Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-20

day, in relation TO the duty on steel. The
amendment was discussed and amended
in various ways. and was finally adopted
in the following form: Steel ingots. cogged
lngOts, blooms and slabs, BY whatever
process made, die blocks or blanks, billets
and bars, and tapered or beyeled bars,
bands, hoops, strips and sheets of all
gauges and widths, plates of thickness
and widths, steamer cranks and other
shafts, wrist or crank pins, ,cOnnectingrods
ana piston rods, pressed, sheared or
stamped shapes or blanks OF sheet or
/ plate steel or combination of steel and
IRON, punched or not punched, hammered
molds or swaged steel, gun mOulds not in
/ bars, alloys used as substitutes for steel
tools of all descriptions and shapes. of
dry sand loan, or iron nodded
steel castings, all of the above classes of
| steel not otherwise specially provided for
in this act, valued at five cents per pound
or less, 40 per centum ad valOrem; above
! five cents pound and not above nine
\ cents, two and a quarter cents per pound:
valued above nine cents per pound three
! and a quarter cents per pound. The vote
| was-yeas*30, nays %.
At midnight the Senate was wearily
debating the tariff BILL the speeches being
largely given to charges by Senators
against their opponents of the RESPONSE
! bility for delaying the tariff bill. At II 80
motion to adjourn was voted down
ayes 8, nays Al.
No affirmative action has been taken
! since the passage of Mr.. Sherman's
amendment to the steel schedule The mo-
tiOn to recommit the bill to the Finance
| Committee, with instructions to report
back the bill to reduce internal revenue
| taxation without any tariff amendment,
! was under discussion at midnight
The Senate adjourned at ! 80 a. IN.
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
In the House, Mr.. Hiscock, of New
York, Chairman of the Committee on
Appropriations, reported the sundry civil
appropriation bill, which was referred to
| the committee of the whole. Mr.. HiscOck
| gave notice that he would call it up for
consideration tomorrow.
Under the call of States a large num-
| Der of bills and resolutions We're intro
/ duced and appropriately referred, among
| them the resolutions calling upon the
| Secretary of the Treasury for copies Of all
correspondence relating TO sugars inn
! ported from the Sandwich Islands, and
| calling on the Secretary of War for copies
of all correspondence between himself
and Gen. Hazen during the current
month.
| This last was offered by Mr.. BeltzhOOver,
and is directed to obtaining the cor
| respOndence concerning HaZen's request
| for Senatorial investigation, also one by
! Mr.. Skinner, of New York, providing for an
| equitable distribution of the surplus
money in the Treasury among several
/ States for the maintenance of the schools
/ and the payment of debts.
The Committee on Naval Affairs re-
ported a bill authorizing the reappraise-
ment of the steamer Planter, captured by
Robert Smalls. Placed on the private
! calendar.
The Speaker, as the regular order, called
on the committees for motions to suspend
| the rules.
Mr.. Kelley, from the Committee on
Ways and Means, moved to suspend the
rules and pass the bill to reduce internal
revenue taxation,
Mr.. Morrison demanded a second.
Mr.. Joyce, of Vermont, inquired whether
il was in order to reduce the duty ON sugar
30 per cent. and on steel rails to S15 per
ton. The Speaker replied i'm the negative.
Mr.. Springer. of Illinois, raised the point
of order that the bill had not been before
the Committee on Ways and Means, and
that therefore it was beyond the power of
that committee to move to suspend the
rules and put it on its passage.
The Speaker Oyerruled the point of Or
der.
The motion was secOnded-139 to IS.
Mr.. Tucker, of Virginia, inquired
whether Mr.. Kelley would admit of an
amendment to abolish entirely the tax on
tobacco.
