Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-07-02
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/ mills should be erected in America; thi
colonies might produce raw material anG
ship it to England. There was the SAINT
! sort Of issue now.
Mr.. DODGE spoke of increased protection
| for railroad iron and predicted that under i
mills would spring up all over the west.
| Mr.. ALLISON favored reduction of thu
duty. The iron interest ought TO be satisfied
with the present duty.
Mr.. BENJAMIN spoke on the same side
Mr.. STEVENS, of Pennsylvania, regret.
tod thst the South had not taken away with
| it the free trade doctrines that now seem Il
| be located along the Mississippi river
! Thirty years before there were rolling milli
in Pennsylvania for iron bars tho prico O
The article imported from England wa.
more than three times more than it was
three years before. They are blind tC
everything but a theory which cannot be
reduced to practice without crushing all the
interests Of the country. England can send
her iron hero because the price of labor
there was only One-third Of what it is here.
II is labor, therefore, which the free
trade league is trying 10 crush.
Mr.. Stevens abruptly closed his remarks
at that point, saying that he was too ex-
hausted to proceed.
Mr.. KASSON said he was glad to be
known as Free Trader. He, however,
was in favor Of fostering American industry
by incidental means. He opposed monopo-
lists. lie would sustain our manufacturers
until they were able to stand alone, and
then say, " Hands off," He would then
open to he people Of the country the priVi-
lege Of buyin where they could buy cheap
est, and selling where they could sell best.
I am for defensive measures against the
aggression Of other countries on the interests
Of our own, but | am not foT annihilating
the privileges of a free people entirely, to
have a competition in the markets in which
they are compelled to buy and sell. If that
is to be Free Trader, l glory in the word.
The millions of people in the West cannot
see it when you tell them that they arc
getting their railroad iron cheaper with
the extra duty on it than they got it pre-
viousIy.
The debate was further continued by
Messrs. Kelly, Griswold, Morrill, and
Hale.
Mr.. HALE said the cheapest of iron in
this country before the war, and which
would exist to-day but for the initiation
caused by the war, was the result of pro-
lection to home industry, of building up
American interests, of discriminating in
favor of our own labor so as to give the
market to home producers. If the home
manufacturers were struck down the peo-
pie would be left at the mercy Of foreign
importers. 'I .
At length the debate was closed on the
paragraph and the Committee proceeded to
vote on the amendment.
Mr.. WILSON'S amendment reducing the
duty to seventy cents per 100 pounds, from
the present rate was agreed to by vote of
80 to 40.
Its opponents rallied, however, and on
the next vote, Mr.. MORRILL'S amend
ment, to which Mr.. WILSON'S was an
amendment, was rejected by As to 50, thus
leaving the paragraph as in the original
bill, making 1t one cent per pound.
Various motions were made to amend it
but they all failed.
Mr.. BUNDY moved to increase the duty
on old scrap iron from five to ten cents per
ton. Lost.
On motion of Mr.. DOpGE ton per cent.
ad valOrem was sdded to the duty on iron.
Mr.. HALL moved to increase the duty on
all cast an shear steel from four and one
half cents pound to five cents, which was
rejected.
On motion of Mr.. GRISWOLD a para
graph was inserted putting n duty of four
cents per pound on railway frogs, &c.
On motion of Mr.. AMES the duty on steel
was increased from fOrty-fye to fifty per
cent.
Mr.. ELDRIDGE moved to insert para
graph as follows: on all bonds, certificates
of stock or other evidences of Indebtedness
of the United States or any State, brought
back or returned for payment, sale or cOllec-
tion, before due, ten per centum ad vslorum.
On motion Of Mr.. DODGE the duty on
crinOline wire was increased from seven to
ten cents per pound.
Mr.. O'Niel moved to increase the duty on
hardware from fifteen to sixty per cent ad-
valorem. Rejected.
Mr.. HUBBARD, of Connecticut, moved to
strike out of the paragraph on copper ore
the words Fifteen per centum advalorem."
Without dispOsing Of the amendment the
Committee rose.
Mr.. BANKS, from the Committee of Con-
ference on the Paris Exposition bill made a
report recommending that the House agree
to the Senate amendments, with amend
ments striking out the words Gin coin" and
return and going and returning" and
explained that they made the appropria-
ton in currency instead of gold, and would
reduce the appropriation from S2O5, 900 to
SI55,OO0. The House bill had provided
national vessels on which to freight its
goods, but the Senate upon the representa-
ton of the Navy Department, had changed
that, and instead appropriated 900
for freighting expenses. The Committee
recommended concurrence in that.
Mr.. ROSS proposed that the action on
the report should be postponed till the re-
turn of his colleague, (Mr. Washburne,)
who was absent from sickness.
The proposition amused the House, as
Mr.. Wsshburne had fought the bill in all
its stages, but nevertheless it was not &C
ceeded to.
Mr.. LAWRENCE, Of Ohio, moved to lay
the report on the table Rejected
The report was then agreed to. Ayes I3,
noes q, and then at half-past four the
House adjourned.
SENATE.
Mr.. WILSON called up the Freedmen's
Bureau bill, and moved that the Senate in
sist on its amendment, and agree to the
Committee Of Conference called for by the
House. 1t was 50 ordered.
The points in dispute between the two
Houses relative to the disposition of the
Sea Island cOnton island are these: The
House fOrbids the surrender of the islands
now held by the freedmen under General
Sbermans order. The bill as passed by
the Senate contains provisions under which
the former owners may get possession of
these lands except such as have been sold
for old State taxes.
Mr.. HENDRICKS called up a bill TO
grant lands TO the State of Kansas to aid in
construction Of the Southern branch of the
Union Pacific Railroad, which was passed
and goes 10 the House.
On motion of Mr.. BROWN the Senate
cnncurred in certain amendments to the bill
granting lands to aid in the construction of
the Iron Mountain Railroad in Missouri.
The bin now goes to the President
Mr.. ANTHONY, from the Committee on
Printing, reported resolution for the print
ing of 10000 copies of the reply ofthe Pres
ident to the resolution Of the Senate calling
for Information as to the departure Of the
Austrian troops for Mexico.
Mr.. TRUMBULL moved TO amend by
striking out 10000 and substituting 900.
Disagreed to. 49,
By vote Messrs WILSON, HARRIS and
NESMITH were appointed the Conference
Committee on the Freedmen's Bureau bin,
on the part of the Senate.
At four o'clock the Indian Appropriation
bill was taken up.
On motion Of Mr.. SHERMAN, the bill as
it came from the House, sixty-ive pages in
length, making the regular annual appro-
priation for the support of the Indian debt,
(in the carrying out of the treaty the SEN
ate Finance Committee recommended sew
eral amendments, one of these transfers the
Indian Bureau from the Interior to the
War Department. was after some discussion
postponed till Tuesday next. Adjourned.
SPECIAL DISPATCHES.
NEW JUDICIARY Law FOR UTAH.
WASHINGTON, June 30.-A bill introduced
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selection of grand and Detit iurOrs in the