Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-07-06

and to agree to the Senate amendmen
! | making the mileage of army officers tel
instead Of six cents. The Senate is recon-
mended to recede from its amendment
making appropriation for the purchase o
: lands used as fort near Nashville, Tenn.
the section in regard to Quartermasters
. stores to be amended SO as to require arti-
cles issued in the Pacific States and Terri
tories to be delivered and inspected al
points designated, and advertisements for
such supplies to be published in the news
papers of San Francisco, California, and
Portland, Oregon the section in regard 10
the Military Academy to be amended so as
to provide that the Superintendent here
after be selected and the officers detailed
from any arm Of tho service and that
the supervision Of the Military Academy
shall be in the War Department; the
section in regard to the extra pay for
soldiers employed in constructing public
works to be amended SO as to allow enlisted
men working as artifeers, and non-co
missioned officers detailed as overseers, the
sum of 35 cents day, and enlisted men sm-
plOyed as labOrers the sum Of 35 cents per
day.
The report was agreed to.
The House went into committee of the
whole on the tariff bill, having previously
ordered an evening session.
The amendment offered by Mr.. MYERS
on Tuesday last to make q duty on glass
bottles vials, Jars, and demijohns, of 4 cts.
| per pound was rejected. He then offered
a similar amendment, making the duty on
| glass walls at 81 cents per pound, which
was rejected.
Mr.. MOREHEAD moved to amend the
paragraph about cut glass by adding to the
1 4 al dnfvv Cpaai6r dufv Of %
pound. Rejected.
Mr.. DAWES moved to amend the para
| graph about window glass by increasing the
duty from to p &c per pound, from 212 to
| 234, frem 3 to 1, and from to =, which
was adopted.
Mr.. MYERS again offered his amend
ment somewhat modified, which was re-
ieeted.
On motion of Mr.. HUBBARD, of Western
Virginia, paragraph was added taxing
fire bricks &c load.
On motion of Mr.. KELLEY a proviso was
added to the paragraph taxing books, as
follows
Provided that if the same shall be i'm
ported in quantities of more than copies
in any one invoice, they shall, if written
wholly or partly in the English language,
be liable to a duty of 20 cents per pound
weight, and p per cent. ad valOrem. On
stereotyped plates of books and casts OF
wood cuts duty of 20 cents per pound
weight and 2j per cent ad vslorem.
Mr.. PATTERSON moved to amend by
striking out the whole paragraph about
books and inserting in lieu of it "on books
wholly in foreign language, agricultural
and scientific reports, and periodicals not
being reprints 10 per cent. ad valorem-" He
argued that such books were only purchas-
ed by scholars and scientific men, who
should not bs heavily taxed for the benefit
of book publishers in Boston and New
York.
Mr.. KELLY ldenied that book publish |
ers in this country had been making for |
tunes from their business, and said that
many Of them were having books published |
tn England and Belgium from American
stereotype plate, on account of the relative
cheapness Of labor and paper in those cOun-
tries.
Mr.. RICE opposed ihe amendment
Without dispOsing of the amendment the
committee rose, having disposed of three
pages of the bill.
Mr.. BLOW introduced bill providing
that where the licensed tax imposed upon |
wholesale dealers, and calculated upon the l
previous years sales, shall prove to be in |
excess of tax properly chargsable on the .
amount of sales actually made, the excess !
snail DC EtluuuGus II - ASdu bHAeO
and referred to the Committee of Ways and |
Means.
On motion of Mr.. SCHENCK the Senate |
Joint resolution to provide for the pubiea-
ton of the official history of the rebellion |
was taken from the Speakers table, read
twice, and referred to the Committee on
Military Affairs.
At half-past four o'clock the house took
a recess till half past seven.
EVENING SESSION.
% Mr.GARFIELD moved 10 amend the par |
agraph by striking out the words "printed
not less than fifteen years prior to the date
Of importation" lie spoke in support OF
the ameadmen4.
Mr.. MORRILL, suggested to make it five
years.
Mr.. GARFIELD accepted the mOdifca-
ton. Agreed to.
Mr.. PATTERsON's amendment was re-
jected-
On motisn ofMr. SHELLABARGER mil |
itary maps azd charts were excepted from
the paragraph taxing maps and charts.
Mr.. HUMPH R4lT moved the paragraph |
taxing salt by reducing the duty on salt IN
sacks, barrels and Other packages from AZ
a cents per one hundred pounds, and on
salt in bulk from SO to Is ee2ta. He made
an argument in support OF hIs ppsndment.
Mr.. HART opposed the amandpsnt, stat
ing that the per capita eOnsumptioH ef salt
in this country was AZ pounds year, the IN,
creased cost of which would only-be six
cents, and advocating protection to the ssltfl
manufacturers of this country.
Mr.. L0NGYEAR referred the amend
ment by increasing the duty so cents, and
spoke in favor Of protecting American salt
works.
After further debate participated in by
Messrs. BENJAMIN, DAVIS, HUMPHREY
KELLY, DELANE, TR0WBRIDGE and
PIKE, all the amendments were rejected.
Mr.. ROSS moved to strike out the para
graph so as to leave salt on the free list.
Rejected.
Mr.. PRICE moved to increase the duty
on flax and bran 80 to so cents per bushel.
RICE, WENTWORTH, JOHN L. THOMAS,
MORRILL,, GARFIELD, and SCHENCK.
It was rejected on motion of Mr.. PIKE, 1
and a proviso was added to the paragraph /
taxing fish, that herring imported in bulk 1
shall pay at the rate Of so cents per barrel 4
Of 100 pounds.
Mr.. O'NEIL moved to add a paragraph |
taxing raw goat skins in the hair, from any |
foreign port Of shipment, 5 per cent. ad
valorum, which was agreed to.
On motion of Mr.. RICE to add 30 per
cent advalorem was put on goat and sheep |
skins tanned and untanned.
Mr.. O'NEIL moved to add paragraph, |
taxing goat skins and sheep skins, coloriden |
finish, 40 per cent, advalorem, which was
rejected.
Mr.. THOMAS moved TO add paragraph |
taxing carbonate of potash 81 cents per
pound. which was agreed to.
The Committee then rose and the House
At q. 80 ad50urned