Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-06-03
WASHINGTON.
The Lumber Tariff Further
Discussed.
GENERAL sHERIDAN's CONDITION
Doing Finely and May Battle the
Grim Destroyer Cap
ital Notes.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD. /

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WASHINGTON, June 2.-The House
this morning passed the Agricultural APP
preparation Bill, after which it went into
Committee of the Whole on the Tariff
Bill.
The amendment under consideration
was to strike from the free list timber
hewn and sawed, and timber used for
spars and wharves.
Randall said it should be the object Of
the House to fix the tariff at a rate just
high enough to cover the differences in
the wages Of lumbermen in this country
and Canada, and he hoped they would
be fixed as in his bill, at 15 per cent ad
volorem.
Boothman Of California, favored the
adoption of the amendment, believing
that free lumber meant idle workmen in
this country. II the lumbermen were
thrown out Of employment they had only
agriculture to turn to, and that field was
already glutted
A division was then had on Struble's
amendment and it was rejected yeas 66,
nays 1901
Randall then moved to strike out the
paragraph and insert, Climber not fur
Their manufactured than hewn, squared
and sided - but this amendment was re-
jected without division and the second
paragraph of the bill, timber squared
and sided," was read.
Taulbee, of Kentucky, moved to strike
out the paragraph.
Burrows read statements to show the
importance Of the lumber industry, which
it was, he said, proposed to strike down.
He said SOC, 900, 900 we're paid the labor
ers in this industry, the third largest in
the country, in one year.
Cox, of New York, said these men
were almost all millionaires; men who
had made the forests of Michigan almost
calcined desolation. On this point he
was protectionist. He wanted to pro-
tect the forests of the United States from
the axe.
The Committee then rose and an at
tempt was made to limit the debate to
ten minutes, but the Republicans re.
fused to vote, leaving the House without
quorum. Finally a compromise was
reached on forty-minute debates and the
House again went into committee of the
whole.
Finally the debate on the pending par
agraph expired, and the amendment to
strike it out was rejected yeas 81, nays
101.
The third paragraph in the bill, "wood,
unmanufactured, not specially enumer-
ated or provided for" was then read and
taken up for consideration.
Bayne, OF Pennsylvania, moved to
~.
Committee rose, leaving Bayne's amend
ment pending, and the House adjourned.
HOMELESS INDIANS.
The Speaker to-day laid before the
House communication from the Secre-
tary Of the Interior containing a request
from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs
that the band of Greek Indians now To-
Gated at Fort Assinaboine, Montana, be
allowed to come to the Fort Belknap
agency, Montana, for settlement. In
October, 1885, information was received
there that these Indians, numbering
1877, had crossed the international
boundary line and were located
near the Fort Belknap agency. They
had in their possession property, the
character of which clearly indicated that
they had been engaged in the Riel re-
bellion. Application was made to the
Department of State for their return, but
it was not granted. The commanding
officer in his report urged some dispose
ton to be made of these In
dams, and the Secretary saws
he thinks Congressional action should
be taken without delay to enable
the department to deal with the pro-
blem. He especially suggested that
authority be granted to place these In
dams on the lands of some of our
Indians, if they are willing to receive
them if not, to set apart small reserv-
alton for their benefit. He recommends
a 1000 appropriation to be used to re-
lieve any restitution which may exist
among them during the next fiscal year.
CAPITAL NOTES.
A postoffice has been established at
Pacoima, Los Angeles county, California,
with A. E. Bird, as postmaster.
r. W. Kerr, employed in the War De-
partment, testified in the Printing Office
investigation that he took up a contribu-
ton in the Government Printing Office
in 1882 for Jay Hubbell, of the Congress
sional Committee. He said the contri-
buttons were entirely voluntary. He
could not say how much had been col
lected.
Representative wilkins from the Com
mittee on Banking and Currency, to-day
reported to the House substitute for the
bill introduced by him to revise and cod
ify the banking laws Of the United States.
The substitute contains the views ex-
pressed by the Controller Of the Currency
before the committee.