Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-18
A Game Of Bluff Engaged in by Both
Houses.
DUNSELL THROWS A BOMBsHELL
BY Declaring the House Didn't Intend
to Pass the Tariff Bill.
A SPIRITED FUSILADE OF WORDS
In Which the Tariff Bill is Admitted to
be q Dead Duck.
Senate.

Senate.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.-Mr. Vest offered
a resolution for committee of FIVE sen
ators to investis ate the whole subject of
the Yellowstone park leases, and request
ing the secretary of the interior to take no
action in the matter until the committee
reports at the next session. Laid over
till tomorrow.
MIR. Blair offered q resolution instructing
the Judiciary committee to inquire wheth-
err the legislature of New Hampshire,
chosen in May, 1882, can lawfully elect a
senator of the United States.
After long debate the resolution was
withdrawn and the tariff bill taken up.
Mr. Sherman offered the following as
substitute for his amendment offered last
evening: "Steel ingots, cogged ingots,
blooms and slabs. die blocks or blanks,
billets and bars and tapered or beveled
bars, bands, hoops, strips and sheets of ali
gauges and widths, plates of all thick
nesses and widths, steamer cranks, shafts,
wrist or crank pins, connecting rods and
piston rods, pressed, sheared or stamped
shapes or blanks of sheet or plate steel OF
combination steel, and iron punched or net
punched, hammer mold or swagged steel,
gun molds not in bars, alloys used as sub
stitutes for steel tools of all descriptions
and shapes; dry sand loan or iron nodded
steel castings allowed as above, valued at
four cents per pound OR less, 45 per cent
um ad valorem; above four cents pound
and not above seven cents, two cents per
pound: valued 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. Steel in any
form not specially enumerated or pro-
vided for in this act, 40 per cent. ad valor-
em''
Mr.. Mcpherson offered the following
"There shall be paid on galvanized iron
or steel wire, except barbed fence
wire one half cent per pound in
addition to the rate imposed on wire of
which it is made. On iron wire, rope and
wire strand, 1c per pound in addition to
the rates imposed on wire of which it is
made. On steel wire, rope and wire strand
215c per pound, in addition to the rates
imposed on wire of which it is made.
Mr.. Beck said Mr.. Sherman's amend
| ment proposed to undo all the senate had
been engaged in doing for the last month,
| and substitute for it the action of the
house, not merely in relation to the items
embraced in the lines proposed to be
struck out, but also in relation to many
other articles of steel and iron. He
| did not intend to permit this amend
| ment to be hurried through to-day
without examination, even if he be COM
PEELED talk till midnight to prevent it, and
he hoped to be ready Monday morning to
expose this scheme which it was attempted
to palm off on the senate by all sorts of
| indirection. The amendment would change
the duty not only on steel ingots, ETC., but
| also on bands, hoops and sheets of all
gauges and widths, loggers' iron and other
articles .of iron.
Mr. Sherman said the amendment re-
lated not at all to iron, but only to steel.
Mr.. Allison suggested that the words
''all of the above classes of steel not other
wise enumerated or provided for" should
lie inserted.
MIR. Sherman said he was willing to ac-
cept the suggestion.
Mr.. Beck insisted that the amendment,
as it stood, would include hoops, bands and
strips of all gauges and widths, whether
iron or steel. A senator on the Demo
cratic side, cotton ties" Mr.. Beck
Yes, it will include cotton ties as we'll, and
is intended, in my judgment, to include
them all.
Mr.. Sherman-Mr. President, 1 submit
that this is absolutely untrue, and might
go a little further than that.
Mr.. Beck-Go just as far as you like. l
understand this and intend to do nv duty
in the matter.
Mr.. Sherman-But the senator shall not
misrepresent me, and he shall not bully the
senate.
MIR. Beck-And 1 will not be builied in
the senate, either; nor will l be told that
we have no sense, and that all sense is con-
centrated in the committee of ways and
means of the house, and that the action of
the house is against the rules of the house,
without resenting it.
Mr.. Sherman-The whole paragraph re-
lates to steel ingots, bars, blooms, etc.
Steel runs all through the paragraph, and
it has no connection with iron, but 1 have
no objection to qualifying the words pro-
posed by the senator from Iowa. The SEN
ator from Kentucky (Mr. Beck ought to
OO SoAOAoA oOOAU ILL PuSulIiS JULIET poOpl0 .
motives. He cannot tell my motives. 1
always give him credit for sincerity and
honesty, and do not want him to go too
far in dealing with this matter. am in IA
vor of what is right and just in regard to this
question,and NO more. The senator cannot
accuse me of indirection. If there is any
trouble with me, it is that am little too
frank with regard to such matters. Ihave
stated exactly the purport of the language
| of this amendment and where it came
from, and if the senator does not like it,
he need not vote for it.
Mr.. Beck-In reply to that I want to
say that this amendment, in my opinion,
was written by men who have deceived
| even the senator from Ohio, and like many
of the provisions sent by the tariff com
mission, was prepared by experts who in
tend to raise this tariff away above
what the senate has done,
and who have flooded tie senate
this morning with kilograms, of which
l have received some, telling US they will
starye unless it is done, although some
men went away three weeks ago satisfied
with what we had done and were anxious
to have the bill passed.
Mr.. Sherman said it was not true that
somebody else had drawn this amendments