The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-10
THE SENATE.
Tariff, Per Pound, Per Square Yard and AID
Valorem, Duly Considered.


and 600, 900 men employed in the lumber bust
ness
The bills to relieve ships and other vessels
from compulsory pilot fees was reported favora-
bly,.
Mr.. Edmunds reported favorably joint reso-
luton providing for the termination OF the tishe-
ries articles of the Washington treaty.
Mr.. Ferry moved to take up the post route
bill. Lost-yeas 81, nays 49,
The tariff bill was then taken up, and Mr..
Bayards amendment was adopted, as to make
the minerawater paragraph of the free list read:
Mineral waters all, not artificial, together with
the BOTTLES or jugs IL which the same are lm-
ported.
reported an amendment reducing ad valorem
dnty on all carpets enumerated in the wool
schedule, except hemp or 1ute Competing, carpets
either, or other material not herein specified,
from IS to 80 per cent. The amendment was
On motion OF Mr.. Vance, the duty carpets
and carpeting omitted from the committees
amendments. except hemp and jute carpeting,
was reduced from As to 40 per cent. ad valorem.
Mr. Hale reported the naval bill. 1t appropri-
ates 81 ,727.434. The Senate committee added
S5l9000 to the aggregate of the bill as it passed
the House, and the total amount exceeds last
years bill by about 100000, the addition being
due TO items for increase of the navy, Including
= q sum for the completion of the monitors.
Mr.. Hale said the committee had struck out
from the bill every particle OF general legislation,
so that the bill as reported was clean appropri-
ton bill.
Mr. Morrill, reported the following substitutes
for the paragraph "women's and chiidrens dress
goods" etc, which was agreed TO:
:; W0men's and ehldren's dress goods, cot lin
ings italian cloths, and goods of like description,
composed in part of wool, worsted the hair of the
alpaca goat or other animal, valued at not
ceeding twenty cents per square yard, five
cents per square yard and thirty-fye cents ad-
vaiorem: valued above twenty cents per square
yard, seven cents per square yard and forty
per cent. advalOrem. If composed wholly of
wool. worsted. hair of the alpaca or other ami
mails, or of mixture OF them, nine
cents per square yard, and forty
per cent. advalorem. But all
such goods with selvedge made wholly or in
part of other materials, or with threads of other
materials introduced for the purpose of chang
Ing classification, shall be dutial at 8 cents per
square yard and 40 per cent advaOren.
Provided, That all such goods weighing over
four ounces per square yard shall pay duty of
35 cents per pound and DO per cent. advalorem.
Mr.. Beck moved his pending substitute for the
wool schedule.
Mr.. Morgan said before the bill was disposed
of he would offer an amendment which would
bring the question as between advalOrem and
specific duties to a direct Issue.
Mr.. Beck's substitute was lost-ayes 49, noes
Mr. Morrill, said that when the bill reached the
Senate he would offer the following amendment
to the pig-iron paragraph:
''IrOn in pig, iron kentledge, spiegleisen. cast
and wrought scrap iron or scrap steel. 3-10 of
cent per pound, but nothing shall be deemed
scrap iron or scrap steel except waste or refuse
iron or steel that has been in actual use and fit
only to remanufacture."
Mr.. Aldrch, from the committee on finance,
reported amendments to the reserved paragraphs
embracing bonnets, hats ana hoods and mate
rails for them, making the duty on materials 20
per cent. ad valOrem and the duty on hats, etc,
80 per cent. Agreed to.
The reserved paragraph laying a duty of
cents per 100 pounds on salt in bulk, and 10
cents per 100 pounds on salt in bags or other
packages, was taken up
Mr.. Vance moved to strike il out, go as to let
salt go upon the free list, and made speech in
support of the motion. This bill, he said seemed
to be framed upon the theory OF taxing all the
neoessarles of life and letting the luXuries come
in FREQ. SO that a poor man following the pillow
and rejecting on the heavy taxes he had to pay
on his pillow and his traoe-chain and his hat and
his shoes and his blankets, might console him
self with the thought that Congress had not been
quite incousiderate, but, to compensate him for
these burdens, had provided for free palm-leaf
fans and fiddle strings, nnx vomica and "myrO-
hoan," and the best of all, free ''skeietons," so
that hereafter every man might have skeleton
In his closet without paying duty. Laughter
Mr.. Allison offered an amendment, OF which
he had given notice, providing for the refunding
of 90 per cent of duty paid on imported salt used
in curing meats afterward exported.
Mr.. Vest offered an amendment providing for
the remission of duty on salt imported III bond
and used in curing meat.
At the suggestion of Mr.. Ransom, he modified
the anne ndment so as to include such salt used in
curing fish other than those taken by licensed
fishing vessels.
Mr. Bayard argued in favor of free salt. He
saw no reason why the remission of duty should
be confined to salt used in curing meats. Other
Glasses of people, dairymen, for instance, had
muoh use for salt as meat packers, and were
a as D wS entitled taE willie tG get it With
the Kanawha Valley, some years since, his at
tention had been directed TO deserted salt
most advantageousy situated for easy working,
and ready access to that great pork packing CEN
ter, Cincinnati. and upon inquiry he was tOld
that the owners of the works had been paid to
abandon them by the salt producers OF New
York, striking instance of the evils of the
system of building up monopolies by law.
Mr. Conger said he would offer an amendment
narrVinu the recommendations of the tariff
commission. leaving the duty on salt to stand as
it had stood for twelve or fifteen years past
twelve cents per 100 pounds on salt in packages,
and eight cents on that Is in bulk. Under these
rates the price of salt had fallen from So. so to
seventy cents n barrel.
Mr.. Camden said the Kanawha salt regiO n,
while greatly favored in some respects, rested
under two disadvantages which prevented 1t
from competing successfully with New York and
Michigan. The boring was more expensive, be-
cause the salt wells had to he so much deeper,
and the brine was not so strong or so easily CON
verified into salt that of Michigan and New
York. therefore, Virginia producers had found
themselves unable TO compete successfully with
the others. and had been forced Into arrange
pents by which they were permitted to manu-
facture only certain percentage of the salt
product of the country, and this percentage
being too small to employ all of the existing
works. some of them had to be closed.
- Mr.. Williams thought that God had intended
that light air. water, and salt should be free,
and the cost OF transportation all the pro-
lection needed by salt, and to tax 1t was crime
against humanity and against nature,
Mr vance : HnOulNn 10 strlke out ealt anu let IL
go upon the free list lost-yeas %, nays "a.
MIR. Allison modified his amendment as to
allow refund lin sums not les than 5000 OF the
entire duty paid upon salt used in curing meats
for port and actually exported.
Pending further discussion, the whole subject
of remission of duty upon salt used in curing
meats or fish reserved by unanimous con-
sent for consideration when the bill passes from
the committee of the whole into the Senate.
Recurring TO the class relative TO opium, which
was passed over informally Mr.. Miller, of Cali
forn;a, moved to strike ont the clause imposing
a duty of 81 per pound on opium and ;nsert the
following:
"Opiuni. crude-COntaining pericent. or over
of mOrphia, 81 per pound, and the importation
OF opium containing less than per cent. OF NOR
phia is hereby prohibited. Agreed to, and Mr..
Miller then moved TO increase the duty on opium
prepared for smoking from So to $40 per pound,
and 1t WAS agreed to-"
Referring to the articles of lead chemicals, on
motion Of Mr.. Aldrlch they were amended as