Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-04
he Arraigns the Speaker and the
Committee on Rules.
LIVELY TINE In THE HOUSE.
Five Minute Tariff Speeches in
the Senate.
FLAX. HEMP AND JUTE SCHEDULES.
SENATE.

the agreement limiting the discussion on each
subject to five minutes for each Senator.
MIR. Gibson withdrew the amendment offered
by him last Tuesday to the sugar schedule, o
mistake having been made in it, and he offered
another amendment striking out that schedule
and substituting for it the sugar provisions of
the Mills bill
MIR. Butler presented a communication re-
celved by him from the State Depart tment
showing the relative expectations of cotton
goods by Great Britain and the United States
He thought that the information might be
valuable In view OF reciprocal propositions
WHAT ENGLAND WOULD DO WERE IT NOT Fon
THE TARIFF.
Mr.. Hoar. in connection with the subject, re-
ferred to statement which he had recently
read in the autobiography of an English gen.
tleman (Ir Gloverl to the effect that cotton
manufacturer who had been travelling exten-
sively through the United States said that if it
were not for the American tariff England would
shut up every American cotton mandatory
within two years.
MIR. Butler said he did not know anything
about that; but he had been very much graft
fed and encouraged TO soc his republican
| friends enlarging their economic vision some
what. reaching ont to South America. Central
America. Canada and other parts of the world.
| And he had thought that the information pre-
| sented by him might be of service. 1t showed
how absolutely Great Britain had control of the
market in South and Central America and also
In Asia and Africa-the value of the cotton
goods exported into those countries by Great
Britain last year being S177,000, 900, against
He therefore asked to have the paper
printed in the Record. 1t was SO ordered.
The presiding officer (Mr Ingalls, announced
that general debate on the tariff bill had closed
with the exception Of the reservation of the
day when the final vote is to be taken and when
is f0 he IN cir
COTTON MANUFACTURES.
The sugar schedule was laid aside informally
and schedule I, ''cotton manufactures" was
taken up. .
Amendments to reduce the rates in various
paragraphs of the schedule were offered by Mr..
Mcpherson. Mr.. Carlisle ard Mr.. Vance, and
were uniformly rejected without a yea and nay
vote. The committee amendments were agreed
to-
The consideration of the schedule was in
terrupted and the Senate bill to authorize the
Seneca Nation of New York Indians to lease
lands within the Cataraugus and Allegheny
reservation was reported and placed on the
calendar.
Mr.. Mcpherson moved TO strike ont para
graph 1886 lrelating to stockings, hose and half
hose) and 10 substitute for it one making the
rate OF duty 40 per cent ad valorem Rejected
yeas, 20; nays. 27. Messrs. Paddock and Plumb
voted with the democrats in. tho affirmative
FLAX, HEMP AND JUrE.
All the paragraphs in schedule having been
disposed of scheduled J was taken up,relating to
fax, hemp jute and their manufactures The
finance committee had reported an amend
men. to paragraph $40, reducing the rate on
flax not hacked OF dressed from IL cents a
pound to $50 ton. On this amendment Mr..
Washburn demanded the yeas and nays The
vote was taken and the committee amendment
was agreed to-yeas. 81; nays, IA. All the
democrats voted yea The negative votes were
given by Senators Allen, Cameron, Casey,
Davis. Dolph, Higgins, Mcmillan. Moody
Paddock, Pierce, Sherman Stockb ridge, WASH
burn and Wilson Qowa)
The next amendment was that of the finance
committee to paragraph 341. 1t was to reduce
the duty on hacked fax from 4 cents pound
to $40 a ton.
MR.. CARLISLE SAID
that all those raw materials-fax hemp and
jute-ought to be On the free list, SO that the
duty on the textile fabrics into which they en-
tered might be reduced. He thought it use
less, however, to make a motion to that
effect Mr.. Davis, Mr.. Wilson of Iowa,
Mr.. Dawes and Mr. Washburn argued
against the amendment and Mr.. Hiscock and
Mr.. Allison for 1t. 1t was agreed to-yeas, SO:
nays, l6. Mr.. Allison explained why the
amendment had been reported from the
finance committee. There was a great pres
sure, he said, in certain portions OF the coun-
try for the development OF the linen manufac-
ture which found its home in New Jersey and
New England. He had his doubt as to whether
it could be successful in the immediate future.
But in order to make it q success the House
bill proposed to double the duty
on on linen nosn.o, fabrics, css Of s which only
United States. If the duties were doubled on
the raw material. then, as a matter of course,
the duty would have to be doubled on the
manufactured fabric. If Senators wero ready
to do that they would vote against the amend
meht He was not quite prepared to do that,
especially as he knew that not one particle of
the fax produced in Iowa, the Dakotas or Min
nesota could be utilized for fiber, and at the
same time utilized for seed.
THE VOTE.
The democrats all voted for the committee
amendment and the following republicans
against it: Messrs. Allen, Cameron, Casey.
Davis. Dolph, Higgins. Mcmillan, Manderson.
Moody. Mitchell, Paddock, Pierce, Quay, Sher.
man, Stockbridge and Washburn.
THE AMENDMENT ADOPTED.
Inthc next paragraph CAD the finance com.
mittee had reported an amendment to reduce
the duty on fax or kemp TOW from s25 to $40
q ton. ~
Mr.. Sherman argued against the amendment.
He complained that the finance committee had
not applied to the fax. hemp and jute schedule
the Same rule that it had applied TO other
schedules, in which duties had been stretched
end increased while in this schedule they had
been reduced.
Mr.. Davis and Mr. Vest opposed the amend.
ment as one that would favor the binding-twine
trust which was robbing tho farmers of the
west.
The amendment was agreed to without the
yeas and Maya
BINDING TwIsE
The next paragraph, relating 10 hemp, having
been read Mr.. Hoar stated, on the authority of
o gentleman engaged in the manufacture Of
binding twinc, that the only combination in
the business are arrangements for the purchase
Of the'foreign raw material and for q fair and
equal distribution OF the amount purchased.
That combination, he declared had no effect
whatever in increasing the price Of binding
twino. -
Mr. Hiscock made q statement to Che same
effect and said in reference to the binding
twine trust that the arrangement for the pur-
chase Of the foreign raw material vas the head
and front Of its offending and that the prices
were lower under the operation Of that trust
than they had ever been before
Mr.. DAWES ON THE COMBINATION.
Mr.. Dawes argued that the combination which
raised the prices of binding twine was not on
the part Of manufacturers, but on the part Of
middlemen. ~
Mr.. Davis denied Nr. Dawes assertion - to
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