The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-14
)ther Foreign and Domestic News,

forty'Ssvonth Congress Second Session
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 49, The president
laid before the senate resolutions of the
legislature Of Nebraska, asking for the ad.
mission Of Canadian lumber free of duty.
Mr.. Sewell presented the credentials of
Mr.. Mcpherson, reelected senator from
New Jersey.
The president laid before the senate res.
buttons OF the commercial exchange of
Chicago, requesting the passage of a fair,
just and equitable bankrupt law.
Mr.. Kellogg introduced two bills to i'm,
prove the navigation of the Mississippi
| river.
The tariil bill was taken up, the pending
question being an amendment Proposed
last evening by Mr.. Morrill,, by instruction
OF the committee on finance, reducing from
fiye.hundredths to four-hundredths of a
cent per pound additional duty TO be paid
on sugars above No. 13, Dutch standard
J from every degree or traction of depree
above 20 degrees, as shown by tine polari.
| scope.
Mr.. Kelly said the proposed amendment
was unjust to sugar producers, although in
the interest Of reiiners. -
| Mr.. Bayard moved to amend by making
the duty on all sugars not above No. ~
| Dutch standard, and not above Is degrees
py the poiariscope, one and twenty-five
| one-hunureuths OF cent per pound for
1 HADran N ~ nj \.
75 degrees Agreed TO by As to ID.
Mr.. Beck moved to make the dutv On
sugar above No. l3 and not above No. lG
| Dutch standard 2 40100 cents per pound,
Agreed to by 80 to 10
On'motion Of Mr.. Morrill, the vote ON
sugars above No. 10 and not above No n
Dutch standard, was reconsidered and thn
rate was made i2100 cents per pound
The rate ON sugars above No. Nc and moi
above NO. 70, Dutch standard, was made \
cents, and on that above No. 90 Dnich
standard, 81 cenis per pound. '"
The tobacco schedule was passed over
temporarily. wv
On the suggestion of Mr.. platt. no
changes were made IN the cotton schedule.
on motion oil Mr.. Mcpherson, jute, which
mad been struck out III the committee of
the whole, was restored at the rate In the
Dill OF $l5 per ton. Jute butts were left IN
go upon the free lists. :"
Ihe other amendments made IN commit.
tee OF the whole, in relation TO the manu-
ture oil Jute, were made 10 conform In
TINS action, but an amendment LAYING n
duty OF 70 per cent. ad yalorem on mann
iactures OF jnte butts, or the manufactnre
OF articles OF which they shall be the com.
ponent or chief value, was agreed %.
MIR. Conger moven to strike out the nara.
graph embracing senes, but on motion of
Mr.. Seweell the paragraph was amended 81
a as 10 read, seines, seine and grilly twines,
20 per cent. ad valorem. "N''
Mr.. Conger withdrew his motion
On Mr.. Platt's motion. tLe tobscco
schedule was taken up and a snbstianto
adopted for the paragraph struck ont in
committee OF th3 whole and the succeeding
paragraph. Ns'''s
Mr.. Platt offered the following, which be
SAID was satisfactory TO cigar manufactur.
ers, and would be, he thongbt
satisfactory to tobacco growers nlso'
Leaf tobacco, of which Sc nor
cent. Is of the requisite size and ot
necessary iineness of texture to'be suitable
ior wrappers, and OF which more than ali
leaves are requisite to weigh pound, iTnot
stemmed, 20 cents per pound il stemmed
81 per pound.
After discussion, in which Mr.. William,
Mr.; Jones, Of Florida, Mr.. Hawley md Mr.
Gail took part, the amendment was agreed
30; nays, V.
The senate then resumed consideration
OF the wool schedule. The value of
woois OF the frst.class at the
last place whence exported TO ,he
United ;States on which dntv Of
10 cents per pound Is laid, having been
liked in committee of the whole at 81 cents
or less, per pound, was restored to 30 cents =
or less, as in the original bill. S'''
The remaining amendments In this
were agreed TO and the schedu'eIf
books, etc, being reached, the senate nd.
burned. W.
On motion Of Lynch, tho senate bilI
passed authorizing the commissioner of tbe
freedman Saving and Trust company 10
iudit all claims against the company md
pay all dividends due on accounts which
rave rave peen ,ss, presented since the 2lst OF Au.
The senate bill passed granting the right.
Sl-way TO the st. Louis Il San Francisco
Railroad company through the Fort Smith
Arkansas, military reservation.
Page, chairman of the committee on cou,.
nerce, reported the river and harbor NH
ordered printed and recommitted. Tne
mount OF the appropriation recommended
3 $7.937,000.
The house then went into comm,tise os
he whole on The tariff bill, "
The clause relative to iron and steel.wire
'loths was amended, on recommendation NJ
he committee ofways nnd means. so ss in
ead as follows: provided further. TINT