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amendment as to cut nails was rejected-yeas
1S, nays pa strict party vote, even Mr.. Plumb

voting no.
| Mr.. Vance moved to amend paragraph 1es
| (relating to horse shoe nails hob nails and
| other wrought iron or steel nails not especially
provided for) by reducing the rate from
cents pound to 35 per cent sd valorem
The amendment was rejected without the
yeas and NAYS.
Mr.. Vance moved to amend paragraph no
| trelatlng to spikes, washers and horse shoes Of
| wrought iron or steeD by reducing the rate
| valorem. Rejected.
Amendments to reduce the duties in para
graphs Ill 172, l73 (relating to cut tacks and
needles) were offered and rejected with but
| little discussion and without yea and nay
votes.
No amendments were offered to paragraphs
ia, l15 or lie (relating to engraved steel
plates, railway fish plates and rivets Of iron and
steel)
Mr.. Vest offered an amendment to paragraph
III (relatlng to saws) reducing the rates of 8,
l0 and Is cents per linear foot according to
siZes) to 6, 5, and IL cents and reducing ad
valorem rates of 80 and 40 per cent to 20 and
70 per cent. In support of his amendment he
read from the testimony Of Mr.. Emerson,
Pittsburg manufacturer of mill saws and
circular saws (before the ways and means COM
mlttee IN 1889, to the effect that that firm was
able to sell its saws in Canada after paying the
freight and the Canadian duties
Mr.. vANCEs COMMENTS.
Mr.. Vance commented on the fact that Amer
ican manufacturers WIRE supplying saws within
the shadow Of the English factories and in
all the English colonies. and asked why
under those circumstances the duty on saws
should be retained. II that was justice he
wanted to be a man Of iniquity; if that was
political economy he desired to be an igno-
ramus on all those subjects
MR.. VEST ADDED SOME FACTS
in relation to the absorption of competitive
hand-saw factories in the United States by the
firm Of Henry Disston & Sons of Philadelphia,
and to the sale of such saws in foreign coun-
tries cheaper than in the United States But
he admitted that it availed nothing
to bring forth such facts, as they had no effect
on the republican side OF the chamber and as
the bill was bound to be put through the
Senate.
The amendment was rejected-yeas 90 nays
ID (Mr. Paddock voting with the democrats).
WOOD SCREWS
The paragraph 17S (relating to wood screws)
having been reached, Mr.. Carlisle said that
that was another article which American
manufacturers were selling abroad very
much lower than they we're selling
| them at home. He produced price
lists in support of his statement; also letter
| from the American Screw Company Of Provi-
| dence. RI That was another illustration, he
| allowing drawbacks on exported articles.
Mr.. Aldrich. Does the Senator object to that
policy?
Mr.. Carlisle. do, unless it is extended fur
ther. 1 hold that it is not good policy
or justice to give to the American
manufacturer free, or substantially free, raw
material on their exported products and to re.
| fuse 1t on the products consumed at home.
There is where object to your policy. He
went on to say that the Offering OF
American goods abroad at cheaper prices than
| they were offered at home was not confined to
| goods where drawback was allowed on the
| raw material. He presented a bill OF
sale for a gross of knives to a foreign pur-
| chaser. in which the stipulation was printed,
in red ink that the goods shall not be sold in
| the United States.
Mr.. Adrich and Mr.. Platt stepped over to
Mr.. Carlsle's desk and examined the bill OF
| sale which he had produced, and then Mr..
Platt said that the case was not made out until
| 1t was shown that the same goods were
SOLD AT HIGHER PRICE AT HOME.
Mr.. Carlisle said that II Mr.. Plat would deny
the fact he (Nr. Carlisle) would undertake to
furnish proof Of it. And these were state
ments, he said. not by Mr.. Saxton or any other
authorized agents. They showed that (even
where drawback was not allowed) American
| manufacturers were able to sell their goods
| abroad at cheaper rates than at home.
And yet they were demanding not that the
present rate of duty be maintained, but that
it should be inireased enormously, SO as to pre-
| vent them being driven out of business
He would suggest to them that il they we're
driven out of business in the American market
thev might confne themselves to the
| foreign market in which they were now
able to make profit, and let somebody else
come into the business here who would sell
goods to the American people as cheap as those
gentlemen sold them to foreigners.
MR.. PLATT ARGUED
that the papers presented by Mr.. Carlisle did
not make out his case, and he expressed the
belief that no Senator on the other side be-
lieved, in his heart, that any American manu-
| facturer sold the same goods for expectation 50
per cent. some of them had said,
lower than he sold them for home
consumption. Neither did he believe that any
Senator on the other side believed that any
American manufacturer made so per cent
profit on any goods that he manufactured. II
any Of them did believe SO, it was a remarkable
instance of credulity.