Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-31
IN CONGRESS-.
The Tariff BiII IN the Scnate-Salt-
Summers Amendment 10 the
Constitution.
business Of the HOuse-BlIl for the
Better Security of Bank Reserves.
Debate ON the Louisiana Difficulties
Yarmouth and his Radical
Opponents
SENATE.

1 Treasury to purchase a site in Philadel-
phia for a postoffiee, the expense of both
the site and building not to exeeede one
million and half,dollars.
Senator Spencer, from the Committee
on Commerce, reported adversely on the
House bill to incorporate the LOonnis
Aerial Telegraph Company.
Senator Logan, from the Committee
on Military Affairs, reported the House
amendments to the bill authorizing GER
tain appointments in the Quartermas-
ter's Department, and recommended
that a concurrence therein be asked for
present consideration, but Senator Nye
objected and the bill went over.
Senator Scott, from the Committee on
Alleged Outrages by the Southern
States, reported a new bill composed of
the exact phraseolOgy Of the bill extend
ing The Presidents power to suspend the
writ Of hdbeds corpus and of the civil
rights bill, both of which passed the
Senate last
Senator Scott, also from the same COM
mittee, reported, without amendment,
Senator KelIogg's bill, providing for adj
ditiOnal supervisors of elections under
the Enforcement act Of February IS,
1872.
Senator Bayard objected to the second
reading of the bills, the minority of the
committee, he said, had no knowledge
of the reference of these bills, and he
questioned the right Of the Senate to re-
fer them to a committee organized for
specific and entirely different duties.
The Nice-President said that the Sem
ate could, if it chose, refer to a commit
tee matters outside of its specific duties.
Senator Sumner offered joint reso-
luton amending the Constitution. pro-
viding for the election of the President
by a direct vote Of the people, and abol-
ishing the Office of Fice-President.
A number of pension bills were re-
ported and passed.
The tariff bill came up and the ques- |
ton was on adding the House bill ap-
pointing a labor commission. The sal |
AIRY of the Secretary of the Commits |
sion was fixed at two thousand five |
hundred dollars. An amendment was |
adopted providing for the appointment |
of three commissioners to hold the /
office for one year, 20 consider and ex- /
anime various places and methods of 1
raising the revenue, and report the best /
tax and tariff system they can devise,
having a regard to the interests of labor .
in its relations to capital and otherwise,
and having a regard also to the inter-
ests Of commerce and of all classes of /
the American people.
Senator Casserly offered an amend
ment providing that the committee
should be selected from civil life, ire
spective Of partisan considerations; and F.
that at least one Of them should be iden-
titled with the labor interest, and should
have personal experience and informa-
ton on that subject. Agreed to.
The Labor Committee amendment, as
was then rejected-yeas Is,
nays 36.
Senator Fenton offered an amendment |
to the tariff bill, adding to the duty on
salt, as fixed by the bill, twenty per cent.
ad valorem, and advocated it.
Senator Chandler said it should be
thirty per cent. He noticed that the
New England Senators were all in fa-
vor of low duty on salt-abOut twelve
md a half per cent.-and he gave no.
ice that if they reduced the duty on
salt be would try to have the duties on
New England manufactures reduced to
the same extent.
Senator Fenton agreed with Senator
Chandler that thirty per cent would be
more just than twenty.
The amendment was rejected-yeas
p, nays "a. Other amendments to in
crease the duty ON salt were offered and
elected, leaving it as it was originally
fixed by the House.
Senator Lewis offered an amendment /
providing that the President, instead Of
the Secretary Of the Treasury, shall as
sign Internal Revenue Supervisors to
duty in any part of the United States.
Agreed to.
Senator Hamilton Texas offered an
amendment providing for the discon
tinuance of any internal revenue dis
Tict whenever the receipts fall below
the expenses. Rejected. The bill hav-
ing been considered in Committee of the
Whole, was reported to the Senate, when
all the amendments not reserved were
in.
The provision applying ten per cent
reduction on existing duties to paper
was coslcUrred in as first reported from
the Finance Committee, as follows: On
all paper and manufacturers of paper,
including books and other printed mat
ter not herein specially provided.
Senator Sherman moved the follow
ing amendment, which was agreed to:
Ol al SIItu anu Slueu paper SulJaDlS Tor
printing paper, twenty-five per cent. ad
amended, providing for an
additional duty Of ten per cent. ad
yaJ0ren on all goods the product of the
country east Of the Cape of Good Hope,
except raw. cotton and raw silk. When 7
imported from places west of the Cape,
It was amended 50 as to take effect on
the first of October. Concurred in.
On motion of Senator Sherman the
paragraph imposing a duty of three
quarters of cent per pound on fine
fax, dressed, and valued at twenty-five
cents per pound, was stricken out.
Upon ccncurring in the amendment
adopted i'm Committee of the Whole,
making the duty on saltpetre: crude,
Dne cent per pound; partially refined,
one and half cents, and refined, two
cents per pound, there was some discus
sion, in the course of which it was said
there was something in the air just
now which made it desirable to provide
4 good supply of gunpowder.