Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-10
THE STRENGTH or SUGAR.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Special Dispatch TO TnR BRN.

WASHINGTON, February IA re-
monstrance was presented az linst
placing lumber on the free list.
Senator Hale reported the naval
bi T. 1t a%pproprlates S15. 727 1874
7 o senate committee added S5iS 600
t. the aggregate Of the bill az it passed
the house. The total amount exceeds
last years bill by about 5000, coo, the
addition being due to the Items for an
Increase of the navy, including a sum
for the completion OF monitors.
Senator Hale said the committee
had struck out from the bill every
particle ,f general legislation, 80 the
hi as re%ported'was a clean appropria.
ton bill.
Senator Morrill, reported a substi.
tute for the paragraph in the tariff
bill embracing "women's and child.
rep's dress goods, etc." which was
agreed to.
Senator Eimunds reported favor.
ably a Joint resolution providing for
the abrogstion of the fisheries article
Of the Washington treaty.
Senator Ferry moved ~ take up tho
post route bill. List ~ to SO. Tne
tar fl bill was then taken up.
Senator Beck moved his pending
substitute for the wool schedule
Ls--ayes 10, noes 30.
Senator Merrill SAID when the bill
reached the senste he would offer an
amendment to the pig iron paragraph
ia ,he iron schedule.
Senator Aldrich, from the comm it.
tse on iina CT, reported amendments
to tho raNiIed Paragraphs embracing
b)uuots, hate, HOODS and material u for
them, making the duty on materials
20 p r Cent ~a6valorsm, add tho duty
on nats, etc, 80 per cant. Agreed to.
The reserved, paragraph, laying a
duty Of dix Cents per hundred pounds
on salt in bags or other pack
ages, wss taken up. Senator Vance
moved to striks it out. 30 as to let salt
go on the fee list. This bill, he said,
seemed 20 be framed upon the theory
OF taxirg all the neceasarios of
life and letting the luxuries come in
free, 30 that the poor mon following
pillow, and rejecting on the heavy
taxes he had to pay on his p!ow, his
trace chains, his hat, his shoes, hia
blankets, might console himself with
the thought that congress had not
bsen quite inoonsiderate, but to com
pensate him for this burden had pro.
vided for free palmleaf fans and fiddle
strings and "vuxvomic,, myrobllm, y
AID csc ~ al, "ftes sLelr.orr," 81
that herpaf. er every maa might have
= skeleton in his closet without pay
ing u duty Laughter
Tho speci.i senate committee on
heavy ordnance made a report to the
senate thr ugh chairman Logan. The
committee recommend that the CHIEF
ordnance officer have 100 ten iLch
smooth bores now on hand converted
iuto eight inch breech loading rifles,
the proper mounting of 800 ff :eeu
inch guns AZ the forts; manufacture OF
two experimental steel breech loading
gus, one to be eight and the
other ten inches In cslibre, aud
two experimental cast iron breech
leading rifles, twelve inches calibre,
and such number of cast iron guns
banded with steal, as shall be neces.
sary to thoroughly test tho efficiency
of this class of ordinance; that the
chief ordinance eff ser shall selec,
two of the most meritorious breect
loading devices that are offered by the
committee of the Getty board ant
tho ordinance department, ant
thoroughly test their efficiency ant
mike o report; that he also make eI-
periments with the various new dc
vices and with the multi charge
system Of guns. An appropriation o.
$500, COO Is recommended.
Senator Allison offered an amend
meat, of which he had given notice
providing for refunding 80 per cen
OF the duty paid on imported salt u'e'
in curing meats afterwards exported
Senator Vest offered an amendmen
providing for remission Ct the duty OF
salt imported ia bond and used Il
curing meas. At the suggestion o
Senator Ransom he modified tn
amendment so as to include such sal
: used in curing fish other than thosy
taken by licensed fishing v%essels,
Senator Baysrd argued In favor o
free salt. While travelling tnroug.
tho X ,nawaha valley some years sine
his attention had been directed TO tn
deserted salt works most advantage
on sly situated for easy working an
l ready access to that great pork pack
!, ing city, Cincinnati. Upon inquir
!, he was told that the owners Of tn
/ works had been paid TO abandon ther
. by eat producers of Now York =
Q striking instance of the evils OF II
. system of building up monopolles b
law.
0 Senator Couger said he would off
=. an amendment carrying out the re
p ommendation Of tho tariff oommi
3 sion, Leaving the duty on salt stand
: IL had stood for i.teon years past
cents per 100 pounds on salt ia pac.
ages aud siglt cents on that in bal
Uader these rates tha price of salt hl
Q lien from 81. 90 10 20 cents a barre
Is S5nator Williams thought God HI
a intended that light, air and wat
= should DO free. The cost Of transpo
~tation WAS all the projections need
n by salt and ~ tax IL was a Grin
); against humanity, against nature,
Senator Vancs's motion to striI
/; out salt and let II go upon the free Ii
was lost - ayes 90, noes "a.
IF Senator Allison modified his amen
ment 60 as to allow a refund lin sur
Z. moi less than $l00l Of the entire du