Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-07-18
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Probably the Last Day of
 Tariff in the House.
TO BE DECIDED ON SATURDAY.

Several Internal Revenue Amendments Rejected Senators Busy Discussing Many Important subjects-The Work mems Eight Hour Law Passed.
 WASHINGTON, July 1s-The house nearly finished consideration of the tariff bill yester- day. Only few paragraphs that have been passed over informally remain to be consid- cred, and these will be taken up and very probably finished to-day.
 Mir. Mills says he will call the previous question on the passage of the bill at 11:SO Saturday morning.
 Amendments proposing to repeal the inter- nal revenue tax on cigars, cheroots and cigarettes, and to repeal all internal revenue taxes were proposed and quickly rejected. An amendment proposed by Mir. Sowden, of Pennsylvania, to abolish the tax on fruit spirit was finally rejected. MT. Brewer, of Michigan, presented let ter from womans temperance union of Michigan favoring the abolition of the tax on spirits.
 MT. McMillan quoted from Mir. Blaine's Paris letter, where he opposes the repeal of the whisky tax, and says repeating the tax would cheapen and increase the consumption of whisky
  this saying that the tax on the average drink taken in the leading saloons ranged from one-eighth to fve-eighths of a cent, and he did not believe any man victim of alcohol ism would be restrained by the moral infiu- ence of so slight 8 tax on drink of whisky. i Mir. Wilson, of Minnesota, criticised the Republican national platform for favoring the removal of the tax from whisky and brandy rather than from blankets.
 Mir. Millken, of Maine, said the party in its platform only declared that rather than have free trade and cheap labor to destroy the industries of the country it would repeal internal revenue taxes
 MT. Perkins, of Kansas, denied that the Republican party favored freq whisky.
 MT. Wilson suggested that the Republican party got drunk at Chicago over the Oregon election, and that its platform was the result of Dutch courage. When that courage evaporated they came back and said the platform did not mean what in black and white it did mean on the record.
 An amendment proposing to tax wholesale dealers i'll oleomargarine $10 and retail deal CTS $5 was rejected.
 Mr. Adams, of Illinois, criticised the in ternal revenue provision of the bill which abolishes the minimum punishment for vio- lations of the law, holding tbat it was in. tended to make such violations easier.
 MT. Cox, of New York, denied that the Mills bill, with its per cent. reduction on duties, looked toward free trade.
 MT. Milliken pointed to the fact that the bill placed fifty-thrse articles on the free list which were produced north of Mason and Dixon's line, while it maintained an average duty of 75 per cent. on southern products,
 Mir Butterworth moved to strike out the I DroviSiOo a alIoyyiuc tha atar-y of ho ury at his discretion to permit distilleries mashing less than twenty-five bushels ot grain day to operate without storekeepers and gaugers
 MT. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, regarded the administrative provisions of tho bill bearing on the collection of internal revenue taxes as a we'll devised plan for relieving moonshiners from responsibility.
 Mir. Butterworths motion was lost-yeas 79; nays, 96.
 MT. Hit, of Illinois, offered an amendment reducing the bonded period for whisky to one year. Rejected.
 MT. Lawler, of Illinois, offered an amend ment to abolish the oleomargarine tax Re jected.
 When the last section of the bill was passed upon, on motion of Mir. Bynum, of Indiana Oct. 1, 1888, was fixed as the date upoI which the bill shall go into effect.
 The feature of yesterdays proceedings il the senate was the passage of the governmen workmen's eight hour law.
 MT. Teller, who obtained the floor Monda, for @ speech on the fisheries treaty, said h. was not we'll enough sto proceed, but hope. to be to-day.
 The bill to place John c. Fremont on tn retired list of the army as & major genera was taken up and passed , On motion of Mir. Plumb the senate re ceded from its subsidy amendment to tn postoffice appropriation bill.
 Consideration of the bill to provide for tn adjustment of claims of government work men, under the eight hour law of 1868, an which provides for settlement of sue , claims for overwork done since the passag s of the law and making eight hours a ful , days work, was then resumed f Mir. Reagan opposed the bill as one in th interest of few laboring men at the ez pense of many laboring men, brought fol ward with the view of catching votes. was small step in the direction of clas legislation, and he hoped it would not pass S Mir. Stewart supported it, and offes'ed a e amendment prohibiting any officer of tt , government from making contracts whereb any workman shall labor more than eigl - hours day, except in special emergencies. e MT. Dawes moved to amend the bill by il serting the words: "Whether engaged { a price per day or on piece work or tas work" Adopted. The pill was then passet :, yeas, 25 nays, 22.