Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-08-13
Poor Progress With the Tariff Bill in
the Senate.
STILL STUCK ON TIN PLATE.
And the House Does Not Seem in
a Business Mood Either.
SEVERAL NOMINATIONS CONFIRMED.
STILL STUCK ON TIN PLATI
SEVERAL NOMINATIONS CONFIRMED
SENATE.


A petition of citizens of Oklahoma praying
for relief was presented and referred to the
committee on appropriations.
Mr.. Hale offered a resolution (Which was
agreed to) directing the Secretary of the Navy
to Investigate the alleged false or counterfeit
stamping of test pieces of steel plate for
United States naval vessels at the Linden steel
works, Pittsburg
The Senate then proceeded to the considera-
ton of executive business.
Inc doors were reOpened at lilo.
The resolution offered by Mr.. Edmunds yes
terday limiting debate the tariff bill was Land
before the Senate, and was, on motion of Mr.
Aldrlch (who said that Mr.. Edmunds was aware
OF his purpose) referred to the committee on
rules.
MIR. Blairs resolution authorizing provision
Tor the previous question took the same direc-
ton, on his own motion.
MR.. QUAYs RESOLUTION REFERRED
Mr.. Quay's resolution providing, among
other things for vote on the tariff bill on the
3Oth OF August, was also Con motion of Mr..
Aldrlch) referred to the committee on rules
after statement by Mr.. Quay that he under
stood the reservation of general appropriation
bills to include the river and harbor bin.
Mr.. Hoar offered an amendment to Mr..
Quays resolution so as to include the federal
election bill among the measures to be taken
up for consideration at the present session.
Referred to the committee on rules.
EXTENDING THE APPROPRIATION BILLS.
The House joint resolution extending the
provisions of existing laws providing for tenn
porary expenditures of the government to 29th
OF August was laid before the Senate.
Mr.. Plumb suggested, in u tone of sarcasm,
whether 1t would not be Just rs well (instead of
having appropriation bills prepared and con-
sldered every SESSION. to pass joint resolution
extending the appropriations from year to
year, and he asked Mr.. Allison whether the
Senate was not likely to come to that next ses-
sion.
MR.. ALLISON REPLIED
that no Senator could doubt the necessity of
the extension OF appropriations at this time.
The contest in the sundry civil bill was one in
which the Senate took deep interest Cthe irri-
CATION survey and the Senate was practically
unanimous about it owing to the fact that that
bill had not reached the Senate until within a
Few days OF the expiration of the last fiscal
year and it had not passed the Senate until
nearly month after the beginning of the
present fiscal year.
1t was because of these delays that the ex-
tension had become necessary, and what was
true OF the sundry civil bill was also true of the
Indian appropriation-biii
Mr.. Dawes remarked that the Senate amend
ments to the Indian appropriation bill had
been left unacted on in the House for fourteen
VI ulteen Gays until yesterday.
Mr.. Reagan-"In the deliberatiyo BODY"
THE JOINT RESOLUTION PASSED.
The joint resolution was passed.
THE TARIFF BILL
was then taken up. the pending question being
on Mr.. Vests amendment Offered Monday
reducing the duty on tin plates from 21O
cents to / cent pound the existing rate, and
MIR. Gray continued his argument against the
nrOnnsed in nft
ment. His opening remarks turned upon
the marked decline in the price Of the
plate for the last ten years and quoted from
David II. Wells book, Recent Economic
Changes" attributing that remarkable steady
decline" to the reduction of the cost of metal
tin, to the improvement in the manufacture of
iron and the substitution of steel plates for
iron plates and the new processes in the manu-
facture of tin.
'dRoss INACCURACIES"
Mr. Aldrich, in order to show 1.-The gross in
accuracies" in Mr.. Wells statement. quoted
from table published by Henry Nash Il Co. of
Liverpool giving the prices of the plates and of
TIN from 1878 to 1887 and showing but little va
Ration in prices. This controversy brought
out a telegram received by Mr.. Plumb from J.
Nj. Melloy Sons of Philadelphia denying a
statement made in the Senate yesterday and
giving the prices of tin plates yearly from jan
uary, 1880, to January, 1890, the decl ease being
continuous from SO cents to 4.O7 cents a
pound.
MR.. GRAY AGAINST THE BILL.
Mr. Gray went on with his argument against
the proposed increase of duty. He pleaded the
cause of the owners of small canning factories
in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and other
states and asked that the increased taxation
should not be taken out of their pockets for the
benefit of bloated syndicate formed to estab-
llsh manufacture not now existing and where
the work was to be done by imported English.
men and Welshmen.
MR. CARLISLE TOOK PART
in the discussion, and citing statement made
before the House committee on ways and
means by Mr.. Untermeyer, that the quantity
of tin plato annually imported into the United
States was 1856, ,692 tons, costing S23 O0O OOO and
that the production OF that material in this
country would give employment to 100000
workmen said that he had made a calculation
of the wages which these workmen would re-
ceive under these conditions
If one-half Of the $4,000, 600 was spent in
wages Cthe other half going for material and
expenses) each one OF the workmen would re-
ceive the magnificent sum of S38. SO per year.
and If the whole amount was paid in wages
each one Of the workmen would receive $76. 66
per year. And that he said, was the sort of
statement On which this legislation WAS asked.
MR.. cARLIsLEs LITTLE SLIP.
MI. AlOrlcu rose 10 ASK question and was
recognized by the ex-Speaker as ''the Senator
from Rhode Island" which produced general
laughter, in which Mr.. Carlisle joined, excus-
ing his little slip on the ground Of force of
habit.
Mr.. Gray resumed his argument He put
the imaginary case of tin plates coming into
this country entirely free of cost, and asked
what the Senator from Rhode Island and the
Pittsburg syndicate would say as to admitting
it. They would say (on the principle for which
they were now contending) that it should not
be admitted; that free tin plate was not
blessing bat the reverse.
What sense, he asked, was there in that; what
Justice, what fairness, what political economy?
And yet that was the principle ON which they
were working
In conclusion Mr.. Gray appealed to repubh-
can Senators in Gods name to raise some por-
ton Of the peoples burden instead Of increas-
ing 1t, and said that if they did they would find
the glad faces of their constituents welcoming
them-a reward which should be sufficient for
the public servant who had tried faithfully to
discharge his high trust and duty.
THE INDIAN APPROPRIATION BILL
The bill was temporarily laid aside and the
conference report on the Indian appropriation
bill was presented and agreed to.
Mn. aoRMAN ON THE TIN PLATE CLAUSE.
The tariff bill having been arain takep mn