Show XL VII CONGRESS SECOND SON SECOND SESSION SENATE Hoar presented a petition of President Pres-ident Elliott and other professors of Harvard asking that no one but professional astronomers of experi ience shall be hereafter eligible for the position of superintendent of i the United States naval observatory observa-tory After an unsuccessful attempt by McMillan to have considered the resolution respecting the inade quancy of the water supply in the District of Columbia the tariff bill was taken up The paragraph embracing em-bracing the potato corn and rice starch was taken ups Hill moved to make the duty on potato and corn starch 2 cents a pound Hale said his amendment was about equivalent to the existing duty After debate agreed to ayes 28 nays 24 Aldrich explained the new classification classi-fication of cotton thread yarn warps etc Beck said he thought there should be no reduction on this class of goods but rather an increase Slater delivered a prepared argument argu-ment against high protective duties and in favor of a revenue for tariff McPherson introduced a bill to improve the efficiency of the naval academy The Senate then resumed consideration consid-eration of the common schedule Bayard believed the schedule would make a substantial advance in the question on common goods but confessed that he found great difficulty in understanding its provisions pro-visions and he thought when a man of an average amount of intelligence intel-ligence and accustomed to the study and framing laws found difficulty diffi-culty in understanding a proposed law that was pretty good evidence the law was not one fit for a republic repub-lic The reason that this schedule was so puzzling was that its preparation prepar-ation had been entrusted to ingenious I inge-nious technical experts in the cotton cot-ton manufacture Chilcott presented the credentials of Tabor elected from Colorado and he was sworn in and took his seatHarris Harris moved to make the duty on cotton thread yarn warp or yarn of every form and value 30 percent per-cent ad valorem Cake spoke at length in favor of tariff for revenue and against all protective tariff Under the revenue rev-enue tariff we would soon drive England France and Germany commercially from the American continent Hoar said the New England manufacturers man-ufacturers of woolen goods paid an annual tribute of 4000000 to Texas alone yet the people of that state desired no protection Coke said he would vote for free wool if New England would agree to reduce the duty on manufactured woolen goods at 25 per cent At 035 a vote was taken on the Harris amendment which resulted yeas 13 j noes 24 No quorum voting A general call of the Senate developed de-veloped the fact that a quorum was present but the attempt to vote on the pending amendment showed enough votes withheld to break it A motion to adjourn was lost These The-se igeantatarms was directed to request re-quest the attendance of absent senators sen-ators Morgan addressed the Senate and dritted off into a discussion of of the labor question He claimed the men of the north were discriminating discrim-inating against the people of the south and said he would offer a substitute sub-stitute for the present billa bill which would merely embody the Walker tariff with schedules arranged ranged according to prices which the Senate placed upon them Blair said that some of the remarks re-marks of the senator on the labor I question was calculated to lead to difficulties which probably would result in bloodshed Morgan replied the senator was trying to gag him to keep him from expressing the truth on the subject sub-ject Blair expressed the opinion that those men who formerly owned their labor should not defame the north as oppressors of the laboring menThe men-The vote on the Harris amendment amend-ment resultedayes 13 nays 94 no quorum MOUSE Washington 2 McCook New York presented a memorial of the chamber of commerce of New York urging Congress to pass a bill limiting limit-ing the coinage of silver dollars to the requirements of the people Petitions were presented protest against the transfer of the revenue marine life saving and coast survey sur-vey services to the navy department depart-ment After the appointment of conferees con-ferees on the postoffice appropriation appropria-tion bill the House went into committee pf the whole on tariff the pending amendment being that offered by Carter Pennsylvania to increase the duty on tanning barks from 10 to 20 per cent ad valorem After debate certain amendments were agreed to 98 to 74 The clause now reads Extract of hemlock and other bark now used for dyeing w I and tanning not otherwise provided If t i n pro-vided for n this act 20 per cent ad j valorem j l i f1 After a spirited debate upon the i I question of a quorum voting on the I I amendment to the varnish clause during which Mills Texas charged Aldrich Illinois with uttering a f falsehood but subsequently retracted re-tracted