Mr. Kelley replied that the gentleman
knew the Speaker must decide that the
amendment could not be admitted. In
support of his motion, Mr.. Kelley said
that every line of the bill presented had
received the approval of the Sem
ate and the committee which he
represented; therefore he believ-
ed that while doubt and uncertainty might
prevail as to tariff legislation, there was
an opportunity offered to mitigate our
excessive revenue to the extent of $40-
100000. He had seen it stated that
this bill was the result of the aban-
dOnment by its friends of all hope
of tariff legislation. That was mis-
take. 1t was yet probable that the two
houses might be brought to an agree
ment on the tariff bill. True, it was said
that the Appropriations Committee must,
i'm order to avaid an extra session, claim
the floor tomorrow or at an early day.
The Senate was maturing a bill out of
which revised tariff law might come.
That was no reason, however, why Con-
gTess should not secure for the people re-
lief from an impending financial crisis,
the unavoidable consequence of excessive
revenue.
The discussion which followed was par
ticipated in by the most prominent de-
| baters.
Messrs. Brown, of Indiana, and Dun
nell, of Minnesota Republicans, }, opposed
the bill in debate as we'll as in voting. Mr..
Dunnell said that when the Forty-seventh
Congress came together there was an eX-
pectation everywhere that there would be
a substantial reduction in the revenues of
the country. The Treasury had asked for
it, the people had demanded it, the coun-
trv had expected that of the fifty million
raiCnd from the dUfV
there should be at least reduction of
twenty million dollars. The great
commercial interests expected
reduction of the duty on iron
and steel. The committee of the whole
had reduced the duty on steel rails from
$2S to SIS per ton, but as soon as that was
done declaration had been made that the
pending tariff bill must not 60 through.
The house was now face to face with the
policy declared in New York in October
prior to the meeting of the Forty-seventh
Congress, that a reduction of the revenue
must come from the internal revenue, and
from that alone must it come, and the
House was going on writing the history
for this Congress to that effect.
Mr.. Blackburn, of Kentucky, said that
it was well known that if any tariff re-
vision was to be had at this session of
Congress, it was to come through the bill
now pending in the Senate, as it was
physical impOsSlblllty to enact the House
bill into a law. If this internal revenue
bill were passed, it was the last of any
chance for tariff revision. The gentlemen
might as well admit the fact and play
with open hands.
A vote was finally taken and the mo-
ton to suspend the rules and pass the bill
was lost-yeas 162, nays 97-not the nee
essary twO-thirds in the affirmative. The
following is the vote in detail:
Yeas-Aldrich, Armfield, Barra, Bayne,
Beach, BelfOrd, BeltzhOOver, Bingham,
Bisbee, Bliss, Bowman, Brewer, Buck,
Buckner, Burrows of Michigan, Butter
worth, Cahill, Campbell, Gambler. Can
non, Carpenter, Chapman, Clements, Con-
verse, Cox of North Carolina, COvington,
Grape, Cullet, Curling, Cults, Darrall,
Davidson, Davis of Illinois, Dawes, Deer
ing, Dezendorf, Dowd, Dwight, Ellis, En-
mentrout. Errett, Farwell of Illinois,
Farwell of Iowa, Fisher, Flower,
FulkersOn. Geddes, George, Gibson,
Godshalk. Grant, Hall, Hammond of New
York, Haidenburg, Hardy, Harmer, Har-
ris of Massachusetts, Harris of New Jer-
sew, Haskell, HaZeltOn, Heitman, Hender-
son, Hewitt OF Alabama, Hill, His
cock, HIT, Hoblitzell, Hoge, Horr,
Houk. Hubbell, Hubbs, Hum
phrey, Hutehins, Jacobs, Jorgensen,
Kasson. Kelley, Kenna, Ketcham, KlOtz,
Lacey. Latham, Lord. Lynch, Mcclure,
McCoid, McCook, Mckinley, McLane of
MARYLAND. McLane of Missouri, Mills,
Miller, Moore. MOrey, Morse, Mutchler,
Neil. Norcross, 0'Neill, Parker, Peelle,
Pierce, Pettibone, Phelps, Phister, Pound,
Prescott, Randall, Ranney, Reed, Rice of