National Republican., 1883-02-01
Members Of the Lower House Devote Day to
the Quinine Question,
While the Senators Sweetly and Sagely
Discuss the Sugar Problem,
A Few "Amoosin'" Remarks by the Father Of the
Free Quinine Bill.
Both Houses Adjourn Out of Respect to
tho Late Representative Orth.
THE SENATE.

transmitting the report of trials of the Cat
ling machine guns at the Washington navy
yard.
Mr.. Hawley introduced bill for the re-
retirement of Quartermaster General Rufus
ingalls, with tho rank Of major general.
Mr.. Garland called up the bill to provide
for holding centennial cotton and industrial
exposition in 1884, which was amended so as
TO provide that the invitations to foreign ma
tions to participate in the exposition shall be
given by the board of managers instead of
the president of the United States, and passed.
Mr.. Blair called up the joint resolution
presenting the thanks Of congress to John +.
Slater of Connecticut, for his beneficence in
giving 81 100000 for the education of the col
ored people of the south, which was passed
On motion of Mr.. Plumb, the senate insisted
upon its amendments to the postoilice appro-
pration bill, and ordered committee of con-
ference. The president appointed as such
committee Messrs. Plumb, Allison, and Beck.
The president laid before the senate memo
rials Of boards Of health and of trade and
municipal authorities in Georgia, Florida and
South Carolina, praying for tho permanent
establishment and full equipment of the ma
tional quarantine at Blackbeards island,
Sapelo sound.
At IL o'clock the senate resumed the con-
sideration of
THE TARIFF BILL.
Mr.. Voorhees, made an argument against
the proposed reduction on sugar. which he re-
CARDS as indefensible, whether regarded from
the protectionist or the "tarif for revenue y
point of view. During his remarks Mr.. Voor-
hees cited several authorities, among them
"That eminent doctrinaire and voluminous
pamphleteer, David A. Wclls-not his recent
utterances, the senator said, but his views
when he was commissioner of internal reve-
nue., and when his inspiration did not come
from the refners." The question of the sugar
tariff was the question whether the free-negro
sugar producers of the south should be sacri-
feed to swell the Golfers of the Cuban slave
holder and the eastern refiner, characters
said to be sometimes combined in the same
person. Neither the free negro nor the
white producers of Louisiana could compete
with the degraded labor of Cuba, and one
effect of the reduction Of the duty would be
to cause another exodus of tho colored people.
Louisiana, devastated by war, pestilence, and
reconstruction, was now just recovering some
what of her old prosperity, but this proposed
legislation would throw her back. He saw no
good reason why the compromise rates of the
tariff commission should not be adopted.
Mr.. Beck denied that the schedule reported
by the committee on finance was as favorable
to the reflners as either the existing tariff or
the report of the tariff commissioners; and
made an argument in support of his views.
Mr.. Kellogg said that the reduction of the
tariff on low grade sugars would not cheaper
sugar to the consumer, because those low grade
sugars do not go upon his table. If IL was
desired to make sugar cheaper, the way to do
1t was to Iput the reiners, who now have a
monopoly, in competition with refiners in
other countries instead Of putting the white
and the free negro of Louisiana in competi-
tion with Cuban slave labor. Mr.. Kellogg
said he had taken the trouble to examine the
petitions presented so freely within the past
ten days for reduction of the duty on sugar,
and had found that though purporting to
come from several different states, they were
all in the same language and the leading
signers were sugar dealers.
The debate was continued by Messrs. Sher-
man, Hale, Salisbury, Aldrich, Hoar, Will
Jams, Kellogg, Bayard, and Dawes.
Mr.. Aldrich's amendment offered the day
before, to the substitute proposed by Mr.. Nor
ril for the schedule originally reported by the
committee on finance, was rejected by vote
of ayes 81, noes 81.
The substitute offered by Mr.. Mcpherson
for the schedule, reported tho day previous
from the committee by Mr.. Morrill,, was re-
jccted without discussion.
Mr.. Frye offered the amendment of which
he gave notice some days ago, which he modi-
fed so as to make the duty on sugars of all
grades 40 per cent. ad valorem, and on molas-
ses 20 per cent. In his remarks on the amend
mend, he said that Mr.. Aldrich's proposition
would make the duty Oh sugar AZ per cent;
the committees schedule 46 per cent, and Mr..
McPherson's so per cent; and he asked where
were the senators from Texas, who had been
fighting for three weeks past against even 80
per cent upon manufactured goods
Mr. Coke answered that he believed the
duty upon sugar to be the only strictly rev.
cnue duty in the tariff, and, as an advo-
cate of n tariff for revenue only, he would be
compelled to vote for high duty upon sugar,
oil .,,t. Al a.
one-quarter of the entire revenue collected
under the tariff. OF every $40 paid by the
people as duty on sugar, 50 went into the
treasury while of every $40 paid upon other
goods, 81 or So went into the pockets of the
manufacturers and only 50 or So went into
the treasury. He disclaimed the idea of vot-
ing for high duty on sugar to protect the
home producer. He would no more vote to
protect the Louisiana planter than to protect
the Maine lumber man. He would not vote
cent to protect anybody, but he would vote
for u revenue tariff.
At a o'clock the house resolutions in rela-
tion to the death of the late Representative
Orth, of Indiana, were received.
On motion of Mr.. Harrison, they were laid
before the senate
Mr.. Harrison, Mr.. Frye, and Mr.. Voorhees,
made appropriate addresses and at 4:30, on
montion Of Mr.. Voorhees,, the senate ad.
journed.
NOMINATIONS.
The President sent the following nomina.
tions to the senate yesterday:
Postmasters-Perey Putnam, at LacOnia N. II.
Waiter D. Blnisdell, Plymouth, N H.; Levy NJ
Gnno, Watkins, N Y. James Il. Dorsey, suitland
Nd; John w, Dereen, Demopolis, Ala; Oscar
Garrison, Galveston; Samuel II. Neal, Gallipolis
Ohio; Harry Fisk, Aurora, Ind; William II. Jewell
Dnnville Ill.,; Chuuncey Walbridge, Manchester
Mich; Gustav A. Dreutzer, Sturgeon Bay, Wis.
William Francis, Ackley, Iowa; Charles W. Reyn-
olds, Grundy Center Iowa; Fayette w. Crane
MaouOyQtn Iowa. Charles NJ Wilson Tah
Mo; John Ham, Maryyille, NO.; Elias A. Wasser
GlraTd, Kan; Henry J. Hudson, Columbus, Neb.
A. A. Kendall, st. Paul, Neb.; Joseph Il. Woods
Schuyler, Neb.i WarrenP. Hunt, Lewiston, Idaho