Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-01-10


 ed Favorably.
 WAsHINGToN, Jan. 10.-It was field day in the house for the tariff. The galleries were thronged all day, and the floor was crowded. Each side put forth it's most brilliant orators for the day session. Mir. Wilson, the chairman of the ways and means committee, completed the speech which he began Monday, and Mir. Burrows opened the debate for the Republicans with a three hour reply.
 During the course of Mr. Burrows speech he displayed petition which he said was 50 yards long, protesting against the pas sage of the Wilson bill and the placing of wool on the free list. He said he also had letters from 45 states protesting against it. Mir. Burrows spoke for almost three hours. At the conclusion of his speech there was a great outburst of Republican applause, so long continued as to call forth rebuke from the chair. The Republicans gener- ally went to MT. Burrows seat to congrat- ulate him, and he was presented with a bouquet of 57 roses, this being his fifty seventh birthday. After order had been restored General J. c. Black of Illinois, eX-commissiOner of pensions, took the floor, and MT. Hopkins of Illinois followed. The good points of all the speakers were liber- ally applauded by their respective parti- sans.
 At the evening session Mir. Haines, a Democrat from Troy, N. Y., in the name of the collar and cuff industry, fired the first shot into the Wilson bill He dis played gigantic petition protesting against the collar and cuff schedule and declaring that if it were to become law it would ruin this great industry.
 He han DraSaota1 tO tba com, if the mammoth petition, the like of which has never been seen in the house. It was q gi- gantic volume feet thick, 6 feet long and 4 feet wide, bound in red, white and blue, addressed on the cover, ''To the Congress of the United States" tho title being, "The Petition of the Citizens and Collar and Cuff Operators of New York" It was car ried into the hall of representatives by four men. It was signed by 9,S19 people, 50,706 from Troy end vicinity and he rest from Albany.
 Indorsed BouteIle's Resolution.
 A surprise was furnished in the Hawaii an matter by the action of the house com mittee on naval affairs, which voted uuani- mously to favorably report the Boutelle resolution to the house.
 This resolution is an ironclad one, calling upon the secretary of the navy to inform
 
 were issued placing the naval forces under the orders of Minister Blount, and to fur nish copies of all orders or suggestions is sued by himself or any officer of the navy since March f. 1893, concerning the use of naval forces at the Hawaiian Islands.
 An amendment was made changing the date to March f. 1892, so that the operations of the navy in Hawaii under the Harrison administration would be included. The secretary of the navy is directed to furnish the information and is given no option to withhold documents which he might consider secret or the publicity of which at this time might be regarded as contrary to public policy.
 Chairman Cummings ot the naval com- mittee will report the Boutelle resolution to the house immediately but says that it cannot be considered until the debate on the Wilson bill has been finished. Mir. Boutelle, on the other hand, thinks that the resolution can be7called up at once and be debated for l5 minutes by each side, as provided for in the rules.
 Elections Bill Goes Over.
 The session of the senate did not develop the interest that was anticipated. The con- sideraton of the federal elections bill was not begun according to the programme of Senator Gray, as no one seemed prepared to speak, and after some colloquy between Senators Chandler, Gray and German over the method of procedure the measure final ly went over until next Monday. At that time, however, it comes up as unfinished business, and Senator Gray gave notice that he would press it's consideration ''rea- sonably and continuously" until vote be reached.
 The Hawaiian situation failed to elicit the debate that was DrOmiSel Senator Chandler's resolution calling for an opin- ion as to the constitutionality and regulari- ty of the appointment of Commissioner Blount by President Cleveland was called up and pressed for passage, but after Sena- tor Sherman had expressed his opinion that it's passage would be disrespectful to the foreign relations committee, which is already considering the subject, Senator Chandler, finding his own party not q unit in support of his proposition, prompt lv withdrew it.