Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-08-12
NATIONS CAPITAL.
Shall Or Shall Not The Duty
On Tin Plate
Be Reduced PA Long Debate On II
in The Senate,
Which AdlouIns Without Action
But Little Done In Houss.

I page u, 10 reduce the additional du'y on
iron or steel hoops, cut 10 leng,ls for
bsiing purpose', from elO TO l-i0 of a
cent per pound. Re Rsjtetei-yess. Is. nays.
20 Three republicans, Ingalls,, Paddock
and Plumb, voted in the affirmative.
! Merherson moved 10 xmend the para
/ graph by making the duty en- iron or steel
hoops 30 per ceut al vxlorem, instead of
| ! cent. i-i0 or ! Is cents = pound Re
/ jeeiei without a division No other ame nd.
ment offered in paragraph 1884.
Har,grsyh lSi as to railway cars was
at the sugge,tion of Mcpherson. allowed to
| pass over for the Present An anne meudmeni
reducing duties provided 10 paragraph lS6
! common or block sheet. of iron or steel
was offered by Mcpherson ami rejected
without a division.
| Psrseraph l37 as to timed plate Was
| reached, snd Mcpherson read from the
| protests from the Canned Goods A.socis-
! tion of New Jersey, sgsinst the proposed
/ increase of the duty on timed plste
| Ht3t moved 10 reduce the rate from .
10 cts. per lb., II e.. present duty.
| Dawes did NOT think the exis,cg duty
| could be justified. Tin plate should either |
| be on the free list or such duty imposed as
would induce it's pro iuction in the United
States. The present duty Of one cent a
I pound Was n tax upon the consumer and
went into the pocket of the for,ign pro-
ducer. The United States had all the ma
terisls within Its own borders; had tin in
| abundance IN its mountains; bad the gen
! ias aud KIN of It's mechanics II home
produc. Vas alta nsble he was for home
| product every time.
| The people Of the United States paid
S2l ,0UD 0Cu to foreign countries for lin
p.stcs, in addition 10 - 900 900 duty whio h !
The fore gAees were atla TO charge ON their |
lin pilates because the nit,d States had
nothing TO ct mpete with them. The quc, |
,ion was whether American people should
pay tribute all the days cf their lives to
foreign TN plate producers. Ii was pro- |
posed that The American people should lie |
down at the feet of the foreign producer of |
articles Of universal consumption and sa,
that hereafter, their wealth of tin should |
sleep forever in the ni)untains of Dakota
| that the manufacturers of tin plate should |
seek other emplo yment, and the American
people should continue TO be tr butte payer
to foreign producers. There WAS no more |
patriotic element in the tariff bill thnn the |
honest, reasonable effort to emsncipate the |
people of the nited States from thralldom |
| 10 British manuf icturers
| Plumb said that few dsysago the Senator |
from Massachusetts voted with him to re- !
duce the duty ON iron ore. The next day |
tic Senator go. a thorough bas,irg from |
New ! ok paper (Fribune) tor joining the |
! free traders, ami since then he had been /
| trying to get himself back mo line.
| Dawes said the position he had taken |
today was the position he had occupied in |
the Senate ard House Tor many years.
| Wlsun, OF Ma land, opposed an in-
creased duty on tin plate, he said it never
before had been proposed in this or any |
other country, TO impose virtusl'y prohib- |
| tive duty on any article of commerce. |
toward whicn the entire body of the people |
| bore such relation as thai sustained by |
the American Icopl. toward plsrc. Not
.ingle pound Of the article now manufac-
tured in the United States couli not he
used until the present high duty of one
cent pound equal to - IL per cent ad
vsl)rem) was increased to > 2-l0 cents
| (equal to 20 per cent?.
| He said the repre- sentaiives of MARYLAND |
| h i implored the Senate as an act simple |
justice not TO bring bankruptcy and ruin /
on Ia, thousands of American citizens en- /
gagged in the aiming ipteretts in thst State |
al d not drive ten thousand out of employ
ment, in order TO enable the capitalist, to
| form new trust on tiopsie, and add mil /
lions to their already Overlooking Golfers.
