The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-02-03

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.--Nr. Nc
Co0k. Of New York, presented .
memorial Of the Chamber Ut Com
m,esce At New York, urgiug Con-
Rress to pass . hill limiting the c0im-
90 Of silver dollars to the require
nleut Of the people.
M. Calkins today introduced il,
the House = bill to provide for pay.
me0t Of expense incurred BY contest
ants and contestess In contested eIec-
ti0u csses In tme 47th Congress.
The amount y ca, 000.
Petiltons were presented against
the transfer In the Marine Life saw.
Ing aud Coast Survey, Of surveyors
to the Navy Department.
After appointment Of = Confer.
Committee on thu rHlst0llice a;,piicx.
ti0n bill, the HOuse went int Com.
nlittee VI the Whole on the tariff bill.
| SENATE.
Senator H0ar presented the petit
ton Of Presiient Elliott and other
proSessors Of Harvard, asking that ~
One l'ut = professional astronomer Of
| experience shall hereafter be eligible
for The position Of Superintendent Of
the United States National Observa-
tory.
After IN unsuccessful attempt by
Mcmillan to have considered the
recitation respecting the inadequacy
Oftte water supply 10 the District Ut
Columbia the tariff bill was taken NJ.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, February l.-Frye's
amendment, kellogg said, il adopted.
would ruin Louisiana sugar prOdu1.
~rs who generally voted the republic
can ticket. He was sorry to SEQ the
attack made from the republican side
OF tho chamber upon these black co.
horts. KELLOGG gave some statistics
Ut SUGAR production IN Louisiana and
said It employed about o&ly0OO!OO
capitsl.ot which o1OO0OAOO was in ma.
chinery. Four hundred thousand peO-
ple lived BY it and 10000 or 7UyOU men
and women were employed ~ labor
en-, Of whom moro than tw0-thirtlS
were cUlored. The number Of ex-
slaves owning homes and property il
two or three times - large in J.oui-
sians ~ In many other states. ana that
class Of population II more quiet and
orderly there than in other southern
states.
Blair remarked that the happy COLI
diti0n OF the lal,0rers employed in the
production Of sugar as depicted by
the senator from louisiana, was tue
result Ut protection and was analO-
g0us to tho condition of factory Oper-
atives 1t the north produced by the
same cause and was Y complete All
sWer to the arguments aud attacks
bordering upon blackguardism with
which northern industries had been
assaulted.
Beck said the more he considered
the question the more sat.
isfied he became that the Till
was in the interest Of refine,s.
and all products named in the sciexl-
ducesl by slave labor; lest.
George offered an amendment re.
ducing the duties laid down in the
schedule 10 per cent. upon articles
imported from countries where slave
labor 10 not employed; lost.
MOrgAn gave notice Of Nh amend
ment which he would offer in the
senate prohibiting the ailulterxtiOM Of
sugar and DOlasses, etc., by mixing
glucose with it.
Beck gave notice OF al amendment
tn prevent the sale Of any mixtures
containing gluc0se sugar without atl.
visiOg purchasers Of the fact OF its
being = mixture.
Sherman offered an additional pIO-
vision to lie printed and referred IL
thu committee on finance, imposing
an additional duty Of 10 l,er cent, al
val0rem on articles named in this
schedule when IN export duty is
levied upon such articles by the
country producing them.
schedule in the cUmnitt-e Of the
whole being concluded. the senate
tIOk up the tobacco schedule. The
amendment Ut the finance committee
fixing the duties VI, cigars ut $3.50
per pound, and IS per cent. ;ul valOr-
EN- ws,s adopted.
Haw)ey offered the following rs Il
substitute for the second paragraph:
Tobacco in leaf, manufactured
and not stemmetl. when the greater
part Ut bale. box ar package is suit
'Ole for wrappers, Is cents per pound
upon the whole contents Or the bale.
!'"x, Or package; il steuuu,esi. 81 lwr
f,'inal; all other tobacco III
leaf, manufactured and
not stelnmed IS cents per pound: to-
bsaccO stems Is cents per pound; to-
OaaccO manufactured Of all descrip-
tiOns not speci cally enumerated Or
provided for in this act. ~ cents per
pound. The question was taken up
on the first paragraph of IIowley;s
~ above ending with
''one dollar per pound" lost: yeas Is.
nays %: The remaining provisions
OF H1Wley 5 amendment were argued.
The portion rejected vas then m0di-
He'd by Sherman and adopted ~ fol-
lows: Tobacco in leaf unmanufac-
tured. when the greater portion Of
tne Dsje Oox Or other package is suit
able for wrappers. Is cents per pound
upon whole contents of said bale.l,u
or other package.