Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-10
ON ITS PASSAGE.
The Tariff Bill Reaches the
Last Stage.
The Final Vote to Be Taken on
1t Today.
Numerous Changes In the Bill as 1t
Left the House.
Sugar Bounty and Reciprocity Provisions
Incorporated, But the Silk Bounty
Dropped.
Associated Press Dispatches. !

IhS PChuliiS qucStlOH UcilS ou 0lUoOH
amendment to reduce the sugar test
from so degrees by polarioscope to 76
degrees. The amendment was rejected.
In reply to question from Edmunds,
the presiding officer (Ingalls) ruled that
under the arrangement cutting off the
debate today, the answering or asking
of questions by senators would be pro-
hibited.
Gibson offered two other amendments
to the sugar section. Both were re-
jected.
Carlisle moved to strike out of the sugar
section all the paragraphs relating to
bounty. Rejected-yeas, %; nays, "A;
party vote.
Gibson moved to strike out the sugar
section and substitute the sugar clauses of
the Mills bill. Rejected-yeas, 25 nays,
35.
Eustis moved to insert provision
that the bounty shall apply to all sugar
produced in 1890. Rejected
Pasco moved to amend the paragraph
relating to oranges by fixing special
rates for oranges imported in December,
January, February or March. Reject
ed.
Aldrich moved to insert proviso that
imported merchandise deposited in any
bonded warehouse prior to the 1st of
August, 1890, may be withdrawn for
consumption at any time prior to the 1st
of November, 1890, by the payment of
the duties in force prior to the passage
of this act
Plumb moved as substitute to
Of h. 10
year from the passage of this act.
Rejected-yeas, %; nays, "a.
Plumb moved to insert the 1st of
January, 1891, instead of the Is. of
November, 1890. Rejected
Aldrichs amendment was agreed to-
yeas 32, nays 27.
Aldrich then moved the reciprocity
amendment PROPOSED by him September
1st, and accepted verbal modification
suggested by Hoar.
Evarts moved as substitute, the
amendment proposed by him at last
nights session, and which merely directs
the president to communicate the facts
to congress. Rejected-yeas 81, navs
"a. All the Democrats voted in the
affirmative, as did also Dolph, Evarts
and Saunders.
Edmunds also moved modification
of Aldrich's amendment, similar in
sense, Rejected-yeas g. nays SO.
The six affirmative votes were given
by Cameron, Davis, Edmunds, Frye,
Paddock and Plumb.
Edmunds moved to strike out of
Aldrich's amendment the words ''on
and after the 1st day of July, 1891. Re-
jected-yeas 20, nays "a.
Gibson moved to insert wool in AL
4 D. D4,A
nays 3S.
Gray moved as a substitute for Aid
rich's amendment, section directing
the president, without further legisla-
ton, to declare the ports of the United
States free and open to all products of
any country of the American hemi-
sphere, upon which no export duties are
imposed, whenever and so long as the
government of such country admits to
the ports thereof, free of all national,
provincial, municipal and other taxes
flour, corn-meal, preserved meat, fish,
vegetables, rice, lumber, agricultural i'm
plements, machinery, vessels or boats of
iron, steel or wood, ETC., products of the
United States. Rejected-yeas, 26 nays,
3S.
Aldrick's amendment was then ad-
opted-yeas. 81; nays, %.
Aldrich's amendment reads: THAT
with view to secure reciprocal trade
with countries producing the following
articles, and for this purpose, and after
the first day of July, 1891, whenever and
so often as the president shall be satis-
fed that the government of any country
producing and exporting sugars. mo-
iasses, coffee, tea and hides, raw and
uncured or any such articles, imposes
init nt L
tural or other products of the United
States, which. in view of the free intro
duction of such sugar, molasses, coffee,
tea and hides into the United States, he
may deem to be reciprocally
unequal or unreasonable, he shall
have the power. and it shall
be his duty to suspend by proclamation
the effect and provisions OF this act re-
lating to the free introduction of such
sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides,
the production of such country, for such
time as he shall deem them just, and in
such case and during such suspension,
duties shall be collected and paid upon
sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides, the
product of and exported from such desig-
mated country as follows, viz: All su-
gars not above No. 13 Dutch standard in
color, shall pay duty on their polaris-
copic test as follows, VIZ: All sugars not
above No. 13 Dutch standard in color,
all tank bottom syrups of
cane juice or OF beet juice,
melada, concentrated melada, concrete,
and concentrated molasses, testing by
polariscope not above rs degrees, seven
tenths of one cent per pound, one
for every additional degree or fraction of
a degree shown by polariscope test, two
hundredths of one cent per pound addi-
tional; all sugars above No. 13, Dutch
standard in color, shall be classified and
pay duty as follows, namely: All sugars
above No. 13 and not above No. IA,
Dutch standard of color, one and
three-eighths cents per pound all sugars
above No. 16 and not above No. 20,
Dutch standard of color one and five
eighths cents per pound; all sugars
above No. 20 Dutch standard of color,
two cents per pound; molasses testing
above 56 degrees, four cents per GAL
on, sugar DRAWINGS and sugar sweeping,
shall be subject to a duty either as
molasses or sugar, as the case may be,
according to polariscopic test; on cof-
fee, three cents per pound; hides raw or
uncured. weather dry, salted or picked,
Angora goat skins, raw without wool,
unmanufactured asses skins, raw, or
unmanufaciured skins, except sheep