Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-06
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The Senate Tinkers at the
Tariff Bill.
NEW MEASURES IN THE HOUSE.
gandever Introduces a Bill for the
Division of California.
Notes.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.

w ASHlNGION, DcCcIuUoT Oil tut
Senate to-day Vest offered resolution
continuing the existence of the Selec
Committee on the question touching the
meat products of the United States, espe
cially as to its transportation, with leave
to sit during the session and through the
next recess. Referred to Committee OF
Contingent Expenses.
Dawes offered a resolution (agreed to-
calling on the Secretary of the Interior
for information as to the alleged outrages
and restraint of liberty committed in AL
aska on Indian females and other per
sons, and what steps, if any, had beer
taken by the department to protect the
persons of females in Alsska from such
outrages.
Hoar offered resolution (referred to
Committee on Contingent Expenses
continuing the select committee on rela-
tions with Canada, with power to sit
during the recess and report at the De-
cember session of 1889.
Plumb offered a resolution (agreed to-
instructing the Committee on Epidemic
Diseases to inquire as to the causes OF
introduction of yellow fever into Florida
during the past season and what legisla-
tion, if any, is necessary to prevent a
similar introduction of yellow fever.
At II 80 the Senate proceeded to the
consideration of the Tariff bill.
Harris-In order to test the sense of
the Senate as to whether the principle
indicated by the House bill, which, as l
understand it, proposes to reduce the
revenue by reducing taxation, shah pre-
vail, or whether the principle on which
the substitute proceeds, that of reducing
the revenue by, to some extent at least,
increasing taxation shall prevail, l move
to lay the amendment on the table, and
ask for the yeas and nays.
The motion was rejected, yeas 19, nays
26; strictly party vote.
The Clerk then proceeded with the
reading of the substitute for amend
mants.
Vance moved an amendment to
the tobacco section, reducing the limit
OF a claim tor rebate, from $40 to So.
The next subject, commencing at Sec
tion and ending with Section II, was
that of alcohol in the industrial arts. No
amendment was offered, but Sherman
said he had very grave doubts as to the
practicability Of applying these sections
without encouraging fraud. He would
reserve the right to offer one or two
amendments to some of the details.
Harris gave notice that he would also
have some amendments to offer to the
internal revenue sections.
Various amendments to the internal
revenue sections were offered by Vance
and all rejected.
At 2 O'Clock the Union Pacific Settle
ment bill came up as unfinished busi-
ness and was postponed as special
order till Wednesday next.
Consideration of the Tariff bill was
then resumed.
Vance offered another amendment,
which was agreed to without dissent. 1t
provides that when the health or life OF
a prisoner, under the internal revenue
LAVISH endangered by close confinement
the Judge may issue an order providing
for such prisoners reasonable comfort
and wellbeing.
Then came Section II, which deals
with duties upon imports, beginning with
Schedule A, Chemical Products"
Mcpherson called attention to the
facts that the rates of duty reported for
chemical products, make no allowance
for the remittance of the tax on spirits
used in medicines. This remission
would, he said, simply operate as an ad-
ditional bounty to the manufacturers of
chemical products. No member of
the Finance Committee would deny
that there would be great frauds
on the revenue under the pro-
visions for free alcohol in the arts and
manufactures. He therefore regarded
those provisions as the first step toward
the total abrogation of the whisky tax.
He was unalterably opposed to such leg
islation or to any remission OF the tax on
spirits, and to any system which offered
premium on fraud, and this bill virtu-
ally did that.
Allison denied that the proposed legis-
lation was step in the elimination OF
the tax on distilled spirits.
The discussion then took political
turn. A vote was finally taken on a mo-
ton made by Mcpherson, to strike out
all sections as to alcohol used in manu-
factures, and it was rejected; yeas II,
nays "a.
Sherman voted with the other Repub-
Iicans in the negative.
After disposing of thirty pages of the
bill, and reaching the end of Schedule A
(no amendment being ofered), the SEN
ate proceeded to executive business and
soon adjourned.
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
vandever Wants 10 Make California