The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-03-11

nullifyng the treaty for the purchase CT
Alaska, which secured an appropriati1nS
Mr.. Logon also said that when Gen. Shelf
man entered the city with bis magnihcen col
ors he refused to recognize Secretary stanton,
with whom he was not on pleasant terms, vet
SHERMAN was not depOscd but was Afterwards
promoted. The speech of the Senator from
NJ 1885,, on the Alabama claims, from which the
seat OF Secretary had been removed, were &C.
cepted by the whole country as the text upon
which those claims were to be settled, now
when the high commission is here we were to
backdOwn from our position and say to these
gentlemen. We have deposed this gentleman
rom the head Of the com. on foreign reations."
He (Logan) would ask if there was nothing
lie this? Was not the chairman of some other
committee changed. Why was it only one
chairman, that of Committee on Fereign Re-
iat.onS, was changed?
\, At4 z. NJ Mr.. Upton moved to adjourn
Not agreed to. % to %.
1.-The end of the debate had not reached us ct
3.45 this morning
HOUSE.
MIR. Dawes of Massachusetts,, offered reso-
lntiou increasing the number of the members
OF the Committee on Public Buildings and
Grounds to nine, and including within its iur-
isdiction all public buildings being Construct.
ed by the government. Adopted
The bill TO enable hOnorably discharged sol.
diers and sailors, their widows and orphan
children to acquire homesteads on public
lduuS Was TclSTTeu. n JOlut EtSOiutlOQ COQ-
STRUNG the Internal revenue act of july 14tb,
1870, so as to provide for TIE admission of ami
mails specially imported for breeding purposes
was passed.
Mr. Hill of New jersey, introd uced bills to
abolish the banking privilege and to repeal the
income tax. Referred.
Mr. Randall of Pennsylvania, presented
jont resolution of the Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture against further railroad land grants. Re-
ferred.
Mr. &c ~.
deficiency bill, appropriating $141 555 and pro-
ceeded to explain how it became necessary At
ter debate an amendment adding $4,000 for
post office building 10 Omaha, Neb it was
adopted and the bill passed. The House then
went into committee of the whole on bill to re-
peal duty on coal and salt. .,.r.f
Having agreed, 81 to 80, to limit the discuss
ION to As mioutes, Mr.. BIair of Michigan off
| cred an amendment reducing the duty tn salt
| to ten cents per 100 pou nds in bulk and six
| teen cents per 100 pounds in sacks.
Mr.. Cox of New York submitted some sta
| tistcs in reference to anthracite trade. He re-
terred to the business of one collery in Le-
| high county, Pa, which was organized 10 1859,
which increased It's stock to $50 600 in 1860,
which in 1861 paid 10 per cent profit and re-
| served large surplus which, in 1862 paid IS
per cent and reserved a large surplus, which
| then W atered its stock 13 times raising it to
$5O0,000 and paid "a per ceLt on that increased
capital, not O0e dollar in cash having been
added to the canital aud the last year paid 12oer
| cent. on that 5000, 600 reserviOg much larger
sum from its earnings than it had divided.
MIR: Duell opposed the reduction OF the duty
| on salt, stating 10 the course of his remarks
| no personal interest, had lost money for the
past two years. 1t salt was placed on the free
| list the OnOndaga Co. which gave employment
| to more ,han $4,000 men, whose interests were
identified with large portion of the country
| would have to stop business.
Mr.. Garfield OF Ohio, sustained the bill aud
| replied that the basis of the argument of tax
| ing the duty from coal and salt would imply or
| induce an entire new tariff act
Mr.. Burdest OF Missouri, SAID he steadily
| voted 10 favor of the reduction on salt aud had
no disposition to change his vote but most
earnestly deprecated the movement now made
in that direction and the particular method in
| which it had been made. The voting thus far
made it manifest and he might as well be plain
| and say at once that the advocates Of the So
| called revenue reform were in the majority in
| the House and the movement was made in a
particular manner Notice was given TO all in
| dustries in the whole land that the time had
come when not by general overhauling of
| the tariff, not in Iair and open battle on the
subject but by Dibbling process all the vast
industries of the country were to be struck
| down one by one and public confidence de-
| stroyed Against that purpose he protested so
| far as coal was concerned. He cared not about
| It. Nome of his constituents were interested in
| iJ, but he had watched with considerable To-
terest those gentlemen from the west whose
| staple Argument tor years had been denuncia-
ton Of New England, and who were waiting
to give New England another little bite on
that account He did no propose to join in
| that sort of movement He saw nothing in
this movement but that fight would be made
on those who endorsed the perils of the mines
in this cnuntry. There were 10000 miners
struggling to day against he mouopoles Of
mine owners and coal transporters, and the
members who advocated the poor and theii
miners. He would not aid in giving the min
| ers that sort OF blow, neither would he vote tor
the special benefit of few New England
manufacturers, or few mine owners of Pic
tou, or that greatest of all mOnopolies, the
Manhattan gas company of New York. He
would therefore vote against taking OFT the du
ty Oh coal aud salt. @
Mr.. Speer argued against the repeal of the
duty on coal. He did not know what the Wes
proposed to gain by 1t, but he knew what New
England proposed to gain. Nova Scotia Goa
% aha Ry Msy build
NV England capital and New England inter
ests. He pro ested against it in the name oil
the people in his State and said to his political
friends if they wanted to lose the State oil
Pennsylvania to the Democracy OF the nation
shrewder brethren of New England to strike
| down the great industry of that State
The time for debate having expired, amend.
lnents placing lumber, wood of all kinds, tea
coffee, potatoes aud bunting on the free list
| and to reduce the tax on apple and peach
brandy to 70 cents per gallon were agreed tc
and those to make the internal tax on manu-
featured tobacco 16 cents per pound, and to
put barley and malt on the free list were re-
jected.
Many of the opponents to the original bill
sustained the amendment, hoping thus to load
| it down and defeat it.
A number of matters were Introduced fol
diliatory purposes, and the House adjourned
till Monday.