Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-01-12
THE NATIONS
CushiDs's Hanual Of Chief In
terest in the House.
Randall's Points Of Order
SsrYe Ia a Measurs to Check n. WeaY-
er's Career.
Talk on the Senate Tariff Bill Drawing
TO Close-Fresh Flsh Made
Dutiable.
WAsHNGroS, Jan 10.
WAsaSGToS, Jan. 10.
Senate.


Mr.. Hale of the committee on naval af
fairs reported back fAyorably the House billi
to provide . temporary home for certain per
sons discharged from the navy, and 20 en-
courage the estAblishment Of boys as ap
pren'ices to the navy. Calendar.
he Senate then resumed the consideration
Of the tariff bill, the pending question bein.
the amendment offered yesterday TO s,rik,
out of paragraph 557 the words except wher
frozen or packed 10 ice, or othersise pre-
pared ny any process for preservation" 50
as to let the paragraph read simply fresh
hsh" (tree).
Plumb asked Hoar to tell the Senste aud
country Why the people living on the
Canadian border, should have free fish and
people of the interior not.
Hosr said be didn't tn nix that there wa.
any such distinction made in the paragraph
He then eulogized the character of the
Scandinavian immigrants, stating that they
were inferior to none other who ever came
to this country, not excepting PuIitans OF
Cavaliers. They were industrious, thrifty.
wise, temperate, lovers of home. of Sunday
of order, of education, and on the homes,
side in every public question.
Davis explained the paragraph as it stood
and said that the operative ptrt of it va.
the words for preservation. The settled
policy of the governm, Mt was that tish pre-.
served in salt should not be admit d free.
and il seemed To him very strange that any
one (while adhering to that proposition
should object to the proposition that required
fish preserved by any other process, such IS
ice TO pay duty
Fish were, by the new application Of the
oil process of using ice, frozen 50 as to be-
come like solid rock.
lhey were kept year or longer in precisely
that state, and were when brought out, fish
fresh for immediate consumption. That
was the entire subversion of the original
idea.
Stockbridge asked Dawes why the salt
used for packing h.h should be entitled to =
draw back.
Dawes replied that there were two rea-
sons, one of which had been well stated by
his colleague. The other was that Amer
lean salt vas not of such good quality for
the preservation of FISH as the foreign arti-
Gle.
Hiscock took exec ption to the latter state
ment and asserted that American salt was
purer and more valuable. He had never
seen any good reason why protection should
be sought for the fishing industry while free
salt was demanded by the fishermen.
Dawes said he would not quarrel with
Hiscock on that point. There was not a
man OF interest in New England that wanted
fresh fish for immediate consumption free
of duty. They didn't ask it. 1t had been
conceded not asked.
Reagan thought there was manifest injus-
tce in making some parts of the people pay
duty on fresh fish and other parts not pay
it.
Hale moved to strike out the paragraph.
That, he said, would leave all frt sh fish un
der the duty fixed in another part of the bill,
half a cent per pound Then New England
would fare no better in that resp, ct than 9th
er parts OF the country. All of the bother
which had been raised in the fish, ries nego-
tiaiions had come from the desire of Canada
to open the markets of tie Uuited States Tor
their fresh fish. Canadian fishermen living
near the coast, with the cost of their outlay
and wages so much LESS than those paid
American fishermen, would Of they had the
bene tit of the United States market) drive
New England fishermen from the sea
Aldrich added that Canadian fishermen
had the advantage of government bounty
amounting in 1885 to over Sl00,OO
Gray SAID that the debate on the i-herie'
treaty distinctly showed that more than hail
the men employed on American t'hing yes
sells were from Nova Scotia or the provinces,
not citizens of the L lited Stats or intending
to become so.
Stockbridge, Palmer and Stewart favorec
the Hale amendmet.
Allison explained and defended the actor
of the finance committee in reporting the
paragraph After hearing the debate he
could say that the New England fishermen
and the tishsrmen on the great lakes har
scored point.
Blair .lso eulogized the character of the
French canadian immigrants. There were
he said 10 less than 80 900 in New Hsmp
shire and more than Is 900 in his own city
with population of 10000. There was nC
better foreign element than the French Can
allan. The idea of American destiny wa
not to be confined forever to the realm
of poetry and defamation. 1t had been talket
of for century but couldn't be postpone d
forever If it was to be the American con
tinent with one flag and one people, it wa,
desirous to have 1t before it was filled witt
hostile populations and before national pref
udices had grown strong. He had no desir,
to lexislste for future war. The sooner
the people became united people (whict
WAS the tendency on both sides of the line
the better it would be for the continued
peace of the continent. He trusted that il
the discussion of the bill nothing would BE-
said to spoil the tend. ncy which was now st
manifest in the direction of a union of tn,
two people who were now comparative J.,
few in numbers
PIumb's mendment was withdrawn.
Hale's smendm, Mt was agreed to and fresf
fish was placed on the dutiable list at l..
. cent per pound
The bill Was then proceeded with.
Paragraphs 6,i3 (leather. old scraps and
626 I'm ca and mica waste) were struck Out
of the free list. Several paragraphs wer,
laid aside informally. In paragrap ph 100, a
to cedar and other woods unmsnufacfured
the woods ''osier or willow" were struck on
the obj ct being 10 put them on the dutiabl'
list at 10 per cent.
The eni of the free list being reached
Allison SAID he proposed that the Senate
tinish the reading of the bill tomorrow Oh,
Administrative sections of it He woul,
propose to spend the remainder of the day
on the omit ell paragraphs of the free list
after which he would propose to take up th'
paragraphs as to guns, cutlery and few
miseeiIa.eous items. Early next weel
he wis, ed to proceed with the wool ans
woolens schedule, which had not yet beei
touched.
Adjourned
House.
whss the House assembled today Weave,