Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-07-22
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, July %.
SENATE.

SENATE.
The credentials of the new Senator
from Tennessee, Thomas B. Turley,
who succeeds the late Senator. Harris,
were presented to the Senate to-day
by his associate, Mr.. Bate. Mr.. Tnrley
was then escorted to the Vice Presi-
dents desk, where the oath of Office
was duly administered. On the desk
to which he was assigned on the demo:
cratic side, was superb bouquet OF
carnations. Mr.. Turley is little be-
yond middle age, with a smooth shaven
face of Jacksonisn cast.
Mr.. Tillman offered a resolution dis.
charging the committee on contingent
| expenses from further consideration OF
his resolution for an investigation OF al
legged senatorial sugar speculation.
Before anything could be said MIR.
Jones, of Nevada, presented report
from the committee on the same resolu-
ton.
Mr.. Tillman was quickly on his feet
asking that the report be read. He did
not want it sidetracked by any parlis-
mentary device and he wished to Sc
cure direct vote on the resolution.
Mr.. Gallinger, member of the COM
mittee, suggested that the resolution
would go to the calendar and be reach
ed in its proper order.
| Mr.. Tillman insisted on having 1t
read.
Mr.. Gallinger objected, the presiding
officer holding that single objection
was sufficient to prevent the reading.
Then Mr.. Tillman moved that the re
port be read. On viva voce vote the
motion was lost and the resolution went
to the calendar.
Mr.. Allison asked that the tariff con-
ference report be taken up but was met
with several measures which Senators
desired to hurry through in anticlpa-
tion of the adjournment OF Congress.
Mr.. Allison would not yield, and Mr..
Allen finally made an issue by moving
to take up the bill for nonpartisan
commission to inquire into questions af-
fecting agriculture and labor. The
motion was lost and without further
delay the consideration of the tariff re-
port proceeded.
Mr.. Chiffon took the floor for
speech against the bill as a whole.
Concerning the sugar schedule he
said it was so cunningly devised as to
J make it difficult to determine tha bene
fits conferred. Mr.. Chiffon concluded
that the sugar trust would be enabled
by the bill to charge the people one
cent per pound 10 ore for sugar than
under the present law. He said the
agricultural schedule ought to be known
AS the "fraud schedule" as it was de-
signed to be deceptive to the farmers.
,, In connection with Mr.. Chilton's dis
cussion of the agricultural schedule,
Mr.. Tillman was drawn into a yehe-
ment argument on the benefit of az ex
port bounty on agricultural products.
The South Carolina Senator declared
that the imposition of such bounty
was the most effective means OF de-
stroying the entire protective system,
for if the farmer got one drop Of blood
in his mouth he would want to "swsl-
low the whole carcass" and it would
end in scramble overturning the
whole system.
Mr.. Chiffon said he did not believe
the people of Texas could be helped by
| a protective system as whole or In
detail. A tariff on wool would, he be-
lieved, take more money out of their
pockets than it would put in them, and
the same was true of hides and lumber.
HOUSE.
When the House met to-day Mr.. Dali
zell presented from the committee on
ways and means a bill to authorize the
President to suspend in part or in whole
the discriminating duties imposed on
the vessels of foreign countries which
impose similar duties on our vessels.
He explained that the existing Mexican
laws imposed discriminating duties on
vessels carrying lumber and general
cargo but exempted those carrying coal.
As the President had no authority to
suspend duties on vessels carrying coal,
Cardiff and Wales now monopolized the
coal trade of Mexico, which belonged
to the coal mines of Alabama, Tonnes
see and Pennsylvania. This bill was
designed to allow partial suspension
of duties. The passage of the bill was
advocated by Messrs. Underwood,
Wheeler, McMillin and Ridgeley.
The bill was passed.
Mr.. Lacey secured unanimous con-
sent for the consideration of bill to
amend the act creating a civil govern
ment in Alaska. 1t was Identical with
the bill passed by the House at the
last session, creating surveyor gen.
eral and register and receiver of the
general land Office. 1t, however, con-
tanned an additional feature, empower
ing the President to create an addi
tional land district. Mr.. Lacey ex-
planned that the Yukon valley gold
discoveries rendered an additional land
Office imperative. In answer to ques-
ton, he said the gold fields lay in both
the United States and British North
America. The Klondike region was in
Canada.
The bill was passed, and then the
House, on motion of Mr.. Dingley, took
a recess until tomorrow.
"Last summer one of our grand
children was sick with severe bowel