Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-02
SECOND EDITION
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Tariff Consideration Resumed and
is Still Pending in the Senate.
Congressman Rogers, of Arkansas, and Speak
er Reed Indulge in CrOss-Fire OF
Sarcasm in the House.
Ii. CONGRESS
SENATE

met at 10 o. m. and call showed forty
seven senators in attendance.
Mr.. Blair offered a resolution in
structing the committee on rules to re-
port within four days rule for the in
corporation of the previous question or
some method of limiting and closing de-
bate in parliamentary procedure OF the
seuate, and asked for its immediate oon-
sideratiou. Objection was made on the
Democratic side and the resolution went
over till Tomorrow.
The house joint resolution to permit
Superintendent George A. Davis of the
Fourteenth U. s. Infantry TO accept
position in the Nicaragua canal con-
struction company was taken from the
calendar and passed.
The senate then proceeded'to the con-
sheraton of the tariff bill, resuming it
at paragraph 62. page 10, under the
head of LEAD Products.
Consideration of the tariff bill was re-
Sumed. Articles referring to lith-
arge and nitrate of lead were
allowed TO pass without comment,
but upon the third article, orange
mineral, three and half cents per
pound Mr.. Vance offered an amendment
reducing tuo Ihto ~ wv "hN N1S
half cents. After long
debate the amendment was rejected.
An amendment offered by Mr.. Vance TO
reduce the duty on red lead to two cents
a pound met with the same fate.
The next paragraph, white lead, was,
on motion of Mr.. Aldrich, amended by
adding the five words land white paint
containing lead - Mr.. Vance moved 10
make the duty on white lead two cents
pound instead of three. Rejected
Yeas, %; nays. 81.
Paragraph 50 was amended, on motion
of Mr.. Aldrich, by making 1t read
"Caustic or hydrHte OF potash, refined,
in sticks or rolls, one cent per pound,
instead of one and a quarter cents.
Carbonate and sulphate of potash
and sponees were placed on the free list.
The duty on sulphate of soda was
changed from oue-tenth of a cent per
pound to 30 per cent. ad valorem.
Mr.. Mcpherson offered many amend
ments which were uniformly rejected.
Finally a schedule was reached which re-
fers to earths, earthenware and glass
ware Mr.. Mcpherson moved TO reduce
the duty on fire brick, not glazed,
enameled and decorated, from SIPS
per ton to 20 per cent. ad vaiore "a,
from so per cent. to 40. Rejected.
Mr.. Plumb voted with the Democrats,
the first break in u solid party. Mr..
Plumb, having thus started in his asser-
ton of independence of the party allie
glance so far as the tariff bill is con-
oerned, began TO take Mr.. McPher5on'
place III Offering amendments. His first
TWO amendments were TO reduce the
rates of duty on enamel, tiles and
on hydraulic cement. After discussion
they were voted down by n Republican
majority, Democrats of course voting
for them. On the hydraulic cement
amendment Mr.. Paddock joined Nj.
Plumb III voting with the Demo-
Gratis, the result Of the vote being
yeas 81, nays %. Mr.. Mcpherson
moved 20 reduce the duty on common
earthernware from % to 20 per cent. ad
valorem. Rejected-yeas, 81; nay, 80.
Mr.. Paddock voted with the Democrats.
Mr.. Plumb did not vote.
The next question was on paragraph
100, relating to china, porcelain and
crockeryware, the finance committee
recommending a reduction of rates on
the house bill from sc to 90 per cent. on
decorated articles and from 80 to 80 per
cent. on plain, white and undecorated
ware. Two lDtlnDeIs u lut huhuS0
committee, Messrs. Sherman and HIS
cock, expressed their opposition to the
senate amendment. Mr.. Allison sup
ported them. MIR. Vest moved to
make rates As and so per cent. respect
lively. Then Mr.. Plumb took q prominent
and remarkable part in the discussion,
arguing against the eXorbitunt demands
of high protective interest. He pro-
duced letter from o merchant doing
business in St. Joseph, Mo, and Atchi-
son, Kan, stating that on an
invoice of crockery he had paid that day
II customs duty of SIG 40, that under the
pending bill the duty on the same on
in voice would be S3l 32, and under the
Mckinley bill S57 -. The whole ten
dency of civilization, MIR. Plumb said,
was toward reduction of prices OF all
products of human labor. To claim
that tariff had been the sole or main
factor in the reduction of prices
OF manufacturers goods, was to lnjure
all forces of civilization. American peo-
pie were entitled to have cheap goods II
competition could bring that about.
then he asked was the time coming when
the people of the United States would
get some benefit from establishment of
home industries. But just as fast as
point WIS hEIlNGu at Wl6u 4ONGA pIlG0s
might be expected, manufacturers came
to congress and said that they wanted
more duties whereby the downward
progress of prices might be arrested,
The people of the United States ought
TO have their Ginning some
time. He thought that that time had
come. He had no idea that what he
might say was going to affect the vote of
the senate. He could conceive and he
could see that converts OF protection
were SO organized that the bill was to go
through substantially as it came from the
hnauce committee. The manufacturers
had had from congress precisely what
they asked, and yet, so far from
their being satisfied, bill
for their benefit was to be put through
without debate (if that could be brought
about)on the theory that the country was
huugering and thirsting for more tariff
legislation.
Mr.. Sherman replied to Mr.. Plumb.
Mr.. Vest modified his amendment by
making the rates on decorated china
ware and plain china so and 40 per cent.
respectively, and then the bill went over
and the senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
WASHINGTON. Aug. lon motion OF
Mr.. Taylor of Illinois o resolution was
adopted calling on the secretary of war
for copies of the report of the engineers
in charge OF the work for improvement
of the Galveston harbor.