Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-31

HoUsE-A motion to take up the Utah election ease was voted down, and it went into Committee of the Whole the tariff Ct mmission bil Mr. DunnelI taking the floor MT Dunnell expressed the opinion that the proposed commission would do than collect of matter which would de ay action and Congress would expire without doing anything the tarn question, and the people will say it failed to do it's duty. He thought the duty of the Republican to the country and self required reduction of the tariff. The Democratic Hou slaughtered itself by failing to revise and redu the tariff We will be in the same fix We have jumped into the commits boat and will sail through and it remains to be seen what the country will say. Mir. Dunnell was carefully listened to by both sides and warmly ap- plauded by the Democrats at the close.
 Mr. Hewitt 10 k the floor at ,hree o'clock offering
 resolution which he said he would ask to be consid- cred at the proper time. It recommited the bill to the committee, directing it to report instead bill placing all raw material and waste products in the manufacture of chemicals that produced ln this country also alcohol used in manufacturing on the free list and substitute specific for ad Ualoret duties, passing these upon average dutiable values during the past year, no higher rate be fixed than necessary to compensate for the difference in the cost
 of labor in the two res the rate of duty except luxurtes not to exceed fifty per cent of the
 age dutiable value He surprised at the remarks of Mr. Kasson which were directly opposed to his the ory expressed in speech in 1866.
 This led to animated sparring match between
 Messrs. Kasson ana Hewitt the former claiming that
 the portion of his speech referred to "d read did not fairly represent hi and demanding the reading of
 it's contents, upon which Hewitt announced that he ] would have Mr. Kassons speech of 1866 printed in 1 full in the Record as an appendix to his own He
 proceeded with his arguments, holding that delay 1n
 the revision of the tariff Was dangerous and the coun l try prosperous but the ragged edge. Un-
 less make outlet for riches we shall De oVer ! whelmed with them. What is necessary is system
 by which we can enter more readily the markets ot tue world. He thought articles used in manufactur-
 ing should be admitted free aid lessen the cost o l production and so let enter the markets of tAe
 world on the reduced cost of production He favored
 the removal of the tariff iron Ebe Atlantic ocean,
 he said, had given tariff of 100 per cent. on iron
 for it costs much to transport ton of iron from
 Europe as to dig and manufacture it: Applause> He favored specific rate cotton goods of about 2 per cent, woolen goods 30 per cent iron and stee
 manufacture 35 per cent silk goods 40 per cent II ! Den6n
 the working people, but is making the rich richel l and the poor poorer and should be removed. 1t
 quoted from recent statement by Dr. Lyon Playfa1r ! deputy speaker of the British House of Commons
 that the United States inuring herself more thai 1 England by her tariff system, and predicting tha l while the United States must become the greates 1 manufacturing country of the world this would b l really and indefinitely delayed by this protectiv tariff system.
 1 without action on the bill the committee rose
 MT. King presented resolutions for investigation
 of the overflow of the Mississippi to its effect upo1
 pubic health and damage to property and life iron 1 the same
 1 Adjourned at 505 D. m.