The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-02-10
CONGRESSIONAL.
Senate.

WASHINGTON, February "a renon.
STRANGE was presented against placing lum-
Der on the free list. 1t states that $780,
00O. 900 aud / 200, 900 men are employed In
the lumber business,
The bills TO relieve ships and other yes
sells from compulsory pilot fees were re"
ported fayorsbly,
Senator Edmuuds reported favorable the
joint resolution providing for the termna-
ton OF the fisheries articles Of the Wash.
ington treaty.
Senator Ferry moved to take up the post.
route bin. Lost, yeas 81 noes 33,
The tariff bill was then taken up.
Senator Bayard's amendment was adopt
ed so as to make the mineral water para
graph of the free list read ''mneral waters,
all not artificial, together with bottles or
Jugs in which the same are imported.
Senator Morrill, from the Committee on
Finance, reported amendments reducing
the ad yaOrem duty on all carpets enuma-
rated in the wool schedule, except ''hemp
or jute carpeting, carpets and carpetingS Of
wool, fax or cotton, or parts of either, or
other material not otherwise herein specl-
fed. - from IS TO 80 per cent, The amend.
ment was agreed to.
On motion Of Senator Vance the duty on
carpets and Competing omitted from the
committees amendments, except hemp
and juto carpeting, was reduced from 45 TO
~ per a ad valorem.
Senator Hale reported the naval bill. II
approprlntes SIS, ~, 43i. The Senate com.
mittee add S5lS, 800 10 the aggregate OF the
dill as It passed the House, and the total
amount exceeds last years bill by about
$500, 900, the addition being due TO items
for the increase Of the navy, including
sum for the completion OF the monitors.
Senator Hale said the committee had
struck out from the bill every particle Of
general legislation, so the bill as reported
was clean appropriation bill,
Senstor Morrill, reported the following
substitutes for paragraph women and
children's dress goods, etc., which was
agreed to; women and children dress
goods, coat lining, italian cloths and goods
OF like description composed IN part Of
wool, worsted, the hair Of alpaca goats or
other animals valued not exceeding 20
cents per square yard, 8 cents per square
valued above 20 cents per square
yard, cents per square yard, 40 per cent
ad yalorcm. II composed wholly of wool,
worsted, hair or alpaca. or other animals,
or Of mixture Of them, nine cents per
square yard aud 10 per cent ad valorem.
But all such goods with the selvnge mado
wholly or In part Of other materials or with
threads Of other materials introduced for
the purpose OF changing the classification,
shall be dutiabo at nine cents per square
yard and forty per cent ad valorem, pro-
vided that such goods weighing over four
ounces per square yard shall pay duty Of
thirty.fNe cents per pound and forty per
cent ad vaorem.'
wAsHINGToS, d. c., February 9.-Mr.
Belford from the Committee on Coinage,
| Weights and Measures, reported resolutions
| declarinsst ineXpedient to discontinue the
| coinage oY silver under the existing law,
and recommending the Committee on APP.
| preparations to report provisions for ad-
| Stional vault rooms al some point In the
| Mississippi Valley. Referred
Mr.. kasson offered resolution that
| during the remainder OF the session II
shall he In order on any day after the morn
| Ing hour to move TO suspend the rules so
! as TO consider In the House any regular ap.
preparation or revenue bill winch shal
! have been reported by the committee and
may then be In committee OF the whole, or
which may then be on the Speakers table.
and such motion shall be decided by ma.
| Iority vote.
Mr.. Houk, chairman of the Committee on
war claims, reported back the bill for the
| VuN mcu' va CtIlHlu ClNlIuh " uuTlU VI
| July claims) reported by the accounting
officers Of the Treasury Objection was
made to Its present consideration, and II
was made the special order for Tuesday
evening next.
The conference report on the Military
Academy bill was submitted and agreed
| Ia.
Mr., Deerlng reported adversely the bill
authorizing the Mississippi Albuquerque
and lnter-ocean Railroad Company 10 con i.
sirliot a road through the Choctaw aud
| Cbickasaw Nations. Tabled.
The House went Into q committee on the
| tariff bill.
The pending amendment was one offered
BY Mr.. Haskell, reducing from one and
three.tentbs to one md two-tenths per
| pound the duty on sheet-iron thinner than
| one and one.ha inches, and not thinner
than No. twenty wire guagc. Agreed 70.
The clause no finally passed WAS as fol.
lows! Boiler or other plate.iron, shearcd
or unShearcd; skelp iron, shearcd or roll
| cd In grooves, and sheet Iron. common OF
black, not thinner than No. 70 wire gauge,
one and two-tenths cents per pound; thin
ncr than No. 20 wire gauge and not thinner
than No. % wire gauge one and three
tenths of one cent per pound; thinner than
| No. % wirc gauge and not thinner than No,
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