Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-08-23
NATIONS CAPITAL.
Senate Gets Through Nine Pages
Of the Tariff Bill
But Does not Finish up the List Of
Nstarie Articles.
House Considers Senate Amendments
to River and Earbor Bill.

WASHINGTON. Aug. % The Senate re-
sumet the cor sllsr4tlon of the tsrif bill.
Mcpherson moved 10 snle nj paragraph loo
relating to ir0l or steel articles ansms led
or gland with more than cne color. by re-
dGcipg the dlty from 80 10 40 per cent Rs
laeted. yeas -, nays "A, strict party vote.
Mefhersoa moved to amend paragraph
l69, reiat ng 10 cut nails, by reducing the
rate from one cent per pound 20 30 per cent.
al vaiosnm. Ii vas argued by Mcpherson
that the Gu, nail industry needed no pro-
lection. as AHieriesn rails ~ere export ID
and cid IN al the countries of the world
while the feet OF Protection was claimed
to he, by Alir.ch, " iueton of cost from
ST. 81 per key Of hundred poaais in 1866
10 81 ia 1890.
I Carlisle de MED that there was any neees-
sary connection between high duties aod
los prices, an,l he asserted that they were
simply the resuii of movement, of
humanity tia: had been goiag on since
creation.
Morgan gave the definition of "destruc-
tion,,s' 10 the prote etlonists on the other
side, because they were, he said d. stroyers
of people for the bene lit Of few bognryfe
industries He expressed hil tel,ef
that % more iron or steel pal factories
would b. established ia this country as the
use of siIe nails were sgrerseiing the use
{ cut nails
MeFht r2ons amendment as to Gu, mails
vas rejected, yeas 10, nays II, il was strict
patty vote, rluub voting no.
Vance moved TO amend paragraph l6s,
relating to horseshoe nails. hob mails and
other wrought iron or steel rails ro, spec
tally provided for. by reducing the rate
from cen's pound to 81 per eelt al val
orem. After half an hours discussion the
amendment was rejc c;.ed, yess 20. nays %
Mcpherson novel 10 amend Paragraph
! lG9. relating TO wire nails madc OF wrought
iron or steel, by suhststUtn; for Classified
duties according to | nst1 ard weight. an
al yslorem rate of 40 per cent. Rejected,
without yeas and nays
| Vance moved to amend paragraph l70
! relating to spikes, washers, horse shoe !,
of wrought iron or Stse) by reducing the
rate from Is cents per pound to 25 per
cent salvatore ~. Ths rejected amendments
10 redne. the duties In paragraphs l70, III, ,
! i12. l73, (rel4ilg to cut taehs AMI nee
dlss) were rejected
! No amcndneIt was offered to paragraphs
/ ia, l15 OF l76. relating to steel engrsvrd
plates, railway fish plates and riYes Of
| on or 81 Il
| Vett offered an amendment to paragraph
| III. relating TO saws. reducing the rates Of
I s, 10 ard 10 cents linear foot (accorl ng
TO sizas) 10 ). ard l2 cents, and reducing
al valtem rates of so and 10 per cent To
20 and 25 per cent. Il jsc'et, yeas 20,
/ rays - paddock voting with the demo
| Gratis.
Paragraph us, relating to wood screws,
was reached
/ Carl sle 81 d tha' was another article Of
American Manufacture selling abroad very
much lower than ceiling at home. He pro
duced price lists in support of his stat
[ ma nj, AM also letter IRON the Amer ca1
Screr Company, Provid, nee, r. /. That
va. a q ;htr us'ration, re said, of policy
/ sdsp5ed hy other ii ie, in silos ing draw backs
I on exported articles. He held IL was n t
/ good podcY or justice TO give 10 the Amer
/ can manufacturer free Or ubs.antia II free
raw mate | on mir eypor ed products
and revise it on products consumed a.
home. He said The Offering Of Americs
\ goods abrosd at cheaper pIi ,es than offered
! At home WIS not co1'ined 10 goods where
the drawback was allowed on raw material.
/ lie presented 2 bil of sale for gross of
/ knives to tore i'm purchaser in which Il
I stipulation Na' lrinted in rcd irk Goods
/ sba not be sold in The United States "
! Airich snd Platt examined the bill of
/ sale whit i Carlni is produced.
