The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-05-23
CONGRESSIONAL.

paSSeu 70 cOllurm 70 the OfeaJ anu
Little Usage Indians the reservation
in Indian Territory, and for the sale
Of the Black Bob Indian lands in Kan
sas. The report Of the conference
committee on the naval apprOpria-
ton bill was concurred in. The even
ing session was mainly devoted to
the postal telegraph bill, Mr.. COnk-
ling taking up the time with an at
tack on the Associated Press.
In the House, a bill passed author
izing defendants in United States
Courts to testify in their own behalf.
The tariff bill was then laken up in
Committee OF the Whole, and the du-
ty on quinine reduced from . to 10
per cent. Saltpeter was put on the
free list. The duty on santonine was
reduced TO 81 a pound, and stryehnine
to 30 cents an ounce. The duty on
rum essence or oil, and bay rum, was
reduced TO 50 cents an ounce. Mo
tions were agreed to add to the item
taxing books, &c, I23 cents a pound,
an exemption of those imported for
public libraries, colleges, schools, phil
osophicaI societies, &c. to put the
duty on all paper at 80 per cent. Of the
existing duties as substitute for the
paragraph taxing sized printing pa
per IS per cent. Mr.. Butler, Of Mass,
offered a resolution for final adjourn
ment from the Sd OF June to the last
Thursday in November next in or
der to keep in force the act authoriz-
ing the suspension of the habeas cor
pus. The House refused to order the
previous question, and adopted as
substitute a resolution for adjourn
ment sine die, Monday, the Sd Of
June. at u O'Clock.
MAY 17.-In the Senate, the House
resolution for final adjournment June
3, was referred to the Committee on
Finance. a bill passed providing for
holding a United States District
Court at Toledo The conference re-
port on the West Point appropriation
bill was coneurred in. The habeas
corpus suspension bill was discussed
for time, and then set for final dis
position on Tuesday next. The river
and harbOr bill was reported Among
the amendments was one increasing
the appropriation for Black River
Harbor, o., from $4,000 to $4,000,
and one increasing that for Calumet
Harbor, H., from $4,000, to $4,000.
IThe army appropriation bill was dis
cussed till adjournment.
In the House the tariff bill was
considered in committee. The duty
on all printing paper was put at 20
/ per cent ad valorem. The following
rates were fixed: Vermuth; 40 per
cent. ad valorem mustard, ground,
in bulk, 10 cents a pound, and in tin
or glass, IA cents; mustard seeds free
currants, ] cent a pound; figs, .
cents a pound raisins, p cents a
pound; on copper in ores, p cents a
pound, if fine copper on all regulus,
or block, or coarse copper, 8 cents; on
old copper, 81 cents; in plates, bars,
&c, and on ali manufactures of cop
per, 40 per cent. ad valorem. On
emery ore, SO per ton, and on emery
grains, cents a pound. On preserved
or condensed milk, S5 per cent. ad
valorem. On plate glass, 80 per cent.
of the existing duties. On tin in
sheets or plates, Is per cent. ad val
Orem. On weed screws, two inches
or over in length, cents a pound
less than two inches, g cent, and less
than three quarters of an inch, 8
/ cents. An amendment was passed
/ by a vote of 80 to 63, authorizing one
| third of the customs duties to be prid
In legal tender notes. The following
articles We're added to the free list
! Cocoa, quicksilver, books in foreign
languages, jute butts, tropical and
semi-trOpical plants, saltpeter, gun
BOWACAI JAbNi N4AAASlS VI DdIhS lOI
tanning, quinine, licorice, emery ore,
seeds of forest trees. Pe-ishable fruits
were struck out OF tlIa liaf IN: -
4 ton allowing the free importation OF
ship materials was extended to
steamboats,. The committee, having
| finished the tariff part of the bill,
rose, and the House adjourned.
MAY IS.-In the Senate q bill passed
to replace bonds destroyed. A resO-
| luton was adopted asking the House
to return the Senate resolution to ad-
iourn May 20. The army appropria-
| ton bill was passed. An amendment
was adopted providing that the gov
eminent pay no royalty for the use of
/ arms patented by one of its citizens.
Adopted.
In the House the conference report
on the West Point appropriation bill
was agreed to. A bill passed appro-
priating S349, 1894 to pay the claims of
30S persons for supplies taken by the
army and allowed by the Southern
| Claims Commission; also the Senate
bill to pay DIR. J. Milton Best, Of
Paducah, S25, 600 for the destruction of
his house during the war. The con-
| ference report on the diplomatic ap-
preparation bill was agreed to, as was
that on the Indian bill. A conference
committee was ordered on the steam
boat bill. Mr.. Conner, of Texas, was
given g, GOO to pay his expenses in
cOntesting the right to his seat. Ad.
ljOurned