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able and prosperous operative class was a
| rnockerY. Senator Beck yolunteersd 10 shon

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mockery. Senator Beck volunteered 10 show
| he name of the writer.
Senator HaBley (ensrgsfically)-I will
not look at il unless am at liberty 10 pub
| lish it, nor should the senator have read an
anonymous blackeusrdism here.
After iurther celloqus Senator Beck said:
"SiDce the Senator from Connecticut Haw-
ley has dis splaytd 60 much temper, ! would
not trust the mans fate in his hs uds by
giving the name. / aver that this letter is
| from New Eogland operative, and have
| the name here, but i belisvs the man Weuld
not be ssfe If the senator knew his name
with grea, empbasis] He shan't have his
| name. His colleague (Piatt) can. Further,
/ say that l have letters from operatives
and from merchants all over the North tell
ing me that l and like men are, in their
opinion, doing what is best for the whole
country, and that all the insinuations that
we are seeking to destroy labor are, in their
| opinion, uufounded and untrue"
| AT the end of the debate Senator George
| asked Tor a separate vote upon each of The
three proportions embraced in his amend
ments. Accordingly the frst vote was on
| the provision th at 20 nschinery for the manu-
| fscture OF cotton and wooden good-, or goods
composed OF iute, hemp or ramie, should be
admitted at ten per cent. od UaLOrem. Lost
| IA 10 SO.
Senator Georges second proposition 10
admit all tools mechanics used solely in
manual labor, at ten per csnt. ad Uqiorern, was
| rejected-syes Is, nays 81.
| The third proposition to admit agricultu-
raj implements at the same rate was re-
iected-yeas 15, nays SO.
Senator Beck, explaining his vote on the
| last proposition, declared that he was not a
free trader, and that after a full examination
of the ques ion, he wss satisfied that under
| free trade there would be more uuius, ap-
portionment OF taxation among the people of
the country than under any other system.
Senator Jonas modified his amendm mt 30
as tc provide for the sdmission OF N achinery
Tor the extraction and manufacture of sugar
from cane and sorghum at twenty-five per
cent. nd ualoreus. Rejected.
Senator Vance modified bis amendment
providing for the free admission of machin-
| cry for the manufacture OF cotton and wooden
goods by striking out "woolen" and reduc-
| ing the period of such free admission from
| ten 10 three years. Lost-yeas, 8; nays, "a.
The metal schedule being disposed of, the
Senate proceeded 10 consider the sugar
sche dule, and Senator Morrill, offered a sub
siitute for the schedule, as follow: Schedule
| E-Sugsr-All sugars not above No. Is
| Dutch standard in color, shall pay duty on
| their polariscopic test, as follows: All sugars
not above No. Is Ouch standard iu color,
all tank bottoms, syrups of cane juice or of
beet juice, melado, concentrated melado,
concrete and concentrated molasses, testing
by polariscope not above seventy Eve de-
| grees, shall pay duty of l 25 100 cents per
pound, and for every additional degree, or
traction OF degree, shown by the polari-
scopic test, they shall pay 800 of a cent
I per pound additional. All sugar above
| No. l3 Dutch standard in color shall be
classified by the Dutch standard of color,
and pay duty as follows: All sugsrs
above No. Is, and not above No. 10,
Dutch standard, 2.65-100 cents pound; all
sugar above No. 16 aud not above No. 20,
| Dutch standard, 3.l5-l00 cents pound. AL
sugars above No. 20 Dutch standard 65 loo
OF cent per pound.
| Molasses testing not above $50 by the po-
fariscope shall pay duty of 4c gallon;
moIasses testing above 56o shall pay duly
of Sc gallon.
Senator Aldrich said he had been unable
TO agree with the committee, and offered an
amendment to the substitute offered by Ssna-
tor Morrill making the additional duty on
sugars no. above No. Is, Dutch standard,
100 of cent. per pound, instead of 300
He said if this were agreed to be would
propose corresponding change in the para
| stdPu COfSliuS SuSdie dD1Vo NV. 10, Outcn
standard.
Senator Mcpherson offered an amendment
| which he said was The Tariff Commissions
schedule pure and simple.
Senator Morgan explained why he should
vote to reduce the duty ON sugar.
Senator Jonas La rose to peak at length,
| but Senator Salisbury explained that Sena-
tor jonas did not feel we'll, and moved to
adjourn. Lost.
Senator Jonas then argued against the
proposed reduction.
Senator Kellogg announced that he in
tended to offer the Tariff Commissions
sugar schedule as a substitute for that re
ported by the committee. He said the market
was in the hand oil the re6ners; that the ex-
isling duty on foe sugars was probibtory;
that that proposed by the committee would
still be probibitory; that the amendments
now proposed by the chairman of the CON-
mittee on Finance would increase the rate
| above that proposed by the committee, and
that the report of the Tariff Commission
| would give the Louisiana planter no higher
| protection thsn that which he had enjoyed
Tor thirty years back, and which had enabled
him TO increase the value of his produc,s
from 81 ,00O, 900 or S5,000,0O0 10 S12, 300 900
| annually.
Without acting on any of the amendments
the Senate at ii 10 o'clock adjourned.