Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-11
Congress-second Session
WAsH1NaroN. Dec. 10. THE rARIFF BILL.

\ THE TARIFF BILL.
 1 SENATE-After considering miscellaneous business the Mills tariff was taken up, and MT. McPherson moved to amend the proyiso in paragraph 122, referring to iron bars, blooms or billets in the manufacture of 1 which charcoal is used as fuel by reducing 1 the duty from $22 per ton to $20 per ton. Rejected, yeas 20, nays g.
 MT. McPherson moved to reduce the duty on east iron pipe from 0-10 of cent per pound to 6-10 of cent. The amendment was rejected, yeas 19, nays 24: These votes being all strictly party votes MT. McPherson the bill might as well cease if amendments so reasonable were to receive the united opposl. tion of the Republican side of the chamber. MT. Allison nodded his head.
 MT. McPherson moved to reduce the duty on the same to S-10 of cent per pound. The amendment was rejected, yeas 21. nays B.
 MT. McPherson moved to reduce the rafe on anvils from 9 cents to 11s cents per pound. Rejected, yeas 21, nays 21.
 MIR. JEFFERSON TRIES AGAIN.
 Mir. McPherson then moved to reduce the rate on iron, or steel, anchors, etc., from 1.S-1O cents per pound to 11S cents. MT. Salisbury moved to reduce it to cent. Re- jected, yeas 90, nays 24. The amendment offered by Mir. McPherson was also rejected, yeas IS. nays 24.
 MT. McPherson then made speech in de- fense of the Democratic Senator, who had been slow in opposing the Senate substitute tariff bill. This, he said, was due to their ignorance of the measure. In his opinion if it were to become law it would bankrupt the whole country in less than five years. He therefore moved that the consideration of the bill be postponed till the 10th of Janua- " next But after 8 few minutes, at the 0S Horr MP MOp withdrew his motion for 8 postponement at which there was some quiet laughter on the Republican side of the chamber.
 MT. McPherson then moved to reduce the rate on axles, etc., (paragraph 128) from two cents to one cent per pound. Rejected, yeas g, nays 26.
 MT. Harris renewed his amendment to re- duce the duty on beams, girders, joists, an gels, etc. from one and one-tenth cents per pound to six-tenths of cent. MT. Vest ar gued in support of the amendment and said that there was no item in the bill on which the two parties could better join issue than this one. He spoke of MT. Carnegie's profit on thirty thousand tons of steel beams manu factured in one year as over million dollars and described the steel trust in this country as one 'hoary with age." How long, he ask ed, was that trust to exists
 PLAIN TALK FROM MIR. SHERMAN.
 MT. Sherman desired to state once for all the grounds of his several votes on the bill, because it was neither matter of pleasure for the Senate nor matter of public utility to waste time in repeating over and over again the same argument on different clauses of the bill. Undoubtedly the Mills bill rep- resented the joint sentiment of the Demo- cratic party, while the Senate substitute had been carried before the people of the United States and there debated, advocated and sup 0 revenue only; the other to tariff for protec- tion. He would not undertake to define what tariff for revenue only meant; but a tariff for protection meant a tariff where the rates were so fixed as not only to give reason able revenue (not prohibiting importation) but also in every feature of it to extend pro- tection, encouragement, hope and competition among American producers. The Senate substitute represented the latter sentiment.
 THE PEOPLE HAVE CHOSEN PROTECTION.
 As to MT Carnegie's monopoly he (Mr. Sherman) knew nothing about it except that Mir. Carnegie had been the first in this coun- try to apply the continuous process in the manufacture of steel beams. He held patents which could not be taken away from him, but they would soon expire. The time was not far distant when all structural forms of steel and iron would be multiplied to an amazing extent and would be produced cheaper and cheaper by the otter or 1nduce- ments to manufacturers to enter into the business. That was one of the objects of the proposed rate of duty. He thought it better to sustain the finance committee In its classi- fication than to change the rates blindly at hap-hazard. He asked his Democratic friends to abide by the judgment of the people on the question that judgment had been in favor eff American industry.
 At the conclusion of Mir. Sherman's re- marks and, without coming to 8 vote on the pending amendment, the Senate at 4 p. m. adiourned