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CONGRESS. (TARIFF REVISION TEMPERANCE MEASURES.) 



J. T. Johnston, J. T. Jones, King. Landes, Le Fevre, 

 Lovering, Mahoney, J. J. O'Neill, Osborne, Parker, 

 Phelps, Plumb, Keese, Riggs, Scott, Scranton, Snaw, 

 Smalls, J. W. Stewart, Swope, J. R. Thomas, Thomp- 

 son, Tucker, J. H. Ward, A. J. Weaver, Whiting 68. 



Tariff Revision. Nothing was done for the 

 revision of the tariff, though various acts modi- 

 fying the whole system of import duties or 

 changing the rates on special articles were 

 introduced. April 14, Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, 

 from the Committee on "Ways and Means, report- 

 ed a measure " to reduce the tariff and to mod- 

 ify the laws in relation to the collection of the 

 revenue " ; and June 17 he moved that the 

 House resolve itself into the Committee of the 

 Whole House on the State of the Union to con- 

 sider this bill. The motion was defeated by 

 the following vote: 



YEAS J. J. Adams, J. M. Allen, C. M. Anderson, 

 Ballentine,Barbour,Barksdale, Barnes, Barry, Beach, 

 Belmont, Bennett, Blanchard, Bland, Blount, C. R. 

 Breckinridge, W. C. P. Breckinridge. Burnes, By- 

 num, Cabell, Caldwell, Felix Campbell, Candler, 

 Carleton, Catchings, Clardy, Clements, Cobb, Cole, 

 Compton, Comstock, Cowles, Crain, Crisp, Croxton, 

 Culberson, Daniel, Dargan, A. C. Davidson, R. H. 

 M. Davidson, Dawson, Dibble, Dougherty, Dunn, 

 Fisher, Ford, Forney, C. H. Gibson, Eustace Gibson, 

 Glass, Glover, W. J. Green, Hale, Halsell, Hammond, 

 Harris, Heard, Hcmphill, J. S. Henderson, Herbert, 

 Hewitt, Hill, Holman, Howard, Hudd, Hutton, James, 

 T. D. Johnston, J. H. Jones, King, Kleiner, Laffoon, 

 Landes, Lanham, Lore, Lovering, JLowry, Mahoney, 

 Matson, Maybury, McCreary, McMillin, McRae, Mil- 

 ler, Mills, Mitchell, Morgan, Morrison, Neal, Neece, 

 Nelson, Norwood, Gates, O'Ferrall, J; J. O'Neill, 

 Outhwaite, Peel, Perry, Reagan, Reese, Richardson, 

 Riggs, Robertson, Rogers, Sadler, Sayers, Scott, Sey- 

 mour, Shaw, Singleton, Skinner, Snyder, Springer, 

 Charles Stewart, W. J. Stone of Kentucky, W. J. 

 Stone of Missouri, Storm, Strait, Swope, Tarsney, 

 Tulbee, J. M. Taylor, Throckmortqn, Tillman, Town- 

 shend, Trigg, Tucker, Turner, Van Eaton, Wakefield, 

 T. B. Ward, J. B. Weaver, Wellborn, Wheeler, Willis, 

 Wilson, Winans, Wise, Wolford, Worthington, John 

 G. Carlisle 140. 



NAYS G. E. Adams, C. H. Allen, J. A. Anderson, 

 Arnot, Atkinson, Baker, Ba7ne, Bingham, Bliss, 

 Bound, Boutelle, Boyle, Brady, T. M. Browne, 

 C. E. Brown, W. W. Brown, Brumm, Buchanan, 

 Buck, Burrows, Buttcrworth, J. M. Campbell, J. E. 

