Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-09-09
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BY ASSOCIATED PRESS TO
THE CITIZEN TODAY.
WIND UP OF DEBATE ON THl:
TARIFF BILL.
REPUBLICANS VOTE A LITTLE
WITH DEMOCRATS.
A RECIPROCITY AMENDMENT
ADOPTED.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-In the senat,
to-day the house bill to extend for tive
years the redemption Of school farms il
Beaufort county, 5. c.. passed and tht
tariff bill was taken up-the pending
question being on Senator Gibson.
amendment to reduce the sugar test from
80 degrees by polariscope to rs degrees
Senator Edmunds inquired whether thu
understanding made as to voting on tho
amendments without debate would pre-
vent senator in offering an amendment
from stating, not to occupy more than
two or three minutes. its object oi
whether it would prohibit the asking OF
the answering of n question.
Tie presiding officer lSenator Ingalls,
said: UNLESS the chair he otherwise in,
structcd by the senate he will hold that
the understanding is that, beginning will,
the consideration of the bill this morning
the action of senate will bc without de-
bate; and that asking or answering an
inquiry would he debate, and is therefore,
inhabited"
Senator Fdmunds: 81 do not think
that it ought to Ike that way, hut can
bear il as well as the rest"
Senator Gibson offered two other
amendments to the sugar section which
were rejected.
Senator Carlisle moved to strike out
a I,
relating to a bounty. Rejected; yeas % /;
nays 3t-a party vote.
Senator Gibson moved to strike out
q he sugar section and to substitute for it
the sugar clauses of the Mills bill. Re
icctcd; yeas %; nays 30.
Senator Eustis moved to insert in the
provisions in the sugar schedule that n
bounty shall apply to all sugar produced
in 1890. Rejected.
Senator Pasco moved to amend the
paragraph relating to oranges by fixing
special rates for oranges imported in De-
ccmber, January, February or March
Rejected.
Senator Pugh stated that lie had been
recorded crroneously in the vote on hides
last Friday. lie had voted in the mega
tive. not in the affirmative.
Senator German moved to reduce the
duty on bichromatc and chromatc of pot.
ash from 3 to 2Is cents per pound. Re
iccted,
Senator Aldrich moved to insert n pro.
yiso that imported merchandise deposited
in any public or private bonded ware
house prior to August 1, 1890, may bc
withdrawn for consumption at any time
prior to November 1. 1890, ON paymcnt
of the duties in force prior to the passage
of this act.
Senator Plumb as a substitute for SEN
ator Aldrich's amendment the proyiso
that goods on hand at the time of the
taking effect of this act may he with.
drawn thercirom at any time within one
wear from that date on payment oi the
duties existing ut the time Of their impor-
tatiou. Rciectcd-yeas %, nays 81.
Senator German moved to- insert in
Senator Aldrich's amendment the 30th
of September for the lst of August. Re
icctcd.
Senator Plumb moved tn insert the st
of January 1891 instead of the list of
November 1890. Rejected.
Senator Aldrich's amendment was
agreed to +; yeas 80, navs 81.
Senator Aldrich then moved on behalf
of the committee. the reciprocity amend
mcnt proposcd by him September 1, and
accented with n verbal modification of il
suggested by Senator uoar.
Senator Evarts moved as a substitute
for Il an amendment proposed by him al
last nights session and which merely di-
rccts the president to communicate the
facts TO congress. Rcicctcd-ycas. ~;