The Portland daily press., 1882-05-08
THE TARIFF.
The House Passes the Bill Creating
Commission.

The House Passes the Bill Creating q
Commission.
WASHINGTON May6.-The House passed late
this afternoon, the bill creating commission
of experts to investigate the tariff and report to
Congress 1t was passed in the shape recon-
mended by the ways and means committee,
without the provision which appears in the bill
on the same subject passed by the Senate for
an investigation of internal revenue, and with
out being materially amended, by majority OF
more than 80 votes Mr.. Kasson very naturally
felt impelled at the conclusion of the de ,ate to
congratulate himself, the House and the coun-
try on what he termed the successful issue OF
the agitation and discussion of this question.
The bill now goes to the Senate.
The following is The detailed vote:
Yeas-Aldrich, Anderson, ,Atherton, Barbour, Barr,
Bayne Bingham, Bliss, Bowman, Bremen, Briggs,
Brown, Brumm, Buck, Burrows (Mo) Burrows
lAiich9, Butterworth, Caikins, Camp, % UamPGDss Gsal
dy, Crapo, Cullen, Curtin, Darrell, Dawes, Deering
Denote, Dezendorf, Dingley, Dwight Ellis, Ermen-
sUaS GodsSalE Grant eS Guenther Hail. Hornsr, Harris
IN. J), Haseltne, Haskell, Hawk, Hazelton, He'll
man, Henderson, Hepburn, Hewitt (Ala2, Hi Hill His
phrey Jacobs Jones IN. JD Jorgensen, Joyce, Kas-
son. kelley, Kenna, Ketcham, Klatz, Lacey, Lewis,
Lord, Lynch, Marsh, Mcclure Mckinley, McLaGe' Mns
Mutchler, Neal, Norcross, o'Neill, Pacheco, Page,
Payson, Peele, Pierce, Pound, Prescott, Randall,
sell Ryan, Scoville Scranton, Shallenberger, Shell
ley, Sherwin, Shaltz Skinner, Smith Pa.), smith
NY.), Speer Spooner, Steele, Stone, Strait, Tai
bot, Taylor, Thomas Thompson. Qal, Townsend (o)
Tyler, Updegraff (O) Upson, Valentine, Van Horn,
Watson, Webber, white, Williams (wis.), Willis,
Wilson. Wise Pa,), Wise Va9, W. a. Wood N.f.1
an NaysWAiken. Armfeld. Atkins, Beach, Belford,
Belmont, Beltzhoover, Berry, Bland Blount, Bragg,
Buchanan, Buckper, Caldwell, Carlisle, Clark, Gle
ments Cobb Coerck Cook 'S Cox sN: II & COX n; M y
Deuster, Dibble, Dowd, Dunn, Dunnell Evins, Far
well. (Ia, Finley, Forney, Garrison Gunter, Ham
Hewitt, N ", House, Jones (Ark.) King, Knott,
| Latham Leedom, Lefevre, Manning, Matson, Nc
Cord, Mckenzie McMIllin, Mills, Money, Morrison,
| Mouluon. Muldrow, Oates, Orth, Phister, Reagan,
Scales, Shackleford Singleton (MissD, Springer,
Stocksager, Thompson (Kyl, Tilman, Townshend
G Tucker Turner y UpdegwTssf As VaTss %
| liams (Ala.), and Willis-o3.
The following is the full text of the bill: To
provide for the appointment OF commission TO
| investigate the question of the tariff:
Be it enacted, ETC., that a commission is here
| by created to be called the Tariff Commits
| sion" to consist of nine members.
Sec. 3. That the President of the United
| States shall, by and with the advice and con-
| sent of the Senate, appoint nine commissioners
| from civil life, one of whom, the first named,
shall be the president of the commission. The
| commissioners shall receive as compensation
| for their services each at the rate of $40 per
| day, when engaged in active duty, and actual
| travelling and other necessary expenses. The
commission shall have power to employ stem
| ographer and messenger; and the foregoing
| compensation and expenses to be audited and
paid for by the secretary OF the treasury out OF
any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise ap-
| propriated.
Sec. 3. That it shall be the duty of said COM
| mission to take into consideration and to thor
oughly investigate all the various questions re-
lating to the agricultural, commercial, msrc an
| tile, manufacturing, mining and industrial in
| terests of the United States, so far as the same
| NAV be necessary to the establishment OF judi
| cious tariff or q revision Of the existing tariff
upon a scale of justice to all interests, and for
| the purpose of fully examining the matters
| which may come before it. Said commission
| in the prosecution of its inquiries, is empower
| ed to visit such different portions and sec
tions of the country as 1t may deem advisa'
| BILE.
Sec. 4. That the commission shall make to
| Congress a final report of the results OF its in
| yestigation, and the testimony taken In the
| course of the same, not later than the first
| Monday of December, 1882, and it shall cause
| the testimony taken to be printed from time to
| time, and distributed to members OF Congress
| by the pnblic printer, a1d shall also cause
| to be printed forsthe use of Congress 1000
copies of its final report together with the
| testimony.