Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-07-17
Nearing g theEn)
Congressman Begin to Argue
 About Internal Revenue.
THE TARIFF PORTION FINISHED.
A Free Whisky Amendment Defeated. Hot Shot Between NEessrs. Kelly and Scott-Scnators Pugh and Chandler Talk About the Fisheries Treaties.

Scott-Scnators Pugh and Chandler Talk
 About the Fisheries Treaties.
 WASHINGTON, July 1.-The house devoted Its time yesterday exclusively to the tariff bill and made unusual progress. The essen tial tariff features of the bill were finished and the admin istrative portion of the bill passed upon, and considerable progress was made in the internal revenue portions. The event of the days proceeding was the defeat of a free whisky amendment to the internal revenue law.
 Mr. E. B. Taylor, of Ohio, in opposing the free wool clause, said the passage of the bill would absolutely destroy the wool industry in Ohio Pennsylvania, West Virginia and the northwestern states.
 Mir Anderson, of Iowa, could not see how it was that reduction of 40 per cent was an assault on American industries. Mir. Williams, of Ohio, protested against the ruthless disregard of the interests of Ohio farmers by placing wool on the free list Mir. Kelley replied to some criticism made by Mir. Scott last Saturday. in which, refer ring to Mir. Kelley, he had said: Neither age nor association can cultivate in one what nature has net give- him--those traits of character which gentlemen recognize both in public and private life the best types of true manhood"
 MT. Kelley said that if Mir. Scott alluded to traits which permitted him to falsify statements made by gentlemen, or which, according to his cole required man who was forced to near conversation, all the essential points of which were falstied by a party to such conversation, to abstain from exposing such falSification then MT. Kelley l humbly thanked God for having protected him from the domination of such traits. MT. Breckinridge spoke ill favor of the | free wool clause and then motion by Mir. | Wilkins, of Ohio, to St: Ike wool from the free list was made anl division this was deTea ted; yeas, 93; Il tys, l22. | MT. Sowden, of Pennsylvania, Wilkins and | Foran, of Ohio, the only Democrats who voted for the motion. and Mir. Ander- son, of Iowa, Republican, against it. l MT. Mills offered amendment, which was agreed to, fixing the d ''>- hemp and | jute carpetings at six cen ,nuare yard, of 20 per cent ad va!or,n on co mating made of vegetable suGstN. .... uf 40 per l cent. ad Valorem on all other carpetings, druggets, rugs, etc, made partly or wholly of wool flax cotton.
 Mir Bosttmau offered an amendment pro- posing to restore the wool tariff Of 1867. Re jected. This dispCSe,i of th3 woolen schedule.
 Several amendments were offered to the paper clauses and rejected
 Several committee amendments offered by | MT. Mills were adopted.
 This finished the consideration of the tariff features of the bill excepting few para graphs that had been passed over informally, and the administrative portion of the bill was taken up.
 Mir Dingley, of Maine, offered an amend ment to allow rebate of duties on imported plates, angles, bars and bolts when used ill ship building Rejected,
 When the tobacco sections were reached
 1>S- M. >%,l
 fixing Oct 1, 1888, as the date upon which the repeal of taxes on manufactured tobacco
 and snuff shall go into effect
 1 Mir. Wise, of Virginia, urged and moved
 the repeal of taxes on cigars, cheeroots and
 cigarettes.
 - Mr. Johnston, of North Carolina, brought
 the question of free whisky fairly before the house by moving to amend MT. Wise's mo- ; tion so as to provide for the repeal of all in- ternal revenue taxes on spirits distilled from
 grain or fruit of any kind
 Mir McAfillan said that if the internal rev. enue taxes were totally repealed the govern ment would have to face a deficiency of
 $50, ,0O0, 900 annually.
 MT. JohnstonS motion was lost; yeas 2I | nays, 135 When the vote was announced
 MT. Johnston inquired: "What has become :! of the Republican party! thought it was e going to vote with mef'
 I Mir. Yost, of Virginia, offered amend s ment similar to the motion offered by MT 2 Wise, but which was defeated Yeas, GA e nays, S5.
 = Mir. Sowden, of Pennsylvania, offer ed a1 | amendment abolishing the tax on spirits dis |. titled from apples, peaches and other fruits i but pending a vote the committee rose anC q the house adjourned.
 c The speaker before adjournment named 0 Messrs. Ford, Oates, Spinola, Guenther nne t Morrow as the select committee to investi f gate the importation of contract labor. O Two speeches the fishery treaty one b,
 Mir Pugh and another by Mir. Chandler, wer,
 the features of the senate proceedings yester
 day MT. Hoar, from the committee os {, library, reported back senate bill appropriat o ing $25, 600 for the purpose of erecting { = monument to Gen. George Rogers Clark, il r. Louisville, Ky, instead of Washington Th s bill was passed.
 f MT. Pugh took the floor and spoke in favo 8 of ratifying the fisheries treaty. Republican @ senators, he said, assailed the treaty, but di, f. not propose to amend it. They wanted t -- close the door to further negotiations, and ii e doing this were wilfully avoiding their swor1 1t constitutional duty. The Irish voters, fo T. whom the Republicans were fishing, woul
 find nothing in the rejection of the treaty t
 mortify or punish England, who had every ,s thing to gain and nothing to lose by Amer 1t can non-interferense with Canada. Refe, IS ring to statement made by Senator She, ,t man, in secret session, that hs intended t II offer an amendment to the objectionabl
 fifteenth article of the treaty, whic
 it was feared would give the Amer
 can market to Canadian fishermen
 MT. Pugh said it was not until th
 Republican senators had determine
 that no amendments thould be offered tha
 they had agreed to discuss the treaty in ope
 executive session. So it was amusing to wit
 ness the indignation affected by Senator Hoa
 at the suggestiSA that politics entered int le this question. In concluding Mr. Pugh sai
 the president had discharged his duty wit II due care to the rights of American fisher
 men, and it YVES for the people to decid
 whether the president or the senate was mos s. to blame for keeping up disturbed cond
 tion of affairs full ot ruinous consequences
 Mir. Chandler spoke in opposition to tE r treaty. The treaty, he said was not benefick
 to American fishermen. It surrendered a, ,s cess to waters that were favorable to then