Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-19
Republished from Sunday Globe
4 BREEZH Tn CONGRESS.
A Game of Bluff Engaged in by Both
Houses.
DUNNELL THROWS A B0MBSHELL
By Declaring The House Didn't Intend
to Pass the Tariff Bill.

ing the secretary of the interior to take n
action in the matter until the committe
reports at the next session. Laid owe
till tomorrow.
M. Blair offered 3 resolution instructin,
the judiciary committee TO inquire wheth
er the legislature of New Hampshire
chosen IN May, 1882, can lawfully elect
senator of the United States.
After long debate the resolution wa
withdrawn and the tariff bill taken up.
Mr.. Sherman offered the following as
substitute for his amendment offered las
evening: Steel ingots, cogged ingots
blooms and slabs, die blocks or blanks
billets and bars and tapered or bevelec
bars, bands, hoops, strips and sheets of al
gauges and widths, plates of all thick
nesses and widths, steamer cranks, shafts.
wrist o. crank pins, connecting rods anC
piston rods, pressed, sheared % stamped
shapes or blanks OF sheet or plate steel OF
combination steel, and iron punched or not
punched. hammer mold or sWagged steel,
gun molds not n 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, As per cent
UNI ad valorem; above four cents a 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-
EN-"
Mr.. Mcpherson offered the following
There shall be paid on galvanized iron
or steel wire, except barbe3 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
PIC 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 ii 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
be inserted.
Mr.. Sherman said he was willing to &C
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 well, and
is intended, in my judgment, to include
them all.
Mr.. Sherman-Mr. President, I submit
that this is absolutely untrue, and L might
go little further than that.
Mr.. Beck-Go Just as far as you like. 1
understand this and intend to do my duty
in the matter
Mr.. Sherman-But the senator shall not
misrepresent me, and he shall not bully the
senate.
Mr.. Beck-And 1 will not be bullied in
the senate, either; nor will be told that
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centrated in the committee Of ways and
means of the house, and that the action of
the house is against tho rules of the house,
without resenting il,
MIR. Shermar-The whole paragraph re-
lates to steel ingots, bars, blooms, etc.
Steel runs all through the paragraph, and
it has no cennection with iron, but l have
no objection to qualifying the words pro-
posed By The senator from Iowa. The sem
ator from Kentucky (Mr. Beck) ought to
be careful about inlpugning other peoples
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 III ia
vor of what is right and just in regard to this
Juestion.aud no more. The senator cannot
accuse ne 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 1 want ia
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 viii
starve 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 tina
somebody else had drawn this amendment
for him-that, in fact, men interested il
the business were not satisfied with tn
amendment, and he had proposed it as
fair compromise and hew not Influences
by personal interest and no man livin
could sway him from doing what h
thought right in the matter.
Mr.. Beck-And nobody had ever accuse
Mr.. Sherman of want Of courage or audac
itv and his action IN this matter Yves prOC