The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-05-24
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
METAL SCHEDULE CONSIDERABLY
ADVANCED IN THE SENATE
Senator Walsh Puts His Foot in 1t ana
Attempts to Withdraw 1t - Inc
House Judiciary Committee En-
dorse the Judge Jenkins
Committee Report.
THE SENATE.

THE SENATE.
WASHINGTON. May 22.-The senate
disnosed of seven paragraphs OF the
metal schedule today after eight hours
If debate. The debate was Marked
bv quite number of interesting
clashes between the Republicans ana
democrats. The sensational feature
If tbe day was by the unexpected pre-
sanitation by Mr.. Jones OF an amend .
ment substituting the Mckinley Dill
olassifcation and specific rates on
ropnd iron 10 coils blooms and on
charcoal iron somewhat higher than
that already proposed. This amend
mept was surprise to some
eonetors on both sides, al
though evidently anticipated, ,Dy
senator Quay and few other OF me
colleagues. Senator Hale trled 10 use
II as a text for haunting the Demo
cratic side and Senator Teller read MN
a very plain lecture on the duty OF Ne
nrblicans to accept such increase as
fba democrats were willing to grant
,yithont continually Gliding their adj
yarsaries with inconsistencies Inc
vote was taken aud seven Democrats
and two Populists refused to report
fine Jones substitute, namely, Alien
Berry, Blackburn, Jarvis, Kyle, NILS
Pasco and PETER.
The rates fixed today were as
follows: Lon ore 40 cents per
ton: pig iron, scrap IRON etG'
SI ner ton; round iron, in coils,
S.10ths of cent per pound; slabs,
blooms. less finished than bars, l.6
cent ner pound; charcoal blooms, $l2
ner ton. beams, glrders ana other
Structural iron or steel, Cloth OF cent
ner nound: boiler plate from 5.lO to 70
ner cent advalorem; forgings OF IRON or
steel. 1-2 cent; steel cotton Ties, ~
per cent advalorem. 80, 4.,.o,
Inst before the tariff bill was taken
nm Mr. Walsh, the new senator from
Georgia, arose to a personal eXplaha-
fion In connection with Il newspaper
nora0ranh from st. Paul stating that
the brotherhood of Locomotive En-
0ineers had Yesterday adopted resolu-
tions condemning him for introducing
q hill making the retarding Of the
Tinted States mail punishable by inns
,1risonment for 90 years. Mr. Walsh eX |
rIained that the bill aimed at heavier
penalties for train robbers and they
had construed it as an attempt TO
nnnish train men who should tie III.
. train in a strike. Mr.. Walsh said
that he had served his apprenticeship
nj the printers trade and had never
known n day or an hour when he dd
not sympathize with labor. but he also
recognized the fact that railroads had
rights as we'll as labor. Labor ornanl-
cations had no right to interfere with
other laborers who sought to go to
work. They had the right to work or
not TO work; their rights extended
no further. This was land OF liberty;
IL was also land OF law and order. AS
long as labor sought a redress OF It's
grievances and under forms OF law
sought to work out its problem IN
lawful way he was with labor to that
extent and no further The bill he
had introduced was loosely worded
and possible to the construction the
locomotive engineers had placed upon
II but it was not intended either
directly or indirectly to be subject to
such instruction. In conclusion Mr.,
Walsh re introduced his bill in modi
fed form so as to leave no doubt of its
purpose. ~, u,
went into executive session ana shortly
afterwards adjourned.
THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, May % The qUes-
tiCn OF civil service reform was gwen
full sway in the house today, the &C
caslon being the amendment to strike
out the paragraph in the legislative
appropriation bill providing for the
civil service commission. 1t gave the
opportunity for some stirring and not
a few amusing speeches. The amend
ment was adopted by vote 100 to 70
amid great Democratic applause and |
Republican cries of "spoils.n No other
amendments of any Importance were
made in the bill, the only ones
adopted being to correct the totals Of
a few amendments to which amend +,
ments were made yesterday.
Mr.. Pendeton, Democrat West
Virginia, claimed that civil service
commission was established for the
purpose of keeping the Republicans
la Office while the Republicans de-
Tended the present administration of
the civil service laws. Several Dem
Gratis opposed the amendment vir'
tually aboishing the commission, but
it was adopted by nearly strict
party vote. Among the Democrats
who voted with the Republicans in
favor of civil service reform were
Wilson, Tracy, Hendricks, Dockery,
Warner, Springer, Bayers, Grain,
Martin, Kilgore, Livingstone, Defor-
rest and Everett. The vote on division
was 96 to 6l Cries of no quorum and
demands for tellers were made, the
vote by tellers being 100 to II. Mr..
Dingley gave notice that he would
demand the yeas and nays in the
house. 1t being then after o'clock
the committee rose and the house at
5:04 adjourned.
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