Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-14
Rescinded in the House After ;
Lively Debate.
THE TARIFF BILL IN THE SENATE
American Ship Building Discussed
The Senate.

COUNTING THE VOTES FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE
PRESIDENT.
Mr.. Hoar introduced concurrent resolution
for the counting of the votes for President
and Vice-President, which was referred to the
committee on privileges and elections. 1t pro-
vides that the two houses of Congress shall as
semble in the hall of the House of Representa-
tives on Wednesday, 18th February next, at !
O'Clock in the afternoon; that the President
of the Senate shall be the
presiding officer; that two persons shall be
appointed tellers on the part of the Senate and
two on the part of the House to make a list of
the votes and to report the result to the Presi-
dent OF the Senate, who is to announce the
state OF the vote and persons elected, and that
that shall be deemed declaration of the per-
sons elected President and vice-President of
the United States, and shall be entered on the
journals of the two houses.
THE TARIFF BILL.
The Senate then proceeded to the eonsidera-
tion Of the tariff bill. and Mr.. Allison, Oh the
part of the finance committee, reported two
new sections which he proposed to offer as
amendments. They relate to a bounty on
sugar, and provide that until April 1900 there
shall be paid to the producer of sugar (testing
not less than 80 degrees by the polariscope)
from beets, sorghum, or sugar cane grown
| within the United States, bounty of one cent
per pound, under such rules and regulations as
the commissioner of internal revenue, with the
approval Of the Secretary of the Treasury,
shall prescribe. The bounty is to be paid an
nually from the duties collected on imported
sugar.
TO ENCOURAGE AMERICAN sHIPBUILDING.
The pending question was on the amend
ment offered by Mr.. Gray, last Saturday, to
section 2510 as to the admission of material,
free of duty, necessary for the construction
and equipment of vessels built in the United
States Tor foreign account and ownership, or
for the foreign trade-the amendment being to
| strike out of the section the words ''angles,
beams and bolts, and copper and composition
metal which may be necessary for the con-
struction and equipment of vessels" and to in
sert in lieu thereof the words "sheets, angles,
beams and bolts, deck and bulb beams, to-
gether with all structural shapes of iron or
| STEEL and copper and composition metal, forg-
1ngs of iron or STEEL castings of iron, steel
composition, iues and tubes of iron, steel or
composition, machinery and parts of machines,
| and all other articles of foreign production
necessary for the construction and equipment
of steamers or other vessels"
Mr.. Gray submitted some additional remarks
| in favor of the amendment
Mr.. Teller opposed the amendment and as
serted that MIR. Gray belonged to the class of
men who
WOULD HAVE ALL AMERICAN SHIPS BUILT
abroad because they could be built a little
in the United States, and who would thus close
| all the American ship-yards. But even if
American ship-owners could have their ships
built as cheaply as they were built abroad Mr.
Teller contended that they still could not COM
pete with English or Scandinavian vessels on
which such comparatively low wages were
paid.
Mr.. Salisbury advocated his colleagues
amendment. and replied to Mr.. Teller's argu-
ment.
MIR. Frye expressed his belief that. under the
law OF 1888, at least two-thirds of everything
going to the construction of iron ships was ad-
mitted free of duty; but, in modern ship build
ing, he said, many new names had sprung ND
representing portions Of the architecture of a
ship. 1t seemed to him that the finance COM
mittee might reasonably consent to an amend
ment to insert "sheets and other structural
shapes, together with castings and forgings of
iron, steel or composition" He did not be-
lieve that American ship builders would ever
import everything going into the construction
of ship.
THE BUILDING OF BIG IRON SHIPS.
Mr.. Hiscock-Why not?
Mr.. Frye-Because the building of a 1000
ton iron ship had to be driven at the greatest
possible rate of speed, and because the builder
would be compelled to make plans and specif-
cations for the entire ship from stem to stern.
And that is not practicable. l believe that
built in the United States for the foreign trade
in the last two years, and supposing that the
adoption OF this amendment would induce the
building of two ships next year, of materials
imported free of duty. would We have lost any
| thing?
Mr.. Aldrich-But suppose that twenty ships
were built entirely of free imported material
next year would we have gained anything2
Mr.. Frye-We would have broken up every
| ship-yard in the United States and
TRANSFERRED THE sHIp-BUnDINa BUSINESS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES;
and the country might as well be without con-
stitution as without ship-yard. There is no
doubt about that.
Mr.. Aldrich-The amendment offered by the
Senator from Maine would admit all materials
for iron or steel ships free of duty, while the
amendment offered by the Senator from Della
ware would also admit all the machinery and
boilers. So that the only thing to be done in
American ship-yards would be to assemble the
parts and put them together; but if the freight
on this material would amount Gas has been
said) to $4,000, Congress would be asked ''why
subject ship-owners to this freight when the
completed ship &C could be sent to the United
Mr.. Chandler asked Mr.. Gray whether, under
his amendment, marine engines would come in
free of duty.
Mr.. Gray-Yes. If you admit the body of
the horse,
WHY NOT THE TAIL?
Mr. Stewart opposed the amendment and
argued that, without subsidies, American ships
could not compete for the foreign trade, even
if they cost nothing.
Mr.. Platt said that it was only in the ship
building industry that raw material Cfor that
business) was allowed to be imported free of
duty; and he did not think, if the question were
Q new one, that he would be in favor of it.
House Of Representatives.
THE RESOLUTION REsCINDINa THE FIVE O'CLOCK
RULE.
Immediately after the reading of the journal.
Mr.. Randall Pa.), from the committee on
rules, reported resolution resembling the
rules requiring daily adjournment at O'Clock.
Mr.. Payson Ul.) moved to recommit the reso-
luton, with instructions to report it back, with
an amendment making the dependent pension
bill continuing order for January.
Mr.. RANDALL RAISED THE POINT OF ORDER
that the motion was not in order, in that the
instructions were not germaine to the subject
matter Of the resolution. He thought that he
was the proper person to raise the point Of
order, a. his position in favor Of pension legis-
lation was well known.
The Speaker sustained the point Of order ON
the ground that It was not competent 10 amend
proposition to rescind special rule 20 a. to
make particular bill special order
Mr.. Payson then moved to recommit with
Instructions to the committee ON rules 70 re-