Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-28
CONGRESSIONAL.


| WASHINGTON, March 27.-Mr. Pool re-
ported without the amendment the bill re-
| curing all votes for Representatives to Con-
gress to be by ballot.
Buffers Seizures in New Orleans.
MIR. Pratt reported a bill authorizing
suits in the Court of Claims for the recoy-
cry OF money carried into the Treasury,
being the proceeds of Northern credits and
deposits in the banks of New Orleans by
the Confederate States authorities, and at
forwards seized by order of Gen. Butler.
The Tariff:
House bill to repeal the tax on tea and
coffee was taken up.
Mr. Sherman gave notice that he would
ask the Senate to sit to-day until the bill
should be disposed of. He said that the
adoption of the amendments to the tea and
coffee bill had changed somewhat the plan
OF the committee, and he believed if the
Senate would now pass the bill with these
amendments, the House would concur, and
there would be an end Of the tariff ques-
tion for this season.
Mr.. Morton said that at the request of
some friends with whom he was accustom-
ed to act in the Senate he had decided to
withdraw his amendment for the abolition
OF Internal taxes, intending however to
seek the same object by another bill.
The bill which had been considered in the
Committee of the Whole, was reported to
the Senate, and the amendment, providing
that it shall 60 into effect the first of July,
was concurred in.
Mr.. Trumbull said, that having failed
yesterday b get
put on the free list, he would now move, as
an amendment, the provision in the first
section OF the bill as reported from the
Committee on Finance, reducing the duty
on salt one-half.
Mr. Blair moved to make salt duty free.
be denounced the tax on salt as most unit
Justihable and oppressive, and spoke a
length against the protection policy. Speak
ing OF the salt monopoly he stated on the
authority of Mr.. Wells that the OnondBga
Salt Company had in one year made six
dividends, one Of which was twelve and
half per cent.
MIR. Conkling denied the statement and
said the capital invested in the manufac-
ture of salt paid but per cent.
Mr.. Fenton had read the sworn state
ment of the officers on the Onondaga Salt
OOhAPoulg budb bLtlI DIOlliS
past two years had been only 81 per cent.
Mr.. Blair said that whenever monopol-
lists came to ask Congress for laws that
would enable them to live at the expense of
the rest Of the people, they were always
ready to make statements of this kind.
Mr.. Conkling asked Mr.. Blair how many
of his constituents ha6 petitioned for the
repeal of the duty on salt.
Mr.. Blair replied that his constituents
and the people of the West generally were
less in the habit Of troubling Congress
about their grievances than others, but were
none the less conscious of them. Mr.. Blair
said he did not believe a word of the state
meut made by the Secretary and Treasurer
of the Onondaga Salt Company, and argued
the question at length.
Mr.. Buckingham argued that the protec-
tive system was more beneficial to labor
than to capital.
The amendment was rejected.
Mr.. Sumner moved to amend so as to
make books in ancient and foreign Ian
guages free.
Mr.. Bayard moved to amend so as to ad-
NIT free of duty statuary and paintings i'm
ported by the owner, and not for sale.
Lost.
Without further action the Senate ad-
journed.