Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-12-11
MORE TARIFF BILL VOTES.
Amendments and a Postpone
 ment Defeated.
SHERMAN STATES HIS POSITION.

Several Changes, Concludes That the Democrats Might as We'll Give Up-rlre Bin win be Pushed to a Final Vote. WASHINGTON. Dec. 1.-The senate re- snmed consideration of the tariff bill. MT. | Harris te .porarily withdrew his amend snent to reduce the dn'v on structural iron | and steel. and Er Mcpherson moved to | amend tn, parngra',h relating to pig iron So as to make tlc rate SG 8 ;ol instead Of S-lo cents pornl The an,>,sd n mt wr,s re ec:ed, after brief arguuaut ' SI". rh wSon an MT. Allison, by psa'tv r9ia" 2a 90 22. By tist sam, vhto another amendment of Mir. MrPhatso,,, making the rate on iron bars. !i! ,n,ns '.ilets, in which charcoal is usel as 5r,.l so DOT ton instead Of S22 ton, was T. te,'. anl amendment proposed by him l,,ak n the tariff Oil cast iron pipe S-10 cents. instead of 9-l0 cents pound. was rejected by n vote of 10 to 24.
 Several other amendments proposed by Democratic senators having been rejected, Mir. McPherscn said that the Democratic party might as well cease its opposition. Re ferring to the statements in the daily papers that Democratic senators had been remiss in opposing the substitute and exposing its weak points, he said that the Democratic
 
 no opportunity to examine the substitute be- fore it was reported to the senate, and that they were not familiar with it, He believed, however, th;lt if it was adopted that it would bankrupt the country in five years He novel to rostpoue consideration of the bill until Jpf. l0.
 Mir Dawes wanted to know if the senator did not think disaster might come to the country from the surplus in the meantime
 MT MrPhtrson replied that better progress cou1d b. made if time was given senators on his sile to become familiar with the bill.
 Mir. Dawes-Then the senator's motion is for the purposes of education?
 Mr. MePherson-Yes This has been an educational campaign all the way through Uaughter.l
 At the suggestion of MT. Harris, Mr. Mo Pherson withdrew his motion for postpone ment, at which there was some laughter on the Republican side.
 MT. Harris renewed his amendment to re- duce the duty on beams, girders, joists, angles, etc, from 1 1-10 cents a pound to 8-1O cents. He spoke of MT. Carnegie's profit on 30, 900 tons of steel beams, manufactured in one year, as over S1,O0O, ,OOO, and de- scribed the steel trust in this country as one tshoary with age" How long, he asked, was that trust to exista
 MT. Sherman desired to state, once for al, the grounds of his several votes on the bill, because it was neither a matter of pleasure for the senate nor a matter of public utility to waste time in repeating over and over again the same argument on different clauses of the bill. Undoubtedly the Mills bill rep resented the general sentiment of the Demo cratic party, while the senate substitute had been carriei before the people of the United States and there de bated, advocated and sup ported The one bill looked to tariff for revenue only; the other to tariff for pro- tection.
 The paragraph proposed to the amendment included great variety of articles, some of which could be produced in this country for $40 or $50 ton, while others could not be produced for less than $70 ton. If it were possible to make discrimination in the duty on these articles it should be done; but it was Impossible without recurring to the ad valorem principle, and experience was not favorable to that principle in imposing duties on iron and steel The 1-10 cents per pound might be a little too high on some articles but it had been fixed upon by the finance committee as fair average rate
 As to Mir. Carnegie's monopoly he (Sher znan) knew nothing about it, except that Mir Carnegie had been the first in this country to apply the continuous process in the manu fracture of steel beams. MT. Carnegie, hs udu pdtSuIS WHICH COuIQ not D{ taken away from him, but they would soor expire.
 The time was not far distant when al structural forms of steel and iron would b, multiplied to an amazing extent and would be produced cheaper and cheaper by tn, inducements to manufacturers to enter int the business. That was one of the objects O the proposed rate of duty. He thought i better to sustain the finance committee in it classification than to changes the rate blindly and at haphazard-
 In regard to trusts, he looked upon then as one of the most dangerous and subtle in ventions of man, and was in favor of break ing them up. They were contrary to tn spirit of the common law of England; bu the only way, he thought, to break then down was by inviting competitor.
 The senator from Tennessee had made motion, some days since, to lay the senate sub stitute on the table, and that motion had bee rejected by the senate, the vote being an eS precision of opinion that the substitute was better bill than the house bill The principl having been thus determined, he thought better to leave the details of the bill to tn committee which framed it, unless there wa some palpable error which ought to be col rected. He asked his Democratic friends t abide by the judgment of the people on th question. That judgment had been in favo of protection to American industry.
 At the conclusion of MT. Sherman's remark the senate adjourned.
 CAPITAL NOTES.
 Mir Chinman introducad in @ba honsa