Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-28

| sentation of senators took place. Senator
/ Plumb was speaking on the tariff bill while
| the introductions were going Oh, and after
half an hour conversation Lorne and party
left the capitol.
CONGRESSIONAL.
MEMORIALS AND PETITIONS PRESENTED TIL e
TARIFF TINKERING CONTINUED.
WASHINGTON, January 27.-Senote. "A
| number Of memorials were presented, also q
petition OF the Council of Six Nations of In
| dians, asking recognition of their interest in
| certain lands in Kansas.
Senator Vance presented the credentials OF
reelection of Senator Ransom, of North
Carolina. Filed.
the tariff bill. The paragraph embracing
hoop, bar or scroll iron being under consid-
Grafton.
On motion of Senators Maxey and Bayard
the words @withont reference to length and
by whatever name called" were stricken out.
On motion of Senator Morrill, the rates in
| the paragraph are reduced as follows: On
hoop, band scroll or other iron, eight inches
or less wide, aid not thinner than No.
| 10, wire-sauge frame, l 2-10 to 1c per
pound; thinner than No. 10 three-gsuge,
! and not thinner than No. 20, from 40 to
I / 2.l0c per pound; thinner than No. 20,
from 1-16 TO Lilac per pound.
Several amendments were offered and re-
iected.
On motion of Senator Aldrich the proviso
relative to unenumerated articles was
amended 60 as TO include sheet and plate iron.
The motion of Senator Msxey, the para
graph covering iron and steel cotton ties or
hoops for baling purposes, was amended as
10 apply 10 those not thinner than No. 20 wire
gauge (ins,esd of No. 10, as In the bilD, and
also making the duty thirty-fve per cent ad
salorezs instead Of Aloe per pound as in the
bill.
Senator Barrow moved to strike out the
paragraph and put cotton ties, etc., on the
free list. Lost.
Senator Morrill, offered an amendment
making the duty on iron and steel chains, not
less than three-fourths Of an inch in diane
Ter, one and three-fourth cents instead Of
two cents per pound; on those less than three
| fourths OF an inch, not less than three
| Fights in diameter, two CENTS, instead OF two
| and one. fourth, and on those less than three
eighths of an inch, two and one-hslf cents
| instead of three cents. Agreed to.
The proyiso imposing an extra duty of
| one-half cent per pound upon iron or steel
bars, rods, strips or sieel sheets, and upon all
| iron or steel OF irregular shape or section,
| cold-rolled, cold-hammered, or polished in
II any way, III dQuitiOu W luC DIOCchS
! of hot rolling or hammering, and on steel
/ circular saw-plates, was amended on motion
j of Senator Beck 80 as TO make an extra duty
i Of one. quarter cent per pound.
| On motion of Senator Morrill, the wor Is
| ''irou or steel ipgos, cogged ingots, blooms
| or blanks for the same, without regard to the
| degree OF manufacture" were struck out of
! the paragraph embracing steel wheels for
| railway purposes, it being understood that
they would be covered by the othsr proyis-
ions in the bill.
Senator Plumb moved to reduce the duty
from one to six-tenths of cent per pound on
| iron or steel rivets, screw, nail, or fence and
wire rods. Agreed TO. Adjourned.
HOUSE.
| Immediately after the reading of the Jour-
| null the tariff bill was considered in Com.
mittee Of the Whole, Mr.. Burrows mich
| in the chair.
Mr.. Bland Mo- charged that the domi-
nant party was attempting to choke the
| measure through without due consideration.
| In reply to Mr.. Kelley's question, asking
| authority for the statement, Mr.. Bland said
he had seen it stated in the public press.
Mr.. Reagan said he heard it from a seua.
| tor, who had it from the President.
| Mr.. Kelley did not think the President pro.
posed TO offer bride to the Democratic
party to prevent legislation on the subject.
| Mr.. Bland opposed the bill, which, he said,
meant death to the agricultural interests of
the country.
! Mr.. Converse concluded long consti-
tutional argument with the declaration that
Though it was within the power of Congress
TO protect special industries, it was not the
proper policy 10 be followed.
Mr.. Mckinley, member of the Ways and
| Means Committee, recognized the general
demand for revision OF the tariff. The
minority of the House insisted the revision
| should be made On the basis of recognition
| for revenue, and revenue only, and il was
there that the two parties divided. The ma
| jori.y sentiment in this House believed not
| only in tariff for revenue, but in tariff
| for protection as we'll. The Committee on
| Ways and Means represented the dominant
sentiment, and the bill which the committee
brought to the House recognized it fully, and
| he desired to make no concealment OF the
doctrine OF protection. While the bill was
| protective in its character and features, vet,
| recognizing the reasonable demand of the
| country for a reduction of revenues, the
committee had made reductions IN the in
terest of diraiuished revenue wherever it
could be done without injustice to existing
| industries.
/ n iOuk anu oCttfe Nudl c4CltlQR QlSCusSlOQ
| ensued concerning the increased duty on
cotton-ties, Mr.. Mckinley asserting that the
men who cried out about the greed Of the
hoop-lron manufacturers paid four cents a
| pound on cotton-ties and sold them as cotton
| at eleven cents. A number of Southern rep
resentatives denied this assertion, when Mr..
Chase, of Rhode Island, said there was no
doubt about the truth OF Mr.. McKinley's
statement. Discussion was carried on amid
good deal of excitement and confusion,
which was increased by the interest taken in
the controversy by the audience in the gall
| leries.
Mr.. Mckinley continued his remarks at
| some length, in the course of which a sharp
colloquy ensued between Mr.. Springer and
himself, in which the former reminded him
rather sharply Of his defeat. Mr.. Mckinley
| closed his speech with quotation from the
| last tariff speech delivered in the House by
Geo. Garfield when member of that hody,
and was warmly applsuded by his party
associates.
Mr.. Carlisle, member OF the Wave and
Means Committee, eombatted the constitu-
| tioual argument made by Mr.. Converse. He
| said the reduction on sugar was made on the
| uon-consumption class of sugars, and the
duties on the higher class left by the bill
absolutely prohibitory. The sugar schedule
was changed in the interest of refiners and
| sgainst the interests of the people, who were
the consumers, In the wooden and cotton
schedules the committee had made a
| large increase over the recomme ations
| of the commission, but the change in the ex-
isting law, while it decreased the revenue
placed an additional burden of 81, 900, 900 on
the people. Machinery was not an
enumerated article in the tariff law, and if a
piece OF machinery were imported which
! contained a piston-rod or piece of polished
steel it must pay, under a remarkable pro-
vision of the bill, three and perhaps Eve
cents per pound.
Mr.. Haskell closed the debate with de-
tense OF the bill, and the committee rose
and the House adjourned.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
WASHINGTON, January 27.-Col. Irish,
chief Of the Bureau of Engraving and Print.
ing, died to-day of paralysis Of the heart.
Eads, before the House Committee this
morning, Endorsed the Mississippi River