 Campbell, T. J. Campbell, Cannon, Conger, Coop- 

 er, Curtin, Cutcheon, Davenport, Davis, Dingley, 

 Dorsey, Dowdney, Dunham, Ellsberry, Ely, Ermen- 

 trout, Evans, Everhart, Farquhar, Felton, Findlay, 

 Fleoger, Foran, Fuller, Funston, Gallinger, Gay, 

 Geddes, Gilflllan, Goff, R. S. Green, Grosvenor, 

 Grout, Guenther, Harmer, Hayden, D. B. Hender- 

 son, T. J. Henderson, Henley, Hepburn, Herman, 

 Hires, Hiscock, Holmes, Hopkins, Irion, Jackson, 

 F. A. Johnson, J. T. Johnston, Kelley, Ketcham, 

 La Follette. Laird, Lawler, Le Fevre, Lehlbach, Lib- 

 bey, Lindsley, Little, Long, Louttit, Lyman, Mark- 

 ham, Martin, McAdoo, McComas, McKenna, McKin- 

 ley, Merriman, Millard, Milliken. Moffatt, Morrill, 

 Morrow, Muller. Neglcy, O'Donnell, O'Hara, Charles 

 O'Neill, Osborne, Owen, Parker, Payne, Payson, 

 Perkins, Peters, Phelps, Pidcock, Pindar, Plumb, 

 Price, Randall, Ranney, T. B. Reed, Rice, Rockwell, 

 Romeis, Rowell, Ryan, Sawyer, Scranton, Seney, 

 Sessions, Smalls, Sowden, Spooner, Spri", r -s Btam- 

 necker, Steele, J. W. Stewart, St. Martin, E. F. 

 Stone, Struble, Swinburne, Symes, E. B. Taylor, 1. H. 

 Taylor, Zachary Taylor, J. R. Thomas, O. B. Thom- 

 as, Thompson, Viele, Wade, Wadsworth, Wait, Wal- 

 lace, J. H. Ward, A. J. Warner, William Warner, J. 



A. Weaver, Weber, West, Whiting, Wilkins, Wood- 

 burn 157. 

 NOT VOTING Aiken, Bragg, Bunnell, Burleigh, 



J. W. Reid, Stephenson, Van Schaick, A. C. White 

 Milo White 27. 



Of the votes in the affirmative, 135 were cast 

 by Democrats, 4 by Eepublicans, and 1 by a 

 Greenback-Democrat; of the 157 negative votes, 

 121 were cast by Republicans, 35 by Democrats 

 and 1 by a Greenback-Republican. The refusal 

 to consider this measure was conceded to be a 

 defeat of the tariff-reform policy. The bill 

 was not that originally introduced by Mr. 

 Morrison, and did not embody any scheme for 

 horizontal reduction such as the Forty-eighth 

 Congress rejected. 



Temperance Measures. March 18, 1886, the 

 Senate passed without a division the bill passed 

 by the Senate of the Forty-eighth Congress pro- 

 viding for a commission " to investigate the 

 alcoholic liquor-traffic, its relations to revenue 

 and taxation, and its general economic, crimi- 

 nal, moral, and scientific aspects in connection 

 with pauperism, crime, social vice, the public 

 health, and the general welfare of the people, 

 and also to inquire as to the practical results 

 of license and prohibitory legislation for the 

 prevention of intemperance in the several States 

 of the Union." May 6, Mr. Frederick, from 

 the Select Committee of the House on the Al- 

 coholic Liquor-Traffic, reported the measure 

 adversely. A minority of the committee made 

 a favorable report, but no further action was 

 taken. 



March 18, 1886, the Senate passed without a 

 division the following bill : 



"To provide for the study of the nature of 

 alcoholic drinks and narcotics, and of their ef- 

 fects upon the human system, in connection 

 with the several divisions of the subject of 

 physiology and hygiene by the pupils in the 

 public schools of the Territories and of the 

 District of Columbia, and in the Military and 

 Naval Academies and Indian and colored schools 

 in the Territories of the United States." 



Be it enacted, etc., That the nature of alcoholic 

 drinks and narcotics, and special instruction as_ to 

 their ejects upon the human system, in connection 

 with the several divisions of the subject of physiology 

 and hygiene, shall be included in the brandies of 

 study taught in the common or public schools and in 

 the Military and Naval Schools, and shall be studied and 

 taught as thoroughly and in the same manner as other 

 like required branches are in said schools, by the use of 

 text-books in the hands of pupils where other branches 

 are thus studied in said schools, and by all pupils in 

 all said schools throughout the Territories, in the 

 Military and Naval Academies of the United States, 

 and in the District of Columbia and in all Indian and 

 colored schools in the Territories of the United States. 

 SECTION 2. That it shall be the duty of the proper 

 officers in control of any school described in the fore- 

 going section to enforce the provisions of this act; 

 and any such officer, school director, committee, su- 

 perintendent, or teacher who shall refuse or neglect 

 to comply with the requirements of this act, or shall 

 neglect or fail to make proper provisions for the in- 

 struction required and in the manner specified by the 