Morgan argued against the proposed duty |
on tin pate and said it was the first in
stance IN which Congress had deliberately |
SET to voIk TO plant seeds of ildu,try
which did not exist AMI f. rtl n them with |
money taxed out of the peoIlc large and /
| that no, for the tcnt f., in Any sense, for
| The people but for the teneft Of hose col,
I ar.1 ii, 4
power To use the tex hus levied ana ali It's |
| ncidenials 10 bull themselves up into |
greater wealth.
| Tte demand mad by leading republics n !
| 81 nators for si'cnting Geta'e hal III. ap- |
icarance of a rootcr action and voul lead
| the county to b l'eve that when debate !
had reached the crisis in hicb ii, s.osi Ins
| of cput Lean leaders were made manifest.
| the closure would be enforced anl silerce
cnyelop he subjct The Senst, is now
considering an amt iment to reduce the
| dry on tinp'aic "a proposti IN more sisnf |
| sant than any ctber rescn'ed in the bi.l |
| II was on it that the democratic Se1ator-
| claimed tey should have fter de1a'e
| The right Of free speech did not iuc nde
the priyile gs of unlimited debate, aud no
such claim sas made. Bnt it had 10 in
| ciBde reasonable time for the inv, stira.
| ton Of every item of the tax bill when
| lc ding for consiaera ion. II it did mol
/ inC llde that, some power should be re-
CURED 10 have the privilege Of designating
the articles IN which debate va, TO be
alio~ed. Vulgar tyranny could not be
| d played more iniect niiy ths1 in a demand
| for silence on hll to tax the people
/ Morgan had not concluded his speech
| when he yielded the Il Ior At six 0 o'clock.
| Eimund7 asked leave to offer an order
| to be printed and go over. The order read
10 TIE effec; tha, during the Consideration
/ Of the tariff bill no Senator shall sneak
/ more Than once aud not lonYct than Ave
/ minutes. or in respect Of any one item or
any one amendmt nt without l. ave of ,he
/ Senate, tuch leave to be granted and or
dered without debate through any other
motion or proceeding except such as re-
litss to procuring a quorum. I It'll the
b II shall have been sore through with to
| the third reading, no general motion in re-
lation To it, other than to take /, up, to be
in order. All sppesls t, t. detern ned at
orce without debate.
| Cockrcil said that any ntimaiion which
| bad been any unnecessary Ielsy on the
| Democra'ic side, in the CT ctn.ideration and
| di,po.itien Of the tariff bill, was Without
one particle Of foundation. He did DO,
expect that forcibie measures. If unlsriak- |
en-. would facilitate the psssage Of the bill
/ lie feared they usuld not.
( Plau intjnsted that the Senator m ght
/ differ ~ 10 what vas u. reasonable and un-
nece ssary delay.
| Eimunds ih ugh; tina. CockrelIs refer.
| ence to f9Icib!e n.eins vas sJmesbat out
I of place. There ~oald never be any force
used in the senate that vss TO: the force
/ of a well ord.red az ani jus, consldera-
ton. Whatever free necessary for the
| Sc nate to do bgsiH So, voulf be he thousbf.
| applied without any g1eIt fear OF the
threats from the Senator from Missouri.
/ Cockrell discl.imed Of mskiag auy thrs as
and saii such ii.iimstiop vas unworthy the
| Senator from Vermont He (CockreilJ
I had j dJne everything be could to facilitste
the transaction Of b1siness often when III
( Senator from VerrasBs was M; yrssert
Morgan eompi,ihed ilsst he h.d teen
t-keB sdvantaze Of by Edmund. in offering
the order ss he Morgan yielded the floor
f; for the motion 10 adjourn
EjmHhds ii he would pithdrsw the
osier nov. snd present it ag.in tomorrow.
I 7 he conference ordered that under the
Indian appropriation bill. Dawes, Plumb.
and Cali b. appointed cohferees on the part
of the Senate
The Senate at 6.i5 adjourned.
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