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would not increase the revenue at all, but
pald rather, he thought, diminish it. 1t
lHpe not revenue measure. 1t was prB-


ctive tariff bill and nothing else. He said
WAS wrong to exempt tea and coffee al
1ASether from duty, because more revenue
1Efuesi from that than almost any other ar
ss4efe. Divers amendments were then offered,
sse most OF which was rejected, when no
cre being offered, the Senate adjourned.


House, Friday, Aug. &c, 1912.
s The House to-day passed bill repesling
dhr proviso to the land distribution bill,
l1ach proviso suspended the operation Of


enct, should the duties imports ever


ted 20 per cent; so that the wig majority
now try to pass the land bill without its
'tRfmg any connection with the tariff.
- SENATE, Saturday, Aug. %, 1912


Ehe bill concerning contested elections
was gain taken up. Mr.. Woodbury. char
acferlzed this bill and the apportionment
bit as twin sisters; both Unconstitutional.
fepportionment bill, he said, was bill
<elln& the States 10 elect by 51iStricts,
and fh's bill : as 70 p e8isf, ,-aKem Il Fey do
not obey the command. He said that the
Senate had by amendment, exonerated the
States of Mississippi, Missouri, Alabama,
and Georgia, but still persisted in outlawing
his State, New Hampshire, which had de-
nounced the apporiionnient bill as unconsti-
tional and refused to comply with its de-
mands.


Mr.. Sewer moved TO re-conmit the bill to
the committee who reported it, under the
hope that it would there die; and the ques-
ton being taken, the bill was recomHlit;ed.


no Con to %ho,, oIal -,
la ritf bill; and no more amendments being
offered the bill was passed by vote Of "a
to 25, Messrs. Mangum and Graham voting
against il,


House, Saturday, Aug. 81, 1912.


Several private bills was passed, and a
large number Of Senate bills laid aside in
Committee Of the Whole on the state Of the
Union, to be reported to the Committee of
the Whole House. A number of bills were
also finally passed.


From the Globe ofthe 29th Aug


Congress.


The Senate passed, to-day, as a separate
bill, the land distribution part Of the tariff
bill which the President vetoed. 1t will be
seen from this, that, much as the federal
party hate vetoes, they direct more of their
legislation to procure them than any thing
else. This bill has precisely the same scope
as the clauses Of the two tariff acts which
called out the two vetoes. 1t is to repeal
the clause in the distribution act, which the
friends Of Mr. Clay inserted as the condition
on which their great distribution measure
was carried, viz +: that it should cease, and
aAe 8At ffe c5as Of r. this Session, have
extoried three vetoes, TO crush three attempts
20 violate their own solemn compact.


The federa ma ajority pressed through
the penal statute against the States, disfran-
chising such as shall not obey the ma ndamus
act, ordering the State Legislatures to make
Congressional districts 10 suit the majority in
Congress. This majority has the right, un-
der the Constitution, to lay off the States in
to Congressional Districts; but it has no
right to make the Legislatures Of the indie
pendent State Governments do this work for
| them.


The House has rejected the amendments
| of the Senate, excluding certain States from
the operation of the nandam act until after
the next session Of Congress.
The amendments 10 the tariff bill, ntroduc-
ed by the Senate, were adopted in the House
without division.


The resolution for adjournment sine de,
amended in the Senate, by fixing Wednesday
at O'CLOCK, as the hour, was acceded to ny
| the House.


| SENATE, Tuesday, Aug. 80, 1912.


The House having disagreed to the Sen
ate's amendments to the mandamus act, com
mittees of confer ence were appointed, anC
the Senate passed the bill, in compliance
with the recommen dation Of their committee
| who amended it so that the act applies onl,
to those States whose Legislatures have no
met and will not meet in time to district TIN
State for election of members. This amend
ment disfranchises New Hampshire, Penn
sylvania, and Ohio.


. HOUSE, Tuesday, Aug. 80, 1912.
The House was engaged pretty much th
whole Of to-day in talking about the Presi
dents Protest. No business was done il
, cuAst4uence Of it being impossible to get
l