Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-31
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
TINkERING AWAY AT THE Ia
RIFF.

Oil-''No Quorum" in the House
BLACK Eyes to Farmers in the Senate
The Metal Schedule Concluded.
F. WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.-In the Senate.
Mr.. Cockrell, from the Committee on Mill
tary Affairs, reported adversely the Joint
resolutions authorizing the Secretary Of
war to lend army tents to the directors of
the competitive drill at Nashville.
Mr.. George introduced a bill TO author
lZe the construction of a bridge across
Bayou Bernard, in Mississippi.
MI. Garland said he had intended to ask
consideration to-day of the bill in relation
TO the proposed Cotton Centennial Expo-
sltlon IN 1884, but he would give way to
Mr.: Hale, who desired to have Joint reso-
luton acted on providing for continuing
the work of the census.
Mr.. Hale then called up the Joint reso-
luton apprOpriating { as amended) $780,
900 for the continuation of the work until
the end of the present fiscal year.
In the debate which followed the work
OF the Census Bureau was subjected to
harsh criticism, but the Joint resolution
was finally passed.
The tariff bill was then taken uD. The
question was on Mr.. Georges amendment.
oiered yesterday, providing for the ad-
mission at 10 per cent. ad Yalorem of ma
chlnery for the manufacture of cloths and
thread composed in whole or in part of
cotton, wool, hemp, jute or ramie, and all
TOOLS oil mechanics used solely in manual
labor.
Mr.. Jonas, of Louisiana. moved to add
land machinery for the extraction and
manufacture of sugar from cane and
sorghum"
Mr.. George offered an additional Droyis-
ION Tor the admission of all agricultural
implements, tools and machinery for ten
years after the passage of the bill at 10 per
cent. ad Valorem.
Mr.. Vance offered an amendment to
AUNT machinery for the manufacture of
cotton and WOOlen goods free of duty.
The debate on these amendments con-
tnued until after O'Clock. At its con-
cluslon Mr.. George asked for a separate
vote on each of the three propositions en-
Draced IN his amendments, Accordingly
the nrst vote was on the provision that
machinery for the manufacture of COTTON
ana WQQlen goods, or goods composed of
hemp, Jute or ramie should be admitted at
IA, nays 80.
Mr.. Georges second proposition. to adj
INIT all tools of mechanics used solely in
manual labor at 10 per cent, ad valorem,
was rejected by vote of 50-yeas 13. NAYS
~, and his third one, to admit agricuItu-
raj implements, etc, at the same rate, by
a vote OF 5l-yeas 10, nays 36.
Messrs. Jonas and Vance's amend
ments were also rejected by equally de-
clsive votes.
The metal schedule being disposed of.
the Senate proceeded to consider the sugar
schedule.
Mr.: Morrill, offered a substitute for the
schedule, of which he gave notice on the
Goth inst.
At 10:30 the Senate was still in session,
with every probability that the session
VIII last till midnight or later,
Mr.: Kellogg announced that he intended
10 Oi1er the Tariff Commissions sugar
schedule as a substitute for that reported
by the committee. He SAID that the mar
ket was in the hands of the sugar retiners.
that the existing duty on fine sugars was
prohIbltOry, that the rate proposed by the
committee would still be prOhibitorv, that
the amendment now proposed bv
the Chairman of the Committee on FL
nance would increase the rate above that
proposed by the committee, and that the
report OF the Tariff Commission would
give the Louisiana planters no higher pro-
lection than that which they had enioved
for thirty years back, and which has en-
abled them to increase the value of their
products from $4,000, 900 or So. .000. 900 to-
25.000.000 annually.
Mr.. Frye read some figures to show that
the sugar costs hOusekeepeRs more than
bread.
Mr.. Morgan argued against the Dutch
standard and the polariscOpe test. and in
favor of the ad valOrem duty.
Without acting on any Of the amend
ments the Senate, at 11;10 O'Clock, ad-
journed.
HoUsE PROCEEDINGS.
The House, at 40, went into commit
tee of the whole, Mr.. Burrows, of Michl-
gan, in the chair, ON the tariff bill, debate
ON the pending paragraph and on all
amendments being limited to 30 minutes.
The schedules of the bill were finally
reached, and large number of amend
ments were offered rapidly, and as rapidly
voted down, until Mr.. Carlisle moved to
place tartaric acid on the free list, stating
that the estimated revenue from that ar
ticle would be- So cents during the next
year,
As the debate was running on, Mr..
Hammond, of Georgia, suggested that, if
discussions were stopped and the article
put on the free list, he would pay the 50
cents revenue out Of his own pocket.
The motion was lost.
Mr.. Bedford called attention to the fact
that the House had spent two days OH
nine pages of the bill comprising one
hundred and forty pages, and said the
present Congress would expire by limita-
tiOn before the last page of the bill could
be reached, and he urged less talk and
more work.
Several amendments to the rate
on. castor oil were offered.
Seventy cents per gallon was finally
adopted. The duty on glucose was placed
at 20 per cent, ad. .valorem, which is the
existing rate.
Mr.. Wheeler, of Alabama, moved to put
cotton seed oil on the free list.
Mr.. Kelley expressed his willingness
that that should be done, if the Represen-
tatiyes of the cotton growing States de-
sired it, but Mr.. Blanchard, ,.Of Louisiana,
and other Southern members objected,
and Mr.. Wheeler withdrew the amend
ment, amid derisiye laughter on the Re-
publican side.
Acidulated phosphate of lime for ferti-
lizing purposes was placed on the free
list, the C0mmittee Of Ways and Means
withdrawing all opposition to it upon the
assertion by some Southern members that
they did not wish for a protective duty on
the article.
Thirty-five of the one hundred and fifty
items of the chemicals schedule having
been considered, Mr.. Hammond, of GeOr-
gia, at 5:15, moved that the committee
rise, and this being voted down the Demo-
crats refused to vote on the next amend
ment a formal one J, and the committee
was left without a quorum.
The roll was thereupon called and the
absentees reported to the House, but a
quorum being disclosed the committee i'm
mediately resumed its session, The same
tactics were pursued, and again the CON-
mittee reported to the House the fact that
no quorum had voted, and the House
then, at 6:25 p. m, adjourned.
NO MORE TENTS TO BE LOANED.
The Senate Military Committee to-day
reported adversely to the resolution to
loan 100 tents to the directors of the COM
petitiye drill at Nashville, Tenn, The re-
port recites as the reason for the adverse
action the bad faith on the part of the
committees Of organizations to whom
tents have heretofore been loaned by spe-
cial authority of Congress, and the conse-
quent loss to the government ON account
of property damaged, destroyed or not
returned. In the FOrty-siXth Congress
and at the last session of the present
Congress eleven special acts of this nature
were passed, which authorized the l0aning
of $3.50 tents. These loans exceeded the
supply on hand. and the War Department
has estimated that an appropriation of
S62. 1886 63 will be necessary to enable the
fulfillment of the acts without crippling
the service. TheI committee think the
loaning business has been carried to an
extreme, and that the time has come to
put stop TO it.
THE HAWAIIAN TREATY.
Congressman Belmont yesterday sub
mitted TO the House his minority opinion
upon the joint resolution for the termina-
tion of the Hawaiian treaty. After re-
viewing the treaty and its effects upon
the sugar trade Mr. Belmont states his