Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-06-06
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS-.
WASHINGTON, June 6.
SENATE.

A bill was passed increasing from $50
TO so month the pension of Helen L..
Dent, widow of Col. Dent, O. S. A.
A resolution was reported by Mr..
Blackburn, from the committee on
rules, for the appointment of select
committee of five Senators on the exist
ing public distress and to which shall
be referred the petition of Maurice l..
Swift and others and all other petitions
for measures of relief from such distress.
The tariff bill was then taken up, the
question being on the tobacco sched-
ule
Paragraph 1874, as it came from the
House and as it was reported by the
finance committee, imposed duty of
81 per pound on all leaf tobacco suitable
for cigar wrappers, if unstemmed, and
S1.25 per pound if stemmed. The Jones
amendment was to strike out the para
graph and substitute for it the following:
Wrapper tobacco, unstemmed, i'm
ported in any bale, package or in bulk
$3.50 per pound if stemmed, 1926 per
pound"
Mr.. Jones, on behalf of the finance
committee, now modified the amend
ment by making the rates 81 on the
unstemmed wrapper tobacco and $l.25
on stemmed (the House rates., and his
motion was agreed to as was all the
other committee amendments and the
whole schedule was adopted.
Tie next schedule taken up was "ag-
ricultural products and provisions.
Mr.. Vest opposed the amendment
and characterized the protection OF
American agriculture as myth, if not
an absolute fraud and he added that
the farmers knew it and so declared by
their votes in 1892.
How about Oregon ?" Mr.. Aldrich
asked.
"Oh, Mr.. President" said Mr.. Vest,
sneeringly, "the Dutch have carried
Holland"
"By a larger majority than ever,
Nj. Hale put in.
"And our friends on the other side, :"
Mr.. Vest added, "are prepared to
cackle over this egg which has been in
their nest all the time" Laughter.
"There is not any disposition on this
side" Mr.. Hale said, "to cackle over
the Oregon victory"
81 thought I heard a cackle from
Rhode Island" Mr.. Vest interposed.
Because" Mr.. Hale went on, in
continuation of his sentence, sit is sim
ply one in the succession OF triumphs
won by the republican party ever since
the Senator and his associates sat down
to frame this bill. And we are 50 used
to these election returns showing that
what was claimed to be the popular
judgment in the election of the year
1892 was being now reconsidered
in the sober second thought of the peo-
pie that this side is not inclined to
cackle. What the Senator from Mis-
souri, claims to have been the verdict
of the people in 1892 is being all set
back and reversed by the elections this
year."
"After that very interesting stump
speech, Mr. Vest said, 81 hope we will
return to business"
"Tho Senator started it," Mr.. Hale
put in.
81 had not said anything about Ore
gon," Mr.. Vest said, "But will remind
the Senator from Maine of the Spanish
maxim, He laughs best who laughs
last"
Mr.. Gallinger warned the democrats
that if the tariff bill should pass, with
the agricultural schedule in it, they
might as we'll abandon further con-
test in New Hampshire. And he re-
minded them of the election which had
just taken place in Oregon where, in
place of a populist Governor, the peo-
pie had elected a republican Governor
by at least $4,000 majority and had
elected two thirds of the legislature
from the republican party.
Mr.. PETER suggested, with quiet
humor, that Mr.. Gallinger withhold his
remarks from the Record until "the
back counties" of Oregon are heard
from.
HOUSE.
The Senate amendments to the House
bill authorizing the construction of
bridge across the Hudson river by the
New York and New Jersey Bridge
Companies were agreed to by the House
on motion of Mr.. Dunphy. The bill
now goes to the President for his sigma
ture.
House bill was passed extending for
three years the time for payment for
lands purchased of Omaha Indians in
Nebraska.
The expenses of the armor plate in
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