Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-23
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE TARIFF BILL PASSED. It Will Go Into Effect
 July Ist. THE GERMANS MUST EvACUATE. Anniversary Of The First
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Fiftieth Congress-SecOnd Session
WASHINGTON, Jan. g. THE TARIFF DEBATE.

Mr. Morrill, read some general remarks, followed by MT. Reagan, who made an argu- ment in favor of his amendment changing the duty on all grades and kinds of wool to % per cent. ad valorem. MT. Coke express- ed his readiness to vote to put wool on the free list whenever all the bases of menufac- ture were put on the free list. He stood by the Mills bill, not because it was such @ bill as he preferred, but because 1t represented the real foundations on which taxation should be levied and collected. After remarks by MT. Turpie against, and by Mr. Harris for, the amendment offered by MT. Reagan, a vote was taken, and the amendment was re-
 jeoted; yeas %, nays 31.
 MT. Vance then moved @ proviso that no article in the wool and woolen schedule shoud pay rate of duty exceeding 75 per cent. ad valorem. Rejeeted-Yeas 27, nays 33. Messrs. Stockbridge and Palmer opposed MT. Vests amendment relative to woods used for luxurious purposes.
 Mir. Vance moved to amend MT. Vests
 amendment by making it apply to all the
 lumber paragraphs.
 MT. Vest again took the floor and com mented on trusts generally, and particularly
 on the fact that the great lumber trust was now in secret session in Michigan. MT. Palmer declared that, in the nature of things, @ lumber trust was impossible There had been an attempt to start one at Chlppe- wa Falls, on the Wisconsin river, but it had gone to pieces.
 MT. Platt said that he deplored the trusts as much as anyone and would go as far as anyone in passing laws to prevent and pun ish them. But the question of trusts had nothing whatever to do with the question of duties. Mr. Vance epoke of the destruction of American forests and said that such destruc tion would quite soon enough enhance the price of lumber without hastening that time hy a. nounced as an absuraity and an outrage. It would be a great service, he said, to the American people if the Canadians were al lowed to denude their own forests and so all l low the forests of the United States to be ! preserved.
 MT. Blair opposed the amendment. He | also opposed the reduction of duties on lum- Der as reported by the finance committee. He believed such reduction an unrighteous ! discrimination and if he could defeat such I reduction by voting against the bill he would do so.
 The question was taken on Mr. Vance's I amendment and it was rejeoted-yeas 19, nays 29, Brown and Call voting against it. Mir. Hiscock on behalf of the finance com ! mittee offered proviso (which was agreed | to) that in the case of the imposition of ex- port duty by any foreign government the duty On such sawed lumber shall remain as under the present law. MT. Aldrich on be- half of the finance committee moved to in- sert after paragraph 209 the words "reeds 10 ! per cent ad valorem, chair cane l5," agreed to.
 MT. Aldrich also moved to increase the | rate on sawed boards of mahogany (paraD l graph 215) from 15 to 20 per cent. ad valor- ! em. Agreed to.
