Evening journal., 1894-01-10
TWO BIG TARIFF GUNS.
Wilson and Burrows Open the
Debate.
A MAMMOTH PETITION PRESENTED

A MAMMOTH PETITION PRESENTED
The Senate Not Ready to Consider the Fed
erai Elections Bill, aud 1t Went over.
Bouteile's Hawaiian Resolution Report
ed Favorably.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-It was a field day
In the house for the tariff. The galleries
were thronged all day, and the floor was
crowded Each side put forth its most
brilliant orators for the day session. Mr..
Wilson, the chairman of the ways and
means committee, completed the speech
which he began Monday, and Mr.. Burrows
opened the debate for the Republicans with
three hour reply.
During the course of Mr.. Burrows speech
he displayed petition which he said was
% yards long, protesting against the pas
sage Of the Wilson bill and the placing Of
wool on the free list He said he also had
letters from As states protesting against IL.
Mr.. Burrows spoke for almost three hours.
At the conclusion Of his speech there was
great outburst Of Republican applause,
so long continued as TO call forth a rebuke
from the chair. The Republicans gener-
ally went to Mr. Burrows seat to congrat-
ulate him, and he was presented with a
bouquet Of 81 roses, this being his fifty
seventh birthday. After order had been
restored General J. G. Black of Illinois,
ex-commissioner Of pensions, took the floor
aud Mr.. Hopkins Of Illinois followed. The
good points Of all the speakers were liber-
ally applauded by their respective parti-
sans.
At the evening session Mr.. Haines, a
Democrat from Troy, n. Y, in the name
Of the collar and cuff industry, fired the
first shot into the Wilson bill. He dis
played a gigantic petition protesting
against the collar and cuff schedule and
declaring that if IL were to become a law it
would ruin this great industry.
He then presented 10 the committee the
mammoth petition, the like of which has
never been seen in the house. II was a gi-
gantic volume ? feet thick, 6 feet long and
4 feet wide, bound In red, white and blue,
addressed on the cover, "To the Congress
Of the United States, the title being, THE
Petition Of the Citizens and Collar and
Cuff Operators of New York" Il was car
ried into the hall OF representatives by
four men. 1t was signed by 90 $40 people,
,706 from Troy and vicinity and ;he rest
from Albany.
Endorsed Boutelle's ResoI Iution.
A surprise was furnished in the Hawaii.
an matter by the action Of the house com.
mittee on naval affairs. which voted unani.
mously TO favorably report the Boutelle
resolution to the house
This resolution is an ironclad one, calling
upon the secretary Of the navy to inform
the house by what authority instructions
were ISSUED placing the naval forces under
the orders Of Minister Blount, and to fur
nish copies Of all orders or suggestions is
sued by himself or any officer Of the navy
since March 4, 1898, concerning the use o.
naval forces at the Hawaiian Islands.
An amendment was made changing thI
date 20 March 4, 1892, so that the operation
Of the navy in Hawaii under the Harrison
administration would be included. Thl
secretary Of the navy is directed to furnisl
the information aud Is given no optior
to withhold documents which he nigh
consider secret or the publicity Of which a
this time might be regarded as contrary t
| public policy.
Chairman Cummings of the naval com
mittee will report the Boutelle resolution
10 the house Immediately, but says that il
cannot be considered until the debate OF
the Wilson bill has been finished. Mr.
Boutelle, on the other hand, thinks tha
the resolution can be called up at once anS
be debated for IS minutes by each side, a
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