St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-09
Little Phil's Widow Has No,
Intention Of Marrying a
Title.
Chinese Who Travel Had Bet
ter Not Cross the Canadi-
an Border.
Representative Wheeler Gives
the Senate Tariff Bill Some i,
Hard Knocks.
Special to the Globe.

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bills passed were the following: House
joint resolution for an inquiry by a
committee of three senators and three
representatives into the contracts and
work Oh the Washington aqueduct
tunnel: house bill to restore certain
money to the fund for the erection of
public building in Detroit. Mr.. Blair
offered resolution calling on the presi-
Gent Tor information as to the trial, con-
yletlon and execution for treason in
Canada, on November 10, 1885, OF Louis
David Riel, who claimed to be
a naturalized citizen of the UNI
ted States. Laid over until tomorrow.
Reading of the tariff bill repol ted from
the finance committee was dispensed
with, and the senate substitute was Or
dered to be first considered. Mr.. Harris
asked Mr.. Allison to fix time when
general debate should close. Mr.. ALI
son said that he could not tell when
senators would resign their right to
speak on the bill. He thought the sug-
gestion rather premature. Mr.. Harris
asked that general debate might close
in ten days, but Mr.. Allison refused to
consent to this proposition. Mr.. Allison
took the floor, and entered into a long
explanation of the finance committees
substitute. He spoke of the length of
time it had taken the house to prepare
a bill, he said. for the purpose of
strengthening the industries of the
country, but with the effect of greatly
DISTURBING THOSE INTERESTS.
From the report of the secretary of
the treasury for the first quarter of the
present fiscal year he calculated that
there would be reduction of SS,00O,00O
In import receipts as compared with
last year and reduction of $1,000, 900
as compared with the secretary's esti-
mate. He thought reduction of $780,
OOO,0OO to S7O,O0O,000 as great as could be
Safely made. The senate bill cOntem-
plated that for the current fiscal year
and years to follow there should be no
surplus for the sinking fund, certainly
none beyond the amount necessary to
redeem bonds falling due Oct. l, 1891.
He could not understand by what pro-
cess OF flnanciering so great surplus
should have been allowed to accumu-,
late when the government could have
purchased bonds so as to have made 2,
per cent on the money. Coming
to the features of the bill he
said that the senate bill differed
from the house bill in that it
proposed to deal with all the schedules
OF the tariff while the house did not
The senate committee had sought in this
bill to care for every industry in the
country. He spoke of the divergent
action of the minority of the committee.
lie said that the report of the three
Democratic senators who were unable
to agree, was full of misinformatiOn.
The calculation of the reduction to be-
made in the Mills bill was based on the
assumption that the importation of ar
ticleS, OH which the tariff was increas-
ing, would be cOrreSpondingly reduced.
This was problematic; but there was no
question of the reduction to be made by
the senate bill. 1t was between SOL, 000,-
900 and S73, 100000. Speaking of the
tobacco question Mr.. Allison said that
the committee had yielded to what they
had supposed was a universal Senti-
ment in favor of taking the tax from
that article. AS to the abolition of
THa TAX ON ALCOHOL
for use in the arts, Great Britain and
Germany had had that principle in their
taxing systems for many years and
found no difficulty in preventing frauds
in that connection. Coming to the sugar
question, Mr.. Allison said that even
with the proposed reduction of so per
cent the duty would remain at IL per
cent ad valOrem. He believed that suf-
ticient encouragement for the produc-
ton of sugar from sorghum or beets was
left in this protection. The effect of the
house bill in regard to the sugar
schedule, he said, would be to legislate
S6,000,000 year, or II per cent on their
capital, into the pockets of the sugar
trust. The effect of the proposed add
in HntX m rf cd nj "A
not be much felt, as they were luxury.
As to the schedule of ''provisions, he
said the senate bill proposed specific
duties as far as possible. The COM
mittee was considering a rate on i'm
ported eggs. The committee had sub
Stituted specific for adj valOrem duties
on silk and silk goods, following the
recommendation of Secretary Manning,
This, he thought, would increase some
what the duty on silk. In conclusion
Mr.. Allison said that the senate bill
was
DISTINCT MEASURE OF PROTECTION
to American industries; while the house
bill was long step in the direction of
what was known AS free trade. Mr..
Vance. member of the minority of the
finance committee, took the floor. He
said that the government of the United
States had entered into a partnership
with the manufacturers of the United
States at the close of the war to estab-
lish an unhOly and Ubiquitous system of
taxation upon the many for the benefit
of the few. The house bill made total
reduction of S7S.000,000. How did the
senate substitute divide its reduction of
duties? 1t took dollars from the gov
eminent for every dollar it took from
thn mannfa Mr. NanOn
ued at some length to argue that the
senate bill was framed in the interest
of the favored classes. He said that if
Henry Clay were alive he would de-
nOunce the senate bill most bitterly. 1t
was nOnsenSical, he said, to hold that
high tariff meant high wages. If it did.
wages would not differ IN every state of
the Union. He denied that the manu-
facturers furnished home market for
the farmer, and said that
THE DECAY OF AGRICULTURE
was most noticeable in manufacturing
districts. He accused the Republican
party of thwarting the efforts of the
Democratic party to reduce taxes. They
would have the president pay pre-
MUM of 80 per cent 10 their friends, the
bond holders to reduce the surplus, he
said, but the president did not choose
to do it. Nobody would be deceived by
the charge that the Democratic house
was responsible for the delay in sending
a measure to the senate, for it was we'll
known that the Republicans of the
house had resisted every step in that
direction, and the Democrats who had
helped them to defeat the efforts of the
Democratic party had been landed to
the skies. In conclusion he said that
the house bill had been framed to
relieve the people and the senate bill to
relieve the treasury. To correct a
statement of Mr.. Vance, Mr.. Aldrich
said that the bill did not recommend
that opium be added to the free list. but
prohibited its importation. Mr.. His
cock took the floor, and the bill was
then laid over until tomorrow. After a
hrIef secret session the senate at 80