, 1890-08-29
ALDRICH's AMENDMENT
The Rhode Island Senator's
Ideas of Reciprocity.
Party Lines Disregarded in the
Senate Yesterday.
House Republicans Mutilate
the Eight Hour Law.

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ton providing for the suspension of work
on the Lafayette statue was amended SO
as to provide for the selection of another
site and adopted.
The debate on the tariff bill was re-
slmed. Aldrich gave notice of two
amendments he would offer. One Is a
new section stating that the exemptions
from duty Of sugar. coffee, molasses, tea
and hides are made with the view of re-
c%iprocal trade with the countries produo
ing those articles, aud it authorizes the
president to suspend by proclamation the
provisions of the law for the free intro
duction of sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and
hides, which are the product of countries
whose laws may be rcciprocally unequal
and unjust. The duties on g are to
be fixed as under the existing law. The
duty on coffee is to be three cents a
pound; on tea ten cents a pound, and
on hides one and a half cents a pound.
The second amendment subjects fish to a
duty of one and a half cents a pound 20
long as American fishing vessels will be
admitted into all ports OF such countries
to purchase 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 rice, the
amendments reported by the finance com
mittee being to reduce the duty on cleaned
rice from two TO one and one-half cents
per pound; on uncleaned rice, from one
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and on rice flour, rice meal and broken
rice, from one. halt to one fourth Of a cent
per pound. Finally the paragraph was
amended by making the duty on cleaned
rice two cents per pound, on uncleaned
rice one and one-fourth cents, on paddy
three-fourths of a cent, and on rice -four,
rice meal aud broken rice one-iourth of a
cent per pound, this being a modification
OF the committees amendment. Two
amendments were offered TO the para
craps relating to rice. rice -four, wheat,
wheat -four, butter, cheese and fresh
milk.
Carlisle moved to strike out of the par
agraph relating to condensed milk the
words. sugar of milk. eight cents per
pound" Rejected.
The committee amendment to strike
out the proviso Tor a drawback on sugar,
was agreed to.
At this point paragraph 1885 (which
was passed over in its regular order) was
taken up. 1t relates to railway bars, and
the committee amendment. which reduces
the rate from six-tenths TO ive-tenths of a
cent per pound, was agreed to.
The paragraph relating to shot-guus,
which was also passed over without action.
was taken up, the question being on the
amendment of the finance committee to
substitute for the ad valJrem rate of
thirty five per cent in the house bill spe,
ci6c duties according to values with
thirfy-five per cent ad valorem in add.
ton. The committee amendment was
modified by reducing the duty on first.
class shot=guns, valued at not more than
So, from 81 to ST. so. Agreed to.
The regular course of the bill was re-
stunned at the heading farm aud field pro.
ducts.
Plumb moved to increase the duty OF
castor beans or seeds from thirty-two tC
nifty cents per bushel. Agreed to.
The committee amendment to reduce
the duty on fax seed, liaseed and other
oil seeds from thirty to twenty five cents
per bushel was. at the suggestion o.
Aldrich. rejected.
The paragraph relating to hops was
passed over without action, German bay.
ing proposed to reduce the duty on hop;
frem fifteen to eight cents per pound.
The next paragraph, reducing the duty
OF garden seeds from 40 to 20 per cent
ad yalorem, was agreed to.
The substitute reported from the finance
committee for the paragraph as to the
duty on tin cans containing she'll. fish was,
at the suggestion of Aldrich, disagreed
to, leaving the paragraph just as it came
from the house.
The substitute of the finance committee
Tor the paragraph as to oranges, lemons
and lines was agreed to.
Party lines were entirely disregarded in
the vote, many Republican senators vot.
Ing against theecommlttee amendment
and many Democratic senators for it,
In the paragraph relating to salt the
hnane committee recommended striking
out the proviso for rebate.
MCPHERSON moved to strike out the
whole paragraph taxing salt twelve cent
per 100 pounds in packages and eighl
cents In bulk 70 as to leave salt on the
free list, The vote on McPherson's mo
tlon was-yeas ID. nays 22-no quorum
The bill was laid aside, between ter
and eleven pages being disposed of today
The house lard bill was presented L
the senate and referred to the committee
on agriculture. Adjourned.