Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-09-08
NATIONS CAPITAL.
Senate Puts in Another Day
on the Tariff.
House Report On The Proposed Ocean
Nail Service Bill.
Desigred HaIooI Deienses for Bostop
New York and San Francisco.

| WASHINGTON. ID. C. Sept. After the
| TRANSACTION of the routine morning business
Saturday, the Sr-are resumed the consid-
| Grafton nf q l.tId , Il,
Gu motion Of Ma rdrr.on. an amendment
WAS agreed TO fixing duty on viii pine
| shingles at 20 cents per thousand.
The committee amendment. placing
sponges on the free list was lost, yeas l6;
nays So and the rate of duty Of 20 per
cent. al vslorem restored.
AT the suggestion of Plumb, an amend
ment was adopted fixing at 50 cents
per gallon the duty on alizsrine assistin: or
soluble oil containing more than 80 per
| cent of castor OIL
In spesking in regard 10 the proper rate
OF duty TO he placed on fish, Spooner gave
il AS his view, that while the ii-hermen on
the eastern coast we're protected, il was not
! proper that the fisheries on the great lakes
should be thrown open TO free competition.
| The vote taken on the committee
amendment 10 paragraph 80, and 1t WAS
agreed I, without the yeas and nays
II now reads Fresh fish caught BY cill-
zers of TIE nited States in the high seas
or in the open waters of the lakes forming
boundary between the United States and
the Dominion of Canada"
Paragraph 2Is, relating to fish on the
durable list. WAS taken up, the question b.
ing on the finance committees substitute
for the House paragraphs, which Fixed
dnty of | cent pound on FISH, fresh or
| sslted. The committee amendment fixes
the duty st half cent pound.
Gray offered an amendment providing that
81 Ii fish shall be admitted free of duty
from any county that admits American
fishing vessels into their ports for the Pur-
pose Of supplies, including bait.
Aldrivh, ON behalf of the tinance com
m.ttee. withdrew It's smcndment and SUIT
stltuted another tof which he had gi,rn
notice Aug. 2s) adoplng to it the House
paragraph sni adding to 1t a contiton tat
when American fishing vessels shall he al
mitted into the ports of another country TO
purchase supplies the duy on fish from
that county shall be only hslf-ceut
pound.
Carlisle thought that il the fish question
wt re gone into now the proper course
would be to make all fish free, on con iition
that American fishing vessels slall have
the privilege Of inshorc fishing.
The vote WAS taken on Gray's amend
ment and il was rejected without the yeas
and nays. After remarks by Evarts ard
Edmutds adverse TO the adoption of the
committees lsst amendment, Aldrich with
drew it and again offered the first subst,-
tute slightly mcdifeJ, which was agreed to-
The para graph now reads Fish. smoked,
Dir cl, sal'cd, picked, fresh, frozen, packed
in ice, or otherwise prepared for preserva
ton, rot especially enumerated or provided
for in this act, one half of one cent per
pound"
Paragraph 2Gi. (placing duty of l5
cents pound on hops, which had been
passed over without action, was then taken
up, ard German moved to reduce tie rate
10 cents pound. The amen1me mt was
discussed ty Gorman, Cullom. Voorhees,
Allen, Carlisle, IIiscock and Dolph. Before
The discus sion closed que ston as u the
extension of thq me for consideration Of
the tariff b II was started BY proposition
for an evening session. After an inter
change of views on both sides, Aldfch
withdrew The proposition for an evening
session and submitted another one. extend-
irg the time for consideration of the tariff
HI | to md including Monday, whcn discus
ii IN is to be limited TO 30 mlnutcs. and
when the sugar schedule is to be taken up.
Afitr that The arrangement heretofore MADE
is 10 apply. The proposition was assented
to, and the prs ssldlug officer (lugsll-) sskei
whether the understanding was thst on
Tuesday the voting should be- gin AMI should
continue until the stage Of the third reading
i. he'd, siter which three hours is 20 he
allowed to each side for general summing
up. Gem raj assent was given to that un-
drrstauding.
The vote was then taken on Germans
aruendneht 10 reduce the duty on hops to
s cents a pound, and it was rejected with
out the yeas and nsys.
Ncs' moved TO place salt on the free list
Negative, yeas 2G, nays SO a party vote,
except that Paddock voted Yea.
on mot on of Aldrich the words 'half of
Rn,sian camel were struck out of par
57s, in the free list, the ticle being pro
yid-d fer in ancthsr paragraph
Vance offered the amendment of which
he hal given notice Sept. J., for reduc-
ton dulits on foreign products purchased
fy an exchange of American farm prod
ucts. Rejec,ed-yeas, %; nays, 30-a
party vote.
On motion of Gibson, sorghum seed ard
sugar cane seed were placed on the free
lisJ in par. G15.
Adrich, for the finance committee, of
ferfd an amendment imposing duty of
four cents pound on lin Agreed To-
without the yeas snd rays.
Spooner offered the srne n lme mt proposed
by him Mug 20, TO the iin paragraph. 49,
II provides for the admission of tin plates
free of duty, after Oct. |. 1896, in case the
American production of the article shall
rot equal, in any of the intervening years,
one-tIird of the amount imported and en-
tered for consumption. Plumb moved to
ams nj the amendment by providing for
duty OF | cent rodud on tin plates, ard
for bounty of cert a pound for TIE
home product. After much discussion,
Plumbs a nendmenis were rel, ctei, an1
Spooner's thavifg been ace lpted by ALI
richl vas agrcei 10
Airch offered the committee amerd-
mert, of which he had given notice yester-
day, substitute for section !, requ ring
packages 10 te plsir ly marked and 10 show
the country vheIc the goods were msnufae-
tured- Agreed to.
Grey offered an amendment to sec :. to
strike out the articles specified in he first
three lines, and to insert in lieu of tbrm
the words all articles and materisl.," so
p 10 allow all articles and materials neces
sary for the construction and equIpmeut of
vessels built in the United State. for fer
eign a. QUIT and to be employed in the for
ign trade, TO be imported in bond and that
no duties shall be IMPOSED on them.
Frye tpoDght there vas no objection to
,he amendment, but Alirieh said there was
very serious ohjecti IN to i.
The amen iment vas rel, c.ed-yess. 22;
nays. -. Frye vo'ei sg4nst il. -a,i9g he
nsd not noted ~hea he gaifed bis assert
TO the smerdmeat that IT applied to the
equipment Of vessels oder the amend
uc1t all furniture ard furnishings would
have bee n admitted free of duty.
FRYE offered sn amendment. which vas
agreed te, striking out Of sec. : the lsst
proviso, az to old yellow metal taken from
vessels
Gray offered an ans ntfnent (which VA,
agreed to- making sec. apply 10 the re-
pair of American Ye.sels et gagged in foreign
trade (the word tx lu-ively" being struck
out including the trade between the Allan
tic and Pacific cca',s Of the United States.
Evsrts offered the amendment proposed
by Lin yss'erday, imposing a duty of l0
per cent sd yalors sm on sii teas, the growth
or produce Of the countries es.t of the
Cape of Good Hope, when imported from
places west Of the Cape of Good Hope
He made .ts'emeIt IN explsr s.ion ard
advocacy of the amendment which is in
tended to put stop to the inpoit,tiou Of
tea BY the way Of Canada and Of the Cape
OF Good Hope, instead Of directly from
China,
sherman disapproved Of the amendment
ss being a retsiist1ry measure. the on'y
effect Of which would he to add to the cost
Of tea He had no excuse TO Offer for the
course Of Canada in imposing ADDITIONAL