New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-04

OF THE TARIFF BILL-ANOTHER DEFEAT
FOR THE RECONNAISSANCE MEMPHIS AND
Ell PAsO RAILRoAD-TlIE TEHuANrEfEc
CANAL.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE1
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, May g. 1870.
The Senate Finance Committee at their meeting To-
day. considered the question OF preparing Dill ior 'o
reduction OF the While the Committee 90 hoe
claim that they have constitutional right TO originate
new measures tariff and revenue, they maintain ther
right to port looking to the reduction ana
| modification Of the revenue. Judging from the sow
progress which has thus far been made by the ways ana
Means Committee the Tar q, the Internal Revenue D
Funding BILL they do not expect to have any one
OF these reach the Senate for weeks 10 COME
Hence their mature and get ready to report the
Revenue BILL and probably Tariff bill. 1t Is understood
that the Committee and Senate are both In FAVOR OF con-
nuing the Income tax, without any material reduction
| or exemption.
In the Senate to-day the House resolution declaring
the 3Oth OF May, the day which the National eeme
teries are decorated national holiday forever, was re-
ferred to the Committee Military Affairs. MI Drake
tried hard to put its passage, but the general sht
ment seemed to be that the House had acted rather
hastily in the matter and that, as We had in almost
hundred years enacted but national holiday the
Fourth july 1t best to avoid setting any pre-
cedent like involved in the House resolution MI
Sumner sought to put on It's passage the House Dill CIV
ing pension Of s. 900 to Mrs Lincoln but MI Edinuhdss
objection laid it aside and from the remarks ofthe ia
n,
sions it may inferred that within few days an adj
verse report will be made on Mr.. summers
bill approprating 5000 per annum for the same
purpose No action taken on the House resolution
to adjourn sine die July although when IL was re-
ceived body several Senators called Good
The impression to be that 1t Will require great
dispatch the public business disposed OF by tat
time The business the calendar proceeded wlth
and quite q number Of bills OF all descriptions were
passed Included among the number were several grant
ing lands to railroads While engineered by Messrs
Thayer and Pomeroy, and taking pretty large slice,
was under consideration Mr. Salisbury put In an amend
ucnt to give 200 acres aid IN the construction OF
p at Lewes Delaware and argued that it was no more
than fair to give share OF the public domain, wch
was melting away rapidly, to the Atlantic states'
This pier sad would be Of great benefit to the COM
| merce Of New-York and Philadelphia The amendment
gave Mr. Drake the opportunity to poke run at niue
Delaware but Mr. Salisbury adhered to hs amendment
and IL rccevod including Messrs. Anthony Ed
| munds, and Conkng.
The House met at o'clock this morning, with
out ntermssiOn for nearly hours apparently ac-
compshng little, but in reality doing good days work.
After the morning hour disposed of, the Tariff Dill
was taken up and its consideration continued until adj
ourmen The sections OF the bill In relation to the ar
ce steel reached and the debate thereon was
exceedingly interesting, the Ways and Means Committee
being every vote taken. The first section pro-
posed duty OF three cents per pound on steel in ng0s
blooms blets, rolled or hammered In bars, shees
slabs, plates bands coils, slips. Mr. Allison movedt
duty two and half cents pound, which
carried by very close vote. The next section pro-
posed duty of four cents pound on steel of cir
cuar shapes, and OF all forms cast, cut, rolled, or
hammered to pattern. The Ultra Free Traders tried TO
reduce this to two cents pound but three and one
half per pound agreed to- provided that steel
by process should be cassed as steel
On this section the debate exceedingly interesting
and the contest most animated character
sultng the defeat of the so-caed "Revenue Reform
and the triumph Of the Proectonists, the vote
however, being very close The next section was steel
railway bars which the Ways and Means Committee
proposed cents pound should be levied, and on
all railway bars part Steel cents per pound
Mr.. Benjamin moved to make IT one cent per
pound Bessemer Steel and Mr.. Bingham moved
to make It $50 per ton. The "Levenue
reformers strongly opposed these propositions talking
deal about monopoly. Messrs. schenck, Bingham,
Kelley, and others replied A preliminary vote con-
WINGED the Reformers" that they were beaten, and
they used every possible to adjourn In hopes that
fuller House would them, but they were only par
TALLY successful. The Bingham amendment fixing the
duty $50 per tun, carried by vote OF 10 To 65
showing list of about 90 members voting
without finally dsposng Of the paragraph, an adjourn
ment was carried The present duty on Bessemer steel
is As per cent advaorem which is about $40 tun, that
the action of the House to-day raises it sli tun The
protect onists well satisfied with the result.
The Texas, louisiana and other Southern representa-
tiyes interested in establishing railroad the thirty
second parallel, in conference last night Tor the
purpose deciding what bill they would unite on among
the number before Congress. They agreed to
support the transcontnental BILL known the Memphis
and Ell Paso represented by Gen Fremont. The House
Pacific Railroad Committee have a special meeting to-
morrow evening to consider and determine upon this
bill.
Admiral Porter and Gen. Mchler of the Engineer
Corps Of the Army appeared before the Senate For
eign Relations Committee to-day for the purpose OF
laying before Committee all the facts in their posses
sion concerning praccabity OF constructing canal
or railroad across Isthmus OF Tehuanepec Although
both Of these officers somewhat familiar with the
country through which 1t Is proposed to establish this
route they not able to give the Committee such in
formation as would its undertaking. From their
knowledge Of the country they thought railroad might
be built but very doubtful whether canal could
DE constructed. The subject was discussed up " the
hour OF adjournment.
The WAYS and Means Committee had a short session
bill. From Information received by Secretary Boutwell,
of what way going inside the Committee room, there
pulsory clause concerning National Banks, will he re-
ported by majority Of the Committee.
Mr., Verrom who has been acting as Consul at one OF
Yokohama. He says he In the latter place the
day the Oneida sailed homeward bound, and was on
the vessel with friends who were officers un-
til weighed anchor and that he say with truth
that the statement published to the effect that the
officers Of Oneida oxcated at the time OF the
ships sailing, Is false and gross SANDER.
NOMINATIONS BY THE PREsIDENT-CLAIMs OF
THE SOUTHERN LOYALIsTs
GENERAL PRESS DIsPATCHl
The following nominations sent in to-day:
Samuel T. Day Of Florida to be Consul at Winnipeg
Oscar M.lmIoss Of Minnesota to b. Consul at Pcou
Henry Smith be Of Internal Revenue for the Seventh
HodO WOODBURY. Collector of Internal for the Second
George A. Crawford Of Maine be Chaplain in Navy.
J. X. Morse, N be Master in the Navy.