Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-06-09
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS-.
WASHINGTON, June Q.
SENATE,

to the estate of the late Senator Stan
ford the claim OF the United States
against such estate.
The bill to supply a deficiency in The
grant of public lands to the State OF
Mississippi for the use of The State
University was passed.
The following bill was also passed
Senate bill to re-classify and prescribe
the salaries of railway postal clerks.
They are to be divided into seven
classes-the salaries not to exceed these
rates: lst class, $500; second class,
81 900; third class, $1,000; fourth class,
81 1900; fifth class, 81 800; sixth class,
81, 600; seventh class, 81 ,S00.
The tariff bill was then laid before
the Senate.
Mr.. Lodge warned his republican as
sociates (satirically) not to make such
arguments as they had made this morn
ing, consuming time, lest, under the
economic principle developed on the
other side, they would find hay put on
the free list. Their way to preserve
any advantage in the bill was to keep
as silent as possible, and to avoid any
reasonable arguments or showing that
live-siXths Of the product involved came
from the northern States.
Mr.. Vest defended the action Of the
finance committee and replied TO re-
publican Senators with a good deal OF
Indignation. He spoke Of the obstacles
in the way of the majority in not hay
ing a cloture rule, and therefore in not
being able TO force voting. AS to the Sec
tional question which had been raised on
the republican side, he repealed such an
idea as having had any influence on the
bill. Missouri, he said, was one Of the
largest hay producing States in tie
Union, and Virginia and Texas were
also very large hay producing States.
So that the sectional question could not
arise except in some partisan magma
ton. And yet that same stale, parti-
san attack was madc-that every item
of the bill was constructed on sectional
lines. Returning to the question ofthe
difficulty of getting on with the bill,
Mr.. Vest said that democratic Senators
refused to remain in the chamber after
6 o'clock and so put the majority in the
hands of the other side of the chamber.
The country should know that fact
All Senators knew where the response
bility rested. If democratic Senators
would stay and furnish a quorum he
would insist on remaining in session
until at least 10 or II o'clock in the
evening and on forcing consideration Of
the measure. The country, he said,
was laboring under anxiety and solicit
tude: and Senators on the other side
pretended that they were not tilibus-
tering against the bill, when every act
they did and every word they uttered
showed that their intention was to de-
feat it and TO keep the Mckinley law
on the statute.
"Of course, we mean to defeat it, if
we cam" Mr.. platt put in.
"Then do it like men," Nj. Vest ex,
claimed %passionately, land do not assas-
sinate it by parliamentary technicalities
and by delay. The Senator from New
Hampshire (Mr. Chandler) has now at
the head of his newspaper, it seems,
the epigrammatic saying that SIT is
better to kill time than TO kill indus
tries" Everything indicates what the
purpose of the other side is. We eX-
hausted more than two and half hours
yesterday on eggs, and we have started
out now to take half a day on hay. AT
the same rate it will be six months be-
fore the Senate comes to a vote on the
measure. In the meantime business *
stricken down like an OK in the sham
bles and men are holding up their
trembling hands in every portion of the
country asking that this debate shall
terminate. It we on this side refuse to
| speak in order to save time-the Sen
ator from Maine (Mr. Hale comes in
and taunts us, and says that we are
hunted by republicans and we are sup
posed to be struck with terror at his
martial appearance and that of the
Senator from New Hampshire (Nlr.
Chandler). If republican Senators want
to beat this bill let them stand up and
beat it. | protest, in the language of a
distinguished chairman of the House
committee on ways and means years
ago referring to Mr.. Schenck) under
similar circumstances "If you desire
to beat this bill strike it down in fair
and open debate. Do not let it be nib
bled to pieces by pismires and kicked
to death by grasshoppers. General
laughter.)
Mr.. Dolph declared his willingness
if his republican associates would join
him, to resort to a test of physical en-
durance.