Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-08-19
THE TARIFF BILL TAKEN UP.
And the Senate Considers the
Metal Clause.
ALIEN LAND LAW BILL IN THE HOUSE
SENATE.

other Legislative business except several classes
of bills specified therein
Mr.. Hoar said that he desired to address the
Senate on the subject, but would prefer to do
30 tomorrow, and ne understood that that was
agreeable to the Senator from Pennsylvania.
MR.. QUAY's RESOLUTION aoRs OVER.
Mr.. Quay-I have no objection to the reso-
luton going over till tomorrow morning with
out prejudice, with the understanding that it
will be then taken up.
The resolution went over till tomorrow.
PROHIBITION IN THE SENATE VINO.
The resolution offered yesterday by Mr..
Plumb instructing the committee on rules to
issue orders that will prevent the sale or drink
ing of spirituous, vinous or malt liquors in the
Senate wing OF the Capitol. was taken up.
Mr.. Butler moved to add to the resolution
provision authorizing and directing the SER
geant-at-arms to make daily inspection and
examination OF the committee rooms and other
apartments in the Senate wing of the Capitol,
and to report to the committee on rules
whether he has found spirituous vinous or
malt liquors therein.
Mr.. German moved the reference of the res
olutlon and amendment to the committee on
rules.
THE RESOLUTION TO 90 OVER.
Mr.. Blair called attention to the fact that
Mr.. Plumb was not present, and said something
as to his (Mr. Blair) making a four-hour
speech on the resolution rather than have it
referred to the committee and defeated by
delay.
Mr. German withdrew his motion Of refer
erence and the resolution went over till tomor-
row.
AND so DOES THE LIEUT.. GUY RESOLUTION.
The other resolution offered yesterday by
Mr.. Plumb, in reference to the charges against
Lieut. Guy of the Washington police force, was
also taken up and went over till tomorrow.
BILLS PASSED.
Senate bill granting a right Of way through
certain lands of the United States. and House
bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior
to procure and submit to Congress proposals
for the sale to the United States OF the western
part OF the Grow reservation, in Montana, were
taken up, amended and passed.
THE TARIFF BILL
was then taken up, the pending question being
on Mr.. Plumb's amendment reducing the duty
on tin plate from 2-I8 cents to / cent pound
and allowing bounty Of cent a pound on
American tin plate.
Mr.. Faulkner called for a division Of the
question.
The presiding officer recognized the divis-
bility OF the question and then decided that
the nrst part (the reduction from 2-l0 to /
cent? had already been voted on and decided
in the negative, and therefore could not be
again voted on in committee OF the whole.
The vote would. therefore. the presiding
officer said, be taken on the bounty clause Of
the amendment
This change in the condition of the question
did not prove acceptable to Mr.. Plumb and he,
withdrew the whole amendment
with the understanding that he would offer it
again in the Senate.
Mr.. Mcpherson offered an amendment the
nff -ht tah l,<% Ia
the free list. Rejected
MIR. sPooNER's TIN PLATE AMENDMENT.
Mr.. Spooner offered an amendment provid-
ing that after October 1, 1885, tin plates lighter
in weight than 63 pounds per hundred square
feet shall be admitted free of duty, unless it
shall appear to the President that the aggre-
gate quantity of such plates produced in the
United States during any of the five preceding
J ears has equaled one-third OF the quantity i'm
ported and entered for consumption in that
year.
Mr.. Vest said that he was disposed to support
that amendment. If the outrage intended by
the bill were to be mltigated even in 1896 it
would be better than to accept the proposition
Of the finance committee, with the notification
that an additional terror was to be supplied in
a duty of cents pound on block tin. He
read an article in the National Economist
CRITICIsING MR.. sPooNER's PROPOSITION
as leading up to having tin plate on the free
list, and if the Economist WAS correct in that
then he MIR. VesD was wholly in favor of the
amendment. In his judgment it would not
have that effect, but il was mitigation of the
gross and palpable outrage inflicted upon the
people by the pending bill. 1t was we'll known
he said, what influence had operated on the
finance committee in agreeing to recommend a
duty OF four cents pound on block tin. Il
was the necessity of having the votes, in favor
nf fho Ng r.
kotas. AS against the statement made to the
Senate by MIR. Moody in regard to tin deposits
in South Dakota. Mr.. Vest cited the statement
OF Mr.. Hearst, whom he spoke OF as 'the best
expert man on the face OF the earth" who had
visited those tin mines for the purpose of In
vestment (the mines in the Harney peak dis
trict). and who said that there was not tin
there in sufficient quantity to justify invest
ment."
MARKED AND IRRECoNCfLABLE DIFFERENCE.
Mr. Spooner said that IN view of the marked
and irreconcilable difference between himself
and Mr.. Vest on the subject of the tariff. he
was almost afraid to support the proposition
which he (Mr. Spooner) had submitted. If the
amendment could have the effect suggested he
should vote against it if offered by any one
else and should repudiate it having offered it
himself He had not seen the article
In the Economist, but thought that it
had reference to the amendment of which he
had given notice, and which required one-half
of the tin plate (instead of one-third) to be
in the United States. He be-
lieved in the industrial independence of this
country as far as that could be brought about.
II. by the imposition of increased duty. all
the tin plate used here could be manufactured
here (no matter if, during the time being,
her prices were paid for it) the people of the
United States would be independent Of foreign
producers and
THE PRICE WOULD BE BROUGHT DOWN.
MIR. Aldrich gave his adhesion to Mr..
Spooner's amendment as being a requirement
that American manufacturers shall give proof
OF their good faith in the matter he himself
had no reasonable doubt but that the American
producer of tin plate would manufacture within
the hve years very much larger proportion of
the article than one-third
MIR. Mcpherson asked that the amendment
should go over till tomorrow and be printed.
Mr. Cuilom suggested that it would be better 10
dispose of it now
MR. VEST WANTS TIME
Mr.. Vest said that, since he had heard the
explanation Of the Senator from Wisconsin.
and especially since he had heard what had
been said by the Senator from Rhode Island.
he wanted some time to examine the amend.
ment tLaughter.]
He Feared the Greeks even when thew were
bearing gifts" The Senator from wisconsin
had paid him q high compliment in saying
that their views on the tariff were utterly