, 1888-12-20
MARTYRS TO DUTY.
The Senate Actually Disposes of
Three Pages Of Tariff.
ANENT THE IsTHMus OF DARIEN
In the House but Little Executing n Re.
fusal TO Consider the Pension
Bilt IN Done.

/ WASHINGTON, Dec. l9.--The bill to in.
corporate the American Historical Associ.
| alton passed. Edmupds introduced and
| had referred to the committee on foreign
relations, the following:
Resolved, That the government of the
| United States will look with serious con-
cern and disapproval upon any connection
of any European govern ment with the con.
struction' or control of any ship canal
across the lsthmus of Darien, or across
! Central America, and must regard any
such connection or control ia injurious te
1 the Just rights and interests of tue United
| States. and as n menace to their welfare.
! Resolved. That the president of the
[ United States be requested to communi-
cate this expression of the views of con.
gress TO the governments OF the countries
of Europe. The senate theu resumed con-
sideratlon of the tariff bill.
Reagan called attention to the para
graph fixing the duty on lead ore aud
lead dross at u cents a pound. with the
proviso that lead ore containing silver or
silver ore containing lead shall pay duty
of cents per pound. He referred TO it
in connection with ores from Mexico, and
said the adoption of the proviso would
break up the smelling establishments in
+ Paso, He novel to strike out the pro-
viso.
Allison said that the finance committee
believed that lead introduced in connec-
tion with silver ore ought to pay the same
duty IA other lead did. He did not see
why lead contained In silver ore should
be exempted from duty. Teller approved
the proviso.
Stewart also argued in favor of the pro.
viso. The miners of the West, he said,
felt much interest in the matter as with
Mexican ores eyading duty. lead extracted
from silver ore in this country could not
be got rid of at prices above the cost of
transportation.
Teller said that he was informed that
the importation of Mexican lead ores this
year would reach $4,000 tons, and that
would mean the closing up Of the silver
mines in Colorado, Nevada, Utah and
Idaho, and in every common lead mine in
the United States. Miners in the West
received the largest wages paid In the
world and twice as much as was paid for
common labor in any other part of the
United States. There was no complaint
as to the price of lead in this country, the
production being about equal to the con.
sumption. This was II matter of special
interest to the mining regions of this
! country. and the striking out of the pro-
viso would be blow at them.
Reagan agreed that the cost of trans
portation from the Mexican boundary to
| the smelling works in the United States
would exclude ore that did not contain
large amount of silver. He did not think,
therefore. that there was any danger to
the interests of American miners in per-
hitting the law 10 stand az it is.
Coke supported his colleagues amend
ment.
/ Reagan's amendment was rejected
I Yeas IL, Days23.
Regain then novedto amend 10y making
the duty on lead ore and lead dross u cents
per pound instead of Is cents. Rejected
The clerk then read paragraph III, tax
ing lead in pigs and bars cents per
pound
Voorhees, then took the floor and made a
long speech upon the general subject of
the tariff, and particularly the pending
bill. In the course Of his speech he sharply
criticised various sections of the bill and
said the panacea proposed in it for all the
evils it embraced was free whiskey and to-
bacco. A close inspection of the whole
preposterous measure disclosed its con-
sistent and coherent character as fraud
on the taxpaying people of the United
States, brought forward at the behest of
the insatiate nonopoists, dishonest com
panies and arrogant trusts. As to the
idea OF the farmer having benefited by the
proposed substitute he declared the victim
OF bunco steerer was not more sure to
lose or more helpless to obtain fair
play than the farmer mas to struggle in
the tolls and meshes of the republican
tariff legislation.
Hawley said it was amazing to reflect.
after all that the senator had said about
the great evils of the tariff, that the
democracy had not, during the last
twenty.six years, passed tariff bill
through congress and none through it's
own house of representatives until last
July.
After debate vote was taken on
Nance's amendment, and it was rejected.
Yes lS, nays %.
Several amendments were offered and
rejected as the reading continued. On
reaching paragraph 1893, relating to manu-
factured articles Or wares not especially
enumerated, Harris moved to amend by
adding a proviso that no article should
pay higher rate of duty than 80 per cent
ad valorem. Action deferred Schedu!s
ID, relating to wood and woodenwares and
to sugar, was passed over informally.
This brought the consideration of the bill
down to schedule F--tobacco cigars, etc !,
when it was laid aside. about three pages
of the bill having been actually disposed
of to-day. After an executive session the
senate adjourned. IN
| The House. %
The bill for the retirement of General
Andrew Smith with the rank of colonel of
cavalry passed. Blanchard, OF Louis ana
autagonized the special order with the
river and harbor bill, and raised the uues-