The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-20
REAGAN's MOTION.

REAGAN'S MOTION.
Reagan called attention to the para.
graph fixing the duty on lead ore AMI
lead dross at ~ cents per pound, with
proviso that lead ore containing silver
or silver ore containing lead, shall pay
duty of ~ cents per pound. He re-
ferred to it in connection with ores from
Mexico, and said the adoption of the
proviso would break up the smelling es-
Establishments in El Paso. He moved to
strike out the proviso.
Allison said the finance committee
believed lead introduced in connection
with silver ore ought to pay the same
duty as other lead did He did not see
why lead contained in silver ore should
be exempted from duty.
| Teller approved the proviso.
| Stewart also argued in favor OF the
proviso. The miners of the west, he
said, felt much interest ia the matter,
as with Mexican ores evading the duty.
lead extracted from silver ores in this
country could not be got rid of at prices
above the cost of transportation.
Teller said he was informed that the
importation of Mexican lead ores this
year would reach 5000 tons, and that
would mean the
CLOSING UP OF THE SILVER MINES
in Colorado, Nevada, Utah and Idaho,
and of every common lead mine in the
United States. The miners in the west
received the largest wages paid in the
world and twice as much as was paid
for common labor in any other part of
the United States. There was no COM
plant as to the price of lead in the
country, the production being about
equal to the demand. This was a mat
ter of interest to the mining regions of
this country, and the striking out of
the proViso would be blow at them.
Regain argued that the cost of trans
portation from the Mexican boundary
to the smelling works in the United
States would exclude one that did not
contain large amount of silver. He
did not think, therefore, there was any
great danger to the interests of Amer
lean miners in permitting the law
TO STAND AS IT IS.
Coke supported his colleagues
amendment.
Reagan's amendment was rejected
yeas Is, nays %.
Reagan then moved to amend, by
making the duty on tead ore and lead
dross Ac. per pound. instead of INC.
Rejected.
The clerk then read paragraph 1T,
"taxing lead in pigs and bars cents
per pound"
FREE WHISKY AND TOBACCO.
Voorhees, then took the floor and
made long speech upon the general
subject of tariff, and particularly the
pending bill. In the course of his
speech he sharply criticised the various
sections of the bill, and said the pana-
cea proposed for all the evils it en-
braced was free whisky and tobacco.
A close inspection of the whole meas
ure disclosed its consistent and coherent
character as fraud on the tax payers
of the United States, brought forward
at the request of insatiate monopolies,
dishonest companies and arrogant
trusts. As to the idea of the farmers
being benefited by the proposed substi
tute, he declared the
VICTIM OF A BUNco sTEERER
was not more sure TO lose or more nelp'
less to obtain fair play than the farmer
| was to struggle in the tolls and meshes
of Republican legislation.
Hawley said it was amazing to reflect,
after ell which the Senator said about
the great evils of the tariff, the Demo-
Gratis had not during the last twenty
wears passed tariff bill through Con-
gress and none through its own House
of Representatives. until last July.
A vote was then taken on Vance's
amendment, and it was rejected-yeas
Is, nays %
Several amendments were opposed
and rejected as the reading continues.
In paragraph 1913, relating to Manu-
facturers' articles or wares not especi-
ally enumerated" Harris moved &c
amend by a promise that no article
should pay higher rats of duty than 81
per cent. Gd valoren1, which was re-
| jected.
Schedules relating to wood and
wooden wares" and schedule E, re-
lating to sugar" were passed over in
formally. This brough the considera-
ton of the bill down to schedule +,
Tobacco, cigars, etc. when it was
laid aside, about three pages OF the bill
having been actually disposed OF to-
Gay.
after execute session, the Senate ad
| journed.
HOUSE