Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-16
CONGRESS CHATTER.
YESTERDAY But 4 REPETITION OF
OTHER PRECEDING DAYS.
Both Houses Devoted to the Consideration
of the Tariff BiIls-The Manufacturers
Uniformly successful.
Senate.

agriculture. Also petition of the Off
GERS of Morrison observatory and of sew
eral educational institutions in Missouri,
for the appointment of a practical astron-
omer as superintendent of the naval OBJ
servatory under scientific supervision.
Mr.. Morrill, presented remonstrances
against any reduction of the tariff upon
books below % per cent, signed by Oliver
Wendell Holmes, 7. B. Aldrich, and John
G. Whittier, as writers of books, and set
ting forth the following reasons:
First-That the prosperity of authors
IS closely connected with the prosperity of
publishers. who are their agents in manu-
featuring, advertising and selling books
which they write.
Secondhand American books demand
American publishers, and whatever seri-
ously checks the business of publishing,
checks the freedom of writing.
Third-That the removal or material re-
duction of the existing tariff on books
wouid give foreign publishers an ad-
vantage over American publishers, by
enabling them to occupy the American
market with books written and made
abroad at lower rate than they can be
made in this country.
Fourth-That the effect will be to force
American publishers into the publication
of those copyright books only whose repu-
tation has already been made, or those
which serve professional uses, as reports of
courts and school books.
Fifth-That higher literature will be dis
couraged and the greater volume of current
literature, which is to inform the reading
young, will be guided by foreign authors
instead of by men and women of their own
nation.
After short executive session the senate
resumed consideration of the bill.
Mr.. Beck offered as a substitute to his
amendment offered last evening and per
section 6 of the bill, the following: ''That
sections 2907''a 290S, revised statutes and
section IA of the act entitled an act to
amend the customs revenue laws and re-
peal notifies, approved June %, 1874, and
the same is hereby repealed, and hereafter
none Of the charges imposed by said sec
tons or any other provisions of existing
laws shall be estimated in stating
values of goods to be imported,
nor shall the value of useful and necessa-
~ sacks, crates, bags, or coverings of any
kind be estimated as part of the values in
determining the amount of duties for
which they are liable; provided that if any
packages, sacks, crates, bags or coverings
of any kind shall be of any material or
form designed to evade duties thereon, or
designed for use otherwise than in the
bona fde transportation of goods to the
United States, the goods shall be subject
to a duty of 100 per cent ad Yalorem
upon the actual value Of the same. The
amendment thus modified was agreed to.
The duty on card clothing was made
twenty-five cents per square foot.
Mr.. Beck moved to amend the para
graph embracing wines, brandy and other
spirituous liquor imported in bottles by
striking out the proviso laying an addi-
tional duty of three cents on each bottle.
Lost, ayes %, noes 81. The proviso adopt
ed in committee of the whole, on motion
of Mr.. Allison, as an amendment to the
salt paragraph, was agreed to. It pro-
vides for refund of the duties paid on
imported salt used in curing meats, after
wards exported.
The senate proceeded to the considera-
ton of the certain portion of the bill
which had been temporarily passed over.
Mir. Jones moved to reconsider the vote
by which section B, providing that in re-
spect to all articles in the sugar schedule,
the act shall take effect on April 1, 1888,
had been agreed to. This provision, he
said, was an unjust discrimination against
the sugar producers in Louisiana. The
motion to reconsider was lost; ayes %,
noes 30.
Mr.. Mcpherson moved to take up the
paragraph embracing iron ore and pyrites
which had been passed over at the request
of Mr.. Conger. He moved to make the
rate on foreign ore 81 per ton.
Mr.. Maxey said the protectionists had
now thrown off the mask. The pretense of
"a tariff for revenue" was sent to the rear,
and protection" was put to the front.
The nature of that system was well under
stood by the statesmen of the past, and
was well described by Hayne, of South
Carolina: when he said in 1924
''This system is in its very nature pro-
gressive, and grant what you may now, the
manufacturers will never be satisfied, and
of home industry will never be content,
which comes into competition with any
udOC dI butil U0
protected, and foreign commerce
entirely cut off," This prediction
was being fulfilled step by step. The iron
question. was discussed in all its various
phases, but the debate did not add any
thing of interest to the points already de-
veloped.
Mr.. Allison said he was in favor of the
protection of American labor and Ameri-
can manufacturers. He did not propose
to explain all his votes. He was of course
liable to make mistakes, and supposed he
did make some, but voted always as his
judgment dictated, and he could not vote
this increase of duty because he did not
believe it was required.
The motion to make the duty 81 per
ton was lost, ayes IS, noes Sc.
Mr.. Conger moved to make the duty sew
enty-fve cents per ton on iron ore, includ-
ing manganiferous iron, but not pyrites.
Lost, ayes %, noes 80.
Mr.. Mitchell moved to make the rate
sixty cents per ton. Lost, ayes 81,
noes 80.
The amendment made in committee of
the whole in relation to the duty on "sul-
Phur ore as pyrites, or sulphate of iron,"
was agreed to, ayes 81, noes "a.
An amendment of which Mr.. Vance gave