Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-08-15
NATIONS CAPITAL.
The Senate Spends The Entire
Day on Tin
But Takes 10 Aclien- The House Fails
to Secure a Quorum.
Full Organization OF the Republican
Congregational Committee Made.

wA-uIsCroS. Aug. 1.-THE tsr.f bill
wss taken ap, the pending question beirg
on Vests ANS nimers to reduce rne dpty
on lin p'a.e paragraph 1870 :rem 2-l0 10
cent pound.
Mitchell addressed the Senate in dcfenee
OF the high protective system as being a
policy 80 ~hich the republican party st,ri,
comm ittsd. He vas follosed by Reagan
in argums M 10 the effect that Congress ha,
the power To levy taxes in order 10 regulate
trade snd industries.
I.unih gave netice Of the amendment
ara soUid eiIer 10 strike out the provision
inposifg duty on tinpiate sni AID pro
vision 10 ray bounty 10 the msnuiactur-
ers c { tinplate in the United States. He
doubted very much 1t the proposition OF
the finance committee would permanently
introduce the this eoauIry the manufacture
of Hplste ia Quantities sufficient for l3-
mestic consumption. A large number Of
other mat,.iia's hays nov entered into com
petition with tinptstss for roofing, vessels,
and other pur poses, and each of these ma
t.fi2ls will be increased in vslue hy All In
creased duty on Tin plates. Galvanized iron
is being used fer rcotrg. and grarite is
lined with slicste for rois II the persons
who proposed 10 engage in the manufacture
of tnplatt are also engaged In the manu-
facture Of galvauized iron or granite pots,
aud toupd ttat they could net make greater
profits Cn inpla;es than They do on those
other articles, tnplates Will nutsbe made.
That statement III ! not need iemon,tr alton,
II out OF the pen,liHg proposition of Ameri-
can tin plate to come. would come tV scci-
dert, or The combination of circumstance
cou'd not roM be foreseep. He (Flumb)
ss- willing 10 ask those men who were no =
proposing the mauufatture of tn pate. Z ct
20 exercise The power they rad get in
Ameriesa COng-ess ard not to force all IT.
crease VI dn,y ln all unssre used in ih :
country But ii stead Of an increased duty
to take bounty Of one cent pound. II
they were reasonable men they ought to be
willing 10 do that, He knew that when tie
bounty was given in the tsrih oiIl, tia,
Congress was ert ring on sea that hsd 10
shore. as was already the bill on the
sugar seheanle. Snguar consumers are II
be tamp,ed by free sugar to consent to IA
bounty to home ptodnters, and forego the
opposition ihs, ~ouii iratura ~ fe, thl the
iuditcriminate increase of duties on art c'es
a'mc st as necesssr, ard almost as largely
used as sugar
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