The National tribune., 1894-04-19
SATURDAY, APRIL Ia.

In the Senate, Mr.. Hill followed up his motion
of Friday to count pairs by Offering formal
amendments to the Senate rules. They are on
the same line as amendments presented by him
during the extra session last fall. One of them
provides that no Senator while speaking shall
be interrupted by any Senator's raising the
point of 10 quorum, and that under no circum-
stances except when the lack of a quorum is
disclosed by cali of the yeas and nays, shall
the point of lack of quorum be raised oftener
than once an hour.
He also again proposed closure rule pro-
viding for fixing tho time for vote by ma
jority of the Senate on any bill that has been
debated for 30 days.
Another amendment authorizes the presiding
officer to count the names of Senators not
voting whether because paired or for other
reasons for the purpose of making quorum.
On motion of Senator COckrell the urgent
deficiency bill was taken up The amendment
suggested yesterday by Senator Henderson
criticising the withholding of certain matter
from the census reports was Withdrawn by
him.
Senator Hawley started upon discussion of
the bill, and resented an interruption by Sena-
tor Chandler remarking that he was not striv-
ing to delay the discussion of the tariff bill
and he hoped the Senator from New Hampshire
would talk, if he wished to do so, in his own
time.
NJ " CIoCh VIC bai III uili WAS ldiu before ING
Senate. Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania, was
recognized.
The Senate of the United States" said Mr.
Quay, us confronted with a disappointment
1t is grieved by the failure of one of its most
dignified, important. and responsible commit
tees to rise to the opportunity intrusted to the
distinguished ability Of its members when the
pending tariff bill was referred to their judicial
scrutiny and expert revision. 1t was hoped. and
with apparent reason for the hope that when
this bill entered the Senate it would be recti-'
fed to its absurdities, s0ftened as to its
asperities, broadened out of its sectonalism,
divorced from its narrow craftsmanship harmo-
nized AS to its Inconsistencies, made straight
instead of devious, and that, from the mysteri-
Gus recesses of the retort of the So called sub
committees from the superheated fu fiiacc of
party caucus, and from the seething caldron of
the full response bic majority of the Committee
on Finance, it would AT last emerge purified of
its dross anneaied and nick e-hardened upon
its scanned and SCARED surface, and SO freed
from oil defects and dangers as to stand before
measure which could be adopted with prac-
tica unanimity because it would give the bust
ness interests of this country tranquility by
taking for at least an appreciabe period the
tariff out of politics.
THAT would be an ideal solution of this
great question which would inaugnrate an era
of peace and herald the return of prolonged
prosperity. But instead OF thus putting an end
to these internecine raids upon domestic indus
tries which at intervals closely associated with
political changes have cost this country more
than all the military wars for which every gen.
Grafton since the Revolutio has paid so dearly,
we now see the party which is in full control
of the Legislative and Executive branches of
the Government threaten the country with a
measure which has been described as sectional,
partisan laundering discriminating and un-
just. The inevitable result is the paralysis
of business. the hating of trade. the suspen-
sion of purchases. the stoppage of production,
the deprivation to thousands of their usual