Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-04
CONGRESSIONAL.
THE TARIFF DEBATE CONTINUED IN BOTH
HOUsEs-BILLs AND RESOLUTIONS.

WASHINGTON, February 3-Senate.-Sen-
ator Coke's credentials of reelection were
read and filed.
Senator Coke presented memorials of the
Missouri grangers asking the passage of the
bill to create the Office of secretary of agri-
culture.
At the close of the morning business the
Senate went into executive session and con.
6rmed the nominations of Ketchum, to be
appraiser OF merch andise at New York, and
Startwick, TO be supervising inspector OF
steam vessels for the Second District. When
the doors were reopened the tariff was taken
up, the pending question being on the cotton
schedule.
Senator Morrill,, after explaining the short
time left the present session, and in order to
make better progress with the bill, asked
unanimous consent for the application of five
minutes OF debate on all amendments offered
TO the cotton schedule.
Senator Salisbury objected, and debate
eneued. Senator Salisbury said the senators
on his side did not desire to be limited in
debate.
Senator Morrill, finally withdrew the reso.
luton.
Senator Harris's amendment of yesterday,
making the duly on cotton thread, yarn
wsrps, or warp yarns thirty per cent. ad
valorem, was lost-yeas, %; nays, 80.
Senator Beck offered an amendment 10 the
bill, which was referred to the Finance Com
mittee, providing that imported goods,
wares, etc, which may be on shipboard or
in public stores or bonded warehouses,
when The act shall take effect, shall pay no
other dnty, upon entry for consumption, than
| if they were imported after that date; and
that goods, etc, remaining in bonded ware
houses when the act takes effect, and upon
which duty shall have been paid, shall be
| entitled to refund of the difference be-
| tween the old and new rates.
Senator Morrill, said there could be no OBJ
| lection to the first provision OF the amend
ment, but the others would require some con-
| sideratiou.
Senator Logan, from the Appropriation
Committee, interrupted the debate TO report
the pension appropriation bill, and gave
notice that he would offer an important
amendment to it in relation to punching
persons improperly obtaining pension certifi.
| Gates.
Debate was then resumed, and Senator
Hale offered resolution to apply the five
minutes rule to debate on all amendments
off .red hereafter to the tariff, and gave no.
tice that he would call it up Monday.
S-nator Harris moved TO MAKE the duty
on oiton for thread, etc, thirty five per cent.
ad Uaiorem.
Senator Bayard again criticized the seized.
| ule as obsolete ani puzZling, and called the
attention of the chairman of the Committee
on Finance to the fact that Senator Sherm an,
with all his experience as a legislator and as
| secretary of the treasury, said he had
studied it with industry. but without much
success. The laws of Draco were said 10
| have been written in blood because they
were hung 30 high the people could not zee
them; but law hung where it could not be
seen was no worse in this respect than one
that could not be understood by the people
| upon whom it was to operate.
Senator Maxey took the same view, and
said the schedule had been made 80 obscure
| in the interest of the manufacturers that the
ablest exposition of the protective system in
the Senate (Sherman) was puzzled to under
stand it.
Senator Sherman said his confession of ig-
norance had been construed too broadly
| What he had said was that he had endeav-
| ored 10 understand this schedule, but with
out much knowledge of the subject m after.
No special knowledge of cotton manufactures
was necessary, however, to understand tn at
the schedule would make considerable re-
duction, excepting in the duty upon all the
cheaper grades.
Senator Beck said this cotton schedule was
the most outrageous attempt 10 make raid
on the treasury that had yet appeared in the
bill, and if forty per cent. would not satisfy
these people they never would be satisfied
unless they got everything they asked.
Senator Aldrich stated that in the schedule
submitted by the manufacturers in 1878, the
rates on fine yarns we're higher than in the
pending bill. Every senator who voted to
reduce the duty below fifty per cent. did il
knowing that the reduction would destroy
our manufactures of fine yarns from Sea
Island cotton.
Senator Beck stated that the only informa'
ton the Finance Committee had got on this
subject was from men personally interested
in m manufacturing, and who desired Congress
10 legislate so as to enrich them and tax
$4,000, 600 people TO do 1t.
Senator Aldrich denied that the cotton
manufacturers had ever declared themselves
satisfied with the schedule recommended by
the Tariff Commission.
Senator Beck took for granted the Senate
would vote all the manufacturers wanted, bu
he intended to take an appeal to the people
and be wished to have the record on which
to base the appeal. Therefore he would ash
for the yeas and nays on the pending amend
ment.
Senator Baysrd considered that no mar
had right to bring his private business into
the halls of legislation and by his vote ar
range the laws of the country and exert the
taxing power Of the government 10 order Il
make himself richer.
This remark was brought out BY the refer
ence made by Senator Beck to the appear
aucs of a member of the House before tn,
Finance Committee in connection with tn,
formation of the cotton schedule.
Senate, Harris's amendment making the
duty forty per cent. on cotton yarn, ETC., wal
rejscted-yess, Is; nays, 26
n l.
thread yarn, etc, valued above twenty five
and not above forty cents, was made fifteer
cents per pound; above forty and not abov.
fifty, twenty cents per pound; above fifty anc
not above sixty, twenty five cents per pouad
above sixty and not shove seventy, thirty.
three cents per pound; above seventy and moi
above eighty, thirty-eight cents per pound
above eighty, forty-eight cents per pound.
Senator Beck moved to reduce the rate
on stockings, hose, half-hose, shirts and
drawers, fashioned or shaped wholly or in
part by knitting machines or frames, or knit
BY hand, and composed wholly of cotton
from forty-6ve to thirty-6ve per cent. ad
vaiorem.
Senators Williams and Vance argued al
length against protective policy, and Sena.
tor Plat defended it.
l Before q vote on the amendment could be
had, the House resolutions in relation to tbs
death of Representative Lowe were received
Senator Morgan offered corresponding reso-
lutions, and after addresses by Senators Lap
ham and Morgan, the resolutions wer.
adopted and the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
The Senate bill passed to encourage the
holding OF Worlds Industrial and Cotton
Centennial Exposition in 1884.
The Ways and Means Committee reported
the bill to prevent the importation of adul
terated Tea.
Mr.. Beach N. " objected to It's present
consideration, and it was referred 10 tn,
Committee OF the Whole.
Mr.. Barr Pa. reported 4 bill to incor.
porate the United States Gas and Fuel Com.
pany OF the District OF Columbis. Referred
70 the Committee OF the Whole.
On motion OF Mr.. Lynch Miss the bill
i 10 reimburse depositors of the Freedm AM
saving and Trust Company was referred &c
6s COMMITTEES on Education and Labor.