Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-08-20
TIN PLATE.
still WrangHug Over It-Plumb's Amend
ment Withdrawn.

ment hllnuraWhs
WAsnINGToN, August l9.-Ihe debate on
the Tariff bill was resumed to-day, the
pending question being Mr.. Plumb's
amendment reducing the duty on tin plate
from . 2-lO cents to cent per pound, and
allowing a bounty Of one cent pound on
American tin plate
Mr.. Faulkner called for a division of the
question. ,- !;
visibility of the question, and then decided
that the first part lthe reduction from
u 2-lO TO cent had already been voted on
and decided i'm the negative, ana therefore
could not be again voted on IN commute
of the Whole. The vote would then, there
fore. the presiding officer said, be taken on
the bounty clause of the amendment.
This change did not prove acceptable to
Mr. Plumb. and he therefore withdrew the
whole amendment with the understanding
rhat he would offer it again in the Senate.
Mr. Mcpherson offered an amendment
mo effect of which would be TO place TN
plate ON the free list. Rejected.
Mr. Spooner offered an amendment pro
,-idinr that after the first OF october, le9O
Tin plates lighter in weight than b5 POUNDS
nov hundred square feet, shall be admitted
FREQ of duty. unless il shall appear 10 the
President that the aggregate quantlJV oI
such plates produced IN the Unlte9 SIdUes
during any of the FIVE years preceding n4S
eoualled one-third of the quantity imported
and entered for consumption IN tldu y S"'.
Mr. Vest said that he was disposed TO
s,,nnort that amendment If the outrage
Intended bv the bill were TO be mltlgaleu'
even in7lSq6. 10 would be better IMAM 10
accent the proposition of the FINANCE
Committee with the notification that an
od55itional terror was TO be supplied IN
dutv of four cents pound on OlocA uh.
he read an article in the National hcoh'-
mist. criticising Mr.. Spooners proposl0lVu
as leading up TO having tin plate put ou.u.. on .u.
free list, and If the Economist was CJ5Iec
I'm that. then he Mr. Vest was wholly IN
favor of the amendment. In his judgment
IL would not have that effect, Out IL was q
mitigation Of the gross and papable outrage
inflicted upon the people by the penu'ng
bill. .., ...,o+
In was well known, Mr. Vest said, what
influence had operated on the Finance
Committee i'm agreeing 10 recommend d
dutv of four cents a pound on block TN. III
was the necessity of having the votes IN Ia
vor of the bill of the Senator's from the TWO
Dalxotas. As against the statement maze
IN tbe Senate by Mr. Mood in regard to TIN
deposits in South Dakota, Mr.. Vest clteS
tbe statement of Mr. Hearst, whom ne
smoke of as 1.-The best expert miner on the
fsce of the earth,n who had visited those
rim mines for the purpose of investment
the mines in the Harvey Peak district
and who said that there was not tin there
I'm sufficient quantity to justify investment.
After further discussion, Mr.. Spooner's
amendment went over till tomorrow, and
tine next paragraph of the bill paragraph
13S. page 27). 1t refers TO sheet iron or
shoot Steel. polished, vanished, taxing 1t
5i. cents pound, and to taggers iron, tax
inc ii I, cent per pound additional.
Mr. Mcpherson moved to reduce th9se
rates 10 . cents and l lilo respectively.
Rejected without a division. No further
amendment was offered to paragraph lSS.
paragraph lS9, referring to tis plates
terne plates. and taggers iron, ana para
',,.orb 14O referring to steel ingotS were
9creed to with the committee amendments
Paragraph 14l was then taken up. II re,
fers To wire rods. An amendment oHcreu
bv Mr. Vest was rejected.
Paragraph l42 taxing wire maze on ,,,l,,. iIOn
or steel, having been reached, Mt Mct ne'-