The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-06-01

WASHINGTON, May 3l.-In the Senate
to-day Mr.. Hill offered q resolution
requiring the Gray select committee to
ait with open doors and the other by
Mr.. Dolph for the arrest of Elisha J.
Edwards, the witness in the sugar
trust investigation who refused to an
swer the questions put TO him. Both
went over to tomorrow.
The resolution reported from the COM
mittee on foreign relations was agreed
to unanimously, declaring that it OF
right belongs wholly to the people of
the Hawaiian Islands to establish and
maintain their own form Of government
and dome.tic policy, that tho United
States ought not in any way to interfere
Herewith and that any Intervention in
the political affairs of those islands by
any other government will be regarded
as an act unfriendlY to the United
States. The vote WAS taken by yeas and
nays and the result announced was yeas
So, nays O.
The tariff bill WAS taken up at 1890
and the amendment offered by Mr..
Hale, to make the duty on sawed boards
SO per thousand feet, was defeated-yeas
90, nays 81. A vote WAS then taken on
the amendment offered by Mr.. Allen, 60
place upon the free list all logs, lumb Der,
laths, shingles and building materials
| commonly used in tho construction of
| dwelling houses, barns or fences
| Defested-yeas 4, Allen, Irby, Kyle and
| PETER; nays 48.
Frye offered several amendments, all
OF which we're defeated. Allen moved
to strike out paragraph 178, putting
duties on lumber OF any sort, planed or
| Finished" 80 as to have such lumber
| afterwards placed on the free list.
Vest, representing the finance com
mittee, said that there was no objection
to the amendment. The amendment
was agreed to. yeas, IS; nays. "a, and
the paragraph was struck out.
Some other amendments were passed
and the lumber schedule having been
finished the sugar schedule was reached,
and Sherman took tho floor and deliv.
| cred q speech against the tariff bill.
Camden advocated the Senate amend
ments to the tariff bill as being wiser
than the too violent changes proposed in
the House bill.
| Dolph made long speech on the sub
| ject of the effort to push the two news
paper correspondents, Edwards and
Schriver, for refusing TO answer certain
questions asked by the Gray select com
mittee in the investigation as to alleged
efforts of the sugar trust to influence
Senators improperly. And he gave no
lice that before taking his s, at he
would make q motion to postpone the
consideration of the sugar schedule un-
til the committee made its final report
After Dolph had been speaking over
two hours he was asked by Harris with
an air OF WEAKNESS and disRust) whether
he had taken a contract to speak all
evening on subject wholly foreign to
the bill under consideration. Dolph
said that he would not attempt to
answer such question. He was re-
sponsible for the relevancy of his
remarks, and he had given notice of
motion which he proposed to make.
| Dolph ceased speaking few minutes
before six, when he was asked by
Harris whether he had made the no.
ton which he had promised to make
to postpone action on the sugar schedule
until report from the select investigat.
! Ing committee. He had forgotten 1t
and was about to make it when after q
whisper from Hill, he said he would
| defer making it until tomorrow, lest
the motion might preclude other Sens
! tors, who desired to discuss the matter.
The Senate then, after a short execu-
tive session, at sos adjourned until to-
| morrow at 10 a. m.