Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-08
AT THE CAPITOL TO-DAY.
HOUSE DEADLOCK BROKEN
The Resolution to Change the
Rules Recommitted.
THE TARIFF BILL IN THE SENATE.
The Senate.

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SPECIAL DELIVERY LETTERS.
Mr.. Sawyer, from the post-ofice committee,
reported back house bill providing that the omis-
sion to pay the lawful postage on a especial de-
livery" letter shall not prevent or delay its
transmission and delivery, but that the lawful
postage shall be collected ON its delivery.
Passed.
q ELECTIONS OF CoNaREssMEN.
Mr.. Sherman introduced bill to make and
alter regulations as to the time, place, and
manner of holding elections for Representatives
in Congress- which was referred to the COM
mlttee on privileges and elections. He said
that the bill had been prepared by a gentleman
who was familiar with the subject, but did not
care to have his name published. The bill was
bipartisan in its character and was calculated
to ensure absolutely fair elections in every
part OF the United States. 1t confined to
elections of members of Congress. Many Of
Its provisions were rather novel to him. because
they were modelled on laws in southern states,
with which he was not familiar. Many of them
were drawn from laws in northern states
Mr. Hoar offered a resolution (Which was
agreed to) calling on the Secretary of the
Treasury for the report of Special Treasury
Officer Byrne, made in November, 1887, in re-
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THE TARIFF BILL.
The Senate then, at half past IL, resumed
consideration Of the tariff bill at paragraph
337, relating to collars and cuffs for mems
wear, and fixing the duty on those composed
entirely of cotton at Is cents per dozen pieces
and 35 per cent ad valorem, and on those COM
posed entirely or partly of linen at 80 cents
per dozen pieces and 35 per cent ad valorem.
MIR. Vance moved to strike out those rates,
and to insert 40 per cent ad valorem. The
proposed rates, he said, would be equivalent
to tax OF l5O per cent ad valorem. The
amendment was rejected by the usual party
vote-yeas 49, nay "a.
|. taxing hemp or jute carpeting cents per
square yard.
THE COTTON BAGGING CLAUSE.
Mr.. Jones (Ark. moved to amend paragraph
$780, which taxes bagging for cotton, gunny
cloth, &C., for covering cotton, composed
wholly or partly of hemp. jute or jute butts
(valued at not more than three cents per
pound) three-fourths of a cent per pound by
putting it on the free list.
MIR. Berry argued in support of the amend
ment, asserting that the tax must come out of
the pockets OF southern planters and laborers,
and would amount to 101S cents a bale ON six
million bales, or in the aggregate $3.50, 900 on
the years cotton crop, while the tax ON cotton
ties would amount to S1,350,000 more. Why,
he asked, should this 81, 900, 900 be taken from
the pockets of southern planters and laborers
and handed over to manufacturers?
Mr.. Jones (Ark. made statement as to the
combination entered into last year by
THE COTTON BAaGINa TRUST,
and said that il the trust had been enabled to
increase the price of the existing duty equal
to about cents yard) it would have extorted
81, 900 from the cotton growers, while the
whole amount paid for labor in the business of
making the bagging was less than half million
year.
He read testimony of bagging manufacturers
before the finance committee admitting that
they had "corner" and stating that no power
on earth could prevent it, the only danger to
the combination being death or that they
should turn thieves on each other.
He argued that the rate of IS of a cent per
pound on jute bagging, as provided in the
House bill, was ample protection, and more
than covered the difference between the cost of
labor in the United States and India; but he
thought that jute bagging should be put on the
free list.
MR.. GEORGES VIEWS.
Mr.. George said he represented the second
largest cotton-growing state in the south, and
that if he could have the attention of the re-
publican Senators he thought he could con-
vince them that the proposed tax on cotton
bagging was a very great injustice to the
laborer of the south and ought not
to be perpetrated. But he had noticed,
during the very able presentation of the
question by the Arkansas Senators. that
Senators on the other side were reading or
writing, or engaged in conversation, and he
did not expect better fate than had been
accorded to the Senator from Arkansas. He
would concede that there were as many as
5000 laborers engaged in the production of
bagging, and he would also concede (though
he did not believe it) that these laborers were
benefited by the tax. He believed that the
manufacturers of the bagging were
THE ONLY PERSONS BENEFITED BY THE TAX
But, on the other hand, how many laborers,
he asked, contributed to the tax. Taking the
total production as seven million bales year,
and assuming Gas was the facD that three
bales required the work of one la
borer, there was two and one-third
million laborers engaged in the raising of cot
ton. Largely more than half of the seven mill
ions was raised (and owned by men who worked
with their own hands in its production) and
paid the tax direct. In other, words, this tax
on cotton bagging was being imposed directly
(not Indirectly, Immediately mot mediately
or through circumyention), ON the 1,250, 900
men, women, and children who furnished the
manual labor to make the cotton.
THE POOR, STRUGGLING, LABoRINa PEOPLE OF
THE SOUTH
to the number of more than one-and-a-quarter
million were being robbed-for what? To give
5000 men higher wages than the average wages
of those who paid the tax.
Nominations To-Day.
The President to-day sent the following NOM
nations to the Senate:
Chas Baker, of Maine, to be collector of Gus
toms for the district of Belfast Me. Geo. Brin-
ton Wilson, of Maine, to be an assistant sur
geon in the navy.
Lieut.. Col. VIM. A. Rucker, deputy paymas-
ter general to be colonel and assistant pay-
maSter general Major Chaa NJ Tarrall nov
master, to be lieutenant colonel and deputy
paymaster general. First Lieut. Frank Nj.
Robinson, second cavalry, to be captain Sec
ond Lieut. Alvarado NJ. Fuller, second cavalry,
to be first lieutenant. Capt. Michael Cooney,
ninth cavalry, to be major fourth cavalry,
First Lieut. Jos. Gerard. ninth cavalry, to be
captain; Capt. Daniel w. Benham, seventh in
fantry, to be major; First Lieut.. Daniel Robin
son, seventh infantry, to be captain; Second
Lieut.. Lewis d. Greene, seventh infantry, to
be first lieutenant; Major Alfred 7. Smith,
seventh infantry, to be heutenant-colonel
eighth infantry; Capt. Edgar P. Kellogg, eigh-
teenth infantry, to be major eighth infantry;
Lieut.. Col. Montgomery Bryant, eighth in
fantry, TO be colonel thirteenth infantry: First
Lieut.. Robert F. Bates, eighteenth infantry,
to be captain; Second Lieut.. Chas B. Harden,
eighteenth infantry, to be first lieutenant
House Of Representative.
As the clerk finished the reading of the Jour
nal, Mr.. Reed CMe.) advanced to his favorite
position in the aisle directly in front Of the
Speaker, and fred the first gun Of the fifth
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