Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1883-02-10
THE STRENGTH OF SUGAR.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Special Dispatch TO TnR BRN

WASH1NGrON, feOruary IA re-
monstrance was presented az ,inst
placing lumber on the free list.
Senator Hale reported the naval
bi 1t approprlates SIS. .727 1874
L o senate committee added S5iS 600
t. the aggregate Of the bill ss it passed d
the house. The total amount exceeds
last years bill by about 500, coo, the
addition being due TO the items for an
Increase of the navy, including a sum
for the completion OF monitors.
Senator Hale said the committee
had struck out from the bill every
particle ,f general legislation, 80 the
bi | as reported'was a clean appropria-
tion bill.
Senator Morrill, reported substi.
,ute for the paragraph in the tariff
bill embracing "women's and child.
rep's dress goods, etc." which was
agreed to.
Senator Eimunds reported favor.
ably Joint resolution providing for
the abrogstion of the fisheries article
Of the Washington treaty.
Senator Ferry moved ~ take up tho
post route bill Lost 27 to SO. Tne
tar II bill was then taken up.
Senator Beck moved his pending
substitute for the wool schedule.
l. --ayes 10, noes 80
Senator Merrill SAID when the bill
reach d the senste he would offer an
amendment to the pig iron paragraph
ia he iron schedule.
Senator Aldrich, from the comm it.
tse on tina ce, reported amendments
to tho raviled Paragraphs embracing
b)uuots, hate, HOODS and materials for
them, making the duty on materials
20 pr cent aivalor,m, aad tho duty
on mats, etc, 80 per cant. Agreed to.
The reserved paragraph, laying a
duty Of dix cents per hundred pounds
on salt in bags or other pack
ages, was taken up. Senator Vance
moved to strike it out. 30 as to let salt
go on the fee list This bi /, he said,
seemed TO be framed upon the theory
OF taxing oil the neceesarios of
life and letting the luxuries come in
free, 30 that the poor mon following
plow, and rejecting on the heavy
taxes he had to pay on Iii, p!ow, his
trace chains, his hat, his shoes, hia
blankets, might console himself with
the thought that congress had not
b zen quite inconsiderate, bu, to com
pensate him for this burden had pro.
vided for free palmleaf fans and fiddle
strings and "vuxvomics, myrobllm, u
AID 6ss, ~ sl', "itea sselr.orr," 81
that herpaf .er every maa might have
skele.on in his closet without pay
ing duty Laughter
Tho speci.i senate committee on
hesvy ordnance made report to the
senate thr ugh chairman Logan. The
committee recommend that the chief
ordnance officer have 100 ten iLch
smooth bores now on hand converted
iuto eight inch breech loading rifles
the proper mounting of 800 fifteen
inch guns AZ the forts; manufacture OF
two experimental steel breech loading
gUns, one to be eight and the
other ten inches In cslibre, aud
two experimental cast iron breech
leading rifles, twelve inches calibre,
and such number of cast iron guns
banded with steal, as shall be neces.
sary to thoroughly test tho efficiency
of this class of ordinance; that the
chief ordinance eff ,er shall selec,
two of the most meritorious breect
loading devices that are offered by the
committee of the Gstty board ant
tho ordinance department, ant
thoroughly test their efficiency ant
make o port; that he also make eI-
periments with the various now de
vices and with the multi charge
system of guns. An appropriation o.
$500, COO is recommended.
Senator Allison offered an amend
meat, of which he had given notice
providing for refunding 80 per cen
OF the duty paid on imported salt u'e'
il curing meats afterwards exported
Senator Vest offered an amendmen
providing for remission Ct the duty ol
salt imported ia bond and used Il
curing meats. At the suggestion o
Senator Ransom he modified tn
amendment so as to include such sal
usod in curing fish other than thos
taken by licensed fishing vessels,
Senator Baysrd argued In favor o
free salt. While travelling tnroug
tho X ,nawaha valley some years sine
his attention had been directed to tn
deserted salt works most advantage
) ou,ly situated for easy working an
l ready access to that great pork pack
, ing city, Cincinnati. Upon inquir
he was told that the owners Of tn
works had been paid TO abandon ther
. by eat producers of Now York =
0 striking instance of the evils OF th
4. system of building up monopolles b
6 law.
0 Senator Couger said he would off,
Il. an amendment carrying OUT the re-
? ommendation Of the tariff oommi
Q sion, Leaving the duty on salt stand
= IL had stood for fl teon yeari past
cents per 100 pounds on salt ia pac
ages aud siglt cents on that in hulI
|. Uader these rates tha price of salt hl
Q { lien from S2 % 10 70 cents barre
Is S5nator Williams thought God HI
q intended that light, air and wat
= should bo free. The cost Of transpo
/. tation was all the projections need'
n by salt and ~ tax IL was Grin
); aga,pst hum lnity, against nature
/. Senator Vancs's motion to striI
/; out salt and let II go upon the free Il
,e was lost ayes 90, noes "a.
IF Senator Allison modified his amen
10 ment 60 as to allow a refund lin sur
3. not less than $l00l Of the entire du