The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-05-21
THE NATIONAL CONGRESS.
A GREAT BILL FOR LAID.
OWNERS.
IL Proposes To Permit them TO Borrow
From the GOvernment..One.H Half the
Value Of Their Lands.-.A Breezy
Tariff Day In the House.
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WAsHINGToN, b. g., May 30 Sen
ate. Mr.. Stanford, of California, today
introduced bill which permits land
owners to borrow from the government
one half Of the assessed value of their
land. A fund of 800, 900, 900 is pro-
vided for this purpose
The Senate to-day after routine bust
ness took up the bill reported from the
judiciary committee. .subjecting imported
liquors To the provisions of the laws of
the several States. The bill provides that
"no state stall De held to be limited or
restrained in its power to prohibit, regu-
late, control or tax the sale, keeping for
sale, or the transportation, as an article
OF commerce or otherwise, to be deliv-
cred within its own limits of any fer
mented, distilled, or other intoxicating
liquids or liquors by reason of the
fact that the same have been imported
into such state from beyond its limits,
whether there shall or shall not have
been placed thereon any tax, duty, i'm
port or excise to the United States"
The bill was advocated by Messrs.
Wilson, of Iowa, and HoSr, and opposed
by Messrs Vest, Gray, Hiscock, Reagan,
Edmunds
Eulogies were then delivered on
Representative Kelley, and the Senate
adjourned.
WASHINGTON, May 20.-The House
went into committee of the whole on the
tariff bill, Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio. in
tho chair.
Mr.. Henderson, of North Carolina,
offered an amendment abolishing the
minimum punishment prescribed for
violation Of the internal revenue law.
Rejected.
Mr.. Cowles, of North Carolina, offered
an amendment repeating the tobacco
tax. Rejected.
amendment providing that iron and
steel cotton ties or hoops for bailing OF
other purposes, not thinner than No.
20 wire guage, shall be admitted free OF
duty.
Mr.. Breckenridge, of Arkansas, fa-
vored the amendment.
Mr. Blanchard, Of Louisiana, spoke in
opposition to the cotton tie duty.
Mr.. Stewart, of Georgia, said that il
the amendment were not voted down
the colored laborers of the SJuth would
know who their real friends were.
Mr.. Hare, of Texas, argued that the
high duty proposed practically amount
ed to an export tax.
Mr.. Clarke, Of Alabama, spoke in ia
Sor of the amendment and Mr.. Wheeler
OF Alabama, against it.
Mr.. Burrows, of Michigan, though
that if the cotton tie industry was estat
lshed in this country, the Southern
planter would soon purchase his tie
cheaper than he did now
Mr.. Mckinley, of Ohio, said that tn
bill only proposed to treat cotton tie
precisely as it treated hoop iron.
Mr.. Sayer's amendment was lost 9
to 1874.
Mr.. Breckenridge. of Arkansas offere
an amendment to make the duty on co,
ton ties As per cent. ad valorem.
Mr.. McKenna, moved to amend tn
sugar schedule so as to provide that a
sugar not above No. 10, duties standar
IN color, shall pay duty on their polar
scope test
Mr.. McKenna said that his amend
ment made reduction Of about 33 Pc
cent on tho existing duty, and retaine
the dividing line at 13 instead of 16, an
secured to the refiners of this countl
the refining OF sugar between 13 and Il
Mr.. Cannon, of Illinois, said the pos
tion OF Mr.. McKenna was specious an
dangerous.
Mr.. Price, of Louisiana, favored tt
amendment.
Mr.. Stewart, of Vermont, thought Il
bounty should be extended to map
sugar.
Mr.. Wilson, of West Virginia, said
did not believe Democratic COngre
wonld ever make an appropriation to p;
the proposed bounty.
MIR. Coleman, OF Louisiana, want'
sugar struck from the free list. II
government could not abolish the du
on sugar and at the same time redu
public debt.
After further miscellaneous debat
Mr. Mckinley closed the discussion wi
an agreement against the McKen
amendment. He said that the col
mittee fearing that the Democrats, VIII
in power, would refuse to appropria
money for the bounty, had provid
that the appropriation should be p'
manent.
The McKenna amendment was
jected-115 to 1874.