The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-29
In the Senate.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2S.-In the Senate the
resolution providing for the suspension of
work on the Layfette statute was amended
to provide for the selection of another site
and adopted.
Debate ON the tariff bill was resumed.
Aldrich gave notice of two amendments
he would offer. One was a new section,
stating that the exemptions from duty of
sugar, coffee, molasses, tea and hides are
made with view to secure reciprocal
trade with the countries producing those
articles, and it authorizes the President to
suspend by proclamation the provisions of
the law for, free introduction of sugar,
molasses, coffee, tea and hides, the pro
duct of those countries whose laws may be
reciprocally unequal and unjust The
duties on sugar are to be fixed as under the
existing law the duty on coffee is to be 3
cents pound, on tea 10 cents pound, and
on hides IL cents pound so long as
American fishery vessels shall be admitted
into all the ports of such country to pur-
chase supplies including bait and to land
| fish for shipment in bond to the United
| States without restraint.
Consideration Of the bill was resumed at
| the paragraph relating to lice, the amend
meats reported by the finance committee
| being to reduce the duty ON Gle aned rice
from2 to | p cents per pound; on uncleaned
rice from l Il TO l cent per pound; and on
rice -four, rice meal and broken rice, from
! . to Il of cent per pound.
Finally the parayraI h was amended by
making the duty on cleaned rice cents
per pound; on uncleaned rice, " cents; on
paddy, % of a cent; anti rice flour, rice meal
and broken rice a of cent per pound. this
being a modification of the committees
amendment.
Two amendments were offered to the
paragraphs relating to rye, rye -four,
wheat, wheat -four, butter, cheese and
fresh milk. Carlisle moved to strike out of
the paragraph relating to condensed milk
the words, sugar Of milk cents per
pound" Rejected. The committee amend
ment to strike out the proviso for draw
back on sugar was agreed to.
AT this point paragraph 135 (Which was
passed over in its regular order) was taken
up. 1t relates to bars and the committee
amendment, which reduces the rate from
81 to Is of a cent per pound, was agreed to-
The paragraph relating to shotguns,
which was also passed over without action
was taken up, the question being on the
amendment of the finance committee tc
substitute for the ad valorem rate of 80 pei
cent. in the House bill specific duties
with 30 per cent ad valorum in addition
The committee amendment was modified
by reducing the duty on first-class shot
guns valued at not more than Sc, from So tt
Sl.50. Agreed to-
The regular course of the bill was re
sumed at the heading, EARN and Fiel(
| Products"
Plumb moved to increase the duty or
castor beans from 80 to so cents per bushel
Agreed to.
Tho committee amendment to reduce the
duty on flax seed, linseed and other OF
seeds from 30 to 25 cents a bushel was, a
the suggestion of Aldrich, rejected.
The paragraph relating to hops was
passed over without action, Graham hav
ing proposed to reduce the duty on hop
from Is to cents per poucd.
The next paragraph, to reduce the duty
on garden seed from 40 to 20 per cent. az
valorem, was agreed to-
The substitute reported from the financ'
committee to the paragraph to the duty Of
tin cans containing shell fish, was at tn
suggestion of Aldrich, agreed TO, leayin
the paragraph just as it came from tn
House.
The substitute of the finance committe
for the paragraph as to oranges, lemon
and lines was agreed to, party lines bein
entirely disregarded in the vote, many Re
publican Senators voting against the CON
mittee amendments and many Democrat
Senators for it.
i In the paragraph relating to extrac