Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-08-27
NATIONS CAPITAL.
Quorum Hard To Find In The
House.
One Minute There Is One, Another
There Isn't.
Senate Limits Tariff Debats-PartY
Vets on Lard.

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consent the Senate agreed 10 the proposi
tion Of Mr.. Aiirieh in regard TO closing ths
| debate on the tariff bill.
| A substitute for the House bankruptcy
bill was reported by Mr.. Hoar from the iu,
| lliclary committee and placed on the calen
dar.
The conference repor, on the sundr,
civil appropriation bill was presented and
read.
In the Senate the tariff bill was taken up
the question being on the lead Paragraph
to which Coke had offered an amendment
TO make lead extracted from silver ore,
free of duty. Plumb had offered one re
dacing the duty On lead ore aud lead dros,
| from l-2 cents to "a cent.
| Before proceeding with the psrsg,aph
| Plumb gave notice OF an amendment TO the
blu, which WAS read. IL is, with few
notifications, the bill for reciprocity with
Canada introduced By Buiterworth in the
| House, Dec. Is, 1859.
| Sanders opposed the two amendments
| He spoke of the miners cabins in Montana
as kind of Johns Hopkins University OF
| Political Science, and said those miners
asked no. to be brought intS contact with
the poems Of Mexico, lahorer. who bull, up
no homes, sought no civilization, lived on
the cheapest and most spontaneous products
Of Nature, and conteDted themselves with
the pitiance paid them as wages.
| Carlisle asked Sanders how many mines
in Montana that produced iilxing ores and
how many produced dry ores. He wanted
TO see how much of the lead mining liter
es,s there were to be benefited and how
much injured by the proposed legislation.
| Sanders admitted that the question was
very fair but said that he could not an
swer il. He only knew from observation
and that had comprehended thousa OF
mines that very considerable per cent
of them produced lead ores. single
mining company in Montana which, accord
ing to current testimony, produced lead
ores enough for all the sme!ting re-
| qaired id that State.
| rlumbs amendment to reduce the duty
on lead ore from - cents to "a OF a
cent a pound, reiected-yeas, is; nays.
2S. Plumb was the only republican Sena-
tor who voted for it.
Cokes smmendmert making | al cx-
trscted from silver ore free of duty Wai r.
| jectel yeas, 10; nays, 20. 4 sttiet pats
vote. Plumb did rot vote.
| No other amendment was ffered 10 par
agrsph and none to the next two para
/ graphs lead in Iigs ,nts 4 pound al 4
lead in sheets l-2 cents pound.
| Paragraph l96 having been resched, re-
| lating to metallic mineral sub tances in tile
crude state not specially provided for.
| Blair spoke against the amsndmeu. re-
ported BY the finance committee, striking
out the duty Of So per cent. on mica. and
1t went over without action.
| Paragraph l91 puis duty of three cents
round on Grade nickel.
The finance committee recommends the
striking out Of that paragraph.
Vest congratulated the finance commit, 4
on its action in relation 10 nickel ore. ana
| expressed the hope that the committee
would pursue the same line as To iron. cop
per and her raw materials. There was d
curious little history about it. given Ia an
article in the New York Evening Post
{showing that Joseph Wharton. who owned
the ouly nickel mine in the country, was
counsc cted vito it,, and he asktd to have
the articles read
The article having been read. the nickel
ore paragraph was struck out.
The next paragraph, relating to nit k |
and nickel oxide was amended under II 4
report of the finance committee. by reduc
ing the duty from 10 10 s cents per pound
No amendments were adopted, though
some were offered By Mcpherson, to para
graphs fton las to 213, relating TO pe :,
Tenholtlers, pms, quicksilver and type
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