Morning journal and courier., 1888-07-17
Fiftieth Congress--First Session.
WAsH1NeToN. July 18.

SENATK.-The Senate proceeded to th' consideration of the fishery treaty in oper executive session and was addressed by MT Pugh in favor of its ratification. MT. Chan dler addesssd the Senate in opposition to th' treaty. Mir Teller then obtained the hool and the treaty went over till tomorrow.
 Mir. Hale gave notice that he would move to take up the Senate bill for the retirement of John c. Fremont as major general.
 Two vetoes of pension bills were presented and referred to the committee on pensions.
 The Senate bill for the adjustment of ac- counts of laborers, workmen and mechanics arising under the eight-hour law was then taken up and advocated by MT. Blair.
 At the close Of his remarks the Senate went into executive session and adjourned at 5:55 o'clock.
 HoUsE.-The House went into committed on the tariff bill, the woolen schedule being under consideration. Mir. Taylor of Ohio, in opposing the schedule, argued that the pass age of the bill would not benefit the con- sumer of wool. It would not reduce the price of wool in this country after 1t had been in operation sufficiently long to destroy the home industry.
 MT. Allen of Missouri sent to the clerks desk and had read letter from Mir. Whit. man, president of the National association of Wool Manufacturers, stating that the wool manufacturers are opposed to the removal OI 0Uty On 4OI61&A WOO1s 4uc DCIAducAt success of the wool manufacturing industry says MT. Whitman, is dependent on the growth in this country of their principal raw material.
 Mir. Jackson of Pennsylvania bore testimo- ny that the wool manufacturers of Philadel- phia were uneompromisingly opposed to free wool.
 .Mr.Kerr of Iowa called attention to the fact that the reduction of the duty on wool in 1883 had koI in an Yr1nr nf fn inc extent of $11 ,000, ,000, ,and he therefore favor- ed return to the tariff of 1867.
 MT. Williams of Ohio protested against the ruthless disregard of the interests of the farmers of Ohio and of the great Northwest, of Texas and the broad prairies of the South west in placing wool on the free list
 After brief argument by MT. Breckin- ridge, of Kentucky, in favor of the free wool clause, MT. Wilkins, of Ohio, moved to strike wool from the free list. On 8 division the vote stood 93 to 122, and the announcement was received with applause on the Demo- cratic side. MT. Snowden, of Pennsylvania, and MT. Williams and MT. Foran, of Ohio, were the only Democrats voting in the affirm ative, while MT. Anderson, of Iowa, voted in the negative.
 Mir. ButterwoFth, of Ohio, wished to effect an arrangement by which yea and nay vote might be taken in the House, but MT. Mills declined to comply. Tellers were then or dered, and MT. Wilkins motion was de- feated, 102 to 120.
 Mr. Mills offered an amendment striking out the clause imposing duty of 300 per cent. ad valorem on carpets and carpetings, and inserting clause imposing duty of six cents per square yard on hemp and jute car petings: of 20 per cent. ad valorem on floor mating and floor mats exclusively of vege- table substances, and 40 per cent. ad valorem on all other carpets and earpetings, druggets, bookings, mats, rugs, screens, covers, has, socks, bedsidea of wool, flax, cotton or parts of either or other material. Agreed to.
 Mir. Lodge, of Massachusetts, offered an amendment imposing 8 duty of ten cents per square foot on cocoa mats and ten cents per square yard on cocoa mating. Lost, s6-- s5.
 Mir. Boothman of Ohio then called up his amendment offered some days ago restoring the wool tariff of 1867, and it was rejected, 59~95.
 On motion of Mir. Mills the dates on which the free wool clause shall go into effect was fixed as October 1, 1888, and the date for the taking effect of the woolen schedule was fixed as January l, 1889.
 This disposed of the woolen schedule.
 Mr. Whiting of Massachusetts was at 8 loss to understand why, in the absence of any complaint from the laborer, the manu- facturer or the consumer, the paper industry should be attacked and the duty lowered. At present the state of affairs was high wages, low cost to the consumer and a con stant improvement in the quality of the out put.
 Mir. Baker, of New York, moved to fix the duty on photographic apparatus at 25 per cent. Rejected.
 MT. DingIey, of Maine, moved to strike out the paragraph fixing duty of 12 per cent. on printing paper. He said that the com mittee on ways and means had made this re- duction after having made the wood pulp = it's constituent-free. Subsequently it had restored wood pulp to it's 10 per cent. duty without making corresponding increase in @ duty on the paper product. The motion was defeated.
 At Mr. Lehbach's request the paragraph relating to bonnets, hoods; etc., was passed over for time.
 Mir, Mills moved that the paragraph con- corning card cloth be amended so as to in crease the duty from fifteen to twenty cents per square foot and in the case of such cloth made of tempered steel wire from twenty Ave to forty cents per square foot; adopted.
 Other committe amendments offered by MT. Mills and adoDtsd were striking out the India rubber fabric paragraph. fixing the duty on kaolin at $1 per ton for crude and S2 for china clay or wrought kaolin, and placing the duty on marble at forty cents per cubic foot.
 Mir. West, of New York, moved to strike out the paragraph relating to gloves. Lost.
 This completed the consideration of the essentially tariff features of the bill (except in regard to such paragraphs as have been passed over informally and the administra- tive portion of the measure was taken up.
 Mr. Boutelle, of Maine, offered an amend neDt providing that when boxes in which oranges or lemons are imported shall be of materials manufactured in the United States there shall be reduction of duty to the ex- kaof ofG Gxyao fa f0ra aa0h hoy and fhroo m Ia for each half box. Rejected.
 Mir. Dingley offered an amendment includ- ing plates, bars and bolts among those arti- cles which may be imported in bond and the duties rebated when used in the construction of vessels for the foreign carrying trade.
 MT. Mills objected saying that that subject was covered by the free ship bill, which also provides for free materials.
 The amendment was rejected.
 MT. Buchanan, of New Jersey, offered an amendment providing that no goods the pro- duct in whole or in a material part of con- vict labor shall be imported for the purpose of sale or trade. Rejected.
 On motion of NIT. Breckenridge, of Ar kansas, an amendment was adopted exclud- ing from the provisions of the section pro- viding that ad valorem duties shall include the value of cartons, cases, boxes, etc., in which merchandise Is imported, such boxes or cover ings as are the usual and the necessary GOV. erings for machinery.
 On motion of MT. Wells an amendment was adopted fixing October l, 1888, as tn. date upon which the repeal of taxes or manufactured chewing tobacco, smoking to bacco and snuff shall go into effect. MT. Wise of Virginia moved to include 1T the repeal the taxes on cigars, cheroots anG cigarettes. If the Mills bill was passed tn, reduction of the surplus would not be a large as some gentlemen supposed. In ns other way could there be 50 sure a reduction of the surplus as by the repeal of the tobacc' tax. By lowering the tariff it might b. that the revenue would b. increased and he believed in many instsncs it would be. Applause on the Republican side.4 Jefferson had denounced the interna revenue system, but the American citizen o | to-day saw the tax collector armed with tn revolver, the csrbine, the rife and shotgun The question presented was whether the gov ernment would secure its necessary revenue He wanted it understood that he was in favo of deriving the revenue for the support c the government by taxation on foreign pro ducts imported.
 Mir. Johnston, of North Carolina. moved t | amend MT. Wise's motion by providing fo