The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-06-12
The Tariff Bill Moving at an
Extraordinary Speed.
sRicE BROUGHT IN HAvEmEYER.
Senator Caffery Throws New Light
on the Sugar Trust Scandal.
Defective Armor Plates Now ON Four
Neutrality-suspicious. OF . Gorera-
mens Inspeefor At Homeste.d-The
House without Quorum.

WAsHfsGTos G1ry. June 1.-THE brakes
were taken off in the senate today, and
more progress vas made with the tariff
bill than during any previous three weeks
of the consideration of the measure Three
schedules. wines and spirits. cotton and
'iax and jnse and hemp manufactures,
from paragraphs 81 to 277 inclusive, COM
prising nineteen pages OF the bill, were
DISPOSED of. The entire schedule
OF cotton. ten pages, was fin
ished in thirty minutes. The Re-
publieans made no opposition to the
amendments proposed to this schedule,
maintaining that the rates, though re-
duced. were so changed as 10 make the
cotton schedule the most scientific" ever
prepared. The collar and cuff paragraph.
providing a specific duty of 50 cents per
dozen and 80 per cent ad valorem, while
shirts and other articles, composed
wholly or in part of linen, carry a
dgty of 80 per cent, provoked much
discussion and more or less amusement.
Tomorrow the whole schedule will be
taken up. Quay gave notice just before
adjournment, at $50 that he would, hen
the schedule was reached tomorrow, re-
sumo the speech he was delivering four
months ago. Senator Sherman today
gave notice of an amendment to the tariff
bill providing for . duty OF 40 per cent. al
yalorem on wool.
At the opening of the session Quay
arose to question of privilege and sent
to the clerks desk what he characterized
as Lying statement for which Senator
Chandler was given as authority" Ii
proved to be a Washington City dispatch
TO a New York paper, and alleged that a
Philadelphia syndicate, in which Quay
was an active agent. was seeking TO get
control OF the surface roads of Washing
ton City through congressional legislation.
The dispatch stated that the scheme was
rs maIordorous as the sugar trust scandal.
The statements contained in the article,
Quay said. were absolutely false. The
facts were that certain citizens of Phiiadel-
phia had corporate interests in certain
railroads in the District of Columbia and
were seeking enlargement oftne scope of
their franchises. At the request of
Thomas Dolan he had introduced
the Philadelphia gentlemen. McMii-
Ian and Faulkner, to the Dis
trict Of Columbia committee, so
that they could present their case. Last
Friday, being informed that a bill affect
ing the interests Of this corporation. would
be under consideration in the house today.
he asked some members of the delegation
from Pennsylvania TO be present TO help
constitute quorum. That was the ex-
tent OF his connection with the matter.
Quay said he had departed from the Gus
tom of treating with silent con-
tempt the 10000 newspaper lies
about him, because the article was evil
IDENTIFY written with the purpose of affecting
legislation today, and because Chandler
had been given as authority for the state
ments contained therein. Chandler stated
that he had heard of this syndicate. per-
haps discussed the matter with newspaper
men, but knew little about it. Certainly
he had made no remarks attributing a
motive relative to any senator. Quay
suggested, with broad smile, that this
newspaper fabrication be referred to the
scandal committee" of which Gray is
chairman. aud IL sas so referred.