Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1897-03-25
VERY SHORT OPEN SESSION
Of the Senate With but Little
Done.
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
The krbtration Treaty Is Being Considered
List of Speakers on the Tariff Bill
Civil Service Again.

Washington, March 24.-The senate
! spent only half an hour in open session
| today, the remainder of the time being
| given to the consideration of the arbitra-
| zion treaty behind closed doors. The ag-
| ricultural appropriation bill-one of the
four money bills that failed at the last
session--was reported back in the shape
| in which it passed the house last week,
and was placed on the calendar. 1t Will
| be acted on a.: an early day.
The attack upon the civil service law
and it's administration, which distin-
guished yesterdays proceedings was fol-
lowed UP today by the introduction of
two bills, one by Mr.. Allen, popuiist, OF
Nebraska, for the repeal and annulmeni
| of the law and of all executive orders is
| sued under it; and the other by MI
| Pritcha rd republican, of North Carolina,
| chairman of the committee on civil ser
| vice and retrenchment,, modifying It's ap-
| plcation to The government printing oI-
| flee.
| A bill prohibiting the exhibition, in the
| District Of Columbia, of kinetoscope Illus
! trations of prize fights, also prohibiting
| the transporta. ion of materials therefor
| through the mails or through the avenues
| of interstate commerce was introduced
| by Mr.. Hoar, republican, of Massachu-
sets and was referred to the judiciary
| committee.
At 5 p. m. the senate adjourned until
| tomorrow. ~
While in executive session the senate
| confirmed the nomination of Binger Her.
| man, of Oregon, to be commissioner OF
| the general land Office, and Ernest q:
| Timme, of Wisconsin, to be auditor OF
| the state department.
IN THE HOUSE.
Large audiences in the galleries, and
| an unusually large attendance on the
floor of the house of representatives heard
| the third days general debate on. the
tariff bill. The principal speeches of the.
| day were those of Messrs. Johnson, of
| North Dako.a; Grosvenor, of Ohio ana
| Evans, of Kentucky, republican members
| of the committee on ways and means, IN
favor OF the bill, and of Mcmillan, of Ten
| nessee, the Oldest democratic member,
| against it. Other speakers were Messrs.
| Fox democrat OF Mississippi; Sims,
| democrat, of Tennessee; Williams, demo-
crat, of Mississippi; Terry democrat, of
| Arkansas; SayeTS, democrat, of Texas,
! and Maddox, democrat. of Georgia,
against the bill, and by Adams, republi-
| can, of Pennsylvania, and Walker, re
| publican, of Massachusetts, in favor of
! it. The general debate will be closed
| tomorrow, when Russell, of Connecticut,
| Dalzell, of Pennsy ylyania, Steele, of In
| diana, and Payne, of New York, republic
| can members of the committee on ways
| and means, and Bailey, of Texas, the
| democratic leader, will speak. The las
! ter makes the formal closing for the mi
| nority, and Payne for the majority. Be-
sides these, Messrs. Hepburn, republican.
| of Iowa, and Richardson, democrat, of
| Tennessee, will speak.
Mr.. Browplow, republican, of Tennes-
see, introduced in the house a bill es-
| tablishing department of commerce,
| labor and manufactures. It's head is TO
| be a cabinet officer and the necessary
| clerical force is provided for
| EVENING SESSION.
| Mr.. Livingston, democrat, of Georgia,
| was the first speaker al tonight's ses-
| sion and INDUCED in a brief half hours
| protest against the tariff bill.
A tariff that would bear equally upon
all sections of the country and treat all
| interests alike, he said, all parties could
| support. But this bill benefited manu-
| facturers at the expense of the masses.
! Mr.. Brundige,- democrat, of Arkansas,
| spoke against the bill and Bromwell, of
| Ohio; Belford, of New York and Parker,
| of New Jersey, all republicans, in favor
of it,
| Mr.. Castle, populist and democrat, of
| California, attacked the bill most vigor-
| ously. The proper title of the monstros-
| ity, as he designated it, should be, in his
opinion, ito foster trusts and to pauper-
| ize and peonize the agricultural laborers
| of the United States"
| The primary object of the bill, he said,
| was neither to raise revenue nor to en-
| courage the industries of the United
| States, but was designated by it's au-
| thors for the express purpose of enabling
| the powerful trust to stand up the people
| of the country and to legally rob them.
| I'VE are today" Mr. Castle said, Sin the
| TRANSITIONAL stage, passing from a repub-
| lican into the most odious form of gov
| ernment known in history-a moneyed
| oligarchy. Rome, in her decline, had her
| 'Cataline,' America has her Hanna
! (Applause and hisses)
| Mr.. Brown, republican, of Ohio, said
| it was not necessary to hold long ses-
| sion of congress to execute the commits
| sion placed in its hands by the passage
| of the tariff bill. In the opposition to it
he said, we see the final struggles of an
| other lost cause. fnhe new member, as
| well as the old could see, and did, in thid
| struggle, the old contest between two
| different systems.
/ Saying that he should vote for the bill,
| Mr. Kerr, republican, of Ohio, criticised
| the reciprocity feature as being, in his
| opinion, fatally defective. The conces-
| sions proposed in the scheme, he said,
| were so insignificant c0mpared with what
| we must ask in exchange, that any ma
| tion negotiating with US for them would
| be without either dignity or sense. He
| urged the substitution for the provisions
| of the bill, the reciprocity section of the
Mckinley bill. born in the brain of James
1 G. Blaine.
The last speech of the evening was de-
! livered by Mr.. Oldstead, republican, of
/ Pennsylvania, in support of the bill, who
addressed six representatives on the floor
| and score of visitors in the galleries.
| At II o'clock the committee rose and
| the house adjourned. i.u
| BANKS MUST PAY.
| Frankfort KY, March 24.-The court of