Show ALLISON GOES AT IT His Reasons Why the Bill Should Not Pass Washington April 3The general public did not seem to have as much interest in-terest in the Senate today as yesterday yester-day and the attendance diu not indicate indi-cate that the second day of the tariff debate was to excite as much interest a the first A bill was reported from the Senate finance committee directing the parting part-ing and refining of bullion to be carried car-ried on at the states assay office at Helena Mon and was placed on the calendar Senator Mitchell of Oregon presented present-ed a resolution which was agreed to directing the secretary of the interior t transmit to the Senate a list of all public lands located in several sections of the states of Oregon and Washington Washing-ton tonSenator Senator Pettigrew of North Dakota I introduced a resolution which was I agreed to directing the secretary of agriculture to reply within two days to the resolution passed by the Senate about six weeks ago calling for statistics statis-tics as to the wheat production The resolution offered a short time ago by Senator Peffer directing the I finance committee to prepare a bill for repeal of all laws which give the secretary of the treasury authority author-ity to issue interestbearing bonds was laid before the Senate Senator Sherman moved that it be referred to the committee on finance at it was very important I Senator Stewart opposed the reference refer-ence of the resolution to the finance j I committee and urged immediate adoption 1 adop-tion The resolution went over till tomorrow in order to allow the introduction intro-duction of ab ill to carry out the awards of the tribunal on the Behrlng sea question The bill was passed Senator Harris gave notice that after af-ter tomorrow he would ask immediately immediate-ly after the transaction of the routine rou-tine morning business that the tariff bill be considered Allison AttacUs HAt H-At 2 oclock the tariff bill came up and Senator Allison addressed the Senate In his opening remarks he complained of the methods pursued in the preparfation of the bill of the incomplete in-complete hearing in the committee and of the difficulty experienced by the minority of the committee in getting information as to the bill He reviewed re-viewed the course of the tariff bill to show the leisurely manner in which the Democrats had hitherto pushed it The House of Representatives Elected in 1892 favored a change of tariff policy pol-icy but the president did not regard this policy as of sufficient importance to call an extra session He did however how-ever call Congress together in special session for the consideration of other matters The committee on ways and means however which was primarily charged with the consideration of questions of revenue was appointed at the extra session on December 19 1893 only a few days after the convening what is known as the Wilson bill and which passing through the ordinary stages of the House appeared in the Senate on February 2 1894 and was on that day referred to the committee on finance I was not reported TO the Senate until seven weeks aftenvarc And when I say exclaimed Senator I Allison that this bill was never considered con-sidered line by line and paragraph b paragraph I state what is known to every senator So it is worth our while for us to consider what sanction is to be given to the report of a committee as that brought Into the chamber being prac tically the conclusions of only three men As regards the feature of the bill involving a revenue of 80000000 it I came to the Senate as a minor and not I as a majority report Only five out of I eleven members of the committee gave their support to that feature Ho It EmhiuiHNHciI I may say went on Mr Allison that 1 am embarrassed in the exam nation of this bill by the fact that we have not yet been supplied with the necessary statements and proofs of the bill to consider it as a great bill ought to be considered There is not an industry In the coun try which would not bl injured by the bill while many of them would be strangled to death Mr Allison went on to argue agains the feature of the bill changing the duty from specific to ad valorem and showed the difficulty of getting a just appraisement of their nlue He gay notice that at the proper time he wOUl offer an amendment providing that the values in the bill fixed by its price at a home market instead of abroad Senator Cal here asked Senator Allison son to yield for a motion x to go into executive session This was the signal for a very lively debate which came upon the Senate with the suddenness of a cyclone and in which Senators Harris and Frj e played the leading roles The former said he hoped Senator Allison would i i t h ln continue his speech and finish i today The vicepresident interrupted the discussion to lay the following message from the president I transmit herewith a report of the secretary of the treasury enclosing the final report of the agent of the United States before the Pars tribunal of arbitration ation Also the protocols thus far rc I I qived and other papers relating to that matter Senator Frye here entered into the discussion with a caustic remark about railroading the bill through the Senate Sen-ate and a reference to Senator Harris two notices in one day of his intention to drive the bill through After further fur-ther sharp colluquy the incident closed I and the motion of Mr Call to proceed to the consideration of executive business busi-ness prevailed After a session of an hour and a quarter the doors were opened and the Senate at 525 adjourned ourned |