Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1888 — NATIONAL LAW-MAKERS. [ARTICLE]

NATIONAL LAW-MAKERS.

What In Being Bone by* the National Legislature. Mb. Vest, of Missouri, introduced a resolution in the Senate, on the 14tu Inst., providing for a select committee of five Senator a to examine fully all questions touching the meat product of the United States, and especially as to the transportation of beef and 'beef cattle and sale of the same in the cattle markets, stock yards, and cities. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Privileges and Flections, to which had been referred certain resolutions of the Indiana Legislature concerning the election of Mr. Turpie as United States Senator, made a report and asked to be discharged before the further consideration of the resolution and memorials, “thereby confirming the title of Mr. Turpie to his seat.” Mr. Stewart introduced a proposed constitutional amendment to reduce from two-thirds to a majority the vote in each house overriding Presidential vetoes. In the House, Mr. Lawler introduced a bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to cause such changes and improvements to be made in the public building at Chicago and to erect such additions thereto as may b^ necessary to provide sufficient Accommodations .or the postoffice. The committee on invalid pensions reported a bill proposing to remove the restriction upon the payment of arrearages of pension in the case of claims filed before the passage of the bill It is estimated at the pension office that it will require $250,000,000 to meet the requirements of the bill. The tariff debate in the House was continued. The speakers were Messrs. Struble of lowa, Hatch of Missouri, Symes of Colorado, Funston of Ktnsas, and O’Ne'all of Indiana, The pension appropriation bill came up inthe Senate on the 15th inst, and the amendment reported from the committee increasing l the appropriation from $79,00’,000 to $80,477,000was agreed to. Mr. Hoar called up the report of the Committee on Privileges and Elections in the matter of Senator Turpie, and in accordance with the request of that committee it was. discharged from further consideration of the memorials and remonstrances on the subject. A bill to provide two additional justices for the Supreme Court of Dakota was favorably reported. The House bill providing that hereafter eight hours shall constitute a day’s work for lettercarriers was passed. Mr. Farwell introduced a bill appropriating SBOO,OOO for enlarging and changing the Chicago Postoffice building. The House devoted the day to the discussion of the Mills tariff bill. Speeches were made by Messrs. Butterworth of Ohio, Henderson of Illinois, Grout of Vermont, and Seymour of Michigan In opposition to the bill, and Messrs. Buckalew of Pennsylvania and Stone of Kentucky in favor of it. The Senate on the 16th inst. passed Mr. Vest’s; resolution providing for a select committee toinvestigate questions touching the meat, product of the United States, after amending it so as to make the investigation embrace the Trunk Line Association, the Central Traffic Association, and other agencies, of transportation, and was then adopted. The Senate passed a bill appropriating $509,000 for the commencement of a boat railway around the obstructions of the Columbia river nt the Dalles and Celilo falls. The bill appropriating $200,000 for a branch home for disabled volunteer soldiers in Grant County, Indiana, was passed by the House. In the House there was an exciting scene during the tariff debate. Mr. Brumm charged Mr. Scott with contributing toward paying the iron police in the coal regions. Mr. Scott denied it. “You made that charge once before,” said he. “Yes,” retorted Mr; Brumm, “and I can prove it.” "I will make you prove it.” cried Mr. Scott, vehemently. “I am going to call you before the bar of the House to make you prove it.” “And I will prove it,” shouted Mr. Brumm. “It is false as h itself,’’ retorted Mr. Soott. “The gentleman ought to haveknown what he was doing. I have nothing mere to say.” The other tariff speakers were Messrs. Bound of Pennsylvania, Fat*uhar of New York, Laird of Nebraska, Mcßae of Arkansas, Ryan of Kansas, Baker of New York, Russell of Massachusetts, Dalzell of Pennsylvania, Wickham of Ohio, Montgomery of Kentucky, and Shively of Indiana. The Senate passed the pension appropriation: bill on the 17th inst., after adopting an amendment reported by the Committee on Appropriations to strike out the words “that in all pensions to widows payments shall be made from the date of the death of the husband,” and to insert “that all payments which have been or which may hereafter be granted under the general laws regulating pensions to widows in consequence of death occurring from a cause which originated in the service since the xth of March, 1861, shall commence from the date of the death of the husband/ The Senate also passed the following bills : To amend the Revised Statutes in relation to timber depredations ; authorizing Gen. Absalom Baird Jo accept the Legion of Honor decoration from France ; to pay certain employes of the Chicago Custom House for extratime service, and appropriating $150,000 for quarters and barracks nt the branches of th® National Military Homo for disabled volunteer soldiers. Mr. Sherman introduced a bill to appropriate $25,000 for the erection in Washington of a monument to the memory of George Rogers Clark in recognition of his eminent services in the occupation and conquest of the northwestern territory. In the House speeches on the tariff were delivered by Messrs. Mason of Illinois, Cox of New York, Anderson of Illinois, Breckinridge of Arkansas, Peters of Kansas, Herman of Oregon, and Stewart of Vermont. The tariff discussion was resumed on the 18th, and Mr. Anderson of lowa concluded his speech, against the bill. Mr. Randall spoke. He said he would, as soon »s practicable, repeal the laws on internal-revenue taxation, and that tho administration would be better and purer today if the excise laws were abolished. Randall s time expired at noon, when request was made to have his time extended. Mills of Texas rose in hie seat and objected, which created great dissatisfaction on both sides of the House, and all the members rising in their seats shouted “Regular order!” for’minutes, until McKinley of Ohio, the next speaker, yielded to Randall fifteen minutes of his time, which finally restored order. The speaker took strong grounds against the Mills hili, because the details were liable to prove injurious to the manufacturing industries. He differed from his party in the belief that tariff for protection was constitutional, but for himself he favored only such a degree of protection as was incidental to raising the necessary revenue. He was unalterably opposed to the internal revenue system. He then stated his objections to the bill in detail, especially the wool and iron schedules. In view of these facts, he could not yield in his judgment to the majority of his own party, and gave notice to those who proposed to rule him by caucus dictation or rule ijjm out of the party that he refused to be dictated to on this v>tal subject. He concluded with a reference to the growth pt the country’s industries. The speech was carefully listened to and frequently applauded bythe Republicans. McKinley of Onio followed,, opposing the Mills bill. Proceeding to point out. what bewailed some of the ridiculous features of th.e bill, Mr. McKinley said that the duty on steel billets had been increased from 45 per cent, to 63 per cent.* ad valorem, thereby causing an increase of from ?£ to ;<j per cent, on every pound of wire fencing that inclosed the farms of ttie West. The duty on cut nails made from steel billets was reduced 25 per cent., while the duty on raw material was increased 45 per cent. He declared that the bill was sectional in that every cotton-planter could get hoop-iron for his cotton ties free of duty, while the farmer of the West must pay for the same iron l’£ cents a pound if he wished to bind his thatch or his pail. Breckinridge of Kentucky came next in an earnest defense of the bill. He contended that the bill was a protective tariff bill. It left the average rates of duty higher than under the Morrill tariff. The present law was so highly protective as in many cases to be prohibitory. The changes proposed by this bill are designed to give the farmer, by whom all provisions are raised, a market for his breodstuffs and raw materials, which is only profitable when he has a prosperous manufacturer for a purchaser; to the laborer.the hope of a constant market, and to the manufacturer freedom from unnecessary burdens.

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