Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-03-25


faithfully, without prejudice against or par
TALLY for any member OF Congress or
officer of the Government, it re-
spectfnlly asked to be discharged from
further consideration Of the subject.
The Committee also reported bill max
ing two years residence on the part of
cadet in the district from which he is ap-
pointed a requisite.
The Committee also recommended the
adoption Of resolutions as follows:
Poor ScapegoaL
l. Declaring that Gen. Schoeff, one of
the Patent Office examiners, who has been
engaging in lending himself as a medium
for the passage of money for corrupt pur-
poses, and directing that the evidence be
placed in the handE of the Secretary of the
Interior, and that he be requested to re-
move Schoeff from his position as an i'm
proper person to have or hold SO RESPONSE
Bile position under the Government.
sLead uS not into Temptations
2. Directing the Speaker to exclude from
all privileges of the floor, Committee
rooms, cloak rooms, and all galleries of
the House any pen'on who had been, or
may hereafter be proved guilty of having
been engaged in corrUpting, or attempting
to corrupt any member of Congress, by
directly or indirectly offering him any val
liable consideration with a view of inhu-
encing his acting in any manner pertaining
to his official duties.
COurtmartiaI of UpShur Requested.
g. That the evidence showing that Com
mander Upshur, of the navy, had placed
the sum of 81, 300 in the hands of NJ. D.
London, with a view of procuring the ap-
pointment of Nilsson to the Naval Academy,
be transmitted to the Secretary of the
Navy, with a request to convene a court
martial for the purpose of trying Com
mander Upshur for conduct unbecoming
an officer.
After discussion the bill, after being
amended so as to make the term one year,
was passed.
As to the resolution about Mr.. Upshur
] Mr.. Garfield offered an amendment re-
| questing the converting of courtmartial to
ascertain whether he had been guilty of
unofficer like conduct, which was rejected
| by II against ia.
The resolution was then adopted.
That about Schoeff occasioned discus
| sion, during which Messrs. Maynard and
Kelly declared that it had been matter of
common report for years that cadetships
had been for sale in this House, Mr.. Kelly
stating that some of his predecessors told
| him it had been the usage of the House,
and the investigation of the committee
| showed that one of them, Nilward, had en-
gagged in peddling the appointments of
other people.
| Messrs. Schenck, Dawes, Logan, Nor
gan, and others, repudiated the idea that
the sale of cadetships was, in accordance
with common rumor, a custom of the
/ House.
The resolution was then adopted, as was
also that about lobby u.ernbors and the re-
port itself.
Mr.. Mungen requested Mr.. Logan to
state whether the committee had any evi
dence before it at all affecting his (Mun.
gen's) character.
Mr. Logan replied if there had been the
committee would have reported the fact.
Mr.. Price, from the Committee on Edu-
cation and Labor, reported bill donating
the Marine Hospital at Natchez to the
State of Mississippi for educational pur.
poses The morning hour expired and the
bill went over till Tuesday.
The House then went into Committee
of Whole on
The Tariff Bill.
| Mr. Cook addressed the committee il
favor of a reduction of the tariff on lum
Der, salt, STEEL coal and pig iron. The
great agricultural interests of the country
were not represented here by paid agent
and lobbyists, but the time when this In
terest would be heard and felt was coming
There could be no real real prosperity il
the country when its greatest producing
interest was depressed and overturned.
Mr.. johnson made an appeal In behal
of the farming and wine-growing interes
of California.
Mr.. Mccormick denied the argumen
that protection ultimately cheapened tn
article protected. 1t might be true Il
many instances, depending on the degre,
of protection or competition in this coun
try and on the amount of consumption
but it was not true in the majority of in
stances. 1t was certainly not true in re
spect to iron against protective tariff, an
, | complained particularly Of the duties o
| iron, steel, cotton cloths, wooden goods
| etc.
Mr. Allison spoke in favor of the reduC
! ton of taxes He said those who we're en-
gagged in the production of iron in its rude
, | forms were protected. but the vast numbe
of artizens working in iron were not pre-
tected by the existing tariff. On the COL
a.. trary, the tariff was to them burden, c
: was a burden to the consumers of thei
products. The agricultural interest Wa
not protected directly, because freight
from Chicago TO Boston were MOI
than twice the amount of the dut
= imposed upon the agriculture
products of Canada The mechanics an
= artizans of the country were not direct
! protected, and that class comprised muC
a | larger number of citizens than were con
: prised within that of the protected classe
: The tariff had increased the cost of iron
" the ship-builders, and if so, it certain
y must have increased it to other consumer
y Mr.. Kelly remarked that while the co
2 of foreign iron was tending up, that
4 American iron was tending down, and ask
" Mr. Allison to what he attributed tina
Mr. Allison said he was proving that 4
tariff increased the cost of productio
and again referred to the depressed conc
= ton of ship building; but he regarded {
10 bill reported by the special committee {
:. that subject unjust to the people, becau
y IL allowed fifteen dollars ton to be pa
back for American iron used in shi
Z WHY should the people of the Unit
States be called on to pay such bount
The bill confessedly showed Il
q an American ship could not
~ built or sailed as cheap as
pa foreign ship could, and that was attribu
y BILE 10 the tariff This bounty was propos
=: 10 be given to American ship owners a
y builders and was to apply also to
~ vessels employed in the coastwise ira
~ where there was no foreign coInpetitic
= He was not prepared to vote for any su
P bounty. His point, however, was that
u bill confessed that the duty on iron
~ creased the cost of iron to. ship bullde
~ and if it did, it also increased 1t to all OIL
ov consumers.
~ Mr.. Washburn, of Massachusetts, ash
30 him if he believed, if with the duty tax
= off of iron, it would be as cheap hve ye
IN hence as now.
a.. Mr.. Allison replied that that was gu
~ ion If arithmetic. He did not want
10 duties taken off of iron. He only wan
them reduced, and had not said the cos
iron WAS increased in proportion to dutl
only that il was increased TO the consur
by tariff He confessed it was impossl
to raise the necessary amount of revel
49,, without protection, but argued that
l a. Halr .,,4 Of