The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1894-06-02
WORK OF CONGRESS-
RESUME OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE
SENATE AND HOUSE.

RESUME OF PROCEEDINGS OF Tho
SENATE AND HOUSE.
Condensed Record of the Important
T~ransactions of Our National LAW
makers-The Work Done in Both
Branches.
Washington, May 22.-Almost immedi-
ately upon assembling the house went
into committee of the whole on the leg
i~slative appropriation bill. Then MI.
Hayes Dem., Iowa. offered an amend
ment which declared that the section
which allowed the docking of members
salaries had been heretofore repealed.
1t was agreed-11S to 81. Republican
%applause). The speaker and the two
Democratic members of the rules COM
mittee voted in the negative. Mr.. Dock
cry gave notice that an aye n nay
vote would b, demanded on the amend
ment when the bill was reported to the
house.
In the senate Mr.. PETER (Pop., Kan.)
offered an amendment to transfer iron
ore to the free list. MIR. Brice Dem,
Ohio, during the course of the debate
that followed, became involved for a
brief space and Immediately became the
target for his political antagonists. Mr..
Brice denied that there was n dis
sension on his side or that the proposed
duty of 4Oc on iron ore was a protection
duty. As he understood it, he said, it
was purely a revenue duty. Mr.. PETERS
amendment was lost to 4G. The ayes
were Allen, Hill Dem, N. ", Kyle and
PETER.
Washington, May 23.-The senate dis
posed of several paragraphs of the
schedule to-day after eight hours of de-
bate. The debate was marked by quite
a number of interesting clashes between
the Republicans and Democrats. The
sensational feature of the day was caused
by the unexpected presentation by Mr..
Jones of an amendment substituting the
Mckinley law classification and specific
rates on round iron in coils, blooms and
charcoal iron, somewhat, higher than
those already proposed. This amendment
was a surprise to some senators on both
sides, although evidently anticipated by
Mr.. Quay and a few other of his col
leagues. Mr.. Hale tried to use it as a
text for haunting the Democratic side,
and Mr.. Teller read him a very plain
lecture on the duty of the Republicans
to accept such increase as the Democrats
were willing to grant without continually
Gliding their adversaries with incon-
sistency. When the vote was taken sew
en- Democrats and two Populists refused
to support the Jones substitute, namely,
Allen, Berry, Blackburn, Jarvis, Kyle,
! Mills, Pascoe and PETER. The rates
fixed to-day were as follows: Iron ore,
40 cents per ton; pig iron, scrap iron,
etc, 81 per ton; round iron in coils, 8
cent per pound; slabs, blooms, less finish
than bars, 5-S cent per pound; charcoal
blooms, SIP per ton; beams, Orders and
other superstructural iron or steel, 6
cent to 25 per cent, ad valorem; forgings
of iron or steel, 1 1-2 cents; hoop or band
iron or steel cotton ties), 80 per cent al
i valorem.
The question of civil service reform
was given full sway in the house to-day,
the occasion being the amendment to
! strike out the paragraph in the legis-
lative appropriation bill providing for the
civil service commission. 1t gave op-
portunity for some stirring and not a
few amusing speeches. The amendment
was adopted by a vote of 100 TO II
amid great Democratic applause and Re
! publican cries of "spoils." Among the
Democrats who voted with the Republic
ans in favor of civil service reform were
Wilson Tracy, Hendrix, Dockery, War
ner, Springer, Savers, Grain, Martin,
Kilgore, Livingston, Deforest, Everett.
The vote on division was So to 81. 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 ayes and hayes in the
| house.
Washington, May 24.-In the s. nate to-
day Mr.. Teller moved to table the tariff
till. The motion was made to test the
sense of the Democratic majority, and
see if the bill was to be the bill which
the Democratic party intended to pass.
The motion was defeated by a strict
party vote-2S to 80. Messrs. Hill, Irby
and Kyle voted against Teller's motion.
Senator Germans speech was the
feature of TIE days session. Mr.. German
and Mr.. Brice have been cited by the
opposition with the joint authors ship of
the compromise amendments which con-
solidated the Democratic side, nj Mr..
German, especi lilly, has been subjected
to much criticism both in and out of the
a measure to the attacks that had been
1Ao uPOh Aln, SApAoAAAh6 IL SoS
for the compromise and defining the
theory upon which the modified bill, now
tefCre the senate was constructed, at
tracted intense interest. 1t was regarded
as. an exceedingly able exposition of the
position of the conservatives. Mr.. Cor
mans speech furnished the texts for Re-
publicans for the remainder Of the day.
HIS statement that a majority of the
senate would support the bill was put
to the test by Mr.. Teller whose purpose
was to ''smcke OUT any latent oppos;-
lion on the Democratic side. Mr.. Cor
mans statement was justified by the vote,
however, as the Colorado senator's mo-
ton to Jay the tariff bill ON the table
was met by an unbroken Democratic
front. Both Senator Hill of New York
and Senator Irby, whose positions have
been the subject of gossip from time to
time, voted with their Democratic as
sociates, as did the three Populists, in
Guiding Mr.. PETER. The rates fixed to-
day were as follows:
Railway bars, CIV rails, ETC., 7-2O of
4 cent per pound; black taggers, between
10 and 2O-wire GAUGES, thinner than 25,
1 cent; iron and steel plates coated with
zinc or other metals, except tin or terne
plates, IA cent more than rates in pre-
ceeding paragraph. Sheet iron or steel,
polished, 1 81 cents per pound.
The house to-day defeated appropria-
ions for a portion of the work of the
civil service commission.
Washington, May 25.-In the senate to-
day the Aldrich amendment to increase
the duty on tin plate to 11-2 cents per
pound was laid on the tableJ36 to &c.
The. Jones' tin plate amendment was then