The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-07-04
Four Pages Of Mills
Bill Discussed.
Reduction Of Earope's Vast
Armies Proposed.
The Pope Meets Reverscs In Ire.
land and Italy.
The OsDonaeii-.sTime~- Case Not
Promising far the riainsI9-rhe
Cincinnati Expeslsfsa aJasii~e-rAe
sa<sg<rf<ss-siespy C<iser.sisa D.
Perslasa.

WAsusSsrox, July 2-The house
non-coneurrrd in the senate amend
raens app-opristiag Sssfl10 in the
rosfofsice half 20 provide more sffectnal
nsasl service hsntNeen the | uitesl States
and South and Central America and
the West Indies.
On motion oi Mills. OF Texas. twas
ordered that when the hcase ailcerns
! today. il be to meet THURSDAY.
IL was also agreed that the tariff tsiii
would mol be called up for coasisera-
ton Thursday.
The house then went into committee
Of the whole, Springer. oi Illinois. in
the chair. on the tariff hill. Na motion
of Mcmillan, OF Tennessee. the daty
on cast polished Plate glass, unsilycred.
was LETT unchanged.
Mckinley os Ohio moved 20
Increase from 81 te So - per
ton the duty on pig iroa- lie ex-
rsiaincd that the prsse:as rate was 81 -
per ton. and the proposed reduction
would he very injurious upon the pig
iron industry iaast-seas -. nays q.
Mckinley then moved TO restore the
present rate OF duty on sroa railway
bars weighing more than 30 pounds sa
the yard Lost.
Mcmillan moved 10 strike cut the
clause imposing duty OF sii ton on
slabs and hslless OF steel aud restore
the present rate of ~ Per cent. ass
yalorem. Bayne Of Pennsylvania OPP
posed the motion The present dnfy
waS equivalent to s. ton. which he
thought was not sufficiently high.
Mossiit moved u increase from so
10 $40 ,ser ton charcoal bloom iron.
Lost
McKiniey moved to restore the ex-
ist;nc rates ON har iron. Tlis WAS adj
yocats.i by Burrows. Of MICHIGAN.
Bayne. OF Pennsylvania, supporting.
expressed himself disposed 10 3 re-
atsefion 81 the tariff and in favor al re-
peal of the tobacco tax and the tax on
alcohol used in the arts. This he
thought would reduce the Surplus a
far as X should he reduced. ii the
government iatensled 20 do justice
10 the widows and children of tise sol
,lSer< OF the war. lie favored the
tariff because il provides a home mar
kst. and said the two tickets before
the country today represented the
two idea: the Republican ticket that
the American niarke; should he for
Americans. ard the other that the
American markets should he opened to
the hole world.
scott. os Penn sysyania, charged the
Republican party with having deserted
il. platform os i>>& for revision OF the
tariff. and going before the country in
isss asking the people for their sGf-
fraees on a principle which il never
l.rfore advocated, under the cry OF
" An American market for Americans,
protection for American industries
and labor The Repahlisssn party
proposed - carry on 4 tariff system
Ia this country which would protest
Is go Gao wage workers as against
10000 wage workers
Reed, of Maine. expressed delight at
seeing the gentleman from Feansyl-
yania come back from his other occu-
nations 10 attend to his occupation
and business as member Of congress.
Had the gentleman been present he
would have known the questions had
been discussed and the house was per
feeily acquainted with them. he
gentleman based bis remarks OF the
idea ;hst Americans were producers.
and il was 10 the benefit of Americans
who were consumers that consumers
wf, we're also Americans should have
an American market lie said ifD,tso
lnAorer@ had been thrown out OF work
during the past week. and in what
classes Why, in the protected indus
tr.es. which the Republicans de-
frad. These iafsorcTS hzYe been
driven aut hecAuae their emf .oyeFs
had attempted to make a 10 pr cent
reduction In their wageS Why should
the manufacturers OF Pennsylvania
demand that their men submit 10
this reduction Was there any change
in their conGisieu Had any tariff
hsI passed the hol.e that could posi-
i.ls affect the wages Of these fieu
Was there not Republican senAte2
After the debate had run fer some
time Bland, OF Maine, appealed fsF
n1o-e rapid progress, ba; his appeals
proved In vain. and an hours discus
sion ran on.
Finally Mr.. MeKinley's motion was
host gs - IS.
MIR. Sowsecl. 81 Pennsyivenia, usove,I
20 TX The duty on iron rssls weighing
not over $ pounds 81 SI7.a2 Ter tpn
and on iron or steel rails, or nat rails.
Loss
On motion u Mr. Breckenridee, OF
srsansas. q daty OF <i$ 10 per ton We
inaEsss e4i on steel nr iroa longitudinal
r;tss for the manufacture * istscing
Having Completed the con sisisFstlo,l
Of four psges % TIE Ai,l, the committee
ross. 4 conference was ordered va
the river an,i hsFtspr appropriation la.
and the house a3jouraei til Thurs