National Republican., 1883-01-31
THE HOUSE.

MI, COX, Of NOW lOrK, presented tne pet1-
tion Of ship owners, ship masters, and mer-
chants of Brooklyn and New York against the
transfer of the revenue-marine, life saving,
an d marine hospital services to the Navy de-
partment Referred.
Mr.. Calkins introduced bill appropriating
$l6,6i0 and $l0916 to defray the expenses Of
the contestant and contestee respectively in
the contested election case of Sessnghaus VS..
Frost. Referred to tho committee on elections.
Mr.. Gambler, from the committee on COM
merce, reported back the joint resolution ac-
cepting the invitation to take part in the gen.
eral colonial and export trade exhibition to be
held in Amsterdam in 1888. Referred to the
committee on appropriations.
THE PosToFFICE BILL.
Mr.. Caswell, from the committee on appro-
priations reported back the postoffice appro-
priation bill with senate amendments thereto,
recommending concurrence in some and non
concurrence in others of those amendments.
Among the amendments non-concurred in
were those appropriating $1S5,000 for special
mail facilities, and fixing July l, 1883, as the
date when the two-cent postage shall go into
effect The report was agreed to. The house
then, at 11:10, went into committee of the
whole (Alr. Burrows, Of Michigan, in the
chair, on the
TARIFF BILL.
The debate on the pending paragraph and
all amendments was limited to thirty min
utcs.
Mr. Cox, of New York, submitted again the
amendment which he offered last evening, but
which was not then read. 1t is as follows:
Provided That any vessel not constructed or
equipped in the United States may, from and nfter
the passage of this act, be registered in any col
lection district of the United States the oath of
her owner that such vessel has been purchased In
good faith by any citizen or corporation of the
United States or OF any state, TO be employed in
commerce between the United States and any
foreign port or ports, and upon payment of an
impOst duty OF 10 per cent. ad yalorcm; and pro-
yided further, that no vessel built or purchased
abroad shall ever be admitted to the coastWise
trade of the United States.
Mr.. Kelley raised the point of order that
the amendment proposing change of tho
registration law was not germane TO n bill to
levy duty on imports.
Mr.. Cox denied that the amendment was
antagonstic to the rules and made the fur
ther point that the point Of order was made
too late.
The chair ruled the amendment out as not
being germane to the section.
The schedules of the bill having been
reached; Mr.. Springer moved to amend the
first item by reducing the duty on glue from
20 to 10 per cent. ad valorem. He expressed
his disappointment that the bill did not carry
out the reduction recommended by the tariff
commission in the article of glue. On this
article the burden of taxation imposed ON the
people amounted to S9i7 900, of which the
government received in duties $4,000, while
the subsidy to the manufacturers amounted
to $S65,000. This showed the enormity of
the protective system. He called the atten-
rion of gentlemen on the other side to the
wise assertion of tho President that all taxa
tion, however wisely and prudenty imposed,
was burden on the people. This bill seemed
to have been drawn on the theory that qll
taxes were benefit.
The amendment was lost-i4-SS.
Mr.. Springer moved to place glue on the
free list, Lost.
Mr. Wheeler moved to place beeswax on the
free list. Lost.
Mr.. Rosecrans moved to reduce the duty on
refined glycerine from 8 to cents per pound.
Lost.
Mr. Springer moved to place phosphorus on
the free list and stated his intention of NOV
ing to place ON that list all articles which
brought in but an inconsiderable revenue
The amendment was lost.
Mr.. Cox, of Now York, moved TO reduce the
tax on soap. He did not care whether it was
hard soap or soft soap, or the elegant French
soap; he was in favor Of the largest liberty in
its use (Laughter) But there was one kind
of soap he would like to sec prohibited; the
kind sometimes used to carry Indiana,
Mr. Kelley. In the form of mules.
Mr.. Cox said he was not making party re-
marks, but he could quote the President on
the subject Give the country soap cheaply,
and he cared not who wrote its songs or made
its laws
Mr.. Springer, in favoring the amendment,
said that the people an the article Of soap
were taxed six million dollars for a subsidy to
the manufacturers, while the government re-
ceived a revenue of only 100000.
The amendment was lost-43 to 10.
Mr.. Herbert moved to reduce the duty on
sumac from one half Of one cent to three
tenths of Que cent. Lost.
Mr.. Townshend moved to place acetic,
acetous, or pyroligneous acid on the free list.
Lost.
Mr.. Carlisle moved to place tartaric acid on
tho free list, stating that the estimated reve-
nue. from that article would be S5 cents dur
ing the next year.
As the debate was running on, Mr.. Ham
mond, of Georgia, suggested that IL the dis
cussion We're stopped and tho article put on
the free list he would pay the IS cents revo-
nuo out OF his own pocket. The motion was
lost.
Mr.. Cox moved to reduce the duty on castor
beans, and MIR. Springer inquired why the