the remarks The clause rf t t relative to varnish was agreed npon i las > j f l-as follows Shellac varnish 20c per i L gallon and in addition thereto an f amount equal to the internal t fr t r revenue tax on the alcohol contained az t 1 therein varnishes other than shellac J J 1 shel-lac 40 per cent ad valorem and in 1 addition thereto an amount equal Id i k to the internal revenue on the r t alcohol contained therein ti n The chemical schedule having f5 i r been concluded Morris offered an t 1 i r amendment providing that after < July 1SS5 there shall be levied collected j col-lected and paid on articles goods wares and merchandise in this I schedule only 90 per eent of the i irf i duties imposed on said articles II il severally Such reduction would t I l 1 helpthe manufacturing interestsand 1 Ion I-on the theory of protection could i pinot fir not possibly affect the question of iJH i wages Tho amendment was lost I j Townsend offered as a substitute for the whole schedule a proposition I tJ providing for two years following I July 1st there be a reduction of I 20320 par cent from the existing ti j Ir rates in the chemical schedule for f l I the succeeding two years a further 1I l P r f reduction of 10 per cent Lost Ji ii Schedules earthen ware and glassware I glass-ware was then considered many dJT 1 amendments offered and rejected 1 h The debate continued at great f f length During the discussion Hammond i Ham-mond remarked that every time an k industry was reached somebody rose J and said This is my infant and y = has to be taken care of Thus in it the language of the President in Lis j 1 t veto to the river and harbor bill a rii K V t the bill become3 more objectionable I tit J t-it secures more support 11 Tucker ridiculed the idea that an ii industry which only required 30 i1liJ i per cent protection in its infancy f l 1 should in its manhood need 65 percent tl per-cent protection Carlisle moved to strike ornamental f orna-mental earthen stone and crockery r i ware from the list of articles to pay t 65 per cent ad valorem tit I Brewer said the kind of painted k ware which the gentleman from Kentucky Carlisle objected to being I classified with the finer goods were i < placed on the catalogue on account j 1 ot the difi of r difficulty distinguishing I j between the low and high grades ili I 1 j He could find the gentleman from t F Kentucky a piece of earthenware i which he could not distinguish from the best Cbinaware Brewer produced in the course of < his remarks several specimens of crockery and china and members gathered around him and listened i attentiyely to his explanation of the f various grades of work ° Kelly called the attention of the i committee to the large vase which i hehad in his deskand explained that it was the article i n which was 50 cents worth of American clay and sr more than 84 worth of American 1 labor It having been made at s Green Point N Y but the gentlemen + gentle-men might easily mistake it for imported j im-ported chinaware Gunther moved to change the duty on green and colored glass bottles vials demijohns carboys etc from 1J > cents per pound to 05 per cent ad valorem Duester hoped the amendment offered by his colleague would be adopted claiming that the provision in the bill was an Increase of nearly > 200 per cent over the present rats of ik I expense i1l t 3 After a long debato the motion It was agreed do41 to 7550 the rate li f remains at 80 per eent ad valorem f The committee then rose It Cannon from the committee of l appropriations reported the legislative j I ts legis-lative executive and judicial appropriation l ap-propriation bill Referred to the committee of the whole He gave ltk notice that under direction of his jf + committee he would move on Monday i 1 I f Mon-day to pass the bill under asuspen lP J sionof rules its t BlackburnWill the gentleman J be candid enough to state the 1 f authority given him to move a suspension sus-pension of the rules It was not j 3 J the unanimous action of the committee t e com-mittee t1 CannonA voice action of the W z committee The committee acts by i B the majority ot course L am perfectly ra per-fectly willing to state that I was so directed by a strict party vote i Townfend Do you want a vote to pay 20000000 without an opportunity a op-portunity to debate HiscockThats tho proposition wi exactly It is the appropriation 1 bill carrying the pay roll for the executive departments and I am I willing to take the responsibility of i1 ° 4 passing it without debate Robinson Massachusetts You passed the sundry civil bill without debate in the Fortysixth Congress The Senate joint resolution passed + t authorizing the public printer to u remove certain materials from the t i government printing house The House then adjourned though attempts were made by the whisky bond bill to prolong the session for ffiL i the purpose of securing a night session Y ses-sion onMonday next for consideration considera-tion of that bill t |