 MT. Vest moved to put on the free list wood unmanufactured (paragraph 214) and ! sawed boards of mahogany, etc. (paragraph 215.) Rejected; yeas 21, nays 30. MT. Vorhees then submitted some general | remarks on the tariff issue, following which Mir. Sherman offered a proviso, which was agreed to, to paragraph 267, taxing fresh fish | one-half cent per pound; that the duty shall ! not apply to fresh fish caught by citizens of | the United States on the high seas, or in the open waters of the lakes forming boundary between the United States and Canada ! amendments were reported from the finance committee and agreed to without objection. Among them were the following: Reducing the duty on nickel in ere (for the nickel ! therein containedl from to ? cents pound and on nickel in matte from 10 to 5; reducing the duty on cocoa mating from 10 to cents l per yard and on cocoa mats from to cents per square foot; striking out of paragraph 440 | (which taxes watch cases, etc, J the words watch keys" inserting as 6 new paragraph | (27710 "sugsr of milk crude cents a pound, refined cents;" amending the proviso to paragraph 152 so as to make 1t read, 'that all
 
 a pound Gnstead of 10 cents) shall pay duty of not less than 35 per cent. ad valorem;" in- serting in paragraph Ar (which imposes a duty of thirty-five per cent. ad valorem on manufactures of leather, gutta per | cha) the words ''vulcauiZed India ! rubber, known hard rubber" Inserting | in paragraph 409 (as to hats) after the words ''fur hat bodies" the words 'or parts there ' of"
 MT. Eustis moved to amend paragraphs 219 and 220 Gin the sugar schedule) by reduc- \ ing the rate on sugar above No 16 and not | above No. 20, Dutch standard from 1 5-S to | A per pound, and on sugar aoove No. 20 from cents to 3-4 cents. He made an | argument in support of the amendment ! which was opposed by Mir. Aldrich, who said ! that it would destroy the sugar refining in- | terests. The amendment was rejected; yeas | g, nays 31.
 Mr. Reagan moved to amend the bill by
 adding section imposing an income tax oi l5 per cent. on incomes over S1 ,00C
 up to $5,000; 7 12 per cent. or incomes up to 1000 and 10 per cent. on in-
 comes over $10,00o and providing that the
 duties on cotton and woolen goods, on iror
 and steel and the productions of iron snc
 steel shall not exceed 40 per cent. and tha
 salt shall be on the free list. Mir. Hoar ask
 ed Mir. Reagan what he would do with the ! additional revenue from an income tax. MT
 Reagan said he was not prepared to answe the question. He desired first to have th'
 views of the Senate upon his proposition l The amendment was rejected-yeas 20, nay ! 33, Senators Brown, Payne and Pugh voting no.
 l The amendment heretofore reported iron
 ! the finance committee to paragraph 40
 (glovee) was taken up and agreed to. Para
 l graph 412, calf skins, etc., was amended b
 increasing the ad valorem rate on sheep an,
 ! goat skins from 20 to 25 per cent, and o
 l skins for morocco from 10 to 15 per cent
 ! The amendment reported yesterday iron
 the finance committee to paragraph 321 as t
 1 stockings, hose, etc., was taken up an agree to. Yeas 31, nays 25. Mir. Stanford offere
 l as an amendment a bill heretofore introduce
 | by him to authorize producers of pure swee
 wines. who are also distillers, to use free c
 tax the wine-spirits necessary to fortify sue
 ! pure sweet wines up to an alcoholic strenst
 of IA per cent Numerous amendments C
 no importance were then offered and rejecte
 MT. Plumb moved to insert an additions
 paragraph, creating and establishing in th
 ! treasury department a commission, to b
 known as the customs commissions; agree
 ! to without division. It provides for th
 ! appointment by the President (with the ad
 ! vice and consent of the Senate) of fine con
 missioners to hold office two, three, four, fiv
 and six years respectively, not more tha
 | three of them to be of the same polite.
 party. The salary is to be S7,500 per a1
 mum. The permanent office of the commi
 sion is to be at Washington.
 @ An amendment reported from the fnant = committee to paragraph 257, as to orange r lemons, Hines, was agreed to-yeas 39, na. r l7. It increases the rates per package Ca $ cording to capaeity) from 10c., s0c. and 40 2 to 13c., 25c. and soc, and from Sc. f. <. every additional cubic foot to 10 V MT. Allison offered an amendment from u
 committee, which was agreed to, repealir the provision of law requiring stamp to l ,- afRxed to every box of imported cigars to i
 dicate the inspection thereof by the custon '' officers. An amendment reported from u = finance committee to add to paragraph 5 :, putting rough diamonds on the free list; u n words ssand jewels to be used in the man D. facture of watches" was agreed to. On motion of MT. Allison the date of t f' bill to 20 into effect lsection 12l was chang