The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-06-09
CAPITAL NEWS.
The Nations Lawmakers and
What They Are Doing.
The Progress Made On Various Measures of
Importance I'm the Senate and
House--Daily Proceedings
Briefly Recorded.
SENATE.

ing the senate to be in favor of policy
of non:intervention with Hawaiian af-
fairs. Senator Sherman spoke on the
tariff bill, and during his remarks said
the Mckinley bill had been persistent
~ misrepresented as a bill to increase
revenue, when as matter of fact it
decreased revenue $50, 200, 600 a. year.
: In reference to the future Senator
Sherman said: 81 believe the bill will
create. a great reaction in the country.
Distress must follow reduction OF
duties, and a reduction of wages must
COME, if indeed industries: are not
driven entirely to the wall, Wide
spread disc9ntent will res4}k" :.
An amendment to the bill making
all lum Der duty freewas adopted.
A resolution was offered by Senator
Turpie (dem., Ind.) providing that six
months notice be given to the Rus
sian governm .nt of the termination OF
the extradition treaty with that
country.
| WAsH1NaroN, June "A petition was
presented in the senate yesterday from
the New England Industrial Army"
asking legislation that would guar
antee work to the unemployed. The
tariff bill was chen taken up and the
great battle over the sugar schedule
began.
WASHINGTON, June 4. - The second
days debate in the senate on Saturday
on the sugar schedule was preceded by
three hours Of discussion Of a resolu-
ton to throw open the doors of the
committee Investigating the method Of
forming the sugar schedule, but no
vote was taken.
| WASHINGTON, June 5.-The tenth
week Of the tariff debate began in the
senate yesterday. An amendment was
presented to the Dill declaring all COM
binations, conspiracies, trusts, agree
ments or contracts to be contrary to
public policy and illegal and void.
WASHINGTON, June Elm the senate
yesterday the amendment to the tariff
bill placing sugar on the free list was
lost and an amendment fixing sugar
duties, to go into effect January l. 1895,
was carried by vote of IS to 20.
AS adopted the schedule imposes duty Of
90 per cent. ad valorem on all sugars, raw and
refined, with dlfere ntial OF one-eighth OF
cent per pound on sugars above sixteen Dutch
standard and an additional one-tenth OF a
cent against sugars imported from countries
paying an export bounty. 1t continues the
Hawaiian treaty admitting sugars from the
Sandwich Islands free OF duty, and places a
duty Of two cents per gallon on molasses test
ing above 40 degrees by tho polsriscope. Tbs
schedule goes into effect January J. 1885, and
the bounty is continued until that date.]
The House.
WASHINGTON, June lin the house
yesterday a bill was passed for the ap-
pointment of an additional Judge of
the district court of the United States
for the northern district of Illinois,
and the bill to repeal the state bank
tax was further discussed.
WASHINGTON, June 2.--The senate
bill, providing for the carrying out of
the award of the Paris tribunal of
arbitration for the protection of the
seals in Rehring sea. was passed in the
house yesterday. The state bank bill
was further considered. At the even
ing session private pension bills were
discussed. ~
WASHINGTON, June An the house
on Saturday resolution was intro
walian affairs. A reduction in the
wages Of laborers to one dollar g. day
by the district commissioners caused
resolution Of inquiry to be offered.
WASHINGTON, June b.-The time was
occupied in the house yesterday in
discussing the state-bank tax bill. A
senate joint resolutio appropriating
$4,000 to defray the expense of the
sugar Investigating committee was
agreed to.
WARRINGTON, June Elm the house
yesterday bills were introduced to pro-
vide for arbitration and to prevent
hostilities between labor and capital,
and to reimburse the soldiers of the
rebellion or their heirs for the average
annual difference between gold and
the value of the paper currency in
which they were paid.
Higher Tariff on American Imports.
MADRID, June At is stated that