Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-05-29
EVENING STAR.
CONGRESSIONAL
Conclusion Yesterday Proc,
SENATE-After our report closed
The consideration Of --
THE TARIFF BILL

SENATE-After our report cloeea-
The consideration Of ~ -
THE TARIFF BILL
The paragraph A. to paper. which ia i,c,udsd
among the articles on which q reduction Of 10
Der cent. on existing duties is provided for vas
amended to read as follows: On all paper and
manufactures OF paper. excepting books and
other printed matter not herein speclfcally pro-
yided FOR; provided that the duty on prfnfing
PAPER, whether sized or unsixed. shall be edusl
ana ZE Per centum ad valorem- The para
krsph IN relation TO books was struck out, % as
10 leave unchanged the present rates of duty
das paragraph IN relation to copper was struck
olsl which retains the present rate of duty
The following section was struck out:
Sec s. That ell acts and parts Of scts recurring
lrckersse cost Of transvor Atom
shipment end her like costs I'D incidr charges
hereby and ali and ssf. N .es i ire
sSpsihsttll With the provisions Of this section are
The rates on saltpetre we're fixed q. follows
on crude saltpetre, one cent per pound; parti
ally refined, one and a half cent per pound; re-
Ined, Two cents per pound.
MI: sherman stated, in reference to the free
list that the additions made BY the finance COM
n,,tee amounted to 5000 900.
MI. summer then moved to put ON the freq list
LOOKS IN slilsnguages printed and manufactured
more tnan twenty years at the date of importa-
Sir. Chandler moved TO strike from the free
list old brass Agreed 70.
The Senate went into executive session, and
then took recess to 80 p. m, when il reasse M
bed, and the free list was then agreed to.
MIR. Wright moved to strike out the amend
ment fixing the tax on tobacco at "a cents pc
pound.
Mr.. Sherman offered an amendment making
the tax on the fine grades oftobacco 81 cents per
FOUND, and the tax on cheap grades excluding
fne-cut shOrts) is cents per pound.
IN the other amendments, so far as the bill
was read, were agreed to, certain portions being
reserved.
Without voting on the tobacco question, the
Senate, at 1880 p. m, adjourned.
HOUSE-After our report closed
Mr.. Bingham moved to suspend the rules and
take up Senate bill to amend the enforcement
act, and said he proposed to offer as substitute
a bill that had been agreed upon by q majority
of the committee on Judiciary. The motion was
rejected-yeas lis, nays s.; two-thirds not vot-
ing in the affirmative.
MIR. Bingham reported a bill to amend the act
to allow the United States to prosecute appeals
and writs Of errors in certain cases. The
amendment provides that 1t shall not extend to
cases of less than s5oo.1 Passed.
MIR. Harris (Va.) offered . bill to remove the
political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth
amendment upon Alexander r. Boteler, Of
West Virginia, and upon John Young Brown,
excepted in the general bill recently passed, as
they were members Of the Thirty-sixth Con-
gress. The rules were suspended, and the bill
passed.
Mr.. Donnan, from the conference committee
on the bill in relation to the appointment OF a
paymaster general, submitted a report, which
was agreed TO. Ii makes the paymaster gene
raj OF the ank OF colonel
The House then, at $50 p. m, adjourned.