Daily Kennebec journal., 1888-07-07
THE NATIONS CAPITOL
Another Days Struggle With the
Tariff
Reed Accuses Mills Of Lacking
Courage in His New York
Speech.
Revised Sugar Duties and a Bounty to
Home Production Proposed.
A Substitute For the Mills Bill Being
Formulated.
A Substitute For the Mills Bill Being
Formulated.
WAsHIsGroS, July 6.
House.

forfeiture was tsken, resulting ayes, III,
noes, 3. So the bill was passed.
The House then went into committee of
the whole on the tariff bill the pending par
agraph being that relating To iron or steel
railway fish plate.
motion to strike opt the paragraph was
rejected.
similar motion with respect to the para
graph relating TO spikes, horses, etc., was
lost.
The reading of the bill then progressed
rapidly, motions on the republ can side to
strike out many Of the paragraphs being re-
Jected generally without division and httle
debate.
Farquhar of New York. Adams of Illinois,
and SpoOner of Rhode Island protested
aga nst the reduction of the duty on flies
al the imposition Of an ad valorem rate.
The dem ats tefrained from replying
Upon a standing vote Farquhai's amend.
ment increasing and scaling duties in pro-
portion To the size of the flies prevailed--64
to 81.
Mills demanded another vote and the re-
suit was reversed-yeas 63, nays 20, and the
amendment was rejected.
On motion of Vance Of Connecticut, with
the assent Of Mills and amid some sarcastic
laughter fsom the republicans, the parag aph
on woot screws WAS stricken out, thus re!
sturi' g the present rate.
Dubois of Ohio offered an amendment
restoring the existing duty on lead ore.
Stone of Missouri offered an amendment
which was al pied, leaving the dnty on
lead or" as liked by the bill. 1t provides
that the combination of lead with silver in
ores shall not exempt the lead therein from
duty.
A debare eHsued between Reed and Mills
The former accused Mills of having a lack
of courage when he vert to New York to
declare that he was not for free trade.
Mills resented the charge. He hoped
his friends on the other side
would have the same high cour-
age and would stand by their whskey
platform. He saw some intiniaton that the
bill which The gentlemen on the other side
were preparing, was to make flank move.
ment on the wiskey plank of the Chicago
platform. They were going to stop alcohol
used in arts, aud make the balance of the re-
luction by 80 per cent. cut on sugar
When the republicans found that the demo-
cratic baitalions were on the march. they be-
gan to say that they didn't want so much
whiskey, but would take some sugar in it,
Laughter.
The amendment offered by Stone was re-
jeeted; also the one submitted by Warner of
Missouri. restoring the present rate of duty
on lead ore.
On motion of Mills the clause was stricken
out which imposes duty of 35 per cent. ad-
valorem on pen-knives and razors, thus re-
storing the present rate.
On motion or Mills clause was inserted.
fixing the rate on new type for printing at Is
per cent advalorem.
The sugar, molasses and confectionery
clauses being reached, by agreement they
were all considered together.
After an understanding had been reached
that vote would not be taken today, Can
non of illinois, offered an amendment strik-
ing out all sugar and molasses paragraphs.
and inserting clauses fixing the duties as fol-
lows: Sugars not above l6 Dutch standard.
syiups, &c, and all molasses testing not
above So degrees, not otherwise to be pro-
vided for, TO be exempt from duty in the
event that no export duty is levied by the
country of expectation; sugars above No. Is
TO pay a duty of 10 of | per cent. molas-
ses above 56 degrees, two cents per gallon;
maple sugar, two cents per pound of the
cry stalizible sugar contained; maple syrup
or molasses. four cents per gallon; glu-
cose, one cent per pound; sugar candy.
not colored, cents per pound; all other
confectionery not enumerated. and on sugars
a ter being refined, when tinctures, colored
or adulterated. and on all chocolate confec
tiorery, 10 cents per pound with similar
provis on against export duty it also provid-
ed TO encourage domestic production. that
there shall he paid bounty to the United
States, producers of sugar from heets, sorg-
hum, and other cane, raised in the United
states, as follows: On sugar, two cents per
pound; crystalizable sugar contained therein
on moasses above 56 degrees, six cents per
gallon not above 56 degrees, four cents.
Cannon and Bayne of Pennsylvania spoke
in favor of the amendment.
Kelley and Peters of Kansas opposed the
giving of bountes.
Pending further debate the committee
rose and the House took recess till eight
O'Clock.
l'rhe House at the evening sesaon passed
30 private pension bills and adjourned.