Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-24
Senate.

NAsETNGTON.Jan .23.-In the senate petit
lions of iron workers were presented
against the reduction Of duties.
Mr.. Van Wyck, from the pensions com
mite, submitted q report on behalf of the
minority of the committee in favor of the
passage Of The bill giving increased pen
sions TO ona-armed and one-legged sol
diers. But as the majority report had not
been made, it could not be received.
Mr.. jackson said the majority report
volld be ready III few days.
Mr.. No RI, at II 80 moved to proceed
with consideration of the tariff, saying if
the motion was agreed to he would assume
the senate preferred to take up the bill
early each day rather than hold evening
sessions. The motion was adopted with
out opposition, ana the senate began con-
sideration Of the metals schedule.
Mr.. Miller, Of New York, moved to make
The duty on iron ore and dross or residum
from burnt pyrites 81 per ton instead of
fifty cents. IS IN the bill. A long argument
followed, during which Mr.. Beck said he
would move to put iron ore and pyrites On
the free list
Mr.. Sherman said the principle which
would justify the admission of foreign iron
ore free of duty would result also in man
Ufactured iron coming in free. An unde-
veloped iron mine was worthless. 1t could
be developed only by labor, and it was for
the protection of this labor that the duty
was required. The only justification now
for protective duties was that they were re-
quired 10 prevent American labor from be-
ing degraded by the competition
of foreign cheap labor. The bill
Of the committee on finance seemed
to have been framed rather in the
interest of advanced processes of manufac-
ture without due regard to cruder forms of
labor engaged in iron production, and in
this respect the report of the tariff COM
mission was fairer.
Mr.. Beck SAID that both the report of the
tariff commission and the bill of the finance
committee had been carefully framed SO as
not to reduce the burdens of the people,
but to put as much money as possible into
the pockets of the favored classes. The
committees bill, however, did embody
few reductions, and therefore the senator
from Ohio, Sherman, preferred the
report of the commission. It was well that
the people should know the real position
of that distinguished leader on the other
side as the champion of high protective
tariff.
Mr.. Maxey believed that the bill was
designed not to reduce taxation or prices,
but to fill the pockets of the protected
manufacturers at the expense of the peo-
pie.
Mr.. Brown said he was utterly opposed
to levying one dollar of taxes upon the
people for protection alone, and was in
favor of raising the revenue required for
the support of the government by duties
upon imported articles as soon as it could
be done. lie was earnest
ly opposed to the internal
revenue system. 1t has been adopted as a
war measure, with no intention of fasten-
ing it upon the country and ought to be
abolished. The time had come when the
new industries of the South should have a
large share of the benefits of protection
afforded by the tariff AS to the proposed
duty on iron ore, it ought to be doubled in
stead of being reduced.
Mr.. Mason submitted a calculation to
show that an equitable, proportionate duty
on iron ore would be at least 1.89
per ton and he moved to amend Mr.
Miller's amendment so as to make the
duty 81 per ton, a rate which would give
the industry proper protection and stimu-
lus
Mr.. Bayard said he would propose to
put sulphurate of iron and pyrites on the
free list, because they entered largely into |
the manufacture of fertilizers, and to tax
them was to render more difficult and |
costly the fertilization of the soil. AS to |
iron ore, rather than agree to any increase
above duty of fifty cents per ton pro-
posed in the BILL which was rather above
an average duty for the past ten years, he
would vote to put the ore on
the free list and in making
it duty free ne would do so primarily for
the benefit of manufacturers of American
pig iron. His idea was that duties on the
original elements in our manufactures
ought to be reduced as much as possible
so that manufacturers could afford to sup
ply their goods in competition with those
of foreign lands and could find market |
abroad for any surplus they might have |
beyond the demand of the home market. |
He had no desire to destroy |
or rudely disturb any industry, but |
IN voting on the tariff question, he
acted upon the principle that the taxing |
powers are vested in congress for the use
of the American people as people, and !
1O| w hAAO 0's'O ~ iAcEAl VI SIdcS Vi
on account Of the occupations in which |
they might be engaged.
Mr.. MahOnes amendment, making the |
duty on iron ore So per ton, was lost.
Mr.. Miller's amendment, making the duty
81, was lost.
Mr. Brown moved to make it eighty five |
cents, the rate agreed upon as reasonable
by the convention of pig iron men last fall;
lost.
Mr.. Conger moved to make it seventy |
cents per ton lost,
Mr.. Frye gave notice of an amendment |
10 the sugar schedule providing that in
lieu of the present rates duty of % per
cent.ad valorem on molasses, melada, con-
centrated melada, tank bottoms, syrup of |
sugar cane juice, concentrated molasses,
and sugar not above Nc. Is, Dutch stand
ard, and So per cent.Ead valorem on all |
above this standard, and providing, further, |
that those rates shall take effect on the |
passage of this bill, and shall be collected |
on all such goods which may be in public |
stores or bonded warehouse at that time.
Mr.. Chandler moved to make the duty |
on iron ore sixty cents.
Mr.. Maxey gave notice that he would |
move to strike out the whole paragraph |
and put the articles embraced in it on the |
free list, namely: iron ore, dross or residi- !
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