New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-02
WASHINGTON.

fHE TEA AND COffEh QUESTION DEF
INITELY s o,1TI'ED
THE SENATE AMENDME' IT PROMPTLY CONQUERED
IN BY THE ho' ISE-A SPEECH FROM MR.
KELLEY.
lBf TIL GRAPH TO THB TRIBuNBl
WASHINGTON Nav 1.-The Tea and Coffee ques-
ton is delr tely settled at last, the House having
concerned to-day in the Senate amendments TO tiie
bill viii IN passed the House last Winter nc
amend ments provide that the bill shall take e"ec,
on July l. and make all tea and coffee III ooho
AZ that date free of duty. Mr.. Dawes moVeu
Ito take up The bin Immediately after tno io'u-
ing of tAo Journal. 1t required uhsh'uo"s
consent to do this, but the oppos''ioh ,i''u
been so thoroughly beaten before tna'
not n man among them had the spirit 10 lhterpose
IN objection, There were feeble attempts h'oe
subsequently to get the Yeas and Nays on concur
r;nv in each of the amendments but they were both
failures The only members who voted against the
amendments. when the question was taken by
tellcrs were Freeman Clark, J, ii. Smith, Boles'
Farnsworth Brooks Of New-York. Beveridge' Bur
chard. Stevenson, Cotton, and Merrick. The whole
affair. which resulted in the most important action
Congress is likely to take upon the farm question:
this session. occupied less than half hours tlme'
There are various opinions expressed as to the
probable effect of this action upon the general anu
LEGISLATION of the session. Some members Deile'e
that no other reductions will be made ana 'li"'
Congress can afford to go to the country WIN 'lo
reduction of Sl6OOOO00 which the Dill ehee's.
Others including the Protectionist members Of
the WAYS and Means Committee, say that
II will greatly help them in opposing
the trenchant reductions which are made III
the bin reported by the majority of the Committee
They predict that the measure which VIII thally
get through both Houses will not differ widely from
the Senate bill, which the House recently re'cc'eu'
because passed in violation of what the House con-
ceived to be its Constitutional right TO originate
revenue bills. That bill, it Will be remeiil-
hered. made a uniform reduction of ten per cent.
in the present duties on cotton and WOODEN liplcS'
metals and other articles or about one-h&H the
reduction pronosed in the Ways and Means bill. On
the other hand. the friends of the Ways and Means
hill. or more properly the Notwithstanding
hill saw that they are not at all embarrassed
nv the placing of tea and coffee on the
free list Their bill proposed to reduce the
duties on these articles, so as to take
S5OOOOOa from the revenue, and making them en-
tirely free takes S11 100000 more off. The total re-
ducton effected by their bill reaches only SSl OOOoo
They held that there are no objections to adding the
Sll.OOOOOO and making the reduction S4@oOOouo' ana
in snprort OF this they quote Mr. Dawes as
saving that the Treasury could stand s5OCOOO reduc
ton and Mr. Kelley as fixing the proper figure at
sbOOoOO They argue that there is nothing in TIC Voe
Of the House to-day prevent them from proceeding 10
pass their bin.
Mr. Kelley had the floor in the House, today, on the
Tariff ILL after the morning hour lad expired, ana
made an eloquent ard exceedingly earnest speech IN
favor Of protection and against the general prhclpe o
the bill Of reducing the duties on the most important
articles of American manufacture. lie opposed INC
present maintenance Of Internal Revenue taxes and'
while discussing this branch of the question: was inter
rocated by MI Hale as whether he would desire 10
raise the whole sum necessary for the support OF the
Government from custom duties alone. MI. Haze eVI-
IDENTIFY thought this would be troublesome question LOT
Mt Kelley answer, hut he, after hesitatlnS moment
frankly said that he believed the time would come
within four or six yers when the Government would
be entirely supported by the tariff and when that day
came the people would give thanks TO God tha no more
direct taxes would De levied. The Internal revenue
laws he held tended to demoTaize the people He de-
MED that the present internal taxes we're taxes Oh lux
ures and proceeded to show that the spirit tax was
burden uuon various arts manufactures, and reDled
the cost Of most domestic medicines He raised an Issue
Of fact with Mr. Fukenburg 10 the value OF the labor
REQUIRED to make iron in proportion to the cost OF the
manufactured article He said that from 80 TO 90 per
cent of the Of pig iron for labor Mr. Finken-
bure had placed il at & and insisted upon bis statement
saving that he had obtained his figures from the
manufacturers themselves. Mr.. Kelley. in discussing
The Iron Tariff said that the reduction FROM SO TO 81 ny
Inc schenck bill, had resulted in falling on in the pro
duction and rise the price. He repeated the argu-
and said that Congress struck another blow at IRON
the country would have TO pay s ahreed He
presented table showing the productions Of the manu-
facturers the country in 1880 1860, and 1870 exotlng
an Immensely greater in the last decade than in
the one preceding. The country, he SAID, was pros
porous, and the reason why ITS export uade was
franchised freedmen CONSUMED the products OF its manu-
factdres They made such a demand for tne com
forts and Injuries produced in the country that there
was occasion to send these articles abroad TO compete
with the cheap labor OF Great Britain and Belgium He
showed how imports had increased from year to year. III
spite OF socaed prohhitory duties and our exports
also increasing, Notwithstanding tne great
demand The way TO increase commerce was to take or
the internal taxes and continue the protective system 10
further stimulate Ame lean manufactures. Tile House
WAS nearly full while Kelley was speaking and the mei
beers paid unusually close attention throughout