The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-02-14

ing amen !ments TO exempt blblesaud testa.
msnts containing only parts Of either and
prayer books from any duty or tai This
was agreed to.
| The same section also exempts from
duty or tax arithmetics. spelling books,
biographies. books printed exclusively
for use Of Sunday Schools. provided It
shall not apply to bookS valued 1t more
than two dollars per volume.
At 4:3O the Committee rose and the
House adjourned.
Conness called up the bill to establish
mail and steamship service between the
United States and China.
The bill provides that the Postmaster
General shall have power to contract with
any company who will agree for the low
est price to establish line Of ttsauships
to make twelve round trips between San
Ffncisco and China per year, the contract
to go into effect on the 6Tst Of Ja nuary,
1865. Bill passed-yeas Is. nays IL.
Being the special order. the report of
the Conference Committee on the Freed
mems Bureau Was then taken mp. The
report was read bat no action taken.
Shermsn's motion 10 take up the House
Joint Resolutions reducing the duty on
imported paper prevailed. The question
was upon the amendment of the Senate
Committee on finance to strike out three
and insert fifteen per cent. 1. was ex-
planned that the present duty on foreign
paper Was twenty per cent, the amount
of tax paid by home manufacturers
amounting 10 ten per cent, it was mani
fest that to reduce the foreign tax to three
per cent. would be unjust to home manu-
facturers. II was said that three per
cent. was equal to six per cent, because
on the gold valuation it was three per
cent. on one hundred and sixty dollars
per ton. Internal tax in this country had
70 be paid In currency valuation, which
Is about four hundred dollars per ton.
Sherman stated that be was ia favor in
the Committee of making /. 10 per cent,
which would produce lively competition
between home and foreign manufacturers
The Committee had overruled him, how
ever. many Of the members being opposed
70 any change whatever. He believed
some change ought 70 be made in the tax,
because under the present rate not one
pound OF paper had been imported. Fif-
teen per cent. had been adopted as com
promise In the Committee. tut he Thought
il would be more jus, to put it do Fn to
ten. The Government, be said was
more interested than any other individu-
al. Ii consumed more paper than any
individual. and therefore it was interest
ed in this question. 1t had been pFopos-
ell by some to allow The Governmdnt to
import free of duty, but this would be re-
garded as invidious.
Colamer spoke in favor of maintaining
the present rate of 80 per cent. as An act
Of justice and protection to home nana.
fac,urers.
Wade said be and his colleague Mr..
Sherman1 had been instructed By the
Ohio Legislature to vote for q reduction
Of the duty. He questioned the right OF
that body to instruct him on such b sub
ject. He believed the argument ID favor
of the reduction of the duty on paper
would apply>equally well to all 9th her ar
ticies. He was opposed to opening Ameri
can manufactures to foreign competition,
believing that if this was done the coun-
Try would be deprived of the means for
paying the naiioDal deblD
He said in the State of Ohio, last year,
there had been 81 ,808, 1856 worth OF pa
per made, and on this . tax of $54 1863
mad been paid. This wes q great aud
growing interest and ought to be protect
ed In whatever light the subject was
viewed. it must be looked upon as inex-
pedicnt to reduce the duty.
Sherman hoped the subject woul I'd not
be indefinitely postponed, bat II at it
| would be met squarely by frank voie.-
He was sure that if the State Legislature
had examined the tariff they would not
have howled as they have in favor bf the
repeal Of the duty on paper. He eaid
paper had not increased in price more
than other articles. 1t had only followed
the inva.iable standard, which was gold
He had examined this subject carefully,
and had found it would be unwise and
and unjust to reduce the duty to 5 pei
cent. The amount Of paper manufactur-
ed was Slo7 900. 900 per year 10 the U
Is On this there was collected an inter
est tax of $4,000 900. If the daty wert
p aoed at 3 per cent. there would be i'm
Iported about S43 ,O00. 600 worth in gold
on which the Government would recover
about sl,250,0O0.
| This would be loss to the Governmen
of the difference between ten millions o
dollars in paper money ard one lmiliol
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars il
gold. The motion to indefinitely post
poue was decided in the negative. Aye
IA, nays IS, as follows:
i Yeas-Collamer, Cowan. Dixon, noo
, little, Foote, Foster, Hale, Harris, Nor
rill, Nye, Sprague. Ten Eyck, Van Wiz
kle-l4.
| Brown, Buckalow, Clarke. Cor
ness, Davis, Farwell. Crimes, Henderson
Hendricks, Howard, Howe. johnson
Lane, Ind Lane Of Kansas, Nesmitt
Pomsroy, Powell, Ramsey, Richardso,
Riddle, Sherman, sumner, Trumbul
4 Wiley and WilsoD-25 ID
. Lane Of Ind. offered al amendment
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