, and TO prescribe the duties
thereof: to increase the circulating medium
bv issuing Treasury notes based OH gold and
silver coin and bullion, and to amend the
coinage laws accordingly; to amend the
Interstate commerce act and to prohibit
options, trusts and combinations
Government Aid for Starving Russians.
Mr.. Washburn introduced a joint resolu-
tion authorizing the Secretary of the Navy
10 employ anv United States vessel best
adapted TO such service for the purpose of
transporting contributions to the inhabitants
OF those provinces of Russia that are suffer-
ing from want of food; and, if necessary, to
tor its immediate consideration, and had
read a telegram received from Minneapo-
lis stating the amount of flour already
pledged at ,750, 900 pounds and the total
amount expected TO be contributed at 6,00O,-
0G0 pounds. The Presidents message on
the same subject, just received, was laid be-
fore the Senate.
Mr.. Harris said that he would not antag-
onize the joint resolution, but would vote
against it. II was amended by limiting the
appropriation to 100000, and was then
passed-4O to 9. The negative votes were
given by Messrs. Bate, Berry. Chiffon, Coke,
Harris, Jones, of Arkansas, Kyle, Pugh and
Vest; and Mr.. Carlisle stated that if he had
not been paired, he would have voted no.
The Presidents Pertinent Message.
The Presidents message referred to was
as follows:
The famine prevailing in some of the
provinces of Russia is SO severe and wide
spread as to have attracted the sympathetic
interest of a large number of our liberal and
favored people. In some of the grain-pro-
ducing States of the West movements have
already been organized to collect flour and
meal for the relief of these perishing Russian
families, and the response has been such as
TO justify the belief that ships cargo can
very soon be delivered at seaboard through
the generous cooperation of the transporta-
tion lines. 1t is most appropriate that
people whose storehouses have been SO Law
lshly filed with all the fruits of the earth by
the gracious favor of God should manifest
their gratitude by large gifts to His suffering
children in other lands. The Secretary of
the Navy has no steam vessel at his disposal
that could he used for the transportation of
these supplies, and l therefore recommend
that he be authorized to charter suita bic
vessel to receive them, if a sufficien amount
should be offered, and to send them, under
the charge of a naval officer. TO such Russian
port as may be most convenient for ready
distribution to those most in need
The commission by the Governor of Kan
sas of B. W. Perkins, as Senator to succeed
the late Senator Plumb, was presented, and
Mr.. Perkins, accompanied by Mr. PETER,
proceeded to the clerks desk, took the oath
of Office, and subsequently occupied a seat
on the extreme left of the Vice President.
New Bills and Resolutions
Various additional bills were then intro
duced and referred, among them:
By Mr. Chandler-To regulate the rates
of pensions, and bill to prohibit free rail-
road passes except in certain cases.
A resolution was offered by Mr.. Stewart
and referred to the Judiciary Committee,
instructing the committee to inquire
whether any further legislation is necessary
10 compel the proper officers of the mint to
receive and coin silver bullion for the bene-
fit of depositors.
and was appointed on the committees on
Contingent Expenses, Finance, Privileges
and Elections, and District of Columbia
and Chairman of the Committee on Wo-
mans Suffrage, which places had been
temporarily held by his colleague, Mr.
Ransom.
The resolution offered by Mr.. Vest on the
10th of December, requesting the President
of the United States to cause correspondence
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partment of State or otherwise, with the
authorities OF Great Britain, for the purpose
of securing the abrogation or modification
of the regulation which require cattle i'm
ported from the United States to be slaugh-
tered at the post of entry and prohibit their
being carried alive TO other parts of the
kingdom, was taken up and was by Mr.
Vest explained and advocated
Hale on British Inconsistency.
Mr.. Hale treated the regulations in ques-
tion as a marked instance of Great Britain's
inconsistency in the matter of free trade.
Great Britain, he said, was constantly
preaching homilies on free trade, was OBJ
jecting in every possible way to protection
as embodied in the statutes of the United
States, and was calling down on the heads
of the American people the censure and
the vengeance of the civilized world
because of the barbarism-the ex-
treme barbarism and unenlighten-
ment-of their protective policy, and
yet, under the forms of quarantine regula-
tions, it was actually prohibiting the ex-
portation from the United States to Great
Britain Of live animals, establishing COM
plete prohibitory tariff No American
cattle or sheep could be introduced into
Great Britain to compete with the farmers
and cattle raisers of that country any more
than if in terms, a duty of 100 per cent had
been laid on them. This was because the
British authorities COMMITTED, as they
claimed to be, TO free trade with all the
world) were aware of the disastrous effect
of such importation on the British farmers
and cattle and sheep raisers. 1t was an in
stance of the inconsistency of the British
cry of free trade
An Outright Prohibitory Tariff
The British Government did not said Mr..
Hale, as the American Government did, i'm
pose protective duties, but it proceeded un-
der another form to enact an outright pro-
hibitOry tariff He did not want the reso-
luton to be adopted without calling atten-
tion to that inconsistency, but he did not
oppose the resolution.
Mr.. Vest deprecated the introduction of
tariff discussion on the resolution, and
should certainly not put himself in the attl-
tude of defending either the motives or the
action of the authorities of Great Britain.
1t was, however, proper to state, as his
torical fact, that that action had been based.
ostensibly, on the fact that there had been
sporadic cases of pleuro-pneumonia found
in exported American cattle. That those
cases had been very largely exaggerated
from mercenary motives, In different quar-
tiers in England, had been, he thought, made