Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-21


ments to the Direct Tax bill were
concurred in. 1t was ordered unani
mously that voting on the Tariff bill
begin at l O'Clock P. NJ. January 2lst,
after which there is to be no further
debate.
Morrill, offered an amendment to the
House holiday recess resolution, provid-
ing for recess from December 21st to
January End. Agreed to.
ELECTION FRAUDS.
Gibson offered resolution-ordered
printed-for the appointment of select
committee of thirteen Senators to in
quire into the state of suffrage through
out the United States, especially to
investigate the election of State off ficers
at State elections held in November in
Rhode Island and Louisiana, and the
Presidential election in New York and
Indiana. The resolution is very broad
in scope, permitting investigation into all
sorts of unlawful and irregular practices.
including conspiracies, trades, combina-
money, the purchase of votes or voters,
ballot boxes and bribery.
THE TARIFF BILL.
The tariff bill was then taken up, be.
ginning with schedule F, relating to to.
bacco and cigars. No amendment was
offered to the first paragraphs, 226 and
227. The amendment increasing the
duty on unenumerated and unmanufac-
tured tobacco from rs cents per pound to
60 cents, and reducing the duty on cigars
and cigarettes from So 80 per pound to
So so and rs per cent ad valorem was re-
jected, and the schedule was completed.
The schedule relating to provisions,
ETC., was then taken up. An amend
ment changing the rate on horses and
mules from 500 per head 10 20 per cent
was rejected.
Vest ridiculed the tax of as cents a
head on hogs, and said it was to please
the farmers, 80 that they would consent
to the increased duty Oh manufactured
goods. No hogs would be imported
without the tax.
No further amendment was offered
down to paragraph 254, relating to ex-
tract of meat. taxing it 35 cents pound.
The amendment making the rate 20 per
cent. was rejected; yeas, 20; nays, %.
No further amendment was offered till
paragraph 257, relating to oranges, lem
ons or lines, was reached, when Call
moved to amend by increasing the rates
of 10, 20 and 40 cents per package, &C.
cording to size, to 20, 40 and 90 cents.
After some good natured banter Call
Withdrew his amendment and substi-
tuted for it the provisions of the exist
ing law on the subject of oranges and
lemons. Gray remarked that every
bushel or package or pound oi
fruit imported into this country came in
as substitute for some home e-grown
fruit, and as long as the bill was a pro.
| tective measure, fruit-growers in Florida
Delaware, Maryland and New JERSEY
were entitled to the same protection as
the favored manufacturers in the East
and North. After further discussion Call
withdrew this amendment, and offered
4 another to add to the paragraph bananas
| pineapples and cocoanuts at 10 per cent
ad valorem-rejected.
A motion to strike out the paragraph
making the duty two cents per pound or
maccaroni, vermicelli, ETC., was rejected
by vote of 10 to %.
The Clerk proceeded with the reading
Of the bill. When paragraph 295 had
been passed, the consideration of the
Tariff bill was suspended, and Teller
offered resolution, which was laid over
reciting newspaper statement as to ir
regularities and violations of law in the
office of the Supervising Architect of the
Treasury as to the selection of sites fol
public buildings and the paking of con
tracts therefor, and instructing the Com.
mittee on Public Buildings and Grounds
to investigate the conduct of that office
during the administration of the present
supervising architect.
Plumb offered resolution, which
went over, calling on the Secretary Of
the Treasury for full statement of all
purchases of bonds since March A, 1886
specifying in detail the classes, amounts,
dates. parties from whom purchased
prices paid, New York quotations and
:. the available surplus in the Treasury on
the let of each month during that period.
On motion Of Sherman, the action oi
the Senate on the Direct Tax bill was
reconsidered, and the bill was referred
to the Finance Committee.
The consideration of the Tariff bill was
resumed. On motion of Allison, para
graph 302 was amended by increasing
the rate of still wines per case Of
one dozen bottles from 81 60 to 81. sc, and
increasing the duty on the bottles or Jugs
from 5 to ~ cents per pint. Noamend
ment was offered to any of the succeed
ing paragraphs until the schedule on cot.
ton manufacturers was reached. Vest
and Vance said they were not prepared
to go on with the cotton schedule to-day.
Allisol suggested that the Free List
schedule might be taken up, but Vest
made the same objection to that. Vance
could not see what was to be gained now
that day was fixed for voting on the
bill by applying the whip and
spur. Mr.. :Allison said as the Sena-
tor from Minnesota, Mr.. Davis,
desired to 60 on with the pension bills
he was willing to give away. He gave
notice, however, that he would ask tie
Senate to consider the cotton, fax, jute,
wool, WOODEN and silk schedule. The
tariff bill was laid aside, the progress
to-day having been about ten pages, and
the Senate took up the Private Pension
bills on the calendar. All of them,
ninety in number, were passed in twenty
minutes. The Legislative Appropriation
bill was referred to the Committee on
Appropriations. The Senate then went
into executive session. When the Sem
ate re-opened the Senate bill to open
abandoned military reservations in the
State of Nevada was, on motion of Stew.
art, taken from the calendar and passed.