Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-10

for exp prt aud actually exported. AT.
ter further d'scut sion the whole sub
ject OF remission of the duty upon
salt was reserved by unanimous con.
sent for con ! ~lerstion when the bill
passes from committee cf the whole
into the senate. Returning to the
clauses relative TO opium, which were
passed over informally, Senator Mil.
Ter Goal moved to strike ont the
clause imposing a duty of 81 a pound
on opium and to Insert the following:
'Opium crude, containing nine per
cent or over of morphia, 81 per
pound, and the importation Of opium
contracting lees than nine per cent of
morphis is hereby prohibited. "
Agreed to.
Senator Miller then moved to ia.
crease the duty on opium prepared for
smoking from SO to $40 per pound.
Agreed to.
The item, Of lead chemicals, on me
tion of Senator Aldrich, were amended
at follows, acetate Of lead, brown, IA
cents per poun6; acetate of lead, white,
9 cents per pound; white lead, when
dry or bulk, 3 cents per pound;
lithsge, 3 cents per pound; orange
mineral and red tea, 3 scents per pound
Senator George moved to amend the
paragraph exempting f;om duty ma
chinery for The manufacture of beet
sugar, by also exempting machinery
TOR the manufacture Of goods com.
posed of cotton, wool, hemp or ramie.
Lost. Senator Sherman moved TO
strike out the paragraph. Agreed to.
The internal revenue portion of the
bill was then taken up. Senator
Beck moved to make the tax on snuff
and manufactured tobacco eight cents
per pound, instead of IL, as in the
bill. Senator Beck insisted upon q
vote, which resulted--ayes 8, noes II
No quorum present. Senate ad-
journed.
HOUSE, PROCEEDINGS.
MI. Bedford, from the committee on
coinege, weights and measures, report.
ed a resolution declaring it expedient
to discontinue the coinage of silverun-
der the existing law, and recommend
ing the committee IN appropriations
report a provision for additional vault
room at some point In the Mlssissippi
valley. Referred,
The conference report on the mill.
tary academy bill wps submitted aud
agreed to. The house then went
into committee on the tariff bill. The
item imposing q duty of l l 10 cents
per pound on tin plate, etc., having
besu reached, Mr.. Kesion moved to
reduce the duty to one cent, though
he was not sure but that IL should be
reduced to three.fourths of a cent or
put on the free list.
Mr.. Bayne moved TO increase the
duty to two Genes a pound. He char
acterlzed the pending paragraph as a
departure from the principle which
ran through the bill, He criti ,ised
the committee on ways and means for
having abandoned Its duty. 1t listened
to that clamor and violated the grea,
principles which was. supposed to per
meste the bill. The Standard Oil
company had a very large interest In
seeing that the duty on tin plate,
should not be reduced.
Mr.. Anderson moved to strike out
the whole clause, stating his intention
was to move to place 1t on the free list
If there was anything which he wa
absolutely opposed 60 it was class
monopoly, aud in particular tae Stand
ard Oil company. This was q tax o.
$4,000 levied on the people who
bought any articles Of tin. Here was,
thank God, one little rift In the
clouds, one CLEAN Of sunshine, one
breath of fresh air, where their was q
chance to reduce the revenue and lift
eff taxation.
Mr.. Hammond, In response to 9
suggestion made by Mr.. Kelly, thai
some time In the future tin plate in
dustry might grow up which oughl
now be protoo ed, likened the sug
gestion to tie action of Mrs ToodleI
In buying a door plate bearing thu
name of Thompson, with a p" Ii
expectation that she might have
daughter no might marry a man will
that name.
The motions of Bayne and Ander
son were lost. Kasson's motion wa
ageeed to, so the duty On tin plate Il
fixed ut one cent q pound.
Or motion of Mr., Haskell the claus
imposing u duty Of l 0 10 cents pc
pound on corrugated or crimped irol
or steel was struck from the bill.
The moment the next clause, pro
posing a duty Of 4 10 cents per pounc
on cotton ties, was reached, half
dozen members from the Southern
states were on their feet claiming rec
ognition. Mr.. Mckee was the forum
ate man. He moved to reduce tn
duty to 35 per cant. advalorem
Pending action the committee rose
and the house took a recess.
The house, at the evening sersion
passed q large number of pension bill
and bills granting condemned canno
for monumental purposes. Anon
them was a bill granting q pension
$50 u month to the widow OF Maj
Hawk, late representative from lii
nois, and a bill granting eight bronz
cannon for the purpose OF erecting
monument to General William /
Lytle at Cincinnati. Adjourned.
Anti-monopoIy Convention.