/ Plat ,ail thai the case could not he
I made ou, un.il i; was shown that the same
/ goods stood st a higher price ct home
( Cariis said inst If Plat. would deny the
/ f,ct he Carlisle would undertake to fur
/ ni.h n proof Of Il. There were state
[ a -. A {.
/ su'horlzed agert4. They showed (even
" he re draw back was not allowed that
/ Anic i5an manufacturers are atle
I tn sci their goods abroad at
cheaper rates than al home. Yet
they were demanding not that the pr s.
\ ert rate of duly be mslntiircd. hut shorlI
he increased enormously, to prev,n, them
/ from hing driven cut OF business. He
would suggest 10 them if they were driven
| out of bn-iaess in the American market
they might coaiine then selves to the tor
egn market. in v hi h they are now able to
make . profit. and let som body el,e ccms
\ ioto business here who would sell goods 10
the American p'aple az 'chesp as these gen
T Il, m soIi them - fore gaers.
/ Plat sr9ued That the papers presented by
4 Carlisle tii not make cur bis case, and ex
&
: other side believed in his heart that any
/ American manufacturer sold the same
goods for exportsiion so ger cert lower
than be sold them for home consumIt on
1 Neither did he believe thst any Senitlr On
/ she other sid= tel eyed ihst any Amercsn
manufacturer made 50 per cert profit on
any goods he manufactured. If any Of
them I'D believe SO it vss remsrkSb g
instance If ere 'uiiy.
Ald'ich commented on thc iHconsistency
| of d motrsuc Senator's in argu ns on one
hard that h'gh pro,f ctive duries had das-
iroved fer,i,n n commerce and on the other
hand the great enorniiy for The American
manufacturers TO SEEK share eff the for
eisn market in con pgt ion with tie mal
ufsctursrs Of Eng 'aad, Germany an,
FRANCE.
| Carlisle rel lied that his complaint was
not sgzios: the Am.r.e=n manufacturers
VITO sought the foreign markets but against
TIE poisy v hich epsblettihem TO s. ! goods
abroad cheaper than at home sud BIZ con-
tsrtion vas that free raw materials OUGHT
to be alo~sd for sill American nanufac
turers to reduce the cos Of production ard
en4bie American manufactures to sell
goods cheaper NJ bome and expert them 70
/ SIT etuHtFles VI ttfS NOf&1
4 qa,s ion was asked by Higgins a. TO
wages ard started Carlisle on an argument
to show that wages Of labor did rot depsnl
upon the question y hnther tie country va.
livirg under protective or free trade policy.
There rss no greNter fsllacy thsn the
ss-umlt on thst they did
His argumsnt was taken up anil eprtzo-
vsrted ty Ailrich. who claimed tina, IN cot
=. ~ 4
iac'ilu in the cost % production without a
carretpani nx reduction in Wages.
Cray took part il the controversy as to
wsges ard referred to 4 statement by Sho-
hcao ard the SAFE Department. corsal4r
reports. TO show that the wages paid oper-
sives in ,atson fssoriss one of the mos,
higtls prct eted indnstries) are not only
nominaily eiEser in England thsn ia the
United Sta'es, but were, 10 view of the
! relative sxesn es of living ia both eoun
ries. infinitely higher.
Alirich said those statements aud report,
had been disproved q thousand times in the
: Senate, on the stump and ia the press.
The discussion took 4 general tIrn and
wa. partiei psted in OF one side by Ald,ieh
Stew4rt. Frye, Hisccck, Mitchell, Plat;
Higtias, HarIey. and Stockbridge. and on
the other ty Carlisle, Gray. and Vest The
! Isi,er cited Blaine. FreIinghuysn, ar'
l Evxr.s a. Secretaries Of State in proof c
the assertion Of lAbo- in America was II
view of is superiority, ard cheaper thai
lshor in other countries, when Aldrch re
Piled to BIN. Vest declared that the Senate
from Rhode Island Had lost his urua
eooinsss and was aoundering in tie de
0 bate
stoekbr;dzs made an explanation as =
Z III. ztatenr.r. mad. hz N..t n-. s.reral NJ.