Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-02-16
fORTYSgVRyTH C0yGRESS.
second sess1o1a.
SENATE.

Mr.. Hoar presented a joint resolution of
the legislature of Mass, in regard to the
termination of the portion of the treaty of
Washington, relating TO fisi,eries.
Mr.. Morrill, presented remonstrance
against any reduction of tariff upon hooks
below % per cent: signed by Oliver Wendall
Holmes, T. B. Aldrich and John G. Whittie-
as writers of books, basing their objections
on the ground of injury to American publish
ers.
Fourth, that the affect will be to force
American publishers into the publication of
those COPYRIGHT books only whose reputa-
ton has already been made, or of those which
serve professional uses-as reports of courts
and school books.
Fifth, that higher literature will be discour-
aged, and the greatest volume of current lit
erature, which is in the form of reading fer
the young. will be guided by foreign authers
instead of by men and women of their own
nation.
resolution by Mr.. Blair, to prevent any
vacancy in the United States Senate from
New Hampshire, which might result from
the arrangement of the sessions of the n. H.
legislature, went over Till tomorrow.
rhe morning business being concluded,
Mr.. Morrill, called up the tariff bill.
Mr.. Edmunds thought that the necessities
| of public business and justice demanded a
brief executive session, which was held.
When the doors were re-opened the Senate
| resumed the consideration of the tariff bill.
MIR. Beck offered as substitute for his
amendment, offered last evening, providing
that hereafter none of the charges imposed by
sections 2907 and 290s, r. S, or anv other
provisions existing of how it shall be esti-
| mated in ascertaining the value of goods to
be imported, nor shall the value of the usual
| and necessary sacks, crates, bags or cover
ings of anv kind be estimated at part of their
value in determining the amount of duties,
unless they are used with the intention to-
| evade duties thereon, and then they shall be
subject to a duty of 100 per cent ad valorem
upon the actual value.
The amendment thus modified was agreed
i to.
| Mr.. Morrill, gave notice that if the bill
should not be passed today, he would ask the
Senate to sit long enough tomorrow to dis
pose of it.
The Senate proceeded to consider certain
portions of the bill which had been temper
| arily passed over.
Mr.. Mcpherson moved to take up the par
agraph embracing iron ore and pyrites, which
had been passed over at the request Of Mr..
| Conger
MIR. Mcpherson moved to make the rate
81 per ton upon foreign ores.
| After considerable debate, the motion was
lost.
Mr.. Conger moved to make the duty 20
cents per ton lost
| Mr. Mitchell moved to make the rate 60
cents per ton lost.
| The amendment made in the committee in
relation to the duty on sulphur ore as pyrites
of sulphuret of iron" was agreed to-
| The proviso adopted in the committee on
notion of Mr. Allison, as an amendment to
| the salt paragraph, was agreed to. 1t pro-
vides for the refund of duties paid on import
| ed salt used in curing meats, and atterward
exported.
The amendment wss adopted, providing
that imported salt in bond may be used in
curing fish taken by vessels licensed to en-
gage in fisheries, and in curing fish on shares
| of the navigable waters of the United States.
| under such regulations as the Secretary of
the Treasury shall prescribe, and that upon
proof of the use of the salt for either of the
purposes stated in the proviso, the duty upon
| 1t shall be remitted.
The action prescribing oaths to be taken
by importers was adopted.
All the reserved paragraphs having been
disposed Of, the bill was open to amendments
generally.
Mr.. Bayard moved to insert in the metal
| sSuVhuits thS ioio" ing AIpu VI sttti sutStS
or plates, galvanized or coated by any pro-
cess with spelter or an allay of that metal,
commercially known as galvanized sheet
metal or sheet steel, two and one-half cents
per pound
On motion of Mr.. Ransom, the internal
avenue tax on cigarettes, weighing not
more than three pounds per ZOO, was re-
duced from IS to 40 cents per 1000
On motion OF Mr.. Morrill,. ''down clothing
woods" were inserted in the wool schedule,
in ''Class one, clothing woods"
The discussion of the rice tariff provoked
an aggressive speech by Mr.. Voorhees,.
After further debate, and a lively spat be-
tween Messrs. ingalls, and Butler. the motion
to reduce the duty on rice to 45 per cent,
which had been made by Mr.. Ingalls,. was
lost.
Mr.. Conger offered an amendment LAYING
an additional duty of half cent per pound
on charcoal.
Iron was further advanced in the manufac-
ture of iron pigs.
With this amendment pending, the Senate
at 1925, adjourned.
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