The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-04-15
SKIRMlSH ON THE TARIFF.
s,reooth of Different Elements
Tested by Vote
SENATE WAS VERY EVENLY DIVIDED.
r.r,G Supporters Iind n Majority of
only Onc-Indian Appropriation
hill Under Consideration.

washington, April 1.-THE first sklr-
nish on the tariff question occurred in
,ho senate today. 1t was followed by a
yo,e which served as a test of strength of
Ana various clements of the senate. The
vote occurred on ii motion by Mr.. Nor
Ill OkepJ of Vermont. chairman of the
committee on finance, TO refer u resolu-
,,or nv Mr. Vest, one of the democratic
nanbers of the committee. This made
the issue between the representatives. ii
;is TWO leading dement's in the senate.
| Aside from this the resolution was in
the nature OF Il CRITICS II of Secretary
Gage and declared Illegal his recent or
der relative TO goods imported after April
!. when according to the retroactive clause
Of the pending Dinglcy bill. the new tar
III rates are to apply. Mi. Morriirs mo-
lion prevailed by the close vote of "A 10
q The detailed vote wls as follows
Yeas-Bakar, Burrows, Carter. Clark,
Cullom, Davis, Foraker, Frye. Gallinger.
Hawley Hanna, ltsiAtsprouSi, no.t, --
Mnlin, Mantle, Mason, Nelson, Piat OF
New YORK, HryJchari, Proctor. Quay.
spooner, Warren. WelAngton-2i,
Nays-Baie, Butler, cannon, Chandler.
Chiffon, Cockre!y German, Gray, Harris
of Kansas, He.feldt, Lindsay, McEnsry.
Martin, Mlils, MorgaA tIscoe Petugrew.
Tettus, RawlIns. Turner, Turple, Vest.
Wathal-23.
Senator Kyle, whose position on the
question Is OF interest, and Senator AL
len (Pop), were absent. The affirmative
| vote was given by republicans, including
che silver republican, .ir. Mantle OF Mon
/ tana. The negative vote las made W of
/ democrats, poprlsis, and Two silver re-
Iubliclns Peutigrcw of South Dakota
and Cannon OF Utah. Prior to tie vote
breezy discussion occurred on several
go H. al
hrs, when Mr.. Mantle PR scented a me
mortal from the wool growers. urging am
pie protection OF uhCir Industries. He re-
Secretary North of the Wool Manufac-
tuners ASSOCIATION was acLaE as secre-
tary Of the lblaIle committee Mr.. Nor
I'LL denied tho stateme't, saying he had
been summoned as an expert to give in
formation on The WOOL question. Mir Ioar
responded TO some OF the crili ,.sms of
Mr. Mantle l'e sa.d he hoped 10 sea
the wool schedule arranged TO the salts
faction of the wool growers This should
be aone w.tnoul arlaNpug me wuul grow
trs against the wool manufacturers. Their
Interests were identical. Certainly NJ
Il wool grover Womb desire TO haV.. a duty
N on manufactured wool which did not af-
e ford adequate projection. THIS whole
"A question must be settled by the sound and
n serious Judgment Of both interests.
n Mr. Hoar referreI to the fact that tho
81 wool growers were not without their
81 wachful representatives, when the tariff
a bill was before congress, and he tnought
The argus eye OF Judge Lawrence would
See that this interest did not suffer.
Mr.. Gray (Dem) of Delaware said he
desired to call pupllc attcnt!on 10 the
remarkable proposition coming from the
other side OF the chambers Senators he'd
made II clear that there was "a compact
well MANAGED organization Tor the pur-
/ pose Of realizing the taxes TO the high
| est point on ther respective lines OF
goods Both of thpsa Industries We're rep
resented, accoriinr to the statements
made, but the great body OF the Ameri-
can people the consumers of these taxed
goods, were not repres,anted here
Mr.. Morrill, succcctlei m cutting off the
debate by calling for the regular order
blt 1t soon hroKe out again on MIR. Vests
resolution directed AGAINST the secretary
of The treasury MIR. Vest declared the
retroactive clause OF the pending tarin
bill was ilclal and beyond the power of
congress He characterized Secretary
Cages recent order as A nulification of
the existing law ana a move to intlmidate
the Importers Of foreign goods. Mr. Nor
rillis motion 10 refer the resolution to the
10 an iss vVa'ia ID" s,,,c,
Mr.. Morgan of AIatama endeayorei to
have a time fixed for the final vote or
lis Cuban resolution Mr.. Huir ohirc'c,>
and Mr.. Morgan gave notice that the res
oluti0n would be presented daily till a
'aal vote was reached
The Indian apuropria1ion bill was then
taken up Ii affordeI Mr.. Gorman of
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