Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-07


TORN system Of sewerage for the ity of Wasbrto,
Ii desired to have the substitute printed and @ @soD'
Hi.teu' H Hob agreed to. He also reported bill reIo
VIZ SG she possession of Government lots by the
w asulngiQh On flre Department; laid over. Also biIl
70 eAteRu tne c9arter Of the Washington aud Georce
maSgad Pileinens Insurance Company; which Was
The morning hour here eypreI and the Ioo, LII,
rs special order. came up. '''1'
on motion of Mr.. Morrill, (Rcpj of Vc-mont al
specal orders were POSTPONED and the House Tort NJ
lht? committee Of the Whole MIR. Raymond in The
nited Satoi S [ne @ o to regulate trade between the
the ways and Means Committee last week. ''''A
~; mr morrill, addressed the House in support of the
to the fact that the present Recproey trestw
pres on tne lth Of this month With regard to he
f5pTa SI ine shing boqnes and the tations of
ssnLIic hshihs ne old not anticipate that American
nnsnernen would involve us in war with Great
Drt9 Inc bill was one of revenue and not for
agreed on in the bill. The bin was both necess. en
and important. ~ -l '''O9SS"Ty
Mr.: Pike, Rep.) of Maine, briefly opposed tbe
Pehubg measure. lie represented interests which
we're deeply affected by this bil-the Interests of
lumber and Of the sea-. The lumber interest stood s
fishing interest stood twenty second in that st le
ihsse G interests were now heavily taxed The take:
~ the f bfltsn Provinces were lower than in any
During the. debate, Mr. Shellabargcr. of Ohio
asked the chairman of the Ways and Means Commit
zee ne intended to report tariff bill this session
ana II ne proposed to make ii it change of duty on
wool. ''' 0i
Mr.. Morrill, replied that the committee intended
the amendments to the Internal Tax law Asto Tho
WOOL duty the committee expected to nave the nova
commencing new duty.
- FISHING B0UNTTES.
u, Mr Nashburne, (Rep) of Illinois, then alluded to
bountes and said that since i7S The S
had paid fifteen millions ofdollaIs for these bounfies
de favored their repeal.
Mr. Ranks Ron rcl
the repeal End declared that the commerce Of this
country hay grown out Of those fishing bountigs.
Mr.. Blaine, tRep.) of Maine said that if as full
oountles had been paid to these fishermen who en-
tered our navy as had been paid TO our soldiers the
fotal amount cunt you'd be mere thaa all the fishing
Messrs Alley apd Eliot, of Massachusetts. defended
new England and opposed the repeal of the fishing
5ounte5, saying that the West. in the person of Mr.
Washbune Of Illinois, were now attemptfIIg To
ieglsIate on this question in the footsteps of the
soHthefneTs, who, when in this House, ehdeavored
60 secure he repeal OF anything that tcndej to bone-
-, Mr.. Washburpe denied the imputation. and said
New England.
WOOL INTERESTS.
Mr.. Grlrne!l. of Iowa, spoke an hour in favor of
greater protection 20 the wool interests in this coun-
try, by an increase of duty all importations OF
foreign wool.
COAL INTERESTS.
Mr.. FRANCIS Thomas of Maryland, said that the
pending bill affected only his own district but the
entire State Of Maryland. He expected to hear from
the chairman Of tho Committee on Ways and Means
relative to the neglect to protect the coal deposits of
the ATLANTIC coasts. In the Allegheny mountains
there we're thirty millions of dollars Invested in coal
mines. The State of Maryland had extended eight
millions In canal to bring this coal TO tide water
and some fifteen millions ofdoars had been expend-
cd IN the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad In the dis
trict which he represented there coal enough TO
supply ten millions of tons year for a thousand
years to come not only for all of the soabnard aal
thesteam marine. but for all additional markets that
may be opened. Instead Of encouraging and pro-
tecting this vast industry we were called upon now
to re-enact this Reciprocity treaty.
II was contest between the coal trade Of Mary
land, of West Virginia, and Pennsylvania aud the
bituminous coal trade of the British Provinces This
coal could now be brought from Nova Scotia to Bog-
ton tor four dollars less ton than it could be trans
ported to that city from the Aegharies. lie did not
ask that this amount be put on Il tax to Foreign
coal but that all of the proposed tax on co Il in this
bill be stricken out and that the ne left where
is in the law of 1851 lie protested against this dis
examination agaugt of the great industrial in
terests of the country and demanded that it should
be protected in common with other objects of domes-
tic industry. In conclusion he moved to strike out
that portion Of the bill imposing a tax on coal.
Without action, the Committee rose and the House
adjourned