Morning journal and courier., 1888-07-19
Fiftieth Congress--First Session.
WASHINGTON. July |

HoUsE.-The House went into committee of the whole on the tariff bill. On motion of MT. Tracy, of New York, primuline WAS stricken from the free list.
 The first paragraph which had been passed over informally (that placing cotton ties or hoops on the free list) was then considered. After some discussion Mr. McShane, of Ne- braska, offered an amendment placing on the free list all iron and steel hoops not thinner than No. 20 wire gauge. Agreed to, 80 to II.
 On motion of Mr. Mills, the existing rates of duty were restored on cement and whiting and paris white. The duty on paris green was, on motion of Mir. Breckenridge of lorem.
 The pottery schedule, which has been passed oyer, was then taken up for consider ation. On motion of Mr. Bynum, of Indi- ana, the duty on china, porcelain, earthen stone or crockery ware was increased from E5 to 50 per cent. ad valorem. MT. Buchanan, of New Jersey, offered an amendment strik- ing out the schedule and inserting the sched- ule in the existing law. Rejected.
 The next paragraph called up was that re- lating Co green and colored glass bottles. MT. Breckenridge moved to make the duty one cent instead of three-quarters of 8 cent per pound. MT. Guenther, of Wisconsin, upbraided the committee for inconsistency in first placing the duty on this class of
 
 three-quarters of @ cent. He wanted an explanation of this change of heart. MT. Mills replied that the committee had left the rate as it had been fixed by the Re- publicans in the act of 1883. MT. Brecken- ridge's amendment was adeptsd.
 He also offered other committee amend ments striking out the flint and lime glass bottle paragraph; raising the dutie7 on cyl finder and crown glass polished, not above A by 60 inches, from 15- to 20 cents per square foot, and above that size from 25 to 30 cents on unpublished cylinder and com mon window glass sixteen by fifteen inches from one cent to one andthree-eighths cent per pound. On sizes not exceeding sixtcon by twenty -four inches from one and one quarter cents to one and fve-eighths cents. On s;zes not exceeding twenty-four by thirty inches from one and one-half to two cents. Sizes above that from one and throc-que-ters to two and one-ha1f cents.
 MT. Reed asked for an explanation of the changes proposed, to which question Mr. Breckenridge replied that the gentleman did net represent the consumer. Mir. Reed said that it was part and parcel of the fallacy which had governed the whole bill that enc side of the chamber represented the consuna- CT. He denied this emphatically and main tained that all producers were also neceesar.- ly consumers He charged that the other side, instead of being animated by any real desire to reduce taxation, were animated by political motives and that the gentleman from Arkanses should have manhood enough to acknowledge it.
 Mir. Breckenridge's amendments were agreed to.
 MT. Mills moved to str.ke out the clause fixing the rate of duty on tobe, e,co at thirty five cents per pound, thus restoring the pres ent duty.
 Mir. La Toilette spoke for five minutes up- on the motion and desired a fur5her five minutes, but this MT. Mills declined to yield and upon his motion the committee rose for the purpose of limiting debate. MT. Mills moved that debate on the pending para graph be limited to one minute, and the Re. publicans being again refused five minutes declined to vote, leaving the Hoess without a quorum.
 Adjourned.