The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-07

after the senator from Delaware or any
democratic member Of the finance COM
mittee would explain the principle on
which the bill proceeded-with one item
ad yalorem and the next item specific
There was no response 10 this chal-
lenge, and tho debate went on until Mr.
Harris rose and moved to lay the amend
ment on the table, remarking that the
amendment hae been the fruitful source
OF general debate on the principles of
tariff taxation in every country of the
globe, and he thought the people had been
sufficiently enlightened on the subject.
At the request of Mr. Hale, Mr. Harris
withdrew the motion so as to let the vote
be taken directly on the amendment.
HALB's AMENDMENT REJECTED.
The vote was taken, and Mr.. Hale's
amendment was relecued-yeas 90. nays
80. On this vote Mr.. PETER voted aye
and Mr., Kyle, pop, of South Dakota. and
Mr.. Hill, dem, of New York. voted no.
MIR. Allen, pop, OF Nebraska, did not
vote.
Mr. Hale ther moved to make the duty
$50 per head, and that amendment was
laid on the table without a division
MIR. Hale then moved as an amendment
the provisions OF the existing law as to
cattle, hogs, sheep and all other live ami
mails. This was rejected-yeas %, nays
Allen, Hill and Kyle voting no.
The next paragraph, l90 was read
The House bill puts duty on buckwheat,
corn or maize, cornmeal. oats, oatmeal
rye, rye flour, wheat and wheat -four,
of 20 per cent. ad valorem The amend
ment reported by the finance committee
is to reduce the duty on cat meal to Is
per cent The amendment also provides
that each of these products shall be ad-
Fpn nf NfVr faorn f,.rv
that imposes no import duty on the like
product when exported from the United
States.
Mr.. Washburn, rep, of Minnesota, in
quired why the same terms that were ap-
piled to oats and wheat, etc, were
not also applied TO barley-to which the
same provision was attached.
Mr.. Vest gave as a reason that senators
and others representing large barley
interests had appeared before the finance
committee and strenuously objected to
the reciprocal arrangements being ap-
piled TO barley; and the committee had
gone as far as it could in meeting those
representations.
HARRIS PLEADS FOR PROGRESS.
Mr. Harris, in parliamentary charge of
the bill, said that this was the sixty
fourth day of discussion of the tariff bill
ana that the Senate was on page 43. Pro-
ceedlng at that rate, the bill would get
out of committee "by Christmas come a
year" He hoped that senators on both
side would stay till z or o'clock and try
and make some progress.
The discussion went on until 6:45
O'Clock, when MIR. Aldrich moved an ex-
ecutive session. The republicans gener-
ally refrained from voting, so that there
was no quorum Then there was roll
call, to which 45 senators responded; and
the vote was again taken, with the same
result of no quorum. On the first oc-
casion, only four republicans voted
Messrs. Dubois, Perkins Pettigrew and
Washburn; and on the second occasion,
two-Messrs. Dubois and Pettigrew.
Then MIR. Harris said that it was
not his purpose to get into
any wrangle or TO attempt to force re-
luctant senators to remain in session.
Whatever was the feeling which should
exist in regard to the course OF the other
side, he was not willing to subject either
side to the inconvenience of remaining
until absent senators might be sent for.
he therefore moved an adjournment, and
the Senate, at o'clock p. m, adjourned
until tomorrow at 10 o'clock a. m.