Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-05-31
CONGRESS.
Senate.


The Senate promptly adjourned on tht
26th out of respect to the late Senator Earle
of South Carolina.
The debate on the tariff bill began in the
Senate on the 25th with crowded galleries
and large attendance of senator's and the
tariff leaders of the House. Minor business
claimed attention up to 2 p. M. when Sena.
tor Aldrich of Rhode Island, in charge OF
the Senate and took the floor for the open
ing speech. At that time every available
seat in the galleries was occupied The Re
publican side of the floor showed an almost
solid representation, there being three or
four vacant seats. The Democrats also pre-
sented full ranks, and the scattered seats of
exception. Mr. Aldrich spoke for almost
an hour and a quarter, adopting an easy
conversational style. His speech was the of
fetal utterance of the finance committee
and, in sense, of the Republican side of
the chamber. Without making invidious
distinctions between the two bills. Mr.. Al
drch clearly stated as the belief of the
finance committee that the House bill would
not yield revenue adequate for the needs OF
the government. Mr.. Vest of Missouri, one
of the Democratic members of the finance
committees followed with a statement in
opposition to the bill. He spoke OF the fu-
tility of piling up taxes on an overburdened
people when there was a balance OF $l29,-
100000 in the treasury. He criticised the
schedules in detail, declaring that some OF
them were designed to be prohibitiye. He
severely attacked the increase in the lead
'cormorants' of monopoly and against the
people.
The first vote on the tariff bill was taken
in the Senate on the 26th. 1t came after a
two hours debate on the item of borac1c
acid. which, although comparatively unlm-
pOrtant, afforded an opportunity for the hrst
alignment of the various elements Mr.
Vest of Missouri, a Democratic member or
the finance committee, moved to make the
rate on boracic acid cents instead of 5
cents a pound, as provided by the commit
,4o1 ircI1 hot IxyOn IN
the committee and the opponents OF the DILL
The amendment was defeated, yeas 20, nays
81 The vote was largely on party lines
The affirmative was made up of nineteen
Democrats and one Populist-HeitfelG. The
negative was made up of twenty-n1ne Re
publicans, two Democrats McEnery of
Louisiana and White of California; two sill
yer Republicans-C Cannon of Utah and Jones
Of Nevada-and one Pcpulist-Stewart OF
Nevada. Seven paragraphs of the bill were
considered during the day, the committee
being sustained in each instance.
The Senate made good progress on the
tariff bill on the 27th disposing OF about ten
pages Several votes were taken, the finance
committee being sustained in each case by
majorities varying from to Is. The drug
schedule was under discussion and the de-
bate was largely technical Occasionally,
however it branched off to general phases
of the tariff. although at no time during the
day was there speech of more than five
minutes duration. Before taking up the
tariff bill. the final conference report on the
provision suspending until March 1 next the
executive order creating extensive forest re-
serves.
The House adjourned at 1925 p NJ. on the
oath on account of the death of Senator
Earle of South Carolina. During the brief
session Representative McMilin of Ten
nessee introduced resolution providing for
the consideration of the Senate resolution
recognizing the belligerency of the Cuban
insurgents from day to day until disposed
Of" The resolution was referred to the
committee on rules, but it is not likely that
the committee will consider it. The ma
jority leaders will decide for themselves
when it is proper to act on the resolution.
Representative Lewis CWash) endeavored
to bring the Cuban question before the
House on the 9th as privileged question
on the ground that it concerned our foreign
relations. He offered a resolution declaring
it to be the sense of Congress that the bel
| ligerency of the Cuban insurgents should be
recognized Speaker Reed declard it out of
ordr and on appeal the House by 81 to 81
sustained the speaker The House then adj
jOurned until Monday.