St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-13
Senator Moody Wants the
Product Of South Dakota
Tin Mines Protected.
Indications That the Senate
Proposes to Shelve the
Force Bill.
SalvadOrianS Insult the Stars
and Stripes, and Quickly
Make Amends.
Uncle Sam Will Begin the
Purchase of Bar Silver
This Morning.

WASHING TON, Aug. 12.-The senate
to-day passed the house bill to extend
the census laws so as to obtain informa-
ton from unincorporated express COM
panieS Mr.. Edmunds again offered
his order to limit debate on the tariff
bill, and Mr.. Blair offered a resolution
to permit the previous question to be
ordered after two days debate. Both
were laid On the table. The rest of the
day was devoted to the discussion of the
tin plate paragraph in the tariff bill.
During the debate Mr.. Moody said he
was opposed to a tariff levied exclu-
sively for revenue on any articles eX-
cept those of luxury. He regarded
tariff imposed indiscrlminately on
imports for the sole purpose
of revenue, as tax, and
as vicious mode of leveying tax.
But he was in favor of the imposition of
duty on foreign products that entered
OF might enter into successful competi-
tion with those of the United States,
for the specific purpose of protecting
and promoting such production by the
American people, leaving the revenue
derived therefrom to be merely Incl
dental. And he would gauge the du-
ties to be imposed in proportion to the
rate of actual labor involved, even go
ing so far as absolutely excluding the
foreign product where it could be sue
cessfully supplied by home labor. On
the question of tin and tin plate. Mr..
Moody said he was advised by major
ity OF the finance committee that an
amendment was to be offered, I'M
posing a duty. on and after the
1st of January. 1892, on black oxide
of tin and on bar, block and pig tin; and
he asked MIR. Aldrich whether that was
SO. Mr.. Aldrich aSsented to the correct
ness of the statement. Mr.. Moody said
that there was no provision in the bill
of more importance to the people of his
own state. and to large portion OF the
people of the United States than the
provision that would impose a duty OF
four cents pound on metallic tin. With
in the last six years the most extensive
and probably the richest tin mines in
the world had been discovered in the
| Black Hills in South Dakota and Wyom-
ing. There were three tin mining dis
tricts there. Companies had been Or
sganized, and were ready to commence
the necessary improvements as
soon as it was demonstrated that
thew were not to be crushed
out by foreign combinations. Not only
was the tin, but the iron for the tin
plate and the coal cut of which the coke
was to be made for the fuel to do the
work with. Within radius of c few
hundred miles there could be success
fully established the manufacture of
tin plates. Whatever he could do. as
member of the national congress, to
constitute, create Oh develop manufac-
tnring industries in the West, he
would do.
The tariff bill was laid aside tenn
porarily, and MI Allison, from the COM
mittee on appropriations, reported back
the house bill to continue temporarily
the appropriations for the support OF
the government, and it went over until
tomorrow.
The tariff bill was again taken up, and
the debate on the tin-plate paragraph
was resumed.
Without action upon it, the senate,
after an executive session, adjourned.