Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-08-05
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

SENATE.
WASHINGTON, August 4.-House
resolution for the distribution of the
journals Of the two houses to the
3ubTc and law lib aries was
passed
Senator Dawes presented the con
ference report on the bill for the sale
of a part of the Omaha reservation
in Nebraska, and it was concurred
il.
Senator Window, from the COM
mittee Oh foreign relations, reported
House bill for the establishment
Of diplomatic relations with Persia,
and authorizing the appointment OF
consul-general to that country,
with an annual salary of $4,000
Passed
All o'clock the tax reduction bill
Was taken up,by vote of 40 to 20, bat
was temporarily laid aside to enable
Senator Slater, who desired to leave
tle city to-day, to call up the con
ference report upou the Indian Creek
orpuau fund bill. On the lafter's
motion Senators Cameron. of Wis
couslu, Ingalls,, Saunders and Van
Wvck. with Davis Of Illinois, voted
ave WITH the Democrats.
Tie principal point III the contro~
yers, ON the Indian bill was the item
ot S1UG.UOO tor the support OF the
iavaI refugees of the tribe which the
Senate had voted to have charged
against tne Greek fund, and as To
which tie cyuferees reported, that
the money should be paid by the
United States direct Y, and that
nothing III the act shall prevent the
latter from beng reimbursed here
alter Ior the saline by Creek Nation.
The report, after discussion,
was adopted.
DeLateon the tax reduction bill was
then resumed. Sen. Beck saId he had
beed charged by Senator Hoar from
Mass Oh the day before, with aiding
the keg ublican party by bIunders
which furnished that party with po-
iucal capital. The charge might be
well founded SO far as 1t concerns
Massachusetts alone. but it was
doubtful whether it would hold god
AS to any other part OF the country
There was no alternative, If any re-
het from taxation was to be given,
but to perfect and enlarge the pend,
ing bill, the only proposition which
had come from the Republican eau
cls. He co.4me lted upon charges
made by the caucus on the Mckinley
bill, as it came from the House,
and quoted the language of New
York Herald correspondent explana-
tory of these changes, as showing
that manufacturing concern like
the Washburn x MOen Company, of
Worcester, Mass, favored constiu-
ents Of Senator Hoar, would get the
benefit of an increased duty on steel
wire, etc, while their raw material
was still procurable by them at a
rate which was unprotected, their
interests being protected at both
ends. This Mckinney bill, which
proposed to inc ease the tax ON ar
ucIes Of this class up to 75 or 1UU
per cent. had been 50 changed as tC
increase taxation upon Southern cot
ton ties and steel wire, out of whicL
bubed fence wire, product OF this
Massachusetts manufactory, was
made
Senator Beck said this was a re
markaule showing, and that, while
Senator Hoar might not have advised
1t III the Republican caucus, some OF
the members OF that select assembly
We're well advised as 10 the purpose
This purpose, as Senator Beck con
strued 1t, was to compel every man
III the South, who places ali mon
hoop around barrel, to pay IS per
cent duty on each ton Of barbed
wire made by Massachusetts, firm
winch he was informed now received
royalty of S12 so per ton under d
patent.
Senator Dawes replied that Sena>
tor Beck erred In assuming that
manufacturers of wire fences were
necessarily interested III hoop iron
and suggested that the Western anC
Southern farmers were indebted tC
the ingenuity and enterprise of suct
manufacturers for the reduction IL
the cost of this article.
Senator Hoar, who had made t
like statement, explained In regarc
to the newspaper allusion to himself
read by Senator Beck, that the com
pany referred to had not written tC
hlu, and that their interests had no
occurred to him as being special,
Affected by the bill, and that he dix
not believe that they were so al
fected
Senator Hale presented the con-
terence report upon the naval appro
prlatlon bill.
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