Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-20
CONGRESSIONAL.
Special Dispatch to TIM BBB.

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CONGRESSIONAL.
Special Dispatch to TIM BEn.
SENATE PROCEEDINGS,
WASHINGTON, February I9.---Sena.
tor Vest announced he would ask ac-
ton on the resolution for committee
to investigate the Yellowstone park
matters az soon AZ the satiff bill was
disposed of. After % brief executive
session tho tariff bill was taken up,
the pending question being on the
amendment offered by Senator Sher-
man 10 relation to the duty on steel.
Senator Beck opposed Sherman'S
amendment.
Senator Sherman, In reply to the
question, said his amendment was a
greater reduction than the reductions
made on other industries; there would
be reduction on every item of the
steel schedule, and on the whole he
would cay without fear of contradio.
tiont that the reduction in the amount
of duties upon these classes of steel
would be from 10 to 20 per cent. The
amendment was sadopted--3 to 20
Senator Van Wyck asked for vote
on his amendment, offered rome days
since, reducing tho duty on sawed
boards, plank deals, and other luu-
Der of hemlock. white wood, sycamore
and bacs wood, from one dollar to 1--WE
cents per Thousand feet. Lost--19 to
80.
Senator Van Wyck ssksd also for o
separate vote on his amendment re-.
duclng the duty on other sawed lum
ber from So TO 81 per thousand feet,
US teet OF the sincerity of senators
In prof sastng q desire to reduce the
burdens of the people. Lo0t-1S TO 80
Senator MoPhersop moved to strike
out the provision relating to wire rop,
and wire strand of iron or steel wire
ETC., and inpert the amendment offered
by him,
Senator Jones (Nev. } addressed th,
senate at length in favor Of pro section
He said the dearest thing In the
world was cheap labor. Il was high
wages not low wages, that had enabled
American farmers to overcome In the
markets of Western Europe, the com
petition of the boundleas fields o.
Russia, worked recently by ssrfs ans
still worked by very poorly paid labor
1t was the great merit of the rgstsc
tive system that it was the mloans O
educating large classes of people
Even should it involve in som,
degree cost to the country,
was defencibie on the sam,
ground upon which it was deemed
good policy to provide educationa
facilities for the rising generation
Protection chespened production
while free trade chespenad tho pro.
ducer. He wac in favor of the high
protective duties, which had existed
since the beginning of the civil war,
because they hed stood the best tes,
--thsr Of experience because at nc
tilns ia our history had the country
been 10 prosperous as 1t was TO day.
He preferred to look forward rather
than backward. After further debate
McPherson's amendment was rejected
IS to 80.
Senator Morgan moved to strike
out sll schedules and insert provis.
ion that after the first day Of July,
1883, the tariff duties shall be reduced
fifteen per cent, and after the frat OF
July, 1884, there shall be further
reduction of ten per cent.
Senator Brown moved to place salt
on the ffee list. Lost-24 to 26.
Senator Vance offered al amend
ment repeating 80 much Of the inter-
nal revenue laws as required store
keepers and gaugers to be appointed
to distilters having capacity of less
than thirty gallons per day, aud pro.
viding that such dtstillories shall OBJ.
tsin license therefor.
Senator Cameron made a vigorous
speech favoriug protection. He moved
to recommend the bill to the committee
on finance wi h instructions to report
back the bill to reduce internal revs.
nue. taxation without any tariff amend
ment.
Senator Cameron's motion to re-
commit was lost ayes A, noes 46.
Senator Vance's amendment lost.
Ga motion of Senator Plumb the
duty on whiting and Paris white was
changed from 80 per cent. to half q
cent per pound.
Senator Morgan offered On amend.
ment providing draa ,ack OF 70 cents
per ton shall be allowed on bituue.
nous coal import In the United
States which is afte wards used as fuel
on board of steamers engaged in the
coas.ing trade or in trade with foreign
Countries, to be allowed and paid un-
der such regulations as the secretary
of the treasury shall prescribe. Agreed
to ayes 20, noes 18.
On motion of Senator Aldrich a
duty of cent pound was imposes
on seliciste Of soda or other alkaline
seliciate.
| Senator Hoar moved to reduce the
duty on polished, planished orglanoed
sheet steel or sheet iron from two and
half to two cents per pounh. Agreed
Tto-22 to II. Adjourned.
| WASHINGTON, February 19.-In the
executive session of the senate to-day
upon motion of Window, the injunc-
tlon of secrecy was removed rel
stive to the commercial treaty be.
tween the government and Mexico,
recently signed oy the commissioners.
The principal articles In the Mexican
schedules to be admitted free into the
United States are the following: Live
animals for breeding; barley, notpearli
beef, coffee, experts and other grasse.