The morning call., 1894-05-13
HAD NO QUORUM.
Delaying Debate on the
Tariff.
SETTLED AS TO ACIDS.
Which Is About All the Senate
Has Done.
HALE TALKS OF A CONSPIRACY.
If the Wilson Bill Comes Back 1t
Will Be Beaten by the
Minority.
HALE TALKS OF A CONSPIRACY

WASHINGTON. May 12-The snail pace
continues in the Senate and the ''era of
business is still broken promise. Thurs
day, after two days debate. the duty on
acetic acid was agreed to-; after several
hours of work the fate of boracic acid,
chronic and citric acids were decided, and
to-day, after five hours of work, the rates
on tannic. tartarc acids and alcoholic per-
fumery were fixed. The Republicans made
stand on every item. indulging. under the
leadership of Aldrich, Chandler and Hale,
IN the pastime of nagging and harrassing
their political adversarles.
The morning hour Sis beginning to tell
on the Senators. AT 3:55 o'clock Harris,
finding things blocked by the absence of
quorum, yielded to the motion for an ad-
journment.
On the rollcall at II O'Clock. twenty. eight
Senators responded. fifteen less than
quorum. Twenty-Five minutes passed be-
fore enough absentees were found to
make up quorum. DoIph moved to adj
jOurn. but withdrew his motion upon a
suggestion from Chandler that the motion
violated an agreement entered into just be-
fore adjournment last night, to take up
the tariff bill at II o'clock each day.
The bill was passed to place Ma jor- Gen.
eratGe0rge S. Green on the retired list o
the army as first lieutenant.
At u o'clock the tariff bill was taken
up, the pending question being the amend
ment to increase the duty on tannc acid
or tannin from So to rs cents per pound.
Jones offered a substitute of 60 cents for
70 cents. The debate was continued in a
desultUry manner. Chandler, as on yester-
day, indulging iD some fine sarcasm at the
expense of his political adversaries.
Hale concluded an ironical characterize
ton of the Democratic side with a rather
sensational announcement. 1t was time
for few plain words, he said. Intima-
tiOns had been received on The Republi-
can side of the chamber, not only from the
other side. but from the high priests of
tariff reform in other quarters. that the
programme involved in the presentation
of the last series of amendments from the
Finance Committee made the bill an en-
tiTely new one for the purpsse of greasing
its way through the Senate. Then after
it has gone out Of the supervision of the
Senate it was to be thrown into con-
ference cOmmlttee--a committee osten-
sihly representing both houses of Congress,
but in reality a committee having auto
cratic powers.
There the intimations state it is the
scheme to give away all the Senate amend
ments, and the Wilson bill with all its in
cOugruities is to be returned tor the appro-
val of the Senate. If this last bill of the
Finance Committee was to be given up in
conference, if the country had been en-
couraged by false evidence of repentance,
then he notified the Democrats on the other
side Hale said this with impressive en-
pbaslsl the bill would never go through
the Senate. The spirit new exhibited on
the Republican side would change, he
said, aud the minority would find some
means to defeat the bill. The Jones
amendment fixing the duty on tannic acid
t 60 cents was then agreed to-33 to u.
On the next Jones amendment, increas-
ing the duty on tsrtaric acid from 10 to 20
per cent, tho vote failed to show a quorum
by one vote. but the Jones amendment
was agreed to without division. On the
next vote. to change the duty from 90 per
cent to a specific duty of cents, the quo
rum again failed. A quorum was with
difficulty secured on this amendment and
it was defeated-16 20 2S. The next para
graph was alcoholic perfumery. including
cologne water and other toilet waters, on
which the duty was placed at 50 per gallon
ana % per cent ad valorem in the House
bin. The Jones amendment increased the
ad valorem duty 90 per cent. 1t was
agreed to without division.
Jones presented an entirely new amend
ment to the next paragraph to change the
DUTY ON alumiDa in its various chemical
forms from so rer cent ad valorem to a
specific duty of four-tenths of cent per
pound.
Aldrich moved an amendment to make
IL six-tenths The quorum again parted on
the II ton. and Harris decided to make
no further effort to secure one to-day, SO
at 1856, upon his motion. the Senate ad-
iourned.