Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-31
House of Representatives..

mouse OF Eepye5enf0CteeSs
WAsHINaToN, March 3O.-The senate bill
passed amending the statutes relating to the
license fees of officers of steam vessels.
Resolutions were adopted for printing co.
600 copies of the first volume of the census
report concerning the population of the coun.
try.
Updegraff, chairman of the committee on
ways OF governing the presidential elections,
reported bill 10 carry into effert the prOvi-
sions of the constitution respecting the cleo
ton of president aud vice president. Ordered
printed and recommitted.
The house refused to consider the Utah
contested election cases, and went into COM
mittee of the whole on the tariff commission
bills, and Dunnell addressed the house. He
opposed the hill simply and solely on the
ground that the present. tariff needed revision,
and that this congress had no business 10
aoopt any method which would put REVISION
beyond itself. The tariff n eded a change,
modification and revision and it was the duty
of congress Immediately to enter on the work
and not indefni ely postpone it by the ap
pointment of tar IF commission.
Mr. Hewitt IN. Y followed, and read from
a speech of Kasson's in 1866, 10 show he had
changed his views on the tariff. He then I'd
dressed himself to the bill, and had read the
following resolutions, which he stated he
would Offer as soon as debate closed:
Resolued, That the bill creating tariff COM
mission be recommitted with Instructions to
the committee on ways and means to report
within thirty days or an earlier date If it be
practicable, bill based on the following in.
structions.
First-That all raw materials, meaning
thereby all materials which have not been
subjected to any process of manufacture, and
waste products, meaning thereby all waste
materials which are fit only to be manufac-
tured, and all chemicals which are not pro-
duced in this country, and alcohol for use In
manufacture, be placed upon the free list.
Second. That so far as possible specific da-
ties shall be substituted for advalorem duties
and then 10 determining such specific duties
the average dutiable value of the import for
the last three years shall be taken as stand
ard of value, upon which no higher rate Of
duty shall be impose than shall be necessary
com pensate for the difference in the cost of
labor at home and abroad, expended in the pro-
duction of such products, after making due
allowance for expenses of transportation, and
that the rate of duty shall not in any case, ex-
cept on Injuries, exceed 80 per cent. OF such
o charge of dutiable value"
Hewitt then opposed the commission bill on
the ground that 1t would cause delay, and
when he had concluded the committee rose.
An executive communication was received
commencing to the attention of congress the
bill of the interior department for more ade-
quate prevention Of trespasses upon Indian
lands. Imprisonment is recommended as a
penalty, as well as fine. The secretary of
the interior says trespasses frequently result
in bloodshed and open war with the Indians.
A resolution directing the committee on
public posts to investigate the probable ef.
feet of the Mississippi overflow on the health
of the people living in the overlooked section
was referred.