Show S liT the Senate WASHINGTON July 2SThe bill to pension pen-sion all surviving officers and men of Pow ells batallion Missouri mounted volunteers volun-teers raised during the war with Mexico passed Aldrich offered a resolution fixing the daily hour of meeting at 1 a mIn m-In als suggested an understanding that the business of the morning hour shall be considered closed at 1 oclock Allison did not wish it implied that the Senate would devote two hours a day to morning business Ingalls said he did wish just such an im plioation As soon as the tariff bill the appropriation bills and the election bill passed Congress would undoubtedly adjourn ad-journ promptly therefore whatever was to be done between now and the time of time of adjournment in consideration of the measures on the calendar would have to be done in the morning hour There were several hundred bills on the calendar entitled t consideration Cockrell asked what was the use of the Senate passing bills when the distinguished gentleman m charge of the House did not give any attention t them Thcra were now on the calendar of the House hundreds of bills passed by the Senate and no attention atten-tion was paid to them Among them was a bill refunding the direct tax Also two bills recently passed and regarded on the I other side of the chamber a very important I import-ant measures the shipping bills and they were left to sleep the sleep that knows no waking Hawley did not agree with Cockrell Ha wanted his own ammunition in order so he could go home with a clear record The resolution as to meeting at 1 was agreed to with the understanding that the Senate shall adjourn at 0 Aldrich moved to proceed t the consideration consid-eration of the tariff bill That motion was antagonized by a motion by Gray to proceed pro-ceed to the consideration of tho House bill for the transfer of the revenue marine to marne the navy department The latter motion was agreed to yeas 20 nays 25 Cockrel continued his argument in opposition op-position t the bill Cockrell had not concluded his speech when at 2 oclock the presiding officer laid before business the Senate the tariff bill as unfinished Gray moved to continue consideration of the revenue marine bIl Frye said the friends of the revenue bill had occupied but an hour and a half upon it its enemies small majority all the rest I of the tame It was as evident to the Senate as i thepurpose had been announced that the time had been occupied for the purpose of preventing a vote on the measure That only indicated what believed in the necessity ne-cessity the previous question in the Senate Sen-ate of some way tostop debate of someway some-way to prevent a Senator from getting up every morning for three or four mornings in succession and reading from the report of a clerk in the treasury department Why should not vote be taken on the bill i there i majority of the Senate in favor fa-vor of itl Whyhould it not be permitted to say sol The Senator from Ohio Sherman Sher-man had made four speeches upon the bill and in the course of them read the same identical articles which the Senator from Missouri had occupied thc last three mornings in reading Finally Grays motion mo-tion was rejected 1 to 34 The bill was taken up and Vest addressed the Senate in opposition to it The advocates of high tariff taxation he said were confronted by a great peril the dppression in agricultural interests and the emphatic demands of the farmers for something besides be-sides lying statistics and frothy declarations had caused the President and Secretary Blaine t urge upon Congress legislation for subsidies to steamships and for reciprocity recipro-city treaties with South American states in order t obtain a foreign market for American I Amer-ican products Very little was heard now of the home market but a great deal of the South American market So at last the protectionists had been driven from their pretentious humbug about home market and were forced to adopt the principle of free commercial intercourse which they had so long opposed and derided Vest went on to criticise the provisions of the pending bill that was supposed to be for the benefit of farmers and said what the farmers wanted was the opening and enlargement of the foreign market for their surplus wheat corn cattle and pork and a decrease of the tariff duty on clothing cloth-ing hardware tins and other necessary articles of daily and incessant use by the farmer and his family The pending bill he declared was to repay the millowners their contributions to the campaign fund of the Republican party during the last presidential presi-dential canvass and a the planters of the south were Democrats the duties on nothern manufactures were largely increased while the duty on rice was diminished The consumers of the United States were being systematically plundered under the pretense of protection to home industries No further concealment conceal-ment was possiole the truth was at last revealed The manufacturers who were persistently asking for higher duties t exclude ex-clude foreign competition were availing themselves of the monopoly given by an exclusive tariff to charge the people of this country from 20 to 70 per cent higher for their goods than they could soil the same articles for in the Unprotected markets of of the world It was no longer protection but pure simple naked plunder The Americans boasted of their free institutions of liberty and equality but who he asked could call himself a freeman free-man some in mockery when by the course of law the proceeds of his life and labor were unjustly taken t enrich another Turpio addressed the Senate briefly on McPhersons resolution to recommit the resolut1on bill with instructions to report a bill t reduce re-duce the revenue and to equalize the duties on imports in which the average ad valo rom rate of duty on all dutiable articles shall not exceed the average ad valorom war tariff rate of 1S04 He declared himself him-self not satisfied with the instructions if there vas a choice to be made between the pendiug bill and tho Merrill tariff of ISOS He would choose the Morril tariff but as tho proposed instructions over simply an expression of opinion of that great leader of the people who nollcd a majority of the people for his reelection scheme would be the imposition of lower duties on things in general use and of higher rates on articles of luxury and refinement the total sum of the levy not to exceed the necessary expenses ex-penses of the government and interest on the national debt The question was taken on the motion to recomm t and was defeated de-feated by a strict party vote yeas 19 nays UJ The reading of the bill by paragraph with no amendment was begun the first schednle being that as to chemicals oils and paints McPherson moved to reduce the duty on acetic acid exceeding a specif gravity of 1471000 from 1M cents to 1 cent and on acid exceeding that specific gravity from 4 to 3 cents per Bound The vote was yeas 15 nays 3 No quorum TheSenate bill appropriating 30000 for public buiblngs at Sheboygan a reported gn ported and placed on the calender The Senate then adjourned |