Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-04
THE HOUSE.

THE HOUSE.
Amending the Iron Clauses of the
Tariff Bill.
WASHINGTON, July 3.-The House to-
day non concurred in the Senate amend.
ment appropriating 100000 in the Post
Office bill to provide more efficient mail
service between the United States and
South and Central America and the West
Indies.
On motion OF Mills, Of Texas, it was
ordered that when the House adjourned
to-day it be to meet Thursday next. II
was also agreed that the Tariff bill would
not be called up for consideration Thurs.
day. The House then went into Com.
mittee of the Whole, Springer, of Illinois,
in the Chair on the Tariff bill.
On motion of Mcmillan, of Tennessee
the duty on cast polished plate glass was
left unchanged.
Mckinley, OF Ohio, moved to increase
from Sc to &c. 72 per ton, the duty of pig
iron. He explained that the present
rate of duty was $6.72 per ton, and the
proposed reduction would be very injuri-
GUS upon the iron industry. The motion
was lost. Mckinley then moved to re-
store present rate of duty on iron railway
bars weighing more than twenty-five
pounds to the yard. Lost.
Mcmillan, of Tennessee, moved to
strike out the clause imposing duty oi
$11 a ton on slabs and billets OF steel,
and restore the present rate of forty-five
per cent. ad ualorem.
Bayne, of Pennsylvania, opposed the
motion. The present duty was equiva-
lent to $S ton, which he thought was
not sufficiently high when compared with
other articles on the iron and steel
schedule. The motion was agreed to.
Moffit moved to increase from 500 to
$22 per ton, the duty on charcoal bloom
iron. Lost.
Mckinley moved to restore the exist
ing rates on bar iron, and the motion was
advocated by Barrows, of Michigan.
Bayne, OF Pennsylvania, also support.
ed the motion, and expressed himself
disposed to reduction of tariff and in
favor of the repeal of the tobacco tax,
and the tax on alcohol used in the arts.
This be thought would reduce the sur
plus, as far as it should be reduced, il
the Government intended to do Justice
to the widows and children of the sol.
diers of the war. He favored tariff, be.
cause it provided home market, and
said the two tickets before the country to.
day represented two ideas; the Repub-
lican ticket that the American markets
should be for Americans, and the other
that the American markets should be
open to the whole world.
Scott, of Pennsylvania, charged the
Republican party with having deserted
its platform OF 1884, for the revision OF
the tariff, and were going before the
people in 1888, asking for their suffrage
on a principle which it never before ad
vocated, under the cry of an American
market for Americans, and protection for
American industries and labor. The
Republican party proposes to carry on 9
tariff system in this country which would
protect fifteen hundred thousand wage
workers, as against sixteen million wage
workers.
Reed, of Maine, expressed delight at
seeing the gentleman from Pennsylvania
come back to his other occupation to at.
tend to his occasional business as
a member of Congress-. Had the gentle
man been present he would have known
these questions all had been discussed
and the House perfectly acquainted with
them. The gentleman based his re.
marks on the idea that the Americans
were producers and it was for the bene
fit Of the American people who were con-
sumers, that the producers who were
also Americans should have an American
market.
Scott said one million laborers haG
been thrown out of work during the pas
week, and in what classes? Why in the
protected industries which the Repub.
licans stood up to defend. These labor
ers had been driven out because thei
employers had attempted to make tel
per cent reduction in their wages. Why
should the manufacturers of Pennsyl
vania demand their men to submit tt
this reduction? Was there any chang
in the condition of the country? Hat
any tariff bill passed the House tha
could possibly affect the wages of thes'
men? Was not there Republican
Senate having the power to pigeon-hol'
such bill or keep it in committee for al
time?
After the debate had run for SOM
time Bland, of Missouri, appealed TO
more rapid progress, but Bland's appea
proved Intellectual and an hours discus
sion ran on.
Finally McKinley's motion was vote
down, Sc to so.
Sonden, OF Pennsylvania, moved to fl,
the duty on iron or steel rails, weighin
not over twenty-five pounds to the yard
at 1929 per ton, and on iron or stee
fiat rails, punched, $2O.76. Lost on me
ton Of Breckenridge, of Arkansas.
A duty Of 4-l0 per cent. was impose
on iron or steel fiat, with longitudins
ribs, for the manufacture OF fencing.
Having completed consideration
four pages of the bill the committee rose
A conference was ordered on the Rive
and Harbor appropriation bill and th
House adjourned till Thursday.
baseball.
CINCINNATI, July l3.-Gincinnati