Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-14

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60 ~.,vvv, of which s. per cent.
is of the requisite size and of the neces-
sary fineness of texture, to be suitable
for wrappers, and of which more than
one hundred leaves are required to weigh
pound, ifnot stemmed, seventy-fiye cents
per pound, if stemmed one dollar per
pound. Agreed tO-yeas So. nays Is.
The wool schedule was then reached,
and the value of wool upon which a duty
of ten cents per pound is levied was re-
stored to thirty cents or less, according to
the original bill.
The book schedule was taken up. and the
Senate adjourned.
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
In the House. on motion Of Lynch
(Mississippi). the Senate bin was passed
authorizing the Commissioner Of the
Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company
to examine and audit the claims against
the company, and to pay all dividends
due on accounts which have been pre-
sented since the 21st Of August, 1881.
The House, ut II 80, went into commit
tee of the whole on the tariff bill.
The Committee on Commerce reported
the river and harbor bill. and ii was Or
cered printed and rec0mmitted. The ap-
preparations recommended amount to
81 ,93I 900. Among the items are. for the
general Improvement OF the Missis-
sippi river, s.. $50, 900; Charleston
harb0r, $I09,9@0; savannah harbor,
$4,000 Pensacola harbOr. $4,000.
In the deb25s '9n the tariff bin Mr..
Townshend, or Allinois, made a general
attack on the bill, and in the course of
his remarks said: This bill did not
originate in Congress. 1t was sired by
lobby of hired agents of the monopolists,
ana was brought forth IN secret caucus
This angered several members of the
/ WAYS and Means Committee, one ofwhom
{ Mr.. Haskell, of Kans., said he had stood
here for nearly three weeks and had lis
tened to denunciations coming from the
other side leyelled at the members of the
Ways and Means Committee, long enough
without reply. The gentleman from
Illinois stood here and charged that
this bill was the creation of
a corrupt and scandalOus lobby. Every
word of his declaration was a fiat false
hood. Did he comprehend exactly the full
length and breadth of that statement?
For an hour afterwards the House was
on the verge of violent outbreak, not
withstanding the efforts of other members
to restore harmony. Business was finally
resumed.
The following were the principal
changes in the tariff bill to-day: Re-
ducing the duty on nickle from % to 15
cents per pound, imposing a duty of %
per cent. ad yalorem on quick silver, re-
ducing from - to 80 per cent. al valOrem
the duty ON sh0tguns, imposing a duty of
i 81 per cent. ad valOrem on pistols. The
duty OH metallic pens was changed from
IS per cent. ad valorem to u cents per
/ gross.
Having concluded consideration of the
metal schedule, with the exception of one
clause, the cOmmitte rose, and the House
adjourned.
THE SUGAR SCHEDULE.
In the Senate to-day, while the discus
sion of the sugar schedule was in pro-
greSs on the proposition to make the tariff
on sugars below No. Is one and twenty
five hundredth cents per pound, Mr.
Kellogg argued to show that the amend
ment was a direct blow at the producers
of the country, that it struck directly
at sugar below No. 13, that it
was a discrimination in favor of the
refner against the producer, that
the committee of the whole had, after
long discussion, agreed to rate practic-
ally of two cents per pound, that this rate
even was so low that it worked hardship
to the producer. Now it was proposed to
cut the rate down to one hundred AMI
eighty-five one hundredths per cent. He
argued against the amendment, and ap-
pealed to the Senate not to sacrifice the
producer.
AlIeE COuSAUtIdule uiStNoSloH belNCcH
MeSSrS. Hoar, Aldrich, Kellogg and 9th
ers, Mr.. Kellogg said: IF you wish to
change the rates fixed in committee of the
whole in order to secure more uniformity,
why do you not make the rate of duty on
sugar below number 13 one and forty
hundreths cents per pound, and then on
every additional degree 4-l0O of a cent
per pound, which would make an ave rage
of , cents per pound, as agreed in COM
mittee of the whole"
After further discussion, Mr.. Bayard
moved to make the rate one and forty
hundredths of a cent per pound, and on
every additional degree four hundredths
of cent per pound, which, after consid-
cradle discussion, was adopted.
THE RIVER AND HARBoR BILL.
The allotment of 81, 10000 appropriated
in the river and harbor bill for Missis-
sippi river improvement embraces the fol-
lowing: $1,500,000 from the head of the
passes to Cairo, including the harbOrs of
New Orleans, Natchez, Memphis and the
reaches at Plum Point, Lake Providence
and tine detection of the waters OF the
Red and Mississippi rivers from the
Atchafalaya river. The following are the
principal Southern items: Charleston
harbor, 100000; Savannah harbor,
Romney marsh, Ga, 100000; Savannah
river, between Savannah and Augusta,
$4,000; st. Johns river, Fla, 100000;
Alabama river, $4,000; Altamaha river,
Ca, $4,000; ChattahOOchee river, Ga,
10000; Coosa river, Ga. and Ala. $40, 900;
Flint river, Ca, $4,000; James river, Va,
soc, 900; Cape Fear river, from { ocean
to Wilmington, $4,000; Red river, La,
including its tributaries above the Black
river, $4,000; Mobile harbor, 100000;
Cumberland river, $4,000; Tombigbee
river, $4,000.
FLORIDA INDIAN WAR CLAIMS.
The Senate Military Committee to-day
agreed to report favorably the House bill
to reimburse Florida for expenditures on
account of Indian hostilities between 1855
and 1860.
The House War Claims Committee
agreed to report favorably the bill to re-
/ imburse James S. Clarke & Co., of New
| Orleans, the proceeds of cotton sold and
/ amount turned into the Treasury.
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