New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-15
THE REVENUE TARIFF BILL.

| THE SENATE RECoNsIDERs THE ACTION BY WHICH
BOOKS WERE PLACED on THE FREE LIsr-rHs
DUTY on BITUMuNOUs COAL
| WASHINGTON, Feb. l4.-When the Senate resumed
| consideration of the Tariff bill this morning, the
pending question agreeing 10 the amend
ment made in Committee of the Whole putting
no lil3 etc. on the free list. Mr.. Morrill, said he
hoped the amendment would not be agreed 10. II IL
should be- there would be nothing lett for our print
ers to do except newspaper and JOB w0ik. Inc bus-
ness could not he carried without protection;
and this legislation would ruin not only the book
publishers, but also the makers OF typo and paper
and morocco and other materials entering INTO tne
manufacture of books.
Mr. Bayard sad he had voted for the motion to
mt books upon the free list with earnest desire
that the means for acquiring know ledge should be
absolu. civ free but reflection had convinced him
that the a,tion of the Committee OF the Whole
| ougut 10 be modified. Therefore, If the Senate
should deci lie restors the paragraph laying duty
upon books. etc, which had been struck out Dy tne
Committee of the Whole. he would move TO modify
# SO as TO restrict the duty TO books in the English
language leaving the rate 10 per cent ad valoreD,
M agreed TO in Committee of the Whole before the
paragraph was struck out.
Nj Morgan spoke against disturbing the action
of the Senate in Committee of the Whole. The
amendment proposed Dy MI. DayaTu aiuliltihe hoo
books III foreign languages, only for the oeneit OK
scholars was he said, class legislation. Mr.. Vance
argued that American publishers did not need pro-
tection and Mr. ingalls, spoke against any duty on
books bht said be would vote for Mr. Bayapts
proposition If he could not get anything better.
Mr. Morrill, replied to Ir. ingalls,, and said that
the question al issue was really the question
whether we should continue to have any American
literature in this country. Nh. Baya-d having
modified his amendment 50 as to make the words
he proposed TO inser read wholly in part IN tho
English language Mr. Logan suggested that tho
amendment in this form would hold out temPta-
tlon to fraud.
Mr.. Vest concurred IN the views expressed by Mr.
ingalls,. Mr. Hoar great force in the view pre-.
sented by Mr.. ingalls,, but thought IL WIS HoS
directed to the prsctical question Deiore tho ''n
That ouestion was "Wlll you pass law WIG"
d,scriminates against the Amercon authoi t"o
American scholarf" A small duty on DOCKS zVor
Ok nor cent WAS the logical and inevitable sequence
of tho otber provisions of the tarih. The view OF
tha Souator from Kansas would be correct under
s,,st.o of free trade but was not in harmony with
n.o,oction. This duty was asked simply to prevent
ta other provisions of the tariff from handcappIng
the American author and the American publisher;
and If books were to be admitted free the Senate
onqht 10 20 back and take off the duty from paper
and leather and type and instead OF attemptinxto
keep up the price of American labor, adopt poncy
which would bring 1t down. Mr.. Maxey and MI.
Salisbury spoke In support of the amendnens
made In the Committee of the Whole.
The paragraph was amended a. proposed bY NJ