Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-07-01

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+ Mr.. GLOSSBRENNER from the same
If Committee, reported bill for the organiza
n ton of land districts in Arizona, Idaho
Utah, and Montana, which was read three
: times and passed.
: Mr. GLOSSBRENNER also reported a
r bill erecting the territory Of Montana into a
separate surveying district After debate,
PRICE opposing and ASHLEY sustaining
the bill, it was passed.
{ Mr.. ECKLEY, from the same Committee.
d reported back adversely.
The House bill allowing five years further
time for the location of land warrants issued
by Virginia TO her officers and soldiers of the
Virginia line, laid on the table and report
ordered printed.
{ Mr.. ECKLEY also reported with
ammendment the Senate bill granting land
to the state Of Oregon to aid in the con-
: structiOn of a railroad from Albany, Oregon,
to the Eastern boundary Of the State. The
amendments were agreed to and the bill
passed. He also reported with amend
: ment the Senate bill granting lands to the
state of Oregon to aid in the construction of
of military road from CORVALLIS to to the
Aquenna bay.
The amendments were agreed to and the
bill passd-also, with amendments to the
Senate bill granting aid for the construction
of a railroad and telegraph line from Fall
som to Placerville, California. The amend
ment was agreed to and the bill passed.
Mr.. HOLMES from same Committee
made adverse reports.
Mr.. HOLMES expressed adesire that the
report in the two latter cases be not made too
hastily in those propositions, because prOvis-
sion was made in the River and HarbOr bills
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laid on the table.
Mr.. HOLMES also reported back House
bill to authorize departure from the estab.
lished mode of surveying in the Territories
of New Mexico and Arizona. After expla-
nation the bill passed
Mr. JULIAN from the same committee
| reported back with amendments to Senate
bills to grant land titles in California. Before
the reading was concluded the P. NJ. hour |
| expired, and the bill went over till Tuesday. |
Mr.. ASHLEY from the Committee on |
! Territories reported the House bill to pro- |
vide temporary government for the Terri |
! tory of Lincoln, was ordered to be printed |
and recommitted.
! On motion Of Mr.. ALLEY the Senate /
| bill to aid in the construction Of telegraph /
| lines, and declare to Government use Of same |
! for postal, military and other purposes, was
! taken from the speakers table, read three
| times and referred to the Postotice Com
! mittee.
Mr.. RICE introduced bill for the estab-
| hshment and maintenance Of public park
| in the District of Columbia, which was read
| twice and referred to the Committee on Pub
lie Buildings.
The House then went into Committee Of
the Whole on the state of the Union, Mr..
in, ha fboTr md no /
consideration of the tariff bill.
A motion was made by Mr.. AAlES to IN
crease the duty on steel and iron squares for
measuring from six to ten cents per pound.
Mr.. HARDING, of Illinois, spoke in OPP
position. He said it would be better to pay
$500 600, 600 out of the Treasury to those for
whose benefit the bill was designed.
Mr. AMES amendment was Withdrawn.
Mr.. MORRILL, moved that the duty be
nine cents.
Mr.. HARDEN objected to taxing the
people of the West for the benefit Of the
Eastern manufacturing monopoly, and said
that the protection proposed was more for
object-growers than manufacturers.
Mr.. MOREHEAD, argued that import
duties did not have the effect to increase the
cost of articles.
Mr.. HARDIN ridiculed the assertion,
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in behalf of the West.
Cut nails could be made cheaper if the
duty was taken off
Mr.. DAWES, Of Mass, thought that
under the influence of the protection prin-
ciple cut nails had fallen in price, and the
people of the country had profted by pro-
lection competition since it had sprung up, !
and we were no longer dependent on
England, since the tariff bill could be franz
ed only on one of two principles, laying the |
duty on the raw material or on the manu-
featured article.
Mr.. MORRILL'S amendment was adopted.
Mr.. MORRILL, moved amendments to
tax manufactured railroad iron one cent
per pound.
Mr.. WILSON of Iowa, moved to amend
the amendment so as to make the duty two
cents per one hundred pounds. He said he
was almost disposed to recommend Mr..
KELLEY of Penn, for head of Agricultural
Burea owing to the ideas he had put forth.
He referred to the resolution of internal re-
venue tax on railroad and pig iron and
thought that it ought to satisfy the iron
rollers.
Mr. GRISWOLD said that manufacturers
of railrod iron had been losing money for
three or four years. 1t was a blow at the
manufacturing interest Of the country, and
the best means of securing the general good
and prosperity; speaking OS The free trade
league, he said, that not one If its members
was Unidentified withthe industrial interested
the country, and most of them was inter-
ested in English trade.
Mr. RAYMOND gave some statistics and
arguments showing the effect of the proposed
amendment. He wanted to zee the time
come when manufacturing establishments
could protect themselves. He did not desire
to see the railroads saddled with enormous
protection to benefit the iron rollers Of Girls
void, and declared that competition was the
surest way to cheaper productions. The
productions of our rolliugs mills had been
greatly reduced because low grades Of Eng
fish iron could be sold cheaper than Ameri-
can iron. He appealed to his colleague, Mr..
RAYMOND, not to allow his judgment 10 be t,
warped by the specious arguments ofrailroad
men or foreign manufacturers.
Mr.. GARFIELD, of Ohio, said that the
iron interests Of the country should not be
destroyed by the interests Of foreign manu-
facturers. Those who desired to see the iron
trade forever secured to England, might vote
for the proposition of the gentleman from
Iowa In I775abill was actually introduced
into British Parliament ordering every iron
mill in America to be demolished, and it
lacked only 30 votes of being carried. A
proposition was carried that no iron mill
should be erected and no trip-hammer
erected to be used by water power in Amer
lea. The colonies might produce the raw
material and ship it to England. There u
was a similar issue still Mr.. DODGE was y
in favor of an increased protection for rail-
road iron, and predicted that under it mills
would spring up all over the West.
Mr.. ALLISON favored a reduction Of
duty the iron interest ought to be satisfied
with the p-eseg. duty. Mr.. BENJAMIN .
spoke on the s, e side. Mr.. STEPHENS, 81
Of Penn, regretted that the South had not a
taken away with it the free doctrines which
now seem to be located along the rivers. 80
years ago, before theIJ we're rolling mills in
for iron bars Of the kind, the p
prices Of the article imported from England
was more than three times what it was five
years ago, before the war. The reduction
was caused simply BY protecting American %
interests, and yet the gentlemen cannot see
It or understand it. They are blind to ev-
arything but a theory which cannot be re-
iuced to practice. England can send her
iron here because the price Of labor there Is
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