Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-20
IN CONGRESS TODAY
More Tariff Debate in the Senate--Mr,
Gallinger's Speech.
MIR. Wheeler Gets Two Speeches in the
Record After Explanation-Privat
Bills in the House.

When the Senate was called to order to-
day Senator Sherman, from the committee
on foreign relations, reported bill for
the correction Of an error in the Boring
sea bill recently passed.
BY the substitution of the word "exclu-
| sive" for Inclusive the intention of the
act, he said. had been entirely changed
! The act as amended reads: THAT no per-
sen of the United States, or person owing
the duty of obedience to the treaties and
laws of the United States, shall kill, cap
ture or pursue any fur seal within a zone
of 90 geographical miles around the Priby-
lof Islands, inclusive of the territorial
waters"
Mr.. Sherman said he had investigated the
matter and was satisfied that the mis-
take had not occurred in the Office of the
secretary of the Senate, but in the printing
office, and that it had already been cor
rected by correspondence between the State
/ Department and the British government
I The bill was passed.
A resolution for the repeal of the state
bank tax was presented by Senator Gordon
I of Georgia, and, at his request, was re-
4 ferred to the committee on finance.
J. The House bill providing for new street
!, railway tickets in the District of Columbia
was passed with certain amendments.
( The resolution introduced recently by
Senator Allen calling on the Secretary of
the Treasury for the amount of appropria-
| lions made and expended for the improve
ment of rivers and harbors from March 3,
1887, to date was passed
Senator McPherson's Explanation.
Senator Mcpherson On. j., rising to a
personal explanation of charges Of obstruc-
ton to the Wilson bill leveled at him, COM
mented upon in the New York Evening Post
of April 13. read the abstract in which the
manifesto of the Minnesota democracy was
Endorsed and the obstructionists were
called upon to pass the tariff bill or ''get out
of the party"
Il am not in the habit of spending much
time in noticing newspaper attacks on my
self from my place in the Senate" said Mr..
Mcpherson, but this one deserves at least
a passing notice. for 1t seems to go to the
source of all the false reports in respect to
my attitude on the pending bill.
Il had supposed that every Senator on
this floor and every citizen of my state and
the representatives of the newspapers in the
Senate gallery knew full we'll that since this
bill has been reported to the Senate $50 long
as 1t remains an Improvement on the Nc
Kinley bill in respect to customs duties)
have announced my purpose to support it.
did not suppose there was any person in
doubt about that The correspondent OF the
New York Evening Post was early informed
of my position and purpose and he informed
me recently that he had advised the publ
cation office of it, NowI have no complaint
to make against this wanton, deliberate mis-
representation from such a source yet
take this occasion to remind that journal
that it is far more honorable to tell the
truth than to circulate falsehoods.
The PETER resolution for the appointment
of a reception committee for Coxey's army
of the comonweal, to be known In Senate
parlance as THE Committee on Communi-
cations" came up a few minutes before
o'clock, but in those few minutes it received
some very rough handling by Senator Haw-
ley, whose speech, in full. is printed else
where.
The Tariff Debate.
Senator Allen was about to reply to Sem
ator Hawley, but the hour of o'clock hav-
ing arrived, the resolution went over with
out action, and the tariff bill being laid be-
fore the Senate, Senator Gallinger of n. H.
spoke against the bill.