The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-10
THE HOUSE.

Introduction of Resolutions and Resump-
ton of Consideration of the Tariff Bill.
WASHINGTON Feb, 9.-Mr. Bedford, from the
committee on coinage. weights and measures,
reported resolutions declaring it inexp edient to
discontinue the coinage of silver under the ex-
listing law, and recommending the committee on
appropriations to report provision for addt-
tlonal vault room at some point in the Missis-
sppi valley. Referred. o.-,v.-
Mr. Kasson offered a resolution that during
the remainder of the session it shall be in order
any day, after the forenoon hour, to move 20 sus-
pend the rules, so as to consider in the House
any regular appropriation or revenue
ported by the committees and may then
be in committee of the whole, or which
may then be on the Speakers table, and such
motion shall be decided by majority vote.
Mr. HnucA. chairman of the committee on war
claims, reported back a bill for the payment of
certain claims Fourth of July claims) reported
by the accounting officers of the Treasury.
Objection was made to present consideration
and IL was made the special order for Tuesday
evening next.
The conference report on the Military Academy
bill was submitted and agreed to.
Mr.. Deering reported adversely the bill au-
thOrizing the Mississippi Albuquerque & Inter
ocean railroad to construct road through the
Choctaw and Chickasaw nations. Tabled
bill.
The pending amendment was one offered by
Mr.. Haskell, reducing from $40 to 2-lO
than one and one-half inches, and not thinner
than No. 20 wire gauge. Agreed to-
The clause as finally passed, was as follows:
Boiler or other plate iron, sheared not skelp
iron, sheared or rolled in grooves, and sheet IRON
common or black, not thinner than No. 20 wire
gauge, 2-10 cents per pound thinner than No.
20 wire gauge and not thinner than No. 25 wire
gauge, l $40 cents per pound; thinner
than No % wire guage and not thinner than No.
90 wire wire guage 1lo cent per pound
thinner than No. 30 wire guage and all iron COM
merclally known as common or black taggers
rltafN rrRrNf in A1adD MOI
per cent. ad valorem.
The item imposing duty OF l Ito cents
per pound on tin plates, etc, having been Of
fered, Mr.. Kassan moved to reduce the duty TO
l cent, though he was not sure but that it should
be reduced to 81 OF cent, andieven that it should
be put on the free list.
Mr. Bayne moved to increase the duty to 2
cents per pound, and characterized the pending
which ran thrOu Oh the bill, and as n violent
departure from the principle of protection.
The duty on tin plates as fixed in the bill was
fixed in response to the clamOr OF that greatest
of all mOnOpolies, the Standard Oil Company,
and he criticised the committee on ways and
means for having abandoned its duty, listened
to that eamor, and violated the great principle
which was supposed TO permeate the bill. The
Standard Oil Company had very large interest
in seeing that the duty on tin plates
should not be increased. He hoped the House
would abolish the drawback clause, and thus
shut out the monster which had inspired this OPP
position.
Mr.. Anderson moved to strike out the whole
clause, stating that his intention was to move to
TO which he was absolutely and intensely op-
posed, it was all classes OF monopoly, and parttc
ularly the STANDARD Oil monopoly. The mOnop-
oily OF this was a tax $5.0O0000 levied on the
people who bought any article OF tin. Here
was, thank God, one little rift in the clouds, one
little CLEAN of sunshine, one breath Of fresh air,
where there was a chance to reduce the revenue
and lift off taxation.
Mr. Hammond, in response to a suggestion
made by Mr.. Kelley that some time in the future
a tin plate industry might grow up which ought
now to be protected, likened that suggestion TO
the action of Mrs. TUodles in buying a dOOr-plate
bearing the name of Thompson with ''p' in
the vague expectation that she might have
daughter who might marry man of that name.
Mr.. Carlisle deprecated the bringing of the
spectre of the Standard Oil Company into the
discussion, when II was well known that the
COMPANY exported most of its goods and re-
eeived drawba of 90 per cent.
MIR. Knott quoted from statistics tables
to show the extent of the canning in
dustry and the number of labOrers
employed in 1t, and opposed placing the burden
Of taxation upon an industry which reached
every part of the country.
were lost, and Mr.. KassOns motion agreed to.
so the duty on tin plate is fixed at l per cent.
per pound.
on motion of Mr. Haskell, the clause imposing
a duty of 8 cents per pound on corrugated o.
crlmped iron or steel was struck from the bill.
The moment the next clause, imposing duty
of a per cent. per pound on cotton ties, was
reached, half dozen members from the South
ern States were on their feet, claiming recOgni-
ton.
Mr.. Mackey was the fortunate man, and he
moved to reduce the duty to 80 per cent ad
valorem.
hIr. BlOunt said there was not single item of
protection for the labor of the South, which had
TO compete against the slave labor of Brazil ami
fellah labor of Egypt. If Congress had any re-
gard for Southern labor in the name of heaven
let it alone in this little item of cotton ties
Pending action the committee rose, and the
House took a recess.
The House, at the evening session, passed
number OF pension bills and bills granting
condemned cannon for monumental purposes,
Among them were q bill granting pension
of $50 per month to the widow of the late Major
Hawk, late q representative from Illinois, and
bill granting eight bronze cannon for the pur-
pose of erecting monument to General william
III. Lyte, of Cincinnati. Adjourned.
,t.t THE FIRE RECORD. ,.t