The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-10
In the Senate.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-The tariff bill
was taken up, the pending question being
on Gibson's amendment to reduce the
sugar test from so degrees by polariscope
TO 76 Rejected.
In reply to question from Edm unds
Presiding Officer ingalls, ruled that under
the arrangement of cutting off debate
to-day answering or asking questions by
Senators would be prohibited.
Carlisle moved to surikes out the su gar
section and substitute the sugar clauses
of the Mills bill. Rejected. Yeas %,
nays 30.
Eustis moved to insert a provision tina
the bounty shall apply to all sugar pro-
duced in 1890. Rejected
Pasco moved to amend the paragraph
relating to oranges by fixing special rates
for oranges imported in December Jan
uary, February or March. Rejected
Aldrich moved to insert a proviso that
imported merchandise deposited in any
bonded warehouse prior to August 1, 1890,
may be withdrawn for consumption at any
time prior to November l, 1890, on pay
ment of the duties in force prior to the
passage of this act.
Plumb moved, as a substitute, TO extend
the time of withdrawal to one year from
the passage OF this act. Rejected Yeas
rs, nays 81.
Plumb moved to insert to January l..
1891, instead of November l, 1890 Rejected.
Aldrich's amendment was agreed to.
Yeas 81, nays ~.
AIdrich then moved the reciprocity
amendment proposed by him September /,
| and accepted the verbal modification of it
suggested by Hoar.
EVarts moved, the substitute for the
amendment proposed by him at last nights
session, and which merely direc;s the
President to communicate the facts to
Congress. Rejected. Yeas 80, nays "a.
All Democrats voted in the affirmative, as
did also Dolph, Evarts and Sanders Ed
munds also moved u modification of the
Aldrich amendment in similar sense.
Rejected. Yeas 6, nays SO. The six affir-
native votes were given by Cameron,
Davis, Edmunds, Frye, Paddock and
Plumb.
Edmunds moved to strike out of Aldrich's
amendment the words ION and after the
first day of July, 1891" Rejected. Yeas
49, nays "a.
Gibson moved to insert wool in Aldrich's
amendment. Rejected. Yeas 10, nays IS.
Gray moved as a substitute for Aldrich's
amendment, the section directing the Pres
1dent, without further legislation, to de-
clare all ports of the United States free
and open to all products of any country of
the American hemisphere upon which no
export duties are imposed, whenever and
so long as the government of such coun-
try admitted to the ports thereof free of all
national provincial, municipal and other
taxes, -four, cornmeal, preserved fish, veg
etables, rice, lumber, agricultural nipple
ments, vessels or boats of iron, steel or
wood, etc, products of the United States.
Rejected. Yeas 26, nays 49,
Aldrich's amendment was then. adopted
Yeas 81, nays IS.
Aldrich's amendment reads: ''That with
view to secure reciprocal trade with
countries producing the following articles
and for this purpose and after July l, 1891,
whenever and so often as the President
shall be satisfied that the government of
any country producing and exporting
sugars molaSses, coffee, tea and hides, raw
and uncured, or any such articles, imposes
duties or other exactions upon the agricul-
tural or other products of the United
States which, in view of the free introduc
ton of such articles as sugar, molasses,
coffee, tea and hides into the United States,
he may deem to be reciprocally unequal
and unreasonable, he shall have the power,
and it shall be his duty to suspend, by
proclamation to that effect, the provisions
of this act relating to the free introduction
OF such sugar, molasses coffee tea.
and hides, the production of
such country, for such time as he shall
deem just, and in such case and during
such suspension, duties shall be levied, coll
lected and paid upon sugar, molasses,
coffee, tea and hides, the product of or ex-
ported from such designated country, as
follows namely. all sugars not above No.
ID, Dutch standard, in color, shall pay
duty on their polariscopic test, all tank
bottoms, syrups of cane juice or of beet
juice, melada concentrated, melada con-
crete and concentrated molasses testing