The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1883-01-25
THE WORK OF CONGRESS.
Fruitless Attempt to Report the $40
Bill in the Senate.
TINKERING THE TARIFF.
The House Engaged on the
Naval Appropriation Bill.

| Mr.. Allison (la.) called up the pOst-ottiCc ap-
! preparation bill.
The amendment appropriating $185OOO for
necessary and special facilities on trunk lines -
was agreed to-yeaS 81 nays 20.
Mr.. Morrill, (Nt.) called up the regular order,
| the tariff bill, which was taken up.
! Mr.. MOrrilps amendment making the duty
! one cent per pound on bottles, demijohns, &c,
| was rejected, and Mr.. MiIlers, making it one
| cent and one-half was agreed tO-yeas Is,
nays %.
The death of Representative Shackelford N.
| c. was announced and rs d mark Of respect
the Senate adjourned.
| FRIDAYS PROCEEDINGS
| In the Senate, on Friday, the 10Th inst, Mr..
Blair \. H., called for the reading OF his amend
mCut to the so pension bill, and the acting
Secretary read as follows:
1T is proposed to strike out all after the word
duty" in line of the bill and to insert:
Shall have lost hand or foot shall bc entitled to
a pension OF S2i per month all persons who in like
manner shall have suffered amputatiOn mt or above
the elbow knee, mt the rate of $50 per month"; all
who shall in like manner have suffered amputatiOu
Mt the hipIOint ut the shouldCr-iOi who shall
have lost one hand and one foot, or shall be totally
disabled in hand and one foot, shall he totally
deaf III both ears. shall be unable to perform
ual labor shall receive pension at the rate Of SO per
month; and all persons who in like manner shall
have contracted disability equal or equivalent to
any of the foregoing specified disabilities shall be
amount hereby granted to such disability; and in
case of amputation below joint, but with such
effect as to produce disability equal to that pro-
duce by anpntation at or above the JOINT pension
shall be paid for the disability actually resulting
from such amputatiou.'
The post-oce appropriation bill was then
taken up, and the section providing fer the re-
duCtion of letter postage to two cents was dis
cussed, Messrs. Platt and Hawley, of Conn,
opposing the reduction.
Mr.. Lapham N. " called for the regular
order the tariff bill, and it was proceeded with.
The question was on Mr. Miller'S On. "
amendment, making the duty on fied bottles
/! cents a pound instead of so per cent ad
valorem, as in the bill.
After debate the amendment was lost-ayes
26, noes 27-and the duty was left at 80 per
cent. ad valoren.
Mr.. Harrison Und.) offered an amendment
fixing the duty on rough plate glass at the same
rate as in the present tariff. Adopted.
Mr.. Morrill, (Vt) offered a resolution, which
Went over, providing for daily recess at $50
and evening sessions, beginning at 1870, on and
after Monday next.
The President laid before the Senate Mr..
Hoar resignation aS regent of the Smith
sonian Institution, and appointed Alr. Edmunds
i'll his place.
SATURDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
in the Senate on Saturday, the goth inst, MIR.
Rollins (Vt.) introduced bill granting PEN
sion to Emma De Long the widow of the COM
mander Of the Jeanette expedition.
The post-Oifice appropriation bill was then
taken up in Committee of the Whole and after
considerable debate the amendment of the cont
mittee changing the date when the reduction
of letter postage to cents should go into effect
from January |, 1884, as proposed by the House.
to July /, 1883, was agreed to.
Mr.. Edmunds (Nt.) then Ito test the sense of
the Senate on the question of general legisla-
ton upon appropriation Bills moved to strike
out the whole provision reducing letter postage
Lost-yeas 10, nays 40
The bill was reported to the Senate, and the
amendments adopted III the Committee Of the
Whole were agreed to in bulk, except the one
appropriating $1S5O0O for necessary and
special facilities on trunk lines upon which
Mr. Cockrell OIo) demanded a separate vote.
He had read by the secretary an article from
the Albany ArguS stating, in substance that
the tast-inail service was merely for the benefit
Of the New York papers. The appropriation
was agreed to by vote Of - to -. The bill
was then passed
The tariff bill was taken up.
Mr.. Morrill, (VtJ said he was instructed by
the Committee on Finance to offer an amend
ment reducing the duty on unpublished cylinder,
crown and common window glass One-cighth
of a cent per pound. The amendment was
agreed to, but 4 motion was afterwards entered
The amendment heretofore offered by Nh
Morrill, and reserved, changing the duty on
cast polished plate glass above II by 50 inches
square from 40 to 90 cents per square loot was
agreed to.
MONDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
In the Senate, on Monday, the 22d inst, Mr.. !
Logan, (lll.,) from the Committee on the Judi /
ciary, reported favorably the Senate bill for the
of telegraph and cable companies. /
The resolution providing for evening sessions |
to consider the tariff bill was discussed until l /
o'clock, when several Senators called for the /
regular order, the tariff bill, which was taken .
up. The pending question was on the motion /
of Mr. Van Wycll to put all the articles Ill The .
wood and wOOden-ware schedule on the free
list, which he modified SO as to leave Il duty Of .
80 per cent. on house cabinet furniture, irough,) /
and 30 per cent. on the same, (tinished.)
MI. ingalls, KAN offered as a substitute to
strike out most Of the articles in the schedule. /
Mr.. ingalls, amendment was agreed To by q vote /
Of ayes p, noes %. 1t strikes from the bill |
and puts upon the free list timber, squared or
sided, not specially enumerated; sawed boards,
plank, deals, and other lumber Of hcmlocl,
sycamore, Eastwood, and all other
articles of sawed lumber; also laths, shingles,
and pine and spruce capboards.
TUESDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
In the Senate, on Tuesday, the 23d inst, Mr.
' al w YIN N-Ntpt 'iShCti Lttt't az HIIbA!llJ al
port from majority of the Committee on Pen
5ions, III favor of the passage Of the so bill
He stated that two other reports would be re-
ported from the committee, and it would prob
ably require the skill OF the presiding officer TO
leclde which WAS the majority report. After
some discussion the President of the Senate
ruled that the report could not be received in
ldvance OF the majority report.
MI Garland (Ark.) introduced bill to en-
courage the holding of a worlds cotton EXPOSE
ion Ill 1884, after which the tariff bill was
AIKEN up.
Mr.. Miller On. y moved to make the duty
IL iron ore and the drOsS or rcSiduum from
)urnt pyrites one dollar per ton instead Of fifty
,ents, as in the bill.
Mr.. Malone tNa.) moved to amend Mr..
'lillerS amendment so as to make the duty -
toni rate which Wouid give the industry
he proper protection and stimulus. Lost.
The question was on Mr.. Miller's amend
nent making the duty 81. LOst-ayes II,
noes 81.
Mr.. Brown GA moved to make it So cents,
he rate agreed upon rs reasonable by the con-
'ention Of pig-iron men last fall. Lost-aycs1 -,
lOes 81
Mr.. Conger CNich.) moved to make it 70
ents ton. Hostages -, noes 80.
HOUSE.
THURSDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
In the House, ON Thursday. the 18th inst, the
morning hour having been dispensed with, Mr..
tobeson (N.J) moved To go into Committee of
he " hole on the naval AUTHORIZATION bill