| Show In the Senate WASHINGTON Aug 2Thu Senate met at 10 A call of the roll showed fortynine Senators six more than a quorum present The resolution offered yesterday by Blair instructing the committee on rules to report re-port within four days rule for the incor ninHnn nf thin nrpvinns mif > finn nr cnmfv method for limiting and closing debate in the parliamentary procedure of the Senate was taken up Blair said that Senators had spoken to him indicating their desire to he heard before action should bo taken on the matter and who were not ready tOjproceed He should therefore not press the resolution resolu-tion this morning But he desired to say that he had offered the resolution not with special reference to any pending bill but with a feeling that there was o necessity for the proposed change The period had arrived when in tho transaction trans-action of the countrys business the Senate must have some way by which a larger number of important public measures could be decided As it now wasp the whole bus mess of the country was at the mercy of nnfi nr frwn individuals who mitrht ho r > n posed to the measure and the majority was practically under the control of the minor i ty Nobody could complain that there had b een a disposition to procrastinate or to o ibstruct the ordinary course of debate and d iscussion on the tariff bill yet although t he Senate had already spent ten days u pon it only fifteen pages had been ills p osed of out of a total of 1S2 pages in the b ill and all the great subjects oi discussion s ugar reciprocity etc were still to come There was no reason to suppose therefore t hat under the existing rules the bill would jo concluded before next December Head h He-ad not offered the resolution with a view t o any pending measure but with a view t o a fundamental radical and indispensiblo change in the parliamentary procedure of t he Senate Morgan remainded Blair of the long titan six or seven weeks consumed in consideration consid-eration of the education bill and said thst no time had been wasted as a result of discussion dis-cussion that bill had been defeated just as he hoped the debate on the tariff bill would result in the defeat of that measure The resolution was referred to the committee com-mittee on the rules The tariff bill was then taken up the duestion being upon Vests amendment to reduce the duty on decorated china to 50 per cent ad volorem and on plain white chu 40 per cent instead of G3 and 55 percent per-cent in the House bill and 55 and 50 as proposed by the finance committee The amendment was discussed pro and con at length Gorman thanked Allison for his frank statement After further discussion of tile chinaware paragraph George took the floor and made a long speech on the general subject sub-ject of tariff Platt repelled and denounced an assertion made by George to the effect that while the duty on steel rails was 11 a ton labor in producing the article cost only 154 The fact was if the production of a ton of steel cost 24 the labor portion of that cost was not only 154 but ten times that amount Jones of Arkansas supported Georges statement about steel rails and also spoke on chinaware matters at the close of which he read from papers a report from Findlay Ohio as to the purchase by an English syndicate of various glassware factories and said the effect of tariff legislation was to encourage such trusts and syndicates Regan warned the Senators that thg Farmers alliances and workingmena asses ciations were not to be ignored A conference was ordered on the sundry civil appropriation bill At 5 oclock Aid rich intending to move an adjournment proposed that a vote on the pending question ques-tion be taken Monday without further discussion dis-cussion Take a vote now We are ready we are always ready to vote as soon as discussion dis-cussion is over1 were the responses from several Senators on the Democratic side Aldrich did not think there was c quorum present but he was willing to try The vote was taken on Vests amendment and the result was yeas 37 nays 20 no quorum Paddock and Plumb voted wst the Democrats The Senate then ad jouroed z u |
