The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-05-17
42d CONGRESS.
WARRINGTON, May 10.
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The tariff bill then came up In th
Committee Of the Whole.
On motion the duty on quinine wa
reduced from twenty-five per cent to to
per cent. 49,
Mr.. STARKwRATHER moved to strik
out the item taxing saltpetre three pc
cent per pound and put 1t on the free lisI
Mr.. DAWES warned the House Of thi
motion In the interest Of the Hazard ant
Dupont Powder Mills COMPANIES, th
two greatest monopolies In the country
An amendment was agreed 10 by 73 to 81
The amendment striking out the item
taxing sal soda and soda ash one.fourtl
per cent per pound was rejected.
The duty on santrmine was reduced Il
81 per pound and strychuine to thirty
cents per ounce.
The duty on rum essence, or oil anS
bay rum essence or oil was reduced {,
fifty cents per ounce.
Mr.. HoAR moved to add TO the iten
taxing books, &C., 12i cents pound, ant
the exemption of those imported for pub
lie libraries, colleges, schools, phllosophi
cal societies, &C.
Mr.. KERR moved to reduce the rate tt
10 cents a pound. 81.
Mr.. HOLMAN moved to put school book
on the free list.
Mr.. BANKS argued in favor Of fixing th(
duty Of books at as low rate as Is consist
ent with the intereat Of American publish
ers, and suggested a reduction of the ad
Valofem rate to 10 or 10 cents,
Amer a long discussion Mr.. HOLMAN!
amendment, making school books, charts
and maps used by common schools, bibles
and testaments free Of duty, was rejected
by vote Of 90 to 72.
Mr.. KERR's amendment, reducing the
duty on books from 12i to 10 cents pei
pound, was rejected by vote OF rs to rs
MIR. HoARs amendment was agreed TO-
and also one offered by Mr.. GARFIELD
excepting books in foreign languages and
English editions Of old works unreyised
for twenty years.
Mr.. DAWES moved to put the duty on
all paper at 90 per cent OF the existing du.
ties as a substitute for the paragraph tax.
ing sized printing paper at 2S per cent.
Agreed to by vote Of 81 to 7s.
Mr.. BUTLER, of Mass, offered a reso.
luton for final adjournment from the
Both Of June to the last Thursday in No.
vember next He explained his motion
for proposing to adjourn until November
instead Of sine die as being to keep in
force the act authorizing the suspension
of the hdbeaS corpRS, which expires at the
end OF the present SESSION. This propo.
sition extends the session legally till the
day fixed in November. He proceeded
to state why the Committee should take
this recess, owing to the state OF affairs
in the South, but was called to order, and
the SPEAKER decided that such range OF
debate was not in order on the resolution
for final adjournment. Mr.. BUTLER pro.
ceeded to speaking Of the prevalence in
the South Of rape, murder and robbery.
Loud calls otto order =.
Mr.. BECK declared that all Of Mr..
BUTLER's statements were untrue. [Calls
TO order.
MIR. BUTLER not being permitted to
proceed with his remarks said he would
grant to the other side OF the House the
mercy ot silence and would move the
previous question. ~.
The previous:question was not second.
ed-64 to 10G.
Mr.. DAWES then moved as q substitute
the resolution for adjournment sine die
on Monday, Sd Of June, at 10 o'clock.
Agreed to-yeas 142, nays 81.
The House then took recess till 7:30.
The evening session to be for the business
Of the Committee on Public Lands. ~
I'll, EVENING SESSION.
Mr.. KErcHAM, Chairman Of the Com,
mittee on Public Lands, reported Senate
bill to create additional land districts in
Kansas. Passed. Also a bill relating to
the erection Of new land districts. Passed.
. MIR. TOWNSEND, OF Pa, from the,same
reported House bill granting
right Of way TO the Dakota Grand Trunk
Railroad Company. Passed. Also, House
bill granting right Of way to the Utah &
Northern Railroad Company. (,
Mr.. HGwLEY, from the same commit.
tee, reported the House bill granting q
like right OF way to the Missouri Valley
Railroad Company; passed. Also a. bill
ior the relief OF certain homestead set.
tiers on public lands. Passed, after long
discussion. 5Si 90
Mr.. STEVENSON, from the same com.
mittee, reported q bill to confirm the en-.
tries Of lands under the act Of the 4th OF
August, 1854, to graduate and reduce the
price Of public lands. Passed,
Mr.. DUNNELL, from the same commit
tee, reported the House bill extending 10
March 26th, the time for the completion
of the Atchison, Topeka 6 Santa Fee
railroad, and to secure lands to actual
settlers. ~,
After considerable controversy, the
House adjourned without action on the
bill. ..''''
SENATE.
The Senate resumed the consideration
oil the Baltimore s. Potomac railroad de.
pot bill. Several amendments were Of.
Tered and rejected, and the bill then
passed-SS to IS.
The following bills reported from the
Committee on Indian Affairs and from the
Committee on Public Lands passed: To
authorize the President to negotiate with
the chief men Of the Cherokee and Ban.
cock tribes of Indians for tho relinquish.
ment Of portions Of their reservation ir
Wyoming Territory; to provide for the
sale Of certain Indian lands in Kansas; to
confirm to the Great and Little Usage
Indians reservation in Indian Terri
tory, and for the sale Of the Black Bot
Indian lands il Kansas: to enable the
Secretary Of War to pay the expenses in.
CURED in suppressing Indian hostilitiet
in Montana in 1867; TO confirm the sales
Of the Shawnee Indian lands in Kansas
under the direction and with tho approya
Of the Secretary Of the Interior; granting
the right Of way through the public lands
to the Pensacola & Louisville Railroad
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