The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-29
THE DEBATE RESUMED.
Senator Aldrich Presents Two
Tariff Bill Amendments.
RECIPROCITY PROVIDED FOR.
Eleven Pages of the Document Dis
posed Of Yesterday.
RECIPROCITY PROVIDED FOR.
A Compromise Measure Agreed Upon by
Conferees on the Land Grant For
feiture BnI-Houss Land Bill in the
Senate and Referred.


suspension OF work on the Lafayette statue
was amended to provide for the selection of
another site and adopted.
Reagan today introduced substitute for
his amendment to tine tariff bill proposing
reciprocity arrangements with Canada and
Mexico for free manufactured articles and
mineral products. The substitute included
agricultural products.
Conferences report on the railroad land
forfeiture bill was presented and ordered
printed.
Debate on the tariff bill was resumed and
Aldrich gave notice of two amendments
which he would Offer One is q new sec
ton stating that exemptions from duty OF
sugar, coffee, molasses, tea and hides shall
be made with view 10 secure reciprocal
trade with the countries produc-
the president to suspend by pro-
clamation the provisions of the Law
for the free introduction of sugar, molasses,
coffee. tea and hides, the products of
countries whose Law may be reciprocaily
unequal and unjust The duties on sugar
are to be fixed as under the existing Law.
The duty on coffee is to be cents per
pound. on tea 10 cents per pound, and on
q proviso TO the fish paragraph, and il
subjects fish to duty of X cents per
pound when exported from or the product
of any county whenever and only so long
as American fishing vessels shall be ad-
mitsed into all ports of such countries to
purchase supplies. and to land fish for
shipment in bond to the United States
without restraint
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resumed, the paragraph taken up relating
to the amendment of reducing duty on
rice. The paragraph was finally amended
by making the duty on cleaned rice 2
cents per pound, on uncleaned ~ cents,
on paddy u cents. and rice -four, rice meal
and broken rice u cent per pound, this
being a modification of the committees
amendment
graphs relating to rice, rice -four, wheat,
wheat -four, butter, cheese and fresh mink.
Carlisle moved to strike out OF the para
graph relating to condensed milk the
works sugar of milk. cents per pound;"
rejected.
The committee amendment to strike out
the proviso for drawback on sugar was
agreed 70.
passed over in its reg,,.sr order, was taken
up 1t relates to railway bars, and the
committee amendment, which reouces the
rate from 6-l0 to 5-l0 cents per pound, was
agreed to.
The paragraph relating to shotguns,
which was also passed over without action,
was taken up. the question being on the
amendment OF the finance com mmittee, to
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cent. in the House bill specific duty, ac-
cordIng to value, with IS per cent ad
valorem in addition. The committee
amendment was modified by reducing the
duty on first-class shotguns valued at not
more than S. from 50 to si.50; agreed to.
The regular course of the bill was re-
sumed at the heading Farm and Field
Produets-" Plumb moved to increase the
duty on castor beans or seeds from 30 TO so
cents per bushel; agreed 10.
The committee amendment to reduce the
duty on faxseed. linseed and other oil
seeds from 30 TO 25 cents per bushel was, at
the suggestion OF Aldrich. rejected.
The paragraph relating 10 hops was
passed over without action, German hay-
ing proposed to reduce the duty on hops
from is to Is cents per pound.
The next paragraph to reduce the duty on
garden seed from 40 TO 20 per cent ad va
lorem was agreed TO.
The substitute reported from the finance
committee TO the paragraph relating TO the
duty on tin cans containing shell fish was,
on the suggestion OF Aldrich, disagreed to,
leaving it as it came from the House.
The substitute of the finance committee
on the paragraph relating to oranges,
lemods and lines was agreed to. Party
lines were entirely disregarded in the vote,
many Republican senator's voting against
the committee amendments and many
Democratic senators voting for it.
In the paragraph relating to extract of
meat, the clause that dutiable weights
shall include the extract and the tins or
jars was on motion of Carlisle struck out.
The committee amendment putting Ge1yas
az cent per pound was, at the suggestion
of Aldrich. rejected, and an additional
paragraph inserted putting the duty at \
cent per pound on meat grease and decyus.
Other paragraphs were amended on the
report of the committee by reducing the
duty on chocolate and prepared Cocoa from
TO cents per pound.
In the paragraph relating TO salt the
finance committee recommended striking
out the provision for rebates, Mcpherson
moved 10 strike out the whole paragraph
taxing salt u cents per l00 pounds in
packages and cents in bulk. so as to leave
salt on the free list The vote on McPher-
sons motion was. yeas Is. nays -, no
quorum
The bill was laid aside, between ten and
eleven pages having been disposed OF.
The House land bill was presented to
the Senate, and reported 10 the committee
en- agriculture. Adjourned.