Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-02-14
fORrYSsyENra CONGRESS-.
SENATE.

Co. TO examine and audit all claims against
the company. and to pay all dividends due
on accounts which have been presented since
the 2lst of August, 1881.
On motion Of Mr.. Ray of New Hampshire
q bill was passed authorizing the appointment
of Edward Bellows as paymaster OF the navy.
On motion of Mr.. Gunter of Ark. the Sen
ate bill was passed granting the right of way
to the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad
Co. through the Fort Smith, Ark, military
observation.
A resolution was agreed to directing the
Secretary of the Navy TO transmit, as soon
as possible. copies of the reports and pro-
ceedings Of the naval advisory board, touch
ing plans, models and designs of models or
any paris thereof, and papers pertaining
thereto, authorized by act Of August 9th.
1882.
The credentials oil Mr.. Mcpherson from
New Jersey were read and filed.
The tariff bill was taken up, the pending
question being on the amendment proposed
last evening by Mr.. Morrill,. by instruction
of the committee on finance, reducing from
.05 to .04 of a cent per pound, the additional
duty to be paid on sugars above No. IL duties
standard for every degree or faction of . de-
gree above IS degrees as shown by the pol
ariscope.
Mr.. Bayard proposed to amend the pend
ing amendment as to make duty on sugar
testing IS degrees by the polariscope, $l.4O
per one hundred pounds, for every additional
degree until No. l3, duties standard, is
reached. This, he said, would be equivalent
to about 40 per cent ad valOrem.
Mr.. Morrill, said Mr.. Bayard's proposition
he was willing to accept as a settlement of
the sugar question.
Mr.. Kellogg also said he was willing to
accept it.
Mr.. Bayard's amendment making the duty
on all sugars not above No. ID duties stand
ard, and not above IS degrees by the pOlaris-
cope. and four and four-hundredths cents per
pound for every degree, or fraction of de-
gree above Is; agreed to.
Mr.. Beck moved to amend the duty on
sugar No. Is and not above IL duties stand
pound agreed to.
On motion of MIR. Morrill,, the rate on
sugars above No. -, and not above No. is,
dutch standard, was re-considered and the
rate was made two and forty-hundredths
cents per pound the rate on sugars above
No. l6 and not above No. 20, d. s., was made
three and One-half cents per pound.
Jute was restored to schedule j, at SIS
per ton jute butts were left upon the free
list.
The other amendments made in the COM
mittee of the whole in relation to manufac-
lures of jute were made to conform to this
action; but the amendment laying duty of
20 per cent on manufactures of jute butts, or
manufactured articles of which they shall be
component of chief value, was agreed to.
MIR. Brown moved to make the duty on
bagging for cotton, composed of jute butts,
ten per cent instead of 20; rejected.
MIR. Conger moved to strike out the para
graph embracing seines, but on motion of
Mr. Sewall, the paragraph was amended SO
as to read: "Seines, seine and gilling twines,
20 per cent ad yalorem."
Mr.. Conger Withdrew his motion.
Mr.. Plott's motion in the tobacco schedule
was taken up.
As substitute for the paragraph struck
out in the committee of the whole, and the
the succeeding paragraph, Mr.. Plat offered
the following, which he said was satisfactory
to cigar manufacturers, and would be, he
thought, sati sfactOry to tobacco growers also:
Leaf tobacco, of which So per cent is of
requisite size and of necessary fineness of
texture to be suitable for wrappers, and of
which, more than 100 leaves are required to
weigh pound if not stemmed, Is cents
per pound: if stemmed. 81 per pound"
After some discussion, in which Messrs.
Jones of Florida, and Hawley and Call took
part, the amendment was agreed to-.
The Senate resumed consideration of the
wool schedule.
The value of woods of first class, at the
last port or place from whence exported to
the United States, on which the duty of ten
cents per pound is laid, having been fixed
in the committee of the whole at 80 cents or
less per pound, was restored to 80 cents or
less, as in the original bill.
The remaining amendments in this sched-
ule were agreed to.
Schedule NJ, books, etc., being reached,
the Senate at $50 adjourned.
Mr.. Townsend of Illinois, offered resou
ii m, that during the remainder of the session
it shall be in order for thirty minutes after
the reading of the journal, for the Speaker
to recognize members to ask the unanimous
consent for the passage of bills, and regulat-
ing the manner in which such recognition
shall be made: referred to the committee on
rules.
The river and harbor bill was ordered
printed. (The appropriation recommended
in the bill is 81 1897 ,OOO.)
The House then went into committee of
the whole on the tariff bill
The proviso which gives q definition of
OF steel having been reached, Mr.. Carlisle
inquired whether it was not the intention of
the proviso to include hereafter as steel, any
metal except Siemens-M Martin metal, which
was now Is dutiable as iron.
Mr.. Kelley replied that it was not.
The clause relative to iron and steel wire
cloths, was amended on recommendation of
the committee on ways and means, so as to
read: Provided further that iron and steel
wire cloths, and iron or steel wire MEETINGS,
made in meshes of any form, shall pay duty
equal in amount to that on iron or steel wire
Of the same gauge, and two cents per pound
IN addition thereto, provided that on all the
kinds of iron or steel, or articles, or manu-
features of iron or steel, herein before in this
act enumerated OF provided for except iron
and steel wire when galvanized or coated
with any metal or alloy, or mixture of metals
oy any process whatsoever except painted,
to be classified according to sizes and gauges
OF the coated iron or steel, there shall be
paid, excepting on what are known CONNER,
ciaiiy Is tin plates, terne plates and taggers
and tin herein before provided for Zone cen
per pound), in addition to the rates provided
In this act; and there shall be paid ON galvan-
lied iron or steel wire, one-half q cent per
pound; on iron wire rope and wire strand
one cent per pound on steel wire rope and
wire rope strand, two cents per pound, all in
addition to the rates imposed on the wire of
which fl,cv cd