Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-14

| OF the wool schedule.
The value of woods of the first class, at
the last port or place whence exported to
the United States on which a duty of ten
cents pound was laid, having been fixed
in committee of the whole at thirty-two
cents or less per pound, was restored to
thirty cents or less, as in the original
bill.
The remaining amendments in this
schedule were agreed to.
| Schedule NJ, 'books," ETC., having been
reached, the senate adjourned.
| WASHINGTON, Feb. l3.-On motion of Mr..
Lynch the senate bill passed authorizing
| the commissioner of the Freedmen's
Saving and Trust company to examine
and audit all claims against the company
and pay all dividends due on accounts
which have been presented since the 21st
of August, 1881.
Mr. Page reported back The resolution
! calling on the secretary of war for infor-
nation concerning the deposit of silt and
sand in Portage lake, Michigan. Adopted.
The senate bill passed granting the
right of way to the st. Louis 81 San Fran
cisco Railroad company through the For
| Smith, Ark, military reservation.
Mr.. Page, chairman of the committee on
commerce, reported the river and harbor
bill. 1t was ordered printed and recon-
mitted. The appropriation recommended
is $7,937,OOO.
The house then went into committee of
the whole on the tariff bill.
The clause relative to iron and steel wire
cloths was amended on recommendation
| of the committee on ways and means so as
to read as follows: "ProYided, further,
| that iron or steel wire cloths, or iron or
steel wire MEETINGS, made in meshes of any
form shall pay duty equal
in amount to that imposed
on iron or steel wire of the same gauge,
and two cents per pound in addition there
to; provided that on all other kinds of iron
or steel or articles of manufacturers of
iron or steel hereinbefore in the act enum-
Grated or prescribed for except iron and
steel wire when galvanized or coated with
any material by any process whatsoever,
excepted, grated to be classified according
to size and gauges OF coated iron or steel,
there shall be paid excepting on
that are known commercially as tin
plates, terne plates and taggers' tin, as
hereinbefore provided, for, one cent per
pound. In addition to the rates provided
in this act, there shall be paid on galvan-
lied iron or steel wire one-half cent per
pound in addition to the rates imposed on
wire of which it is made; on iron rope,
vrIrn yIrn CT
per pound in addition to the
which it is made, on steel wire, rope and
wire strand two and half cents per pound
in addition to the rates imposed on wire of
which it is made.
Mr.. Morrison moved to fix the duty on
steel in any form not specially enumer
ated, at 45 per cent. ad valorem, in
stead of two and a half cents per pound.
After discussion Mr.. Morrison modified
his amendment by adding a proviso that
in no case shall the duty exceed two and
half cents per pound, and the amendment
as modified was agreed to.
Mr.. Dunn offered an amendment pro-
vidiDg that there shall be allowed on all
implements and machinery manufactured
for use in agricultural labor and produc-
ton, made in whole or in part of material
imported on which duties have been paid,
a drawback equal in amount to the duty
paid on such mat erial.
Mr.. Reed opposed the amendment,
which, he declared had been offered, not
because the gentleman supposed it would
prevail, but because he thought the country
would pay attention to these attempts to
make record. The country was too SEN
slbe to do anything of the kind.
Mr.. Townsend, of Illinois, chal-
lenged the production from the
history of tariff legislation of
bill which was more oppressive in its
operation than the bill reported by the
present ways and means committee. No
important measure had ever been brought
before the American congress where such
unfair and tyrannical means had been
resorted to in its management.This bill did
| not originate in congress. 1t was made by
a lobby of hired agents of the monopolists
and was brought forward in a secret con-
clave.
Mr.. McKinley-No Democratic member
of the ways and means committee will say
what you have said.
Mr.. Townshend said three gentlemen,
Kelly, Haskell and Mckinley, who were
in charge of the bill, had not yet descend
ed to the work of detraction and villifca-
ton. That work had been assigned to an
other, referring to Breed,) whose voice,
manners, and characteristics peculiarly
qualified him for that work. Every other
member on the other side spoke only ap-
parently By license, and was there ever
such shameful proceedings inaugurated in
the American congress, in such important
| measures.
| Mr.. Haskell said he hal stood here for
nearly three weeks and had listened to de-
nunciation from the other side
leveled at members of the
ways and means committee long
enough without reply. The gentleman
from Illinois stood here and charged that
this bill was the creation of a corrupt and
scandalous lobby. Every word of his de-
claration was a fat falsehood. Did he
comprehend the full length and breadth
and width of that statement? Every word
of this bill had been considered in the ways
and means committee, ard never from the
time that the committee had taken charge,