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XLIst C0NGRESd---Secord Session.

SENATE.
r WASHINGTON, June ga bill was passed
authorizing the printing OF 10000 copies Of the
18th amendment.
Mr.. Camsron's motion to reconsider the Texas
Pacific railroad bill was lost, Is to 81
MIR. Drake moved substitute to the bill au-
thorizlng the Kansas Pacific Railroad Comma
ny to extend its road and telegraph line to Ell
Paso, New Mexico, which was laid over until
the next morning. hour to be prinied.
The tariff bill was then taken up and the toll
lowing provision relating to insurance compa-
ries was inserted on the recommendation of
the Finance Committee: "Aud the tax upon
dividends OF insurance companies shall not be
deemed due until such dividends are PAYABLE.
either in money or otherwise, and the money
returned by mutual insurance companies to
their policy holders, annual or semi annual,
and interest allowed or paid to depostors in
savings banks Or savings Institutions shall not
be considered as dividends"
The paragraph making the duty on bitumin-
Gus coal and shale at 80 cents per ton of %
bushels of so pounds to the bushe, was de-
feated.
In the course of the discussion Mr. Chandler,
replying to Mr.. Morrill, OF Vermont. said that
like The rebels during the war all that New
England now asked was to be let alone. He
was. not willing that they shsuld he let aloue
any longer, and gave notice OF a bill to repeal
the entire revenue system, aud to place an ad
valorem duty on every article imported iuto
baccO. Bv such means the question of protec-
ton would be settled and no more complaints
from New England would be heard Whenever
protection was asked for western products. He
wanted the present tariff to remain for another
winter and then the South and West would
unite to make tariff that would suit the PEG
pie of the United States.
The amendment was voted down, IS to g.
The recommendations of the committee
specifying the following duties were agreed to:
on rough or unfinished grindstones ST. 80; on
finished erindstOnes So per ton; on Fl ee stone
and stone granite and all building or monu-
mental stone except marble 81 per ton; on all
sawed, dressed or polished marble 80 per cent
ad valorem, and in addition thereto % per SUI
per fiscal square foot, net exceeding two inches
IL thickness; it more than two inches in thick
ness 10c per foot in addition to the above rate
for each inch in excess of two inches in thick
ness; all over six inches in thickness are sub
iect TO the cuty now imposed upon marble
blocks.
The following paragraph was adopted: On
hair cloth, known as hair seating, 40c per square
yard; on Ill O.her manufactures OF hair so per
cent. ad yalore-.; on sanaline dyes and colors
SOC per pound and 50 per cent. ad valorem; on
dress ornaments of which silk is the main Dart
and no wool or worsted, 80 per cent. an valo-
rem; on slicate of soda or other alkaline sill
Gates &c per pound; on sporting gun wads of
all descriptions, % per cent al vaorem; on
nickle 25c per pound; on nickle oxide and al
10y of nickle with copper 15c per pound; on
live animals % per cent ad vaorem; tree i'm
portations for breeding purposes to be limited
to countries beyond the sea SO as not to extend
to Canada and Mexico. The duties on the vs.
riOus kinds OF oils and seeds are to he retained
as fixed by the House; that on smoking opium
is fixed at Sc per ton, and the present duty Of
50 so per pound on is continued. Oxide and
sulphuric and ore or crude sulphuret of anti
mony is struck from the free list. An amend