National Republican., 1883-01-27
The House Joins the Senate in the Consideration
Of the Revenue Question.
Both Ends Of the Capitol Now Ring
With Profound Debate.
The Democrats Delaying Proceedings with Arguments
on the General Issue.
The Old, Old, Very Old Story Told and
Retold Again I'm Both Houses.
THE SENATE.

presenU cOnultlOn OF Une WOrk.
oNE-ARMED SOLDIERS.
Mr.. Slater, from the committee on PENSIONS
reported adversely house bill (No. 1410) in
creasing pensions of soldiers and sailors who
have lost an arm or leg in the service.
Mr. Blair presented the views of the mi
nority of the committee recommending the
passage of substitute, covering, he said,
more ground than the original house bill, and
designed to deal Justly and equitably with
all classes of pensioners, who, upon the prin-
ciples involved in that bill, would be entitled
TO some increase of heirpensons. Mr. Blair
stated also that the chairman Of the commit
tee concurred in the views of the minority.
Mr.. Platt said he had been unable to concur
in either the majority or minority report, or
to find any other member of the committee
who agreed with him on this subject. He
had prepared and would now introduce bill
raising the pensions of those now receiving
$19 to $2i and of those receiving $24 to $50.
WORLDS FAIR.
Mr.. Malone, from the committee on agri-
culture, reported favorably the bill to en-
courage the holding Of worlds centennial
cotton exposition in 1884.
Mr.. Garland gave notice that he would ask
the senate to consider tho bill to-day.
Mr.. Malone, also from the same committee,
reporting q resolution instructing the COM
mittee on rules to report an amendment to
the senate rules, so as to provide that the
appropriation bills for the department of
agriculture shall be referred to the committee
on agriculture. Referred to tho committee
on rules.
Mr.. Harris, from the committee on epidemic
ropprtnI MI hxy
q report, the bill to repeal the law of juno 2,
1879, to prevent the introduction of con-
tageous or infectious diseases.
At the close of the morning business
THE TARIFF BILL
was taken up.
Mr. Morrill, said he was instructed by tho
committee on finance, in view of the brief
time remaining before the end of the session
and the urgency of the public business, to ask
unanimour consent that debate on all amend
ments proposed to the tariff bill, except on
the sugar question, should be limited to five
minutes for each speaker.
Mr.. Beck said he expected to occupy little
time, but he objected and would continue to
object to the hve-minute rule.
Mr.. Morrill, then appealed to senators on
the republican side to limit their remarks to
five minutes on any amendments they might
propose.
Mr.. Beck remarked that in the iron schedule
there were many matters of far more import
ance than anything in the sugar schedule,
and some of them were of such q character
that no man could discuss them intelligently
or intelligibly in five minutes.
WMr. Morrill,. Then will the senator agree to let
us have unanimous consent to limit speeches to
ten minutes?
Mr., Beck No, sir, would not consent to ton
hours, although do not expect to occupy any
more time than is absolutely necessary.
The senate then resumed the consideration
nf fhn hnfr tnn tvith fha 4,
embracing bar iron, rolled or hammered fats
round, and square iron of certain Sizes
Mr. Beck said that the bill proposed two
distinct rates of duty, one for rolled and ham,
mered iron, comprising flats not less than an
inch wide nor less than of an inch thick
and the other for bar iron, comprising round
iron less than of an inch in diameter, and
square iron not less than of an inch square
Under the present law both these sizes came
in at the same rate, and there was no reason
why they should be separately classified or
should pay different rates of duty; and after
some debate, in which Messrs. MaXey, Morgan,
and Morrill, participated, Mr.. Beck moved to
amend so as to put both the kinds of bar iron
embraced in the paragraph in one class and
make the duty 7-10 Of q cent per pound.
Lost-ayes %, noes 80,
Mr.. Brown offered an amendment reducing
the rate on bar iron from 9-10 of cent per
pound (Sl9,6O per tom, as in the bill, to $1S q
ton. Agreed to-ayes 30, noes %. Messrs.
Sherman and Van Wyck, republicans, voting
aye.
Mr.. Brown moved to further amend so as to
reduce the duty on round iron, not less than
\ of an inch in diameter, and square iron, not
less than of an inch square, from ono cont
per pound, as in the bill, to $50 per ton.
Mr.. Aldrich said he observed that this
amendment had been adopted by the votes of
senators supposed to specially represent the
iron interest, and therefore he would ask Mr.
Sherman and Mr.. Brown whether they re-
garded it as giving sufficient protection. If
so, he would vote hereafter for any reduction
they might see fit to propose, because New
England certainly desired cheap iron.
Mr.. Sherman replied that that he thought
the grossest injustice had been done Wednes-
day to 100000 workingmen engaged in the
production of pig iron, merely for the pur-
pose of giving the manufacturers cheaper raw
material. That having been done after n fair
statement of the case, he assumed that the
senate had made up its mind to reduce the
duties on iron, and if So n ton was enough on
pig iron, $1S was ample for rolled bar iron.
Mr.. Brown also replied to Mr. Aldrich to
the same etfect-that if SO ton was enough
to protect the furnaces in Pennsylvania and
those west of the Alleghanies and in the SOUTH
$lS ton was certainly sufficient protection
for the rolling mills Of the east, and more than
was just.
Mr.. Morrill,, referring to Mr. Sherman's
hlulelnenu aDOuU Une injustice uOnc TO the pig
iron workers, said that tho amendment now
proposed by Mr.. Brown would probably throw
out Of employment 100000 men more, and he
warned senators against making these reduc-
tions now, with the expectation that here
after the senate would go back and rectify
first the duty on pig iron and then the others.
If the senators from Ohio and Georgia (Mr
sherman and Mr.. Brown) once got the rates
down. he doubted very much whether they
would get any of them raised hereafter
Mr.. Morgan did not understand why tho
senators from Ohio and Georgia should be re-
garded as the special representatives of the
iron interests. He and his colleague repre-
sented state (Alabama) which had q larger
existing iron interest than either Ohio or
Georgia, and prospective interest very much
larger than that in both those states together.
He regarded the SO a ton duty ON pig iron as
bonus paid to capital for engaging in that
industry in preference to Others. The iron
producers of Alabama were content with that
rate Of bonus, and If producers elsewhere
found it insufficient let them remove to Ala
bama.
Mr.. Morgan, in the course Of his remarks,
referred TO Mr.. Browns statement heretofore
made that he was personally interested in
the iron business, and said he felt confident
that that interest would have no other in
huenee on Mr.. Browns action as a senator
than TO make him more careful in voting upon
questions relating to it,
Mr.. Brown asked Mr.. Morgan whether
there was any senator who was not interested
in some article affected by the tariff
Mr. Marian guOnnea1 NOT JTo ,,os