Evening journal., 1890-10-01
READY FOR SIGNATURES
The Conference Report Adopted
by the Senate.
PADDOCK, PLUMB, PETTIGREW.

That Trio of Republican Senators Voted
Against the Conference Report on the
Tariff Rnl-Maj. DIcKInIey's Measure
Now Lacks Little OF Being a Law.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-The senate con
cluded debate on the tariff bill and agreed
to the conference report-s3 20 9T--three
Republicans, Messrs. Plumb, Paddock and
Pettigrew, voting in the negative. The SEN
ate passed house bill, with verbal amend
ments, to promote the administration OF
justice in the army. The conferences report
on the signal service bill was agreed to
and the house bill TO enable the postmaster
general to test the free delivery system in
small towns was passed. The tari@ bin
needs only the signatures Of the presiding
officers Of both houses and of the president
Of the United States to become law The
vote on the report was as follows:
The Vote In Detail.
Yeas Messrs Aldiieh, Allen Allison, Blair.
Cameron, Casey, Chandler, cullom, Dawson,
Dixon, Edmunds, Evarts, Frye Hale. Hawley,
Hoar. Ingalls,, Jones lNev.) Mcmillan, Mender.
son, Mitchell, Moody, Pierce, Platt Power. Sand
ers. Sawyer, Sherman Spooner, Stewart, Stock
bridge, Wilson Qa). wolcott-s3
Nsys-Messrs. Barbour, Bate, Blackburn Blod-
eett. Butler, Carlisle, Cockrell, Coke, Colquitt,
Daniel, German, Gray, Hampton, Harris Hearst,
Kenna, Morgan, Paddock Pasco, Pettigrew,
Plum, Pugh, Ransom, Reagan, Voorhees, Walt
hall. Wilson Cdd)-27.
The following pairs were announced.
Teller and Berry, Dolph and Brown, Far
well aud Payne, Quay and Faulkner Nor
rill and Vance, Davis and Gibson, Hiscock
! and Jones (Ark.), Higgins and Mcpherson,
Squire and George, Turpie and Washhurn,
Vest and Stanford. In addition to the
above pairs, Mr.. Call and Mr.. Eustis were
paired with Mr.. Pettigrew and Mr. Pad
dock, who voted in the negative.
MIR. CnrlisIe's Speech.
When the report came up Mr.. Carlisle
addressed the senate. Il was not his pur-
pose to attempt to state the effect of the
measure on the public revenue because it
would be impossible to do so with any de-
gree OF accuracy But he could state ap-
proximately what its effect on taxation
would be. He asserted that the bill took
from the free list and made dutiable more
than IL took from the dutiable list and
/ made free. While it would not increase
| the revenues, it would increase the taxation
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articles Of similar domestic production.
! The average rate Of duty under this bill
would be 90 per cent. instead Of 45lS per
cent. under existing law. Dedueting sugar
and moinsses from the calculation, the
rate under existing law would be found
| to be Al per cent, and the average on the
same articles under the conference bill 80
per cent.--an increased rate Of 80 per cent.
The increase would be $4,000, 600 IN the
iron and steel schedule, $4,000, 900 in the
woolen schedule, S2,00O,0O0 in the cotton
schedule, S5,000,00O in the flax and hemp
schedule, So, 135 600 on the tin plate sched-
ule and sl,55f,o00 on tin in pigs or bars.
The result and the purpose of these in
creases was to increase the price Of domes-
tic products to allow new industries TO be
established and to enable old industries to
realize better profits
The Sugar Bounty.
The producer would get no benefit from
the sugar bounty. He could not receive a
higher price for his product for he could
not control the price, and as the manu-
facturer OF beet sugar would have to sell
his sugar in competition with cane and
sorghum sugar he could not afford to pay
farmer one cent more for his beets than
for other substances from which sugar is
made. The consumer would not get his
sugar any cheaper for the bounty. The
bounty paid sugar would sell in the market
at the same price as other sugar. The
bounty system did not apply equally to all
parts Of the country, and such sectional
measure was a violation, he said, of the
terms OF every social compact in a free
country.
The Reciprocity Clause.
Mr.. Carlisle criticised the reciprocity
clause, which, he said, coniided to the iudg.
ment or caprice of the president alone the
determination not alone of certain facts
defined in the law, but Of the results and
effects OF those facts and circumstances
The amendment adopted by the senate was
not reciprocity; it was retaliation. Sugar
had been put on the free list in this bin on
the sole ground that it would benefit the
consumers in the United States He spoke
Of the inconsistency Of putting sugar on the
free list because the United States did not
produce much Of it and OF putting tin plate
on the free list because the United states
did not produce any Of it. There was no
market in South America, he said. for our
agricultural products. 1t was a false pre- |
tense to say that the proposed reciprocity |
amendment was for the benefit Of the /
farmers. He regarded the whole PROPOSE. |
tion as mere political devise to appease,
as far as possible, an indignant public SEN
timent.
Mr.. Allison Speaks.
Messrs. Aldrich and Allison challenged |
some of Mr.. Carlisle's statements. The
latter believed that the bill would reduce
the revenue SIS, 900, 900. He believed that
within five years the United States would
produce substantially all the tin plate used
in this country, and consumers would
have it at a less price than they had paid
for ten years. Speaking of the bill in gen
eral, he said that he thought that some of
the duties in it were too high The bill
was in many respects an experiment.
senator Aldrich's Remarks.
Mr.. Aldrich closed the debate. The in
creases in duty made in the bill, he said,
were Of four classes.
The first included corrections OF errors
and irregularities; to this class belonged
tin plate and cotton ties. Another class
consisted OF articles which it was not sup
posed at the time Of the passage Of the
law Of 1888 could be manufactured in the
the United States Il included the finer
grade Of manufactures in the cotton, fax
and linen, aud iron and steel schedules
A third class consisted OF articles on which |
heretofore small Rd valorem rates had been
levied. The fourth class included agri-
cultural products. The duties on wool
had been increased largely at the demand