Connecticut western news., 1890-09-17
FIFTY-FiRsT CONGRESS.
Condensed Report of the Proceedings l
 the Senate and House.

 condensed Report of the Proceedings In
 the Senate and House.
 WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-In the senate MT. Aldrich's reciprocity amendment to the tariff bill was adopted (S8 to 29). MT. Evarts' proposed substitute for the Ald- rich reciprocity amendment was defeated. It merely directed the president to report to congress when other countries were un- justly discriminating against the products of the United States. MT. Gray's proposed substitute directing the president to de- clare the ports of the United States open to all the products of any country of the American hemisphere upon which no ex- port duties are imposed whenever and so long as the government of such country admitted to the ports thereof, free of all taxes the flour, corn meal, preserved meats, fish, vegetables, rice, lumber, agri- cultural implements, machinery, vessels or boats of iron, steel or wood, etc., prod ucts of the United States, was also re- jected.
 All the Democrats and Senators Ed munds and Evarts voted against the Ald- rich reciprocity amendment, which was as follows:
 That with view to secure reciprocal trade with countries producing the following articles and for this purpose, on and after the first day of July. 1891, whenever and so often the president shall be satisfied that the government of any country producing and exporting sugars, molas- ses, coffee, tea and hides. raw and uncured, or any of such articles, imposes duties or other ex- actions upon the agricultural or other products of the United States, which in view of the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides into the United States he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable he shall have the power and it shall be his duty to suspend, by proclamation to that effect, the pro- visions of this act relating to the free introduc tion of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides, the production of such country, for such time as he may deem just, and in such case and during such suspension duties shall be levied, collected and paid upon sugar, moasses, coffee, tea and hides, the product of or exported from such designated country as follows namely: All sugars not above No IS Dutch standard in color shall pay duty on their polariscopic tests as fol- lows, namely:
 All sugars not above No. IS Dutch standard in color all tank bottoms. syrups of cane juice or of beet juice, melada, concentrated melada, con- crete and concentrated molasses, testing by the polarscope not above 75 degs., seven-tenths of one cent per pound; and for every additional de- gree or fraction of a degree shown by the polari- scope test two-hundredths of one cent per pound additional.
 All sugars above No. IS Dutch standard in color shall be classified by the Dutch standard of color and pay duty as follows, namely:
 All sugar above Mo- l3 and not above No. 10 Dutch standard!of color, 1ss cents per pound
 All sugar above No. 16 and not above No. 20 Dutch standard of color 1ss cents per pound
 All sugars above No. %, Dutch standard of color. cents per pound.
 Molasses testing above 56 degs., { cents per gallon.
 Sugar trainings and sugar sweepings shall be subject to duty either molasses or sugar, as the case may be- according to polariscopic test
 On coffee cents per pound.
 On tea 1J cents per pound.
 Hides. raw uncured, whether dry, salted or pickled Angora goat skins, raw, without the wool unmanufactured, asses' skins, raw or un- manufactured and skins, except sheep skins, with the wool on, 11< cents per pound.
 The sugar and bounty schedules of the tariff bill are to take effect March 1, 1891, and prior to Feb l, 1891, sugar may be refined in bond with payment of duty. All sugars not above 13 Dutch standard were placed on the free list by vote of 35 to 25. MT. Plumb's proposed amendment taxing the dividends of corporations per cent. was rejected. His amendment providing for the appointment of a customs commis- sion of five disinterested persons to study the tariff question was adopted.
 WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-The tariff bill passed the senate by 8 vote of-yeas, 40; nays, 29, at 5:SO p. m. Wednesday. As
 
 adjourned.
 The vote in detail was as follows:
 Yeas-Aldrich, Allen Allison, Blair, Cameront Casey Chandler, Cullom, Davis. Dawes Dixon. Frye, Hawley, Higgins, Hiscoc3x, Hoar, Ingalls,, Jones Nev), McMillan. Manderson, Mitchell, Moody, Paddock, Pierce, Platt, Plumb. Power. Quay, Sanders, Sawyer, Sherman, Spooner, Squire, Stewart. Stoekbridge Teller, Washburn, Wilson Qa- j. Wolcott-40
 Nays-Barbour, Bate, Berry, Blackburn, Blod- gett, Butler, Carlisle Cockrell, Coke. Colquitt, Daniel, Faulkner, German. Gray, Harris, Hearst, som, Reagan. Turpie, Vance, Vest, Voorhees,, Walthall, Wilson (Md.) .)-29.
 The following pairs were announced, the first named in each couple being in favor of the bill: Messrs. Dolph and Brown, Edmuuds and George, Farwell and Payne, Hale and McPherson, Morrill, and Hamp- ton, Stanford and Gibson, Pettigrew and Call.
 Mr. Aldrich moved that the senate insist on its amendments to the house bill and ask for committee of conference.-the con- ference to consist of seven on each side. The motion was agreed to, and Messrs. Aldrich, Sherman, Allison, Hiscock, Mo Pherson, Vance and Carlisle were appoint ed conferrees on the part of the senate. WASHINGTON. Sept. 1b. .- Acting Secre- tary of the Treasury Nettleton authorizes the statement that after conference with senate and house Republican leaders he can say that "it is as sure as any future legislative event can be foreseen that the date for withdrawing goods from bonded warehouses will be fixed at Feb. 1, 1891 1" in the tariff bill when 1t gets into confer ence. Gen. Nettleton says the president concurs in changing the date to Feb. 1.
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