Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-01-16
Great on ALTERATION.
Vests Peculiar Series of Tariff
Bill Amendments.
DEBATING THE SALT OF THE EARTH.

Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion Re-
vived In an Exchange of Banter in the
Senate - Cowles on Internal Revenue
R-peai-Major Warner on the Soldiers
Census-A Couple More ocean Terrors-
Wants Garden Sass" Taxed-Ingalls
Receives an Executive Invite.
WASHINGTON CITY, jan l6-Vest grew
Alternative during Mondays session of the
senate and fired a whole volley of that sort
of amendments at the tariff bill, all of VII III
were promptly rejected When Allison sug-
gested that Vest was unnecessarily consum-
ing time, and that he had better put his
amendments into bulk, the latter said he
was not taking advice from a man whose
position he knew SO well He wished to put
these questions in authentic shape before the
senate and country.
A few OF his amendments were as follows:
Strike out of the free list "bergamont oil"
and insert "brcks;" strike out "cvet oils"
and insert "staves of wood of all kinds ~
strike out Lavender oil" and insert "laths :"
strike out coil of peroli" and insert needles {"
Some OF them were not alternative, as
strike out "attar of roses" and insert Salt
and this was the amendment pending when
the senate took up the bill yesterday, and
Vest Immediately opened the fight by quot
ing speech by Hale in 1871 in favor of a
bill! putting salt on the free list, and read the
names of Dav IS, Hawley and Hoar as vot-
ing for the bill. He quoted Thomas H. Ben
ton on the salt question, and Morrill, asked
II he had come across passage in Bentons
book in which be said that he had almost
become free trader, but that when he came
to the subject of putting duty on lead. he
hnh prISa m
cent upon it because Missouri was its
chief producer) and had carried it,
Vest said that he remembered it and that
it, as much as anything, had brought about
Mr.. Bentou's political downfall
Palmer opposed the amendment He said
the effect of protecting the home salt in
dustry had been to make the price of for
eign salt come down third in fifteen
years He also defended the Saginaw as
ISOLATION, which ' est called trust The
practical result Of the creation of the Michi.
gan salt trust, he said had been to diminish
the price of salt. Plumb said that the de-
velopment Of the salt industry in Kansas
had reduced the price of salt 20 per cent in
twelve months
Vest said that the president had gone too
Tar In saying that every cent of the duty is
added to tue cost to the consumer, but he
thought the imposition of the tariff duty
affected the cost to the consumer, always
mod fed by the amount of production in tn e
United States
In the course of the discussion the result
OF the election in the state of New York
came up.
Butler reminded Hiscock that although the
result was against Cleveland it was in favor
of Hill.
"Oh, yes" said Hiscock, wherever rum
was on the banner Democracy was success
full"
Had 'Romanism' nothing to do with it, -
Butler asked, cor 'Rebellionfn
"Mr Hill" said Hscock, under the ban
ner of rum carried the sta e. and Harrison
under the banner OF protection carried it !"
did not Governor Hill indorse the Mills
bil!F Butler asked.
Governor Hil," Hiscock replied, ais to
have no voice on tue Mills bill He is to
confne himself to the question of license
high license, low license, or no license
Butier-Did not the Chicago convention
indorse free whiskys
Hiscock-It did not | ask The senator
from South Carolina If he is not quite re adv
TO repeal the internal revenue tax on whisky.
whether protection goes or not
Butler-l would retain the tax on whisky.
Hoar, in reply to Butler, submitted fig
ures to show that the average value of
farming lands in Massachusetts was S43 an
acre, as against 81 an acre in South Caro-
lima. As to mort cages on farms in Massa
chusetts he said that the existence of such
mortgages was sign OF life and health.