Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-22
RUSHED THROUGH.
The Mckinley Tariff Bill
Passed.
The House Turned Into a
PandemOnium.
Some of the Amendments to the Bill
Rejected.
The Vote on the Passage of the Bill Con-
Quoted on Strict Party Lines.
l62 to lao.
Associated Press Dispatches.


ton this morning, instructed Carlisle to
offer in the house motion to recommit
the tariff bill to the ways and means
committee, with instructions to report
it back, reducing taxation from the ex-
isting rates. OF course it was not ex
pected that the motion would prevail,
but the purpose of it's submission was to
place the democrats on record as en-
deavoring to carry out the views con-
tanned in their national platform.
Pandemoniu um in the Honse.
The scene in the house this morn
ing was confusing, if not exciting the
object of the members on both sides
seeming to be to outvie each other in
creating noise, rather than to give any in
telligent consideration to the tariff bill.
1t was impossible to understand what
was being said, applause and laughter
and cries of "louder" drowning the voices
of the speakers. No respect was given to
rules no attention was paid to the re-
cognition of the chairman, and uproar
was the order of the hour.
Last Whirl at the Bill.
When the house first met this morn
ing and went into committee of the
whole on the tariff, Baker, of New York,
offered an amendment providing that all
articles of importation to the United
States, whether embraced in the free
list or otherwise, shall pay no less rate
of duty than imposed by the country of
export on like articles imported into it
from the United States.
Butterworth on His Ear.
Butterworth opposed the amendment,
and said he regretted that there was no
opportunity to ascertain the concensus Of
opinion on his own side of the house
touching this. Democratic applause. The
committee of the whole had proceeded
along the lines of the bill for a number
of days; then the gentlemen of the
committee ON ways and means had taken
the floor and held it with amendments
until nearly the last hour, so that
amendments which other gentlemen
might desire to submit could not have
the consideration necessary to determine
what the concensus OF opinion was. 1t
was not fair that the ark of the republican
covenant was committed to Jew, and
he regretted that there had not been
that conference which would have en-
abled members to prune the bill.
Brown, of Michigan, said the time for
debate had been frittered away by the
other side. He was in favor OF the bill
because it was carrying out pledges made
to the American people. Applause.
Reported to the House.
All this time the house was in the
greatest confusion, in the midst ofwhich
the hour of noon arrived. The commit
tee arose and reported the bill to the
house.
Mckinley demanded the previous
question on the bill and amendments.
The democrats demanded the yeas and
nays, and the previous question was
ordered yeas 161, nays 143.
Amendments Read in Detail.
The amendments were then read in
detail.
The first amendment on which a sepa-
rate vote was demanded was one chang
ing the phraseology OF the tin-plate
clause. Adopted by narrow margin
yeas $50, nays 149.
The next vote was equally close, but
this time the democrats were victorious,
the amendment fixing the duty on jute
yarn at 35 per cent being defeated-yeas
l43, nays 144. The duty as fixed by the
bill is 80 per cent.
The next amendment, that to bring
Russian camePs hair into class of the
wool schedule, was agreed to-yeas 143,
nays 1873.
The amendment providing that the
duty on woolen and worsted yarns,
valued at more than 80 cents per pound,
shall be two and one-half times the duty
on unwashed wool of the frst-class, and
35 per cent ad valorem, was rejected
1877, nays 146. The bill now fixes the
duty at twice the duty on unwashed
wool of the tirst-class, and 35 per cent ad
yalorem.
The amendment providing that on
woolen and worsted goods and all manu-
factured wool and worsteds, not other
wise provided for, valued at not more
than 30 cents per pound, there shall be
imposed duty three times the duty i'm
posed on pound of unwashed wool Of
the frst-class, and 40 per cent ad valorem,
was rejected-yeas 143; nays 146. This
leaves the duty at twice the duty on un-
washed wool and 40 per cent ad valorem.
Voted With the Democrats.
The republicans who voted with the
democrats on wool and worsted goods
and yarn amendments were: Anderson,
of Kansas; Comstock, Dolliver, Dun
well, Featherstone, Flick, Henderson, Of
Iowa; Kerr, of Iowa; Lacey, Lind
Struble, Sweeney and Taylor, of Illinois.
An amendment imposing duty of 80
per cent. ad valorem on all manufactures
OF silk not specially provided for, pro
viding that all such manufactures OF
which the wool or hair of the camel,
goat, or like animals, is a component
material, shall be classified as manufac-
lures OF wool, was agreed to-yeas 155,
nays 142.
The vinegar amendment, adopted last
night in committee of the whole, was
adopted-yeas 124, nays 3S.
Democrats ON Record.
This was the last amendment, and the
engrossment and third reading of the bill
having been ordered, Carlisle offered the
following amendment
Resolved, That the pending bill be re-
committed to the committee on ways
and means, with instructions TO report
the same back to the house at the
earliest possible day, so amended as to
reduce the revenues of the government
by reducing the burdens of taxation OF
the people, instead of reducing duties by
imposing prohibitory rates of taxation
upon imported goods Democratic ap-