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sneoial TO tne REcoRp-UNIov.

resolution to instruct the bribery Com-
lnittee to throw open its doors to the pub
lie. 1t went over without prejudice.
Dolph's resolution to bring Z. G. Ed
wards, one of the contumacious witnesses
before the bar of the Senate for contempt
took the same course.
Hill asked unanimous consent to con-
slider the joint resolution passed by the
House yesterday, giving the Secretary Of
War authority under the last Sandry
Civil Appropriation Act to institute con-
dennation proceedings TO secure lands
near the Gettysburg battlefield.
Judge Dallas, he explained, had held
that the language of the Act is not broad
enough to warrant condemnation pro-
ceedings.
Cockrell insisted that the resolution &c
to the Committee on Military Affairs. Ii
was SO referred.
When the tariff bill was laid before the
Senate the battle over the schedule began.
The Mckinley law placed raw sugar on
the free list, imposed &c duty on refined
sugar and gave bounty OF z cents to
sugar-groWers. The House bill repealed
the bounty and placed all sugars on the
free list In the first bill reported from
the Finance Committee the Senate gave a
specific duty of l cent to l.2S0 per pound
according to polariscopic test. The COM
promise amendment, the one now before
the Senate, made the sugar schedule 60
into effect January l, 1880. the rate being
40 per cent. ad valorem on all sugars, raw
and refined, the eighth OF l cent addi-
tional on sugars above 16 Dutch standard,
with an additional one-tenth of l cent per
pound on sugar from countries that pay
export bounties. 1t also contains the
sugar treaty with Hawaii.
Manderson took the floor. The sugar
schedule, he sald, seemed to pervade the
whole bill. The bill could not be touched
without laying the hand on sugar. Al
most ), 900, 100000 pounds of raw sugar
had been consumed last year, represent
ing, if grown and refined abroad, grand
total of SlS2. coo, 900 to be paid to foreign
ers. Free sugar would mean the imme-
diate destruction of the beet-sugar in
dustry and the gradual extinction OF cane
sugar production in the Southern States.
If properly protected, he prophesied be-
fore 1898 the beet-Sugar production would
have so developed in the North and cane
sugar in the South that the United States
could supply the fully consumption of
the country. Beet-sugar growing, when
developed TO the extent necessary TO sup
NV the home demands, would 3tford.g .
crop OF :, 900, 900 acres. Was it any Won
der the farmers of the West wanted the
continuation OF the sugar bounty? They
were enthusiastic over the prospect. 1t
was a great boon which they asked Con-
gress to save to them. No country in the
world was so well adapted TO produce
beet-sugar as the United States. Beet
growing, ultimately, would displace
cane-growing.
Manderson denied that in fostering the
growth of beet and cane sugar any obli-
CATION existed to protect the retiners.
There was no connection, he declared, be-
tween the sugar-grower and the odlous
sugar trust.
Manderson gave notice that at the
proper time he would offer as a substitute
for the sugar schedule the bounty pro-
vision of the Mckinley bill, continuing
it in force until July /. 1908. He argued
ut length in support of the constitution
aliLy of bounties. quoting extensively
from court decisions, and especially the
decision OF Justice Miller.
''If Congress were to give bounty"
inquired Gallery of louisiana, ITO the
farmer or manufacturer. do you contend
that the courts have no right to inquire
whether the bounty Is given for a public
or private use?"
Il do" replied MandersOn. "The de-
cision of Mr.. Miller is conclusive On that
point"
support bounty instead of duty on
sugar. In the course of his speech he
driited into the discussion of the silver
question, touched upon his ideas OF theory
OF government and as a panacea for the
existing Ills of the body polite. 1t was
5:45 when PETER concluded.
Harris then moved that the Senate pro-
ceed to the consideration of executive
business. Before he made the motion he
declared that the House was impatient
over the slow progress made with
this bill, and that business interests
everywhere were suffering at the mex
cusable delay. He gave notice that after
Monday he would compel the Senate tc
endure longer hours until the bill was
disposed of.
Inc Senate at 5:55 adjourned.
IN THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, June 1.-The House TO-
day passed the Senate resolution direct.
ing the Secretary of War to transmit to
the Senate reports of any surveys OF
estimates for the construction of locks OIL
dams in the Mississippi River between
the Chicago, st. Paul and Minneapolis
Railroad bridge and the Falls of St. An
thony which are in its possession.
The Senate bill providing for the carry
ing out of the award of the Paris tribu-
nal of arbitration, for the protection OF
seals in Behring Sea, was passed.
Gear secured the passage OF bill fol
the relief of A. 2. Stewart.
A resolution directing the President to
give six months notice to the Russian
Government of the abrogation of the last
treaty between the two countries was
under the rules, sent to the Committee Oh
Foreign Affairs.
The House went into Committee of the
Whole to consider the Brawley State
bank bill.
Brosius of Pennsylvania addressed the
House. He defended the present na-
tional banking system, and deprecated a
return to the obnoxious and unstable
State bank system which had proved SO
detrimental to certain sections of the
country, notably the South and West.
Swanson lDem.) of Virginia followed
Brosius, and defended the issue of State
bank notes.
Henderson (Rep.) of Illinois defended
the existing national banking system,
and recalled the events of the panics oi
the past years under the State bank
regimes.
The next advocate of repeal of the ex-
listing laws against State banks was
Tucker (Dem.) of Virginia, who took The
ground that any tax laid not for the pur-
pose of raising revenue, but to kip or
an industry, was an improper law.
At o'clock the committee arose, and q
recess was taken until o'clock, the even
ing session to be for private pension bills,
THE PRESIDENT ANGRY.
He Does Not Like the Way in Which
the Tariff Bill Has Been Bungied.
NEW YORK, June 1.-The Herald,