The Portland daily press., 1872-01-18
xLIId CONGREss-.sECoND SESSION.
SENATE.

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WASHINGTON, JAN 1.-THE usual number of
petitions were presented and referred
Mr.. Wilson introduced bill to encourage
fisheries. Section permits the furnishing of
all necessary outfits including salt, nets, Sc, to
fishing vessels from bonded warehouses with
out the payment of duties; Sec. authorizes the
withdrawal OF materials for the construction of
fishing vessels in like manner free of duty; Sec
allows the importation of vessels by citizens
of the United States for fishing purposes free of
duty and grants them United States papers the
same as if built in this country; Sec. includes
whalers and sealers as fishing vessels affected
by the provisions of this act. 80 lirW
A bill was reported from the Committee on
Education providing for the appointment of
labor commission.
A bill was introduced refunding Kentucky
expenses of troops who assisted the union army
during the rebellion TnTT1n fteE4lT
The civil rights bill was taken up and Mr..
Sumner finished his speech. , r,llus8 4s'E
Several gentlemen followed Mr.. Sumner in
the discussion on the Amnesty bill, but no vote
was reached. lH '" Lt
Mr.. Wilson desired to have the labor COM
mission consist of five instead of three MEM
bers. - ,s-.7 5r.t. .-..... e.
Mr.; Carpenter gave notice that he would call
Thursday Adjourned. 'a7p
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A large number of petitions were referred
A bill was passed fixing the date of pensions
at the time of the discharge or death of the SOL
der and extending the time for applications
to the first of July, 1874. ''rT $40
The Legislative appropriation bill was report
ed from the Ways and Means Committee, ap-
propriatng seventeen millions. 1t was made
the special order for next Tuesday
~-5F. AGAINST THE NAP o3 tr-
Mr. Knapp of Ill, offered a resolution that
commission of seven men had addressed docu-
ment called report to the President recon-
mending a set of rules for the examination of
applicants for office, and declaring it inexpedi-
ent that such recommendations be adopted and
they do not meet the approval of the House or
the people. Referred to the, Committee of the
Whole. i..te ...-.sar.
DISCUSSION ON THE TARIFF.
Mr.. Maynard of Tenn, reported bill from
the Ways and Means Committee permitting
the Celcasien Sulpher and Mining Co., of New
Orleans to import certain machinery free of
duty to be used only in boring through the bed
sand to reach a valuable bed of sulphur, and
also permitting the importing of machinery for
a mandatory of plate-glass in Indiana, not to
exceed in value $25, 600 each.
Mr.. Filkenburg Rep) Of Mo-, opposed this
special legislation as wrong in principle The
Houee should 60 the bottom of the evil and
and make such reduction of the tariff as
the revenues and trade of the. country would
permit. Influential and powerful INDUSTRIES
obtain special relief from Congress- while the
rest of the people are left to bear their burdens
as best they cant If it relieved the shipbuild-
ers to have cheap material, cheap iron, cheap
cordage and copper, so itwould relieve all in
zens of Chicago to have cheap building materi-
al, so it would aid every village and city
throughout the West If it aid those glass
manufacturers and sulphur mines in Louisiana
manufacturer using machinery. Every argu-
ment for special relief was equally an argument
for general reduction of tariff.
Mr. Maynard contended that these exceptions
only proved the rule. tl
MIR. Kerr of Ind, supported the bill because
the attempt to manufacture plate glass was yet
an experiment in this country and machinery
therefor was only made in France, and because
machinery boring tolgraaHiepth for sulphurwas
only made in Holland. =
Mr.. Kelley advocated the bill and said all the
ingredients for the manufacture of plate glass
were found in in abundance.
Mr.. Dawes of Massachusetts, deprecated the
premature discussion. He supported the bills
for the same reasons the gentlemenlfrom Mis-
souri, opposed them-because they would re-
| lieve the industry and develop the resources of
| the country The Committee of Ways and
Means was endeavoring to see if it was possi-
BILE to reduce the revenues of the country fifty
or one hundred millions more or less; consist
emily with the current expenses of the govern
ment and with paying proper portion of the
public debt so as on the one hand not to slay
and on the other to relieve and revive as much
of the industries of the country as possible. If
his friends from Missouri and Indiana had al
ready arrived at the conclusion that they were
to see the process by which with one horizontal
stroke all these things could be accomplished,
he (Dawes) was exceedingly gratifed. For
himself it had been most difficult task. He
had found in the little examination he had
been able to give to the great subjects of the
revenue and tariff and free trade to the ramif.
cations OF industries and TO the investment of
capital to paths of industry and to the field of
enterprise, that they were almost infinite and
that like the meshes of network it was i'm
possible to touch them at one point without eff
fectlng the extremetles all over the country
He confessed to his utter incompetency to the