Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-10
Senate.

| WASHINGTON, Feb. "a remonstrance
was presented against placing lumber on
the free list. 1t states that three hundred
million dollars are invested and one mil
lion men employed in the lumber business
The bill to relieve ships and other yes
sells from compulsory. pilot fees was
reported favorably.
Mr.. Edmunds reported favorably the
joint resolution providing for the abroga-
| ton of the fisheries article of the Wash
| ington treaty.
Mr.. Ferry moved to take up the post
route bill. Lost, ayes 81, noes 33.
Mr.. Hale reported the naval bill. 1t
approPriates $15,727,434. The senate
committee added $518,000 to the aggre-
gate of the bill as it passed the house and
the total amount exceeds last years bill by
about 100000, the addition being due to
items for the increase of the navy, includ-
ing the sum for the completion of the
monitors. Mr.. Hale said the committee
had struck out from the bill every particle
of general legislation, SO that the bill as
reported was clean appropriation bill.
Mr.. Morrill, reported the follow
ing substitutes for the paragraphs
embracing women's and children's
dress goods, ETC., which was agreed to.
'Women's and chlldren's dress goods, coat
Innings, Italian cloths and goods of like
description, composed in part of wool,
worsted, the hair of the alpaca goat or
other animals, valued at not exceeding 20
cents per square yard, cents per square
yard and 80 cents ad valorem: valued
above 20 cents per square yard, cents per
ord n6 Z
| composed wholly of wool, worsted, hair of
| the alpaca or other animals, or of mixture
of them, cents per square
but all such goods, with salvage, made
wholly or in part of other materials, or
with the threads of other material, intro
duced for the purpose of changing the
classification, shall be dutiable at cents
per square yard and 40 per cent. ad va
| loren, providing that all such goods weigh
| ing over four ounces per square yard shall
pay duty of So cents per pound and 40
per cent. ad valorem.
| The reserved paragraph laying duty
| of 6 cents per 100 pounds on salt in bulk
| and 10 cents per 100 pounds on salt in
bags or other packages, was taken up.
Mr.. Vance moved to strike it out so as
to let salt go upon the free list, and made
| a speech In support of the motion. This
bill, he said, seemed to be framed upon the
| idea of taxing all the necessaries of life,
and letting luxuries come in free, so that
the poor man, following the pillow and re-
| fiecting on the heavy taxes he had to pay
| on his pillow and his trace chains, and his
hat and shoes, and his blankets, might
console himself with the thought that con-
gress had not been quite inconsiderate. but
to compensate him for these burdens,
had provided free palm leaf fans, and fd-
dle-strirgs and nux vomica and ''myrabu-
lan," and best of all, ''free Skeletons" so
| that hereafter every man might have q
skeleton in his closet without paying duty.
| Laughter.
| The special senate committee on heavy
ordnance made report to the senate
| through Chairman Logan. The committee
| recommended that the chief ordnance Off
Ger have 100 ten-inch smooth bores now on
hand converted into eight-inch breech-
| loading rifles; the proper mounting of 300
tifteen-inch guns at forts; the manufac-
| ture of two experimental steel breech-
loading guns, one to be eight and the other
| ten inches in caliber and two experimental
cast iron breech-loading rifles of twelve
; inch caliber and such number of cast iron
guns, banded with steel as may be neces
sary to the thorough efficiency of this class
of ordnance and that the chief ordnance
| officer shall select two of the most meri-
torous breech-loading devices that have
| been offered the committe, the Getty board
and the ordnance department and thor
| oughly test their efficiency and make re-
port, and that he also make experiments
with various new projectiles and with the
Nulti-charge system of guns. An ap-
preparation of 100000 is recommended.
The tariff bill was then taken up.
Mr.. Bayard's amendment was adopted
so as to make the mineral water paragraph
of the free list read: Mineral waters not
| artificial, together with bottles or jugs in
| which the same are imported.
Mr.. Morrill,, from the committee on
| finance, reported amendments reducing
| the adv alorem duty on all carpets enumer-
| ated in the wool schedule except hemp or
jute carpeting, carpets and carpeting of
| wool, fax or cotton, or parts of either or
| other material not otherwise herein speci-
| fed from 35 to 30 per cent. The amend
ments were agreed to.
On motion of Mr.. Vance the duty on
| carpet and carpeting omitted from the
committee amendment except hemp and
jute carpeting was reduced from 45 to 40
per cent. ad valorem.
Mr.. Beck moved his pending substitute
for the wool schedule.
Mr. Morgan said that before the bill
should be disposed of, he would offer an
amendment which would bring the ques-
| ton as between ad valorem and specific
duties to direct issue.
Mr.. Beck's substitute was lost. Ayes 9,
nays 80.
Mr.. Morrill, said that >when the bill
| reached the senate he would offer the fol-
| lowing amendment to the pig iron para
graph on the iron schedule: "Iron in pig,
iron hentledge, spiegel, cast and wrought
scrap iron or scrap steel, three-tenths of
one cent per pound. But nothing shall be
deemed scrap iron or scrap steel, except
waste or refuse iron or steel that has been
in actual use and fit only to be manufac-
tured.''
Mr.. Aldrich, from the committee on
finance, reported amendments to the re-
served paragraph, embracing bonnsts,
hats and hoods and materials for them,
making the duties on material 20 per cent.
and the duty on hats, ETC., 80 per cent.
Agreed to.
Mr.. Allison offered an amendment of
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