Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-12
House.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.-Mr. Randall in
troduced a joint resolution to provide TO
the admission free of duty of articles in
tended for the special exhibition of ma
chinery, tools, implements, etc., for the
generation and application of electricity
to be held at Philadelphia by the Franklin
institute. Passed.
Mr.. Page, chairman of the committee on
commerce, reported back resolution re-
questing the secretary of war to examine
into and report upon the Dubois system for
improving the navigation of the Ale
ghany river. Adopted.
Mr.. Lynch asked consent to put on its
passage the bill placing the heirs of COL
ored soldiers on the same footing as to
bounty, as the heirs of white soldiers.
Mr.. Sparks objected.
Several amendments were voted down,
and the bill remains unchanged at four and
three-tenths cents per pound.
On motion of Mr.. Kelly, the duty of
one and one-fourth cents per pound was
imposed upon cast-iron vessels, stone
plates, aud iron, sad irons, tailors' irons,
and hatters' irons.
The house then went into committee of
the whole on the tariff bill.
The pending amendment was that by
Mr.. Mackey, fixing the duty on cotton ties
at 35 per cent. ad yalorem. 1t was lost
after considerable discussion, by q vote of
81 to I01.
Messrs. Bisbee, Gambler, Moore, Ander-
son, Lynch, Mackey, Hall and Desendorf
voted with the Democrats, and Messrs.
Mosgrove and Wise of Pennsylvania with
the Republicans. The announcement was
received with applause on the Republican
side.
MIR. Dunnell moved 10 reduce the duty
on cut nails and spikes from one and one
quarter to one cent per pound and in ad-
vocating the motion, spoke of the pending
bill as giving too little reduction. In the
course Of the discussion, Mr.. Kelly read
from an English paper description of the
terrible condition of labor in England, and
Mr.. Townshend, of Illinois, quoted from
Mr.. Foster before the senate committee on
education and labor to show the condition
of many laborers in New England equally
terrible.
That debt laid upon the people the
heaviest tax they had to bear, and tax
which was paid not for any natural ad-
vantage, but for the benefit of individuals
and the enrichment of special classes. One
great advantage of the policy of paying
the debt. Mr.. Hill said, was that it would
make capital more abundant and cheap
for the construction of railroads and de-
velopments in other ways of the resources
of younger states and territories. The
claim that the debt must be maintained as
a basis for the bank system, Mr.. Hill re-
garded as groundless.
Mr.. Anderson failed to see what connec-
ton there was between the touching Incl
dents the gentleman from Pennsylvania
kelly had read about and this question
of the duty on cut nails, but it had sue:
gested to him another picture-that of a
man who, either by inheritance or other
wise, accumulated large wealth, and who
possessed magnificent residences in the
suburbs of Pennsylvania, who had every
luxury that life could afford, whose check
on the bank was good for millions, simply
because he was in with a few of
the iron monopolists. Contrast that pic
ture of monopolists who elected con-
gressmen and senators, who controlled
tariff commissions, who had power greater
than any other in the United States, with
the condition of the laborer. He supposed
symmetry and harmony. Oh, goodness!
The duty on nails would be kept up, but he
warned his Republican colleagues that
they would hear from the Republican voters
of the West, who were large consumers
of this article. They would find a verdict of
wanting" and don't you forget it." AS
far as he was concerned he would not per-
nit any man or set of men to use the Rel
publican party as cats paw to rake the
chestnuts of the monopolists from the fire.
Mr.. Russell denied the statement of Mr..
Foster, as quoted by Townsend, as to the
condition of the laborers in New England,
and Bayne, of Pennsylvania, asserted that
the Iaborers of Pennsylvania were using
the tariff for the protection of
labor and making no such
appeals. as this man Foster, who, in all
probability, was a crank Of some descrip-
ton.
Mr.. Dunnelps motion was lost-71 to 81.
On motion of Mr.. Carlisle the duty on
railway fish-plate was reduced from one
and a half to one and a quarter cents
per pound.
Mr.. DingIey offered an amendment,
which was adopted imposing of a duty of
two cents per pound on anchors, or parts
thereof, mill iron or mill cranks of
wrought iron or forgings of irons, and
steel for vessels, steam engines
and locomotives, and parts thereof,
weighing each twenty pounds or more.
Mr.. Dunnell moved to reduce the duty
on horse shoe nails, hob nails and fire
nails from four to three cents per pound.
Mr.. Aewett, of Alabama, opposed the
motion, and hadreada memorial from the
iron manufacturers in Alabama protesting
against the reduction of the duty on iron
ore. He was arraigned by Mr.. Mills for
abandoning the principles of the Dem
o,ratic party, and replied by attributing
the insertion of the word only in the taif
plank of the party It's defeat at the last
presidential election.
The controversy was greatly enjoyed by
the Republicans.
Mr.. Dunnell's motion was lost-67 to
81.
The committee then rose and the house
adjourned.
The Democrats Immediately went into
caucus.
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