Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-09-06
rs A LOCAL ISSUE.
How the Tariff Is Viewed by the
Senators.
A STRUGGLE OVER WHITE PINE.

Changes Made in the Bill During Yester-
days Consideration Thereof-Breckin-
ridge Appeals In Vain and His Seat in
the House Is yacant-Cooley's Commits
sion Calls Another Railway Down for
Discrimin at on-Enloe and Doorkeep-
era Duty on Tea.
WASHINGTON CITY, Sept 6.-When the
senate began the consideration of the
tariff bill yesterday, Vest offered an
amendment putting hemlock, whitewood,
sycamore, Eastwood, and white pine on
the free list. Henderson moved to strike
out of the amendment the words "hem-
lock, whitewood, sycamore, and bass
wood" leaving the amendment TO apply
only to lumber of white pine. Spooner
asked why yellow pine and other wood
products were TO be left dutiable and the
white pine products of Wisconsin, Michi-
gan, and one or two other states put
on the free lstg The senators from
Minnesota or Kansas or Nebraska who
would vote for this proposition (because
il might make lumber cheaper in those
tates) were free traders, not protection
lists.
A Quotation from Hancock.
Replying to Spooner, Henderson quoted
Gen. Hancock's famous saying that the
tariff was "a local ISSUE and said that,
while he was devoted to the interests of
the whole country, still when his state
urged him TO do what he could to have
white pine placed on the free list, he
nttiA hot 10 -
the ''graspng greed" of the senators
from Wisconsin and Michigan who would
sacrifice the great forests of the country
in the interest of the lumber business.
Paddock said that, so long as he occu-
pied a seat in the senate, he would con-
form TO the desire of his state, so far as
he could do so without injustice.
Evarts argued that local and limited in
terests should not be permitted TO en-
croach on the general principle of prolec-
tion to industry and capital
Gray argued that the tax on lumber
was at war with that principle. The
lumber interest was local, but the inter
est of cheap material for the houses and
furniture OF the people was general and
universal
The whole proposition was rejected.
Mica Not on the Free List.
On motion of Plumb the duty on pine
clap-boards paragraph 2l3) was reduced
from 3 10 81 per 600 The consideration
of the free list WAS resumed. and Blair
argued against the committee amend
ment putting mica on the free list, desir-
ing to have it put back to the dutiabe
list at 80 per cent. Aldrich characterized
Blair's proposition as protection run
mad, but mica was restored at the rate
of IS per cent. ad valorem.
Plumb moved to strike off the free list
paragraph $40 'hides, raw or incurred,
whether dry, sailed or pickled," and ar
gued in support of the motion. Rejected
yeas, Is; nays, %.
Quinine Can Come in Free.
Quay moved TO strike out of the free
list paragraph 665 'sulphate of guinia,
and all aikaloids or salts of cinchona
bark
Aldrich hoped that that would be don e
in order TO give his friends chance to
show their consistency in the cause of
protection. If mica was put on the duti-
able list quinine certainly ought TO be,
one of the principal Ingredients being al
cohOl. on which large revenue.tax was
collected. The vote was taken on the mo-
tion TO strike quinine out of the free list,
and the motion was defeated.
A Law as to Labels
Tin ore and tin was put on the free list
until Jan. l, 1892, and bristles were also
made free, and Aldrich gave notice of a
committee amendment, in lieu of section
g. 1t provides that articles of foreign
manufacture, such as are usually or or
dinarily marked. stamped, brahden, or
labeled; and all packages containing such
of other imported articles, shall be plain
ly stamped, marked branded or labeled,
so as to indicate the country of their
origin and shall not otherwise be ad-
mitted to entry. He also gave notice of
an amendment imposing duty latter
Jan. l, 1891 of 4 cents a pound on black
oxide of tin and on bar, block, and pig
tin.
A Noticeable Fact.
One thing that was noticeable was a
fact that indicated that the tariff is more
of a local issue than would have been adj
mitted when Hancock made his remark.
Whenever product was under discus
sion the senator from the state which pro-
ducedit either said nothing or advocated a
duty on it. This was almost always the
case. The revenue reformer from North
Carolina wanted duty on mica and yell
low pine; western Republican senators
were quite anxious to have white pine