The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-07
The Representatives in the
Hardware Line.
SUGAR AND NOLAssEs DEBATE
Beaten to Death-Ocean Steamer
Wrecked-BOiler Explosion
Paid the Penalty.
HOUSE.


on the bill to ratify the act creating tn
County of San Juan, New Mexico
Agreed to.
The regular order was then de
manded, being an aye and nay vote OF
the land grant forfeiture bill, which wa
passed forthwith.
The House then went into COMMITTEES
of the whole on the tariff bill, the pend.
ing paragraph being that relating t.
iron or steel railway fshplates, OF spike
bars.
Buchanan's motion to strike out the
parag Iaph was rejected.
The reading OF the bill then pro-
gresSsd rapidly. Motions made on the
Republica side to strike out many OF
the paragraphs being rejected, generally
without division, and with little debate.
Farquhar's amendment, increasing
and scaling the duties in proportion to
the size OF the files, prevailed Dy a vote
Of 81 to 81. Mills, however, demanded
tellers, and the amendment was re-
jected on motion of Vance of Connecti-
cut, With the assent Of Mills.
A paragraph imposing a duty of 80
),
stricken out, thus restoring the present
rate of duty.
Dubois, Of Idaho, opposed reduction
81 duty on lead ore, and quoted from
the leading Democratic paper of the
Territory, protesting against the reduc-
ton and declaring the Democratic party
OF Idaho was antagonistic to it. 1t
would have al injurious effect upon
silver mining, as in low grade mines
much reliance was placed upon the lead
which was mined in the process of silver
minin0s He offered an amendment re-
storing the existing duty, and provid-
ing a combination OF lead ore with gold
or silver shall not be exempt from duty
in lead ores
Perkins, of Kansas, sustained the
amendm, Mt, but it was lost by tie
vote, 81 10 ~.
Stone, Of Missouri, offered an amend
ment which, leaving OF duty on lead
ore as fixed by the bill, provides that
combination OF lead with silver IN ores
shall not be eXempu therein from duty.
He contends that il was unfair that
cargo of ores of which 81 per cent. was
lead and 20 per cent silver should be
compelled to pay dutI. while, if the
proportions Wsre reversed. il could be
free.
Reed, of Maine, referred to
the recent speech made by Mills in New
York, and said that the gentleman had
been receiving, in certain Democratic
papers, a goad deal Of praise for his
manly holiness in resisting his cOnstit- |
uents on the subject of wool, and he
hoped the gentleman would have |
strength and bravery enough and ayow |
TO the House what his position was |
Mills retorted, sharply attackinga ne
Republican party aud its plat
form. A discussion of political
nature between Mills, Reid and
Burrows, of Michigan, then continued.
Finally vote was ordered, and the
amendment read by Stone was rejected,
as was also one submitted by Wagner,
of Missouri, restoring the present rate
of duty on lead ores.
On motion of Mills, the clause was
stricken out which imposes a duty of
35 per cent. adj VGIOTcnl on penknives
and razors, thus restoring the present
rate.
On motion of Miller, clause was in
serted fixing the rate on new type for
printing al 16 per- cent Gd V0l0rsnl.
Sugar, molasses and confectionery
clauses being reached by agreement,
they were all considered together after
"a under3t ling had been reached
that vote should not be taken to-day.
Cannon, of Illinois, offered an amend
ment striking out all sugar and mo
lasses paragraphs and inserting a
clause fixing the duty as follows: Su
gar, not above No. 16 Dutch standard,
syrup, ETC., and all molasses testing
not above 56 degrees, not otherwise
provided for are to be exempt from duty,
In the event that no export duty is levied
by the country on expectation. Sugars, {
above No. 16, are to pay duty OF three {
tenths of per cent. Molasses, above {
Sc degrees, 2 cents per gallon. Maple l
sugar, 2 cents per pound. CrystaEZable |
sugar, containing maple syrup or mo-
lasses, cents per gallon. Glucose, 1
cent per pound. Sugar candy, not
eoIored, 5 cents per pound. All other con-
dictionary not enumerated, and sugars I
after being refined when tinCtured =
coIored, or adulterated and on all g
chocolate confectionery, 10 cents per !
pound, with similar provision against @
an export duty. 1t is also provided c
that to encourage domestic production,
there shall be paid q bounty to the
United States producers of sugar from
oeets, sorghum and other cane raised
n the United States as follows: On t
sugar 2 cents per pound, OF
;rySJaDZdDlS sugar contained JHeIelu, I
IN molasses and above 30 degrees, Y
S cents per gallon. Not above Sc de-
,rees, cents.
In supporting the amendment Can
ION alluded TO the frauds which had
crown up under the present law. and t.
the bill for perpetrating u
rauds. IL
Finston, of Kansas, suggested that
armer who produced sorghum would
lot be protected if sugar under No. 10
vas admitted free.
Cannon replied that the total produc- o
ion of sugar in the United States was a
bout 1000 900 pounds, nearly all II
made in Louisiana, and the production
vas decreasing. l..
In seventeen years, the value of sugar
inlo the United States WAS
zoe, 600 900. During these seventeen e
ears. the duty paid had amounted TO Il