The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-01-17
DOings in Congress.

WEDNESDAY, January 10.-In the senate,
the resolution offered January by MIR.
Frye of Maine, referring to the non-inter-
ference Of the American government in tho
Hawaiian affairs, was called up, and Mr..
Davis OF Minnesota addressed the senate. He
gave much attention to the testimony fur
nished by Mr. Blount as to the events i'm
mediately preceding the queens overthrow.
lie declared II the marines had not been
landed, if riot and bloodshed had followed
the revolution, and If arson had resulted,
Mr.. Stevens would have been universally
condemned by the people of the United
States. The revolution would have gone on
all the same If there had been no marines
landed. All the talk, therefore, of implied
processes, by reason of the position of the
marines in Honolulu, was the merest fall
lacy. -= In the house, the prosy debate
on the tariff bill was enlivened by sharp
colloquy between Mr.. Boutelle and Mr..
Tracey, in which the latter Indignantly re-
sented an implication that he was a
" cuckoo" In speaking on the tariff bill,
Mr.. johnson, the democratic member from
Ohio, used some very strong language. He
characterized the Wilson bill as a clean
backdown, and weak imitation of the Nc
Kinley bill that will settle no question and
satisfy no one. Continuing he said: cit
was the duty OF party coming into power
on such pledges and at such conjuncture,
to have proceeded without a moments de-
lay TO the radical revision of the tariff. II
Mr.. Cleveland had shown the sapacity and
courage the situation demanded the ink
would not have been dry on the commits
sions of his secretaries, ere congress would
have been called into extra session to re-
lieve the country Of its burdens of taxation.
But instead of that the nation was treated
to the spectacle of a president and a con-
gress devoting their energies TO the discus
sion of personal claims to petty Places and
as the climax Of all this delay came the
shameful days we have just passed through,
i'll which the house has stood parayzed be-
cause, despite our overwhelming majority,
we democrats would neither furnish a quo
rum to be counted nor count the one that
was really present"
THURSDAY Mr. Davis of Minnesota re-
sumed his speech in the senate on the Ha-
waiian difficulty He denied the presi-
dents authority to appoint Mr. Blount
without the advice and consent of the SEN
ate. On this point he said: The president
has invaded the privileges of the senate
and we are told, adjured, advised that we
should sit silent on this attack that we
should let it pass without criticism or pro-
test So far as we are concerned perhaps,
personally, we might all do so, but as guar
dams of the constitutional rights of the peo-
pie we cannot" Mr.. Davis hurled several
hot shot into the White House on the haul
ing down of the American flag at Honolulu,
and declared that the history of the country
might be searched in vain for another in
stance where civil officer had ordered an
admiral of the navy to haul down the
American flag. Mr.. Turpie of Indiana and
Mr.. Morgan Of Alabama replied, and made
a feeble defence of the actions of the presi-
dent. - The tariff debate was continued
in the house by Messrs. Springer of Illinois,
Dolliver of Iowa, Harter of Ohio, Brosius of
Pennsylvania and Mcclure of California.
Mr.. Delivers remarks elected great laugh
frpUIlppt a
the author of the Wilson bill had shown in
his opening speech that a working girl
could buy the material for cloak with one
days earnings, while it would take her
three days to earn enough to pay the tariff
on her cloak. Mr.. Dolliver, however, said
the best dressed women in the United
States were the working girls and servant
girls. The working girls in America were
sending money to their sisters in Europe to
enable them to get away from the country
where cloaks were so cheap. Mr.. Dolliver
maintained that the remedy for the present
depression was the employment of our own
people, not giving work to those of other
countries.
FRIDAY.-The senate agreed to a resolu-
ton directing the secretary of the treasury
to inform the senate from what source the
gold coin of the country was increased dur
ing the last fiscal year. After an executive
session, adjourned till Monday. - The
house, in committee of the whole, resumed
the discussion of the tariff bill. Mr., Black
of Georgia, Mr.. Simpson, the populist MEM
Der from Kansas, Mr.. Daniels OF New York,
and Mr.. Mcdowell of Pennsylvania, spoke
at the day session. There were only nine
members present at the commencement of
the evening session. Messrs. McKaig of
Maryland, English of New jersey and
Waugh of Indiana talked tariff until ten
o'clock when an adjournment was made.
MONDAY Only two democratic and
twelve republican senators were present at
the opening session. The usual crop of
petitions against the Wilson tariff bill, in
favor of government control of telegraph
lines, and on various other subjects, were
harvested and stored away, and the senate
went into executive session on the Horn
blower nomination. - In the house, Mr..
Boutelle of Maine endeavored to call up his
Hawaiian resolutions. He maintained that
the house could not so bind itself by rules
as to preclude the exercise of the right to
consider questions concerning its privileges.
The introduction of the Hawaiian question
had its usual effect, and in moment the
house was in an uproar. The speaker en-
deavored to secure order, but his pounding
had about as much effect in calming the
stormy waters as vial of oil would have
on West Indian cyclone. Mr.. McMillin
of Tennessee demanded that the special
order adopted by the house be adhered to,
and Mr.. Boutelle expressed his indignation
ludb MI NiOnhiliiu anu MS dolN uSoOti-
ates should be willing TO lend themselves to
the infamous scheme of smothering the
Hawaiian question, and should bind them
selves to the degrading position in which the
president was placing the country. Speaker
Crisp said there was a limit even to the
rights of the gentleman from Maine to vio-
late the rules of the house. There must be
somewhere power in the majority of the
house to support its rules and to insist that
they should be respected, and to take some
action TO restrain gentleman who per.
sisted, day after dry, in violating the rules
of the house. Order was finally restored,
and the house adjourned without transact
ing any business.
Window Glass manufacturers Protest.