Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-13


gots, cogged looms and slabs weighing less
than 500 pounds each, and measuring less
than five inches square or less than five
inches in the diameter of the cross section
of ingots, cogged ingots or blooms, and
less than five inches in thickness, or less
than ten inches in width of slabs, die
blocks or blanks of blllets and bars, and
tapered or beveled bars, bands, hoops,
straps, and sheets of all es,and widths,
plates of five thicknesses and widths,
steamer cranks and other shafts, waste or
crank pins, connecting rods and piston
rods, pressed, sheared or stamped shapes
or blanks of sheet or plate steel, or COM
bination of steel and iron, punched or not
punched, hammers nodded or swaged,
steel gun molds not In bars, alloys used as
substitutes for steel tools of all discrip
tions and shapes of dry sand, loan or
iron, nodded steel castings, all
of above valued at four cents per pound or
less, 10 per cent. ad valorem; above four
cents, and not above seven cents per pound,
two cents per pound; above seven cents,
and not above eleven cents per pound, two
and three-fourth cents per pound, valued
at above eleven cents per pound, three and
one-half cents per pound provided, on all
iron or steel bars, rods or strips of what
ever shape or section, cold rolled, cold
hammered or polished in any way in adj
dition to the ordinary process of hot roll
ling or hammering, and on steel circular
saw plates, there shall be paid one-fourth
cents per pound, in addition to the rates
provided in this act.
Mr.. Miller, of New York, Immediately
introduced an amendment as bill to re-
peal an act relating to vinegar factories
established and operated prior to March
| 1, 1879, which was referred to the commit
tee on finance.
Mr.. McDill presented the majority re-
port of a select committee appointed to
| investigate the collection of internal rev
enue in the Sixth collection district of
North Carolina. Mr.. Vance presented a
minority report. Both were ordered
printed.
Amendments were made in committee of
| the whole to the internal revenue portion of
| the bill which had been considered. The
senate proceeded to consider those made
| in committee on the tariff sections.
The bill introduced by Mr.. Willis,
| to prevent claim agents from practicing be-
fore the commissioner of pensions under
| fictitious names, was inspired by the re-
cent discovery of number of frauds on
claimants perpetrated in the West, under
| cover of fictitious names and addresses.
The bill introduced by Mr.. Dunnell pro-
vides that pension clerk or agent shall
be detailed by the commissioner of pen
sions to duty in the state from which
he was appointed.
Mr. Davis. of Illinois, moved to fix at
one cent per pound the duty on iron or
| steel ingot blooms Or blanks for loco
motives and railroad cars.
Mr.. Morrison, in speaking to this amend
ment, referred to the claim of the pro-
| tectionists that the protective tariff had
lowered the price of commodities, and
argued the negative of the proposition, as
a proof of the soundness of his view that
the decrease in cost was the result
of other causes than the tariff.
He called attention to the fact
that prices had fallen in unprotective
countries and in larger ratio than in the
| United States, and it was now necessary to
increase the tariff duties over what had
been sufficient to protect the industries of
| the country few years ago. The gentle
man from Pennsylvania (Mr. Kelly could
not but know that the statement that pro-
lection had lowered prices was not true.
Mr.. Kelly-Does the gentleman say I
have made statements which I know not
| to be true.
Mr.. Norrison-Calls them arguments,
then? @
Mr.. Kelly am the last man to try to
| mislead the house by falsehood.
Mr.. Morrison-I have not said any such
| thing, said this; that this gentleman and
other gentlemen argue daily that prices
have been reduced in the country, because
of protection, and he must know that this
is not good argument, for he knows that
prices have been reduced more in other
countries than in the United States where
they had no protec ton, and he knows that
because when the duty is put on, it is suffi-
GENTLY protective, and now he has to in
crease it to keep foreign commodities out.
Mr.. Kelly declared the ability of this
country to produce two-thirds OF the steel
of the world was due to the adoption of
protective tariff, and had had a great
effect on the prices of the commodity
abroad.
The Davis amendment bill was lost-72
to sc.
On motion of Mr.. Carlisle the duty on
screw rivets, screw nails, fence and wire
rods, round, in coils or loops, not lighter
than No. wire gauge, and valued at three
and one-half cents per pound or less, was
fixed at 80 per cent. ad volorem.
Mr.. Deering said that if he had the
shaping of this bill he would scale it down
in the amount Of revenue. The reduction
would be many millions beyond the amount
which would result from the passage of
this act. He was in accord with his party
associates, in desiring to frame good bill
and pass it this session.
Pending further action the committe
rose, Mr.. Haskell giving notice of an amend
ment reducing the duty on iron wire, rope
and strand, from three to one cent per
pound, and steel rope from three to two
cents per pound.
The house then took 4 recess.
MULDOON,S PICNIC.