The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-05-09
HOUSE.

HOUSE.
The apportionment bill was taken uI
increasing the aggregate number of 2sS
representatives, as fixed by the appor
tionment law Of this session, to 292, the
additional nine being given TO New
Hampshire, Vermont, New York
Pennsylvania, Indiana, Tennessee
Louisiana, Alabama and Florida, to be
elected by separate districts, except the
Forty.third Congress, when they may
be elected on the general ticket.
Mr.. Mercur, from the Judiciary Com
mittee, who supported the bill, ad.
dressed the House in explanation and
advocacy of it.
Alter some discussion Mr.. Randall
moved to lay the bill on the table as
tinkering with the apportionments
Negatived-ayes 80, noes 104. The
bill then passed without division.
The House then went into Committee
of the Whole, Mr.. Scofeld in the chair,
on the tariff and tax bill.
| Mr.. Dawes stated the reductions in
revenue which, he estimated, would be
effected if the bill became law. These
were On coal, $322,SSl; salt, $685.
522; leather and leather manufactures,
$529, 400; cotton manufactures, 81 ,O7,-
2S3; wool manufactures, $3,358,274;
iren manufactures, 1921 $50; other
metals, $677O; India rubber manufac'
lures, 53,207; gutta perch manufac-
lures, $50; straw manufactures, $685.
347 oil cloths, $27S5; lumber,
$76l,S0 all other articles, $6l4,600;
free list, Including tea and coffee, ST..
5O0,976; reduction OF tariff revenue,
$26, ,l40,S33; reduction Of internal rev.
enue, $l3, ,9SS,00O. Total, $40, l2S,S32
Mr.. Dawes moved to strike out the
items Of tea and coffee.
Mr.. Brooks, of New York, while de
claring his intention to vote for that
motion, undertook to show how falla,
cious was the cry of free breakfast
table, and enumerated the list Of arti-
cles necessary to breakfast table on
which large duties were imposed, espe'
cially salt and sugar, stoves, kettles,
frying pans and hollow ware.
The question OF free tea and coffee
gave rise to lengthy discussion, par
ticipated in by Messrs. Kelly, lockwood
Cox, Kerr, Randall, Banks, Morgan,
Potter and Farnsworth.
At the close of the discussion the
duties on tea and coffee were struck out
of the bill.
Mr.. Richie moved to increase the
duty on btuminous coal and slate from
fifty cents to one dollar per ton.
Mr. Foster, OF Pennsylvania, moved
to strike out the whole paragraph.
This subject also gave rise to lengthy
discussion.
At the close of the discussion Mr..
Ritchie's amendment was rejected.
Mr.. McGrew moved to make the
rate at seventy.tive per cent a ton.
Agreed to-ayes 80, noes 7S.
Mr.. Fosters motion to strike out the
paragraph was rejected.
| On motion OF Mr.. Dawes a new item
was inserted as follows: on culm coal
at fifteen per cent ad-valorem.
| Mr.. Duell moved to amend the item
regarding the duty on salt in bulk by
making it twelve cents per hundred
pounds instead Of eight cents.
Mr.. Mcintyre thought that salt ought
to be put on the free list and made a
motion to that effect.
Messrs. Farnsworth, Finkelnburg and
Darnell objected to placing salt on the
free list.
Mr.. Conger was unfavorable to q
high duty on salt, and would move to
insert the word rock instead of bulk.
Mr.. Burchard said he believed that
all articles Of prime necessity should be
placed on the free list, but he would
move for slight duty on salt.
Mr.. Garfield opposed the proposed
duty on salt as protective and injurious
to the interests Of the people.
Without action, the committie rose.
The Speaker then announced Messrs.
Garfield, Poland and Marshall as q
Conference Committee on the deficiency
bill; also Messrs. Sergeant, Shank and
Swami as a Conference Committee on
the Indian appropriation bill.
Mr., Bingham, from the Judiciary
Committee, reported bill to aid the
execution of the laws in Utah territory.
Ordered printed and recommitted.
On motion of Mr.. Dawes, it was
J ordered that when the House adjourn
it 90 into Committee OF the Whole on
! the tariff bill. Debate on the salt
question shall be confined to half an
hour.
At 4:30 P. NJ. the House, without
further action, took a recess until 7:3O
. P. NJ.
EvRNlNG SESSION.
The House on reassembling at 7:3O
?. NJ, proceeded to consider reports
J from the Committee on MILITARY Az
fairs.
Mr.. Slocum, from that committee,
reported q substitute for Senate bill to
authorize the Secretary of War to sell
certain public property, including the
arsenals at Rome, New York, Apalachi.
cola and North Carolina and elsewhere.
! Passed.
The following bills reported by Mr..
Slocum were alss passed: To author.
ize settlement Of the accounts OF Major
; Abram Wheeler, late Paymaster Of the
United States Volunteers; to pay John
L. Goddard, late Commisary of the
United States Volunteers $969O which
he disbrrscd for ratious; to relieve
. Major John W. Cobb.
Considerable debate toook place on
. the bill reported by Slocum relative to
retired officers, providing that they
! shall be retired according to the actual
> rank held BY them at the date Of then
, retirement.