Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-07-17

} Louisville, KY, of a monument to Georg
Rogers CLARK.
Several speeches were made in support O
the bill and il was passed unanimously.
Senator Sherman thought that the mon
l ument should be erected in Washington in
stead of in louisville
The Senate then went into open execu
tive session, and Senator Pugh addressed
the Senate in support of the Canadian
fisheries treaty.
The Senate bill for the adjustment OF The
accounts of laborers, workmen and me
cbanics arising under the eight-hour Law
was then taken up and advocated BY Blair
Without action the Senate went into ex-
ecu'ive session, and soon adjourned.
| The House.
WASHINGTON, July 16th.-ProceediDg be.
gan with the House Committee of the
Whole on the tariff bill. The wooden
st'ltedule being pending.
u. b. Taylor, of Ohio, in opposing the
schedule, argued that the passage OF the bill
wonId not benefit the consumer of wool.
1t vonId not reduced the price of wool in
| this coantry after it had been in operation
| sufficiently long to destroy the home in
| drStry. To be sure, the placing of wool on
the free lfxt would reduce ,he revenue about
&5.000,000i but that could be accomplished
without i1tJ1ry to any industry by taking
that amount |2f gold and silver from the
Treasury and sinking it il the Potomac
river. The pa.ysage of this bill would ab-
sol0tely destroy the main wocl.raising in
| dusiry of the country. Woai had been
placed on the free list simply because the
President recommended it, and the Presi-
dent knew no more why he recommended
1t than Dickens fat boy kne+y why he
went 70 sleep So much.
Ii WAS at this point thst q suggestion of
MIR. Malls, to vote on the free-woci clause
at 10 o clock was inte5poseti and adopted.
Adams of Illinois spoke in faTor OF
changing 10 January l, 1889, the time
when the free-weol schedule sho1ld 20
into effect.
Allen Of Massachusetts semitic the Clerks
desk and had read letter from Mr.. Whit.
man, President of the National Asecc;e-
ton of Wool Manufacturers, stating that
the wool manufacturers are opposed 10 a
removal Of the duty on foreign wool The
permanent success of the wool manufact-
uring industry, said Whitman in his letter,
IS dependent on the growth in this country,
of their principal raw material
Jackson Of Pennsylvania bore testimony
that the wool manufacturers of Philadei-
phia were uncompromisingly opposed to
free wool
Dingley of Maine moved to strike out
the paragrs ph fixing q duty of Twelve per
cent. on printing paper. Lost.
Mills moved that the paragraph concern
ing card cloth be amended so as 10 increase
the duty from fifteen to twenty per cent.
per square foot, and in case of such cloth
made of tempered steel wire from twenty
five to forty cents per square foot. Adopted
Other amendments offered by Mills and
adopted were: Striking out the India
rubber fabric paragraph, fixing duty on
kaolin at 81 per ton for crude and 81 for
China clay or wrought kaolin, and placing
the duty on rough marble in blocks and
squared at forty cents per cubic foot
This completed consideration of esen-
tally the tariff features OF the bill, except
in regard TO such paragraphs as have been
passed over informally, and the admins
trative portion of the measure was taken
up and discussed.
On motion of Mills an amendment was
adopted fixing October /, 1883, rs the date
upon which the repeal of the taxes on man.
ufactured chewing tobacco and snuff shall
go into effect.
Wise of Virginia moved to include in the
repeal the tax on cigars, cheroots and cigar
cites.
johnson of North Carolina moved to
amend Wise's motion by providing for the
repeal of all internal taxes on spirits dis
titled from grain or fruit OF any kind.
Lost-27 to 1856.
When the vote was announced Johnson
asked, in an astonisbed tone of voice,
which caused much laughter What has
become of the Republican party l thought
it was going to vote with ne"
Yost of Louisiana offered au amendment
similar in effect to that Of Wise Rejected
"a to So.
Sowden of Pennsylvania offered an
amendment abolishing the tax ON spirits
distilled from apples, peaches and other
fruits.
Pending vote the committee rose, and
the House adjourned.
Kerr of Iowa called attention to the fact
that the reduction of the duty on wool in
1888 had resulted in an increase of revenue
to the extent of 81 900 900, and he there
fore favored a return TO the tariff of 1867.
Anderson OF Iowa said that the self. con-
stituted champions of American labor, by
declaring that the bill was an assault upon
American industry were presenting false
issue to the country.
Williams of Ohio protested against the
ruthless disregard of the interests of the
farmers of Ohio and the great Northwest
of Texas and the broad prairies OF The
Southeast, in placing wool On the free
list
Kelley of Pennsylvania here arose and
with considerable warmth repelled with
equal personally the attack made upon
him on Saturday by Scott Of Erie, Penn
sylvania.
After brief argument by Breckenridge
of Kentucky, in favor of the free wool
clause, Wilkins of Ohio moved 10 strike
wool from the free list.
On division the vote was % to 122, and
the announcement was received with ap-
plause on the Democratic side.
SOwden of Pennsylvania and Wilkins
and Foran OF Ohio were the only Democrats
voting in the affirmative, while Anderson
of Iowa voted in the negative.
Butterworth of Ohio wished to effect an
arrangement by which an aye and nay vote
might be taken, but Mills declined to COM
ply. Tellers were then ordered, and Will
kins' motion was defeated-102 to 120.
Mills offered an amendment striking out
the clause imposing a duty Of 80 Der cent.
ad valorem on carpets and carpetings, and
inserting clause imposing duty of six
cents per square yard on hemp and jute
carpeting, of 20 per cent. ad valorem on
floor mating and floor mats, exclusively
of vegetable substances and of 40 per cent.
ad valorem on all other carpets and carpet
ing, druegets, backings, mats, rugs, screens,
covers, hassocks. bedsides of wool flax,
cotton or parts OF either, or other material
Dodge of Maine offered an amendment
imposing a duty of 10 cents per square foot
on cocoa mats, and Is cents per square yard
on cocoa mating. LOst-S6 to 90.
Mills amendment was agreed to.
Boothman of Ohio then called up his !
amendment offered some days ago, restor-
ing the wool tariff of 1867, and it was re-
jected-59 to %.
On motion of Mills, the date on which
the free-wool clause shall go into effect was
fixed as October l, 1888, and the date for
the taking effect of the wooden schedule
was fixed as January l, 1889.
This disposed of the woolen sch bedule.
Randall Still Improving.
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