Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-08-07
NATIONS CAPITAL.
Tariff on Iron Ore Considered
BY Senate.
Conference Report on Original Package
Bill Adopted BY the House.
0ec'y Window on Shipment OF Mss
chandiss in Bond Through Canada.

| WASHINGTON, Aug. & The Senate this
morning resumed consideration of the
tariff bill
| German continued his Argument fxvoring
the reduction Of duty on Bessemer ore .hsy-
ieg in the course of his remarks colloiaies
with Sherman, Blair, Cuilom, Erye and
other Senators, and closed st ? IS
| Morgan Withdrew his amendment 10 order
to allow German to offer one
| Goymsn moved 10 amend by reducing the
duty on iron ore from Is to 80 cents = ton.
German then proceeded to argue in favor
of ,hxt propos tion.
Gray said in view of Gormon's argument
and the fact ihst the tariff commission iu
| 1855 recommended dnt, of 30 cents per
ton on iron ore, he would ike 10 hear from
Aldfieh or some other member of the
finance committee Why the rate should not
be fixed
| Plumb NOV ed To amend the amendment
by msking the rate Go cent, per ton. He
believed that this Was good tim, 10 began
the reduction of duties.
| Aldrch read from the Cousressien nal
record of February 10, 1888, a report of
the amendment offered and the remarks
made by McPherson in favor OF increasing
the duty on iron ore from so cents TO 81
per ton.
| Gray ssid that if the senator from Rhode
Island meant 10 adopt the reasoning of the
Senator from New Jersey in 1883. and il
he had no other answer to make TO his ques-
| tion, so il might be. but he would like TO
| know whether the statements made by
Gormon were c0ntroSsrtcl or were to be
| controyeried.
McPhearson said that he had lived sew
| ersl wears since he made the statement al
quoted that he WAS not willing 10 accept
that statement as being the proper thing
| today.
Aldrlch said that his purpose in having
the statement read was to show the Senate
in better form than he could express il,
the situation as between foreign AMI do
mestic ores. The competition of foreign
ores, was not confined he said. TO Lake Su-
perior ores but extended to the iron ores of
Virginia, Pennsylvania Maryland. West
Virginia and New York. He ridiculed the
idea tina, 4 reduction of % cents ton on
iron ores would enable the steel works al
Baltimore to compete with the shpbuidcrs
of the Clyde in the production of steel
ships. He asserted that foreign ores could
be laid down cheaper in Baltimore. with
freight and duty added, than ores in north
ern New York.
There were Senators here who were
Wiling 10 destroy the iron ore industry for
the purpose of allowinga single mammoth
establishment in Baltimore to make steel
rails or steel ships cheaper than they could
be made at Johnstown, Cleveland, Pitts.
burg or Chicago. Baltimore had advan-
ts yes enough and Congress ought not to be
called upon to stiik, down for the benefit
of n large steel company there an important
American industry.
German accepted llumb's amen lments.
Gray submitted that al answer was not
yet made to the question he had put 10
AldIich. He thought, in view of the argu.
mcrts made by Morgan and the statement
Of Bent, that All answer should be made to
il.
Allrich referred to the Mills hill and
aske1 whether any reduction of duty on
iron ore was proposed m it. Not by any
manner of means, he said. A duty of IS
cents a ton vas fixed on iron ore in the bill
Never hal there been a time when the dem
ocratic party dared propose reduction of
duty On iron Gre. lie quoted ~ against
Bent's statement telegram from another
prominent democrat, Smith M. Weed of
New York, protecting TO the House com
mittce on ways and mcGns against any re
due ion of ,lu'y on iron ore.
Gray thought that rather poor reply to
his que s'ion.
Morgan argued in favor of the ame nd
ment. and predicted if Cuban ores were er
cluded from the nited States by high
tariff rates the valuable ore beds Of Cuba
would pass into the hands of foreign capi
,alists.
In course of discussion Pirmb referred
10 the fact that in 1889 duty of IS cents
per ton on iron ore was inserted instead CT
30 cents as recommended by ths tariff com
'son, and as agreed by both houses.
Allrich who was conferec on that occa-
SON said it wa done at the earnest solici.
tation of Malone.
The question was taken on Plumb's
amendment to reduce the duty on iron ore
from 10 to co cents Il ton, AMI rejected;
yeas u navs %
Dawes, Ingalls,, Paddock and Plumb
voted aye with the Democrats.
The rest Of paragraph l27 was agreed to
as reported by the finance c,mmittee.
Vance moved to reduce the duty on pig
iron, paragraph 1873, from $40 per cent
Per psund to s. ton.
In argument with Aldrich ~, 10 the sle-
men's of labor entering into pig iron metal.
Vance fiiieuled Alarich'' position by say
ing he would want to % back to labor ex-
pended by Columbus in the discovery Of
America. lsbtr of the Spsniards who built
the ships to bring him here, and the Labor
Of the mouniainecrs Of Catalonia who cut
down the timber 10 build those ships.
Laughter
Without disposing of the amendment tie
bill went over till tomorrow
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