Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-17
TARIFF TALK IN THE SENATE.
The Tin Plate Clause Discussed.
TERRITORIAL BILLS IN THE HOUSE.
The Senate.

Granting right Of way for a railroad across
| the Fort Pima military reservation in Arizona.
To authorize the construction of q bridge
across the Mississippi river at La Crosse, Wis.
Granting to the Big Horn Southern railroad
company the right of way across part Of the
GROW Indian reservation in Montana.
THE TARIFF BILL.
The Senate at 1920 resumed consideration Of
the tariff bill the pending question being on
the amendments to the tin-plate paragraph.
MIR. Hale asked Mr.. Allison to state what por-
tons OF the bill remained unacted on.
IMPORTANT MATTERS YET TO BE ACTED ON.
Mr.. Allison specified, as among the important
matters yet to be acted on, the wooden sugar,
and wool and woolen schedules-with a great
many detached portions from other sections
! such as rice, cutlery, and various other things
that would lead to more or less debate.
READY TO MAKE TIN PLATE IN THIS COUNTRY.
The discussion of the amendment was con-
tinued by Senators Vest and Allison. Mr..
Allison said the testimony before the finance
committee showed that there was now, in this
600 tons annually of the thin sheets of steel and
least, one-half of that plant would
be at once utilized for that purpose.
But the committee, with a view of making it
absolutely certain that time would be given for
the establishment of that industry, proposed
| that the increase of duty on the plate was not
| to take effect till the first Of January, 1890.
Mr.. Vest asked what was to become of the
American consumer of tin-plate until the in
! dustry was established.
| Mr.. Allison replied that the American con-
sumner would be no worse off than he was now
! The effect of the amendment Che believed)
would be to depress the price of tin plate.
| The industry was now an absolute monopoly in
| the hands OF few men.
rka6 hot fha off oio o1 ofo xfox,o
did not carry out the statement as to q
monopoly.
The question of the existence of tin in the
United States was brought up by an insertion
made by MIR. Allison, that there were more ex-
tensive deposits of tin in this country than in
| all the rest of the world. There was
TIN ENOUGH IN DAKOTA TO SUPPLY THE WORLD,
if the deposit there could be utilized. The Corn
wall mines of Wales supplied an infnitesimal
part of the worlds supply. There were large
| importations of tin from Australia, Malacca and
| the Malay archipelago, and tin was imported
free of duty. 1t worth $500 a ton. But
there was only from to per cent of pure tin
in articles of tinware. The rest was iron.
| Therefore, the whole thing was a
question of labor. As tin was imported free
of duty, just as in Great Britain, there was no
reason why, with a protection on tin plate COM
petition could not be successfully maintained
MIR. Vest remarked that if the tin mines Of
wOrkeQ,
they would have been developed before this
| time.
| Mr.. Dawes spoke of having received in his
mail this morning paper from the Black Hills
containing description of the tin mines in Da-
kota, which'were represented to be inexhaust-
| lble, with an account of the number Of tons of
| tin shipped from those mines to Denver within
| a few days.
| Mr.. Teller asserted that there was no Dues
tion as to the great abundance of tin deposits
in Dakota. The trouble about it was in the
| separation of the tin-the mode adopted in
| while tin ore in Wales produced only or 5
per cent of pure tin, that of Dakota produced
| 20 or 30 per cent But even if it produced
only or 8 per cent it could be worked with
profit.
Mr. Vest argued that the proposed increase
| of duty on tin-plate, for the purpose of estab-
| fishing a non-existent industry, was dangerous
and exceptiona! legislation, and was carrying
protection to an extreme never before contem-
plated by judicious minds.
MR.. GoRMAN PROTESTED
| against the increase of duty on such a neces-
sity as tin plate, and asserted that it would be
| impossible to have the tin-plate industry estab-
| lished in this country by the LIST of January,
| 1890, to an extent that would begin to supply
| one-fifth of the demand
Mr.. Allison admitted that, but claimed that
| there would be such plant set up as would
| greatly depress the price of tin-plate.
Mr.. German expressed doubts as to the pro-
| duction of tin in the United States, and said
! that for the next ten or fifteen years all the
| tin that would be used in making tin-plate
! would have to be imported. The possibilities
were that tin-plate could not be manufactured
| successfully in the United States and, there
| fore, the proposed increase of duty would only
be an additional burden en- the people.
House of Representatives.
| The Speaker laid before the House COM
| munication from ex-Gov. Gray, of Indiana
stating that on the 18th instant the resignation
of A. P. Hovey as representative from the
first Indiana congressional district was received
and accepted. Laid on the table,
QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE.
| Mr.. Stockdale Miss rising to a question of
privilege, sent to the clerks desk and had read
| Washington dispatch in New York paper
| stating that he had voted against the Nat
Mckay bill in the committee on war claims be-
| cause Mr.. Mckay, in the recent presidential
campaign, had been guilty Of pernicious ac-
| tivity. He said that 1t was admitted that the
| bill could not pass the House over the Presi-
dents veto, and the attempt to do SO seemed to
| him to be an attempt to get number of gov
ernment officials to aid a citizen in criticising
the President. He did not wish to be put in
| that attitude, and consequently had opposed
| the bill
On motion of Mr.. McKenna, of California, a
bill was passed releasing Lieut.. Col. E. A. Eyre
| from disability on account of receipts and dis
bursements of funds as acting quartermaster.
THE TERRITORIAL BILLS UP AGAIN.
The consideration of the territorial bills was
| then resumed.
| Mr.. Macdonald, Of Minnesota, Thought that
all the territories referred to in the omnibus
bill were ready for admission into the Union,
and he expressed himself in favor of division
/ of Dakota.
E. w. Adams ul-) characterized the omni.
| bus bill transparent subterfuge. Under
| it the people of the territories would not OBJ
tain single substantial advantage which they
could not obtain if it was not passed, while the
defeat of the Senate bill would have the prac-
tical effect of continuing for one year
THE OUTRAGE ON THE PEOPLE OF DAKOTA.
| Touching the question of a division of that
territory he declared that even were her peo-
| pie unanimously opposed to II, Congress, a. the
representative Of the whole country, should in
sist uponit.
| opposEp TO THE oArSRus BILL.
Mr.. Grosvenor (Ohio) thought that the pre-
sentation OF the omnibus bill justified him in
saying that it was not calculated TO facilitate
| the admission Of Dakota into the Union, but
that on the other hand it was . deliberate,
well organized, and most insidious arrange