Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-08-08
IN THE SENATE,
Dawes, Inga'ls, Paddock and Plumb Vote
With the Dems.

With the Dems.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.-After some rou-
tine business of little importance, the
senate proceeded to consideration of the
tariff, the pending question being on
Mr.. Morgan's amendment to paragraph
1877, page "a, in regard to iron ore. Mr..
German resumed his argument. The
metal schedule, he said, was perhaps the
most important one in the bill, and the
paragraphs under discussion was prac-
tically key to the whole schedule. The
rate of duty on iron ore to great extent
controls the cost of production of all
iron and steel east of the Alleghenies;
therefore 1t was proper that it should
have full, thorough and complete con-
sideration by the senate. He spoke at
great length IN favor of a reduction of
the duty on bessemer ore, having in
the course of his remarks
colloquies with Messrs Sherman, Spoon
er, Blair Dawes and other senators. Mr..
German said that with reduction of
duty on foreign bessemer ores the re-
suit would be that steel ships would be
built as cheaply in Baltimore as Oh the
Clyde. With that advantage, he said,
the prediction of the great republican
secretary of state would be verified.
Mr.. Blaine had said, and said truthfnlly,
that within the confines of the bill, there
was not single item or line that would
open market to the agricultural pro-
ducts of the United States.
Mr. Frva--'Iha ca1ratarv of Etata hnc
been quoted several times in the senate
as arguing that the Mckinley bill now
did not. in any of its features, open up
markets. Now the secretary of state
was dealing, in that letter, entirely with
foreign and not with home markets. And
it will be clear to any senator who has
read the letter that he intended to have
said, and expected to have been under
STOOD that in the Mckinley bill there
was nothing to open up foreign markets.
l do not understand that in the protec-
tive tariff there is an especial purpose to
open up foreign markets; it is the pur-
pose of the protective tariff to create a
home market, which is worth infinitely
more than any foreign market, and
which is, undoubtedly, the understand
ing of the secretary of state, and not the
purpose to reflect at all on the Mckinley
bill, except so far as that there was moth
ing in it to open up foreign markets, and
he desired to have something put in it,
in the way of reciprocity, by which for
eign markets might be opened up.
Mr.. Butler-Then T understand that
the secretary of state was in favor of
opening foreign markets to American
mar rufacturers?
Mr.. Frye said that Mr.. Blaine wanted
especially to extend the market for
American provisions and breadstntfs.
Mr.. Morgan withdrew his amendment
| in order to allow Mr. German to offer
one, and Mr.. German thereupon moved
to amend by reducing the duty on iron
ore from Is cents to so cents per ton.
Mr.. German accepted the amendment
The amendment was rejected yeas, 21
nays. 10. Messrs. Dawes, Ingalls,. Pad
dock and Plumb voted aye with the
democrats. The rest of paragraph 1877
was agreed to, as reported by the finance
committee. Mr.. Vance moved to reduce
the duty on pig iron paragraph 12S)
from S6 to SIS per ton. Without dispos-
ing of the amendment the senate ad-
journed