The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-10

the polariscope not above rs degrees, seven
tenths OF cent per pound; for
every degree or fraction of degree
shown by, poariscopic test, two hun
oredtns OF l cent per pound additional;
all suga Ar above No. Is, and of color, 13s
cents per pound: all sugar above No. IL,
and not above No. 20, Dutch standard, of
color, rs cents per pound; all sugars above
NO 20, Dutch standard, of color, 2 cents
per pound; mo,asses testing above So de-
grees, cents per pound; sugar DRAWINGS
and sugar sweepings shall be subject to a
duty either as molasses or sugar, as the
case may be, according to the polariscopic
test On coffee, 3 cents per ponnd On
tea, 10 cents per pound Hides, raw or I'M
cured, whether dry, sailed or picked
Angora goatskins raw, without wool and
manufactured; asses skins, raw or
manufactured, and skins, except
sheep skins, with wool on, Ia cents
per pound" All the Democrats
voted against Aldrich's amendment, and
only two Republicans = Edmunds and
Evarts.
Aldr1ch offered an additional section, pro-
viding that the sugar schedule and bounty
paragraphs shall take effect on the 1st of
March, 1891, and that prior to the LIST of
February, 1891, sugars may be refined in
bond without the payment of duty. Various
other amendments were offered by Aldrich,
which were agreed to- including the follow
ing: Declaring that all special taxes shall
become due on July l. 1891 and on every
LIST OF July thereafter; also making the pro-
viso in paragraph 457 quitting on the free
list all animals imported especially for
breeding purposes) apply only to females,
and filling the blank date on which duties
shall be levied on articles exempted from
duty as October /, 1890.
The committee amendment to the para
graph placing upon the free list all sugars
not above No. 16, Dutch standard (which
had been pafsed over without action. was
takeIl up. The amendment was to SubstI-
tute No. ID for No. To- Agreed to. Yeas 30,
nays 25.
Plumb offered an amendment for the ap-
pointment OF commission of five disinter-
ested persons, TO be known as the customs
commission, with a permanent Office in the
city of Washington. Agreed to. Yeas 81,
nays &c.
The bill was then reported to the Senate
and all the amendments adopted in COM
mittee of the whole were agreed to- except
those on which separate votes were de-
| handed. The first was Plumb's amend
ment for a customs commission. The
amendment was agreed to. Yeas 81,
nays 30. The commission is to be composed
pointed by the President, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, and are
to continue in Office six years, or sooner re-
moved for inetficiency, neglect of duty or
malfeasance in Office, no more than three of
them to be from the same political party.
Their salary is to be 1000, with travelling
expenses, and they may have clerks, steno-
graphers. messengers, and such other cler-
icel assistance as they may require. The
nv IoiO 1f+
are lengthy and exhaustive. Among other
| things they are to examine and ascertain
| the average price of commodities imported
into the United States, both wholesale and
retail, in the United States and in foreign
| places of production, sale or shipment for
twelve months previous and SIX months
following any changes in duties, and this
| inquiry shall be carried back twenty five
| years, if deemed advisable by the commits
| sion, and shall extend to all facts bearing
| upon the matter in any way; the profits of
capital. rates of wages, general welfare,
| etc. They are to ascertain the quantity
and value OF the same or similar commod-
| tiles produced in the United States during
| the same PERIOD and ascertain were partic
ular rates have operated to increase
or diminish the production in the United
States, ETC.; to ascertain in what particu-
lars the customs duties existing from time
v
American manufactures and productions
| the effect of customs duties upon the price of
the agricultural productions of the coun-
| try; their sale in the United States mar
ketS and their consumption in the United
States; to ascertain the effects of such
duties as effecting the employment and
wages of labor, and in comparison with
other countries; to ascertain the growth
and development of the principal manufac-
TN md nj nfTl6 ad NV ba
schedule in England, France, Germany,
Belgium and the United States for the last
| twenty five years, and to ascertain the
relative cost of transportation in these
countries and the United States.
Daniel demanded a separate vote on
the committee amendment striking out the
internal revenue sections in relation to to-
bacco. The amendment was agreed to, and
the sections striker out Yeas, SO, nays %.
The next vote was on the reciprocity
amendment offered by Aldrich for the
finance committee 1t was agreed to- Yeas
IS. nays 80.
The next vote was on the amendment to
paragraph 705 lowering the sugar standard
to be admitted free of duty from No. 10 to
No. -. Agreed to. Yeas 80, nays "a The
vote was as follows:
Butler, Cameron, Carlisle, Casey, Chan
der, Cullom, Dawes, Dixon, Evarts,
Faulkner, Frye, Gibson, Gray, Hale, Haw-
leg, Hearst, Hiscock, Hoar. ingalls,, Jones
(Nevada). Mcmillan, Henderson, Moody,
Morgan, Paddock, Pasco, Platt, Plumb,
Power, Quay, Reagan, Sanders. Steward,
Stockbri6ge, Washburn-30.
Nays-Bate, Berry, Cockrell, Coke, Col
quit, Daniel, Davis, Harris, Jones, of Ar
kansas, Mitchell, Pierce, Pugh, Ransom,
Sherman, Spooner, Squire, Teller, Van
Colt, Vest Voorhees,, Walthall, Wilson, of
Iowa, Wilson, of Maryland, and Wolcott.
All reserved amendments hsying been
disposed of, the presiding officer announced
the bill was now before the Senate for
amendment.
Plumb called for q separate vote on the
committee amendment, striking out of the
bill the provision for the bounty of 81 per
pound on silk reeled from cocoons pro-
duced in the United States. The amend
ment was agreed to. Yeas 50, nays 5-Ed
munds, Hoar, Mitchell, Plumb and Teller
Several amendments were offered and re-
iected and then the question was: sShall
the bill be engrossei and ordered to its
third reading!" On that question the yeas
and nays were taken, and resulted: Yeas
IS. nays IS; a party vote. The bill was
read the third time and the question
stated to be; 'Shall the bill pass" Aldrich
thereupon moved an adjournment, but
withdrew the motion so as to pass to execu.
tive session, soon after which the Senate
adjourned.