Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-05
The Senate Wrestles With Tariff on
Different Grades of Chinaware.
The Necessity for Two New Locks ct sault Ste.
Marie Canal Also Discussed.
House Proceedings.
Ii. CONGRESS.
SENATE

Mr.. DaVis 0nereQ resolution Gazing
on the secretary of war for information
on the subject of the accident last Friday
to the lock of the sault Ste. Marie canal
He spoke of it Us a most serious calamity
to the nation, costing, as he had been
informed by telegraph, $500, 900 day
He also mentioned incidentally the fall
ure of the house to act on the bill passed
by the senate some months ago provId-
ing for a second and larger lock.
Nj. Cullom hoped the house will be
induced to take up that measure and
pass it. If not, it would be well enough
for the senate TO take up the river and
harbor bill at an earlier day than had
| been agreed upon, SO as to have an ap-
preparation secured for that very i'm
| portant work.
| Mr.. Cockrell inquired whether the
Cuisines branch of congress" had paid
| no attention to the bill referred to.
Mr.. Cullem said it had not.
| Mr.. Cockrell-That is very remarkable
that a body organized with one man
| for the purpose of transacting business
| will not do it.
| Mr.. Cullom-I have no remark to
make on that subject except to state that
| the bill making the necessary arrange
! Inents for the completion of this great
work passed the senate some time ago.
| Mr.. Cockrell--I understand the sena-
tor from Minnesota (Mr. Davis) to say
that the loss to commerce through the
accident amounts to $500 900 day.
| Mr.. Davis-So l am informed by teIe-
graph.
Mr.. Cookrell-And yet the Cuisines
branch' OF congress pays no attention
to the matter.
Mr.. Payne stated he had received
telegram from the managing executive
! committee Of the Iron ore transportation
company stating that Tor the two weeks
ending on Goth of July the passage
through the lock averaged fifty-two YES
sells day, with a capacity of over $50, =
900 tons. The matter was one OF general
interest to the whole country. The
representatives of that interest had gone
before the senate committee on COM
merce early in the session, and were
noticed by the committee who investi-
gated the matter and reported a bill for
the completion of the second lock within
two years. That bill had been passed by
q unanimous vote OF the senate, aud had
gone to the house.
Mr.. Edmunds did not think It proper
thing to spend time in discussing the con-
duct of the other branch OF congress; all
the senate had to do with II just now was
to consider the accident to the canal
lock. If there was not money available
for the work he was willing to pass a
joint resolution this morning to provide
money enough.
Mr.. Payne said the damage was being
repaired as fast as 500 men could do it,
and 1t would be completed o-morrow or
next day but the main object of the ap-
peal to congress was that a provision
should be made for the additional lock.
The capacity of the old lock had been
reached aud surpassed.
Mr.. Frye, in order to emphasize the alb
solute necessity for two more looks at
Sault Ste. Marie canal, said more COM
merce passed through that canal in eight
mouths than passed through the Suez
canal in a whole year.
Mr.. Gibson spoke of the accident also,
and emphasized the necessity of taking up
and passing river and harbor bill. He
had no doubt that the failure to pass the
bill for improving the Mississippi river
was equal to q tax OF $50, 200 200 q year
on the producers in the Mississippi val
ley.
The resolution was agreed to.
The presiding officer (Mr. Ingalls)
said he had observed with regret the
growing tendency to allude in terms of
severity and disparagement to the pro-
ceedings of the other house of congress.
1t was a violation of the fundamental
principles of parliamentary law to refer
in one house to what was done or said
in the other house. He hoped the senate
in the preservation of its own dignity and
in protection of its own immunity from
recrimination would observe those rules
and refrain from such illusions in
future.
The resolution offered on Saturday last |
by Mr.. Plumb as to the reinterment of |
the remains of Gen. Grant in the Airing |
ton national cemetery was, at the sug-
gestion Of Mr.. Plumb, allowed to remain |
on the table to be called up some other |
time.
The tariff bill was then taken up.
The pending question being on Mr.. |
Vests amendment to the chinaware |
paragraph, reducing the duty on dec
GRATED ware to 80 per cent. ad valorem, |
and on plain undecorated ware to 40 |
per cent. instead of 55 and so as recon-
mended by the finance committee, and |
instead of 60 and 81 in the house bill. |
Mr.. Henderson said that he had voted on |
OehAANNy SsShAhR oSoAhSs 4ALs Cob 1
amendments and would do so again, be-
cause he thought that the rates proposed |
In it we're too low. He, favored, how
ever, the rates recommended by the |
finance committee. He was q protec-
ZIONIST on principle, but he did not be-
lieve IN unnecessarily high rates of duty.
He believed, as had been said by Mr..
Hiscock the other day, in giving manu-
faeturers no greater rates of duty than
were absolutely necessary for them to
carry on their business successfully.
Mr.. Plumb read from letter pub
lished in the New York Times the report |
of a conference between china manufae-
turers and importers, in which lower
rates of duty than recommended by the
finance committee had been accepted as
satisfactory. He thought 1t
would be an outrage TO give it TO them.
Mr.. Mcpherson argued in support of
Mr.. Vests amendment, asserting that |
there was no sense in the high rates pro-
posed by the finance committee.
Mr.. Dawes opposed the amendment,
advocated the committee amendment and
eulogized the protective system.
Mr.. Vest modified his amendment,
the rates on plain white china
ware TO forty-eight cents instead of 40
per cent.
The amendment was then voted on and