The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-13

| WASHINGTON, May 12-The snail pacs
in the senate continues and the ',era OF
business" is still broken promise. Thurs
| day. after two days debate, the duty on
| acetic acid was agreed to; yesterday. after
seven hours of work, the fate of boracic
| acid, chronic and citric acids were decided
| and today after five hours of work the rates
| on tannic and tartaric acids and alcoholic
perfumery were fixed. The Repu blicans
made a stand on every item, INDUCING
under the leadership Of Messrs. Aidrich,
Chandler and Hale, in the pastIme of nag
giug and harrassing their political adver-
sarIes.
The morning hours are beginning to tell
on the senators.
The debate on the pending amendment
was continued in a desultory manner, Mr..
Chandler, rs on yesterday. INDUCING in
some fine sarcasm at the expense of his
political adversaries.
Mr.. Hale concluded an ironical charac-
terizatIon of the Democratic side with a
rather sensational announcement II was
time for few plain words, he said.
limitations had been received on the
Republican side of the chamber not on "
from the other side, but from the high
prlests OF tariff reform in other quarters,
that the program involved in the presenta-
ton of the last series of amendments from
tie finance committee. making the bill an
entirely new Que, was for the purpose of
greasing its way through the senate
Then after 1t has gone out of the
supervision OF the senate it Is
to be thrown into conference
committee committee ostensibly repre-
sentlng both houses of congress. but in
reality committee having autocratic
powers. There, the intimations tell US, il
Is their scheme to give away all the senate
amendments aud the Wilson bill with all
its incongruities is TO be returned for the
approval OF the senate II this last bill Of
the finance committee WAS to be given I'D
In conference; if the country had been en-
couraged by false evidence of repentance.
then he notified the Democrats on the
other side (Mr. Hale said this with i'm
pressive emphaSis), the bill would never
go through the senate The spirit now
exhibited on the Republican side would
change, he said, and the minority would
lind some means TO defeat the bill
The Jones amendment fixing the duty on
tannic acid at 90 cents was then agreed to
-33 to IL.
On the next Jones amendment, increas-
ing the duty on tartaric acid from 10 TO 20
per cent, the vote failed to show a quorum
by one vote, but. the Jones amendment
WAS agreed to without division; but on the
next vote to change the dnty from 20 per
cent to specific duty of cents. the quo
rum again failed. A quorum was without
difficulty secured on this amendment and
it was defeated-16 to %.
The next paragraph WAS alcoholic per-
fumery, including cologne water and
other toilet waters, on which the duty
was placed at So per gallon and
20 per cent ad yalorem in the house
bill The Jones amendment increased the
ad valorem duty to SO per cent. Il was
agreed to without division.
Mr.. Jones presented an entirely new
amendment To the next paragraph, to
change the duty on alumina iu its various
chemical forms from 80 per cent ad valo-
rem to specific duty of four-tenths of IL
cent per pound.
Mr.. Aldrich moved an amendment to
make 1t slx-tenths. The quorum again
tailed on Mr.. Aldrich's motion and Mr..
Harris decided to make no further effort
TO secure one today, so at 3:55, upon his
motion, the senate adjourned.