, 1890-08-30
WASHINGTON NEWS.
A Memorial Presented by Blair
in the Senate
Asking Protection From Pink
erton Detectives"
The Tariff Discussion Mainly
on the Salt Item.

assassins known as "Pinkerton detec-
tives." Referred to the Judiciary com
mittee.
Edmunds offered a concurrent resolu-
ton, which went over, that when con-
gress adiourns on the 18th of September,
it be to meet on the 10th Of November.
The tariff bill was taken up, the pend
ing question being on the finance commit
tees amendment to paragraph 307, which
taxes salt in bags and packages twelve
cents per 100 pounds and salt in bulk
eight cents, the amendment being to
strike out the proviso allowing drawbacks
on salt used in exported meats.
Mcpherson moved to strike out the
entire paragraph, the effect of which
would be to place salt on the free list.
Colquitt advocated Mcpherson amend
ment. and read an extract from a speech
made by Benton in the senate half a cen
tury ago against the salt tax.
Hoar asked whether Benton had not
made that speech about the same time
that he made a speech declaring Oregon
and the whole of the Pacific coast terri
tories worthless for agricultural purposes.
Reagan remarked that Webster said
substantially the same thing.
McPberson's amendment was rejected
yeas Is, nays ga party vote.
Vest made the point that TO strike out
the provision for drawbacks. as pro-
posed, would discriminate against meats,
as the salt used in preserving them could
not be identified for transportation under
the general provisions of the act. There
was a special provision in the case Of salt
used in preserving fish. He argued in
favor of free salt, a natural product which
was found in i~nexhautible quantities in
every country of the world and in almost
every state in the Union. He bad seen a
deposit ofrock salt in Louisiana which
would supply this world and FIVE worlds
like it for an illimitable time. Why, then,
should English salt be taxed when dairy
men and pork packers and beef packers
would use 1t, NJ matter what the duty on
it was.
Cullom argued against striking out the
proyiso In the paragraph. He had writ
ten to a pork packer in his state inquir-
ing whether the general provision (~section
24l would allow a draw back in that bus
mess. and the reply was that it would not.
The export trade, he said, demanded
foreign salt. He had been always In
favor OF protection, even in the matter of
salt, but this was not a question of pro-
lection to American salt. 1t was, rather,
a question of protection to the American
export meat business.
After further discussion on the salt
paragraph. a vote was taken on the com
miitee amendment to strike out the pro-
vision. The proviso was not stricken
out-yeas Is, nays 81. The Republican
.nn,far. .-In YraT,l ,r,.,,t tbn E,n-.a
committees amendment we're Allison,
Cullom, Edmunds, Hawlcy, ingalls,.
Jones, of Nevada, Mitchell. Plat, Plumb,
Sherman, Teller, Washburn and Wilson,
of Iowa.
The conference report on the joint res
olution for the relief of restitution in
Oklahoma was presented and agreed to.
1t directs the application of the unex-
pended balance for the relief of persons
in the region Overfiowed By the MIssis-
sippi to relieving the citizens. of Okla
homa rendered destitute by the uneD-
ampled drought.
On motion of Plumb, the duty on
brandy, in paragraph 3l4. and on cordials.
liquors, ETC., was increased from 81 to So
per gallon. On bay rum, from 81 to 81;
aud on champagne and other sparkling
wines so as to make the rates on bottles
of not more than a quart and more than a
pint IS a dozen instead of SO. so; one-half
pint each or less. 50. so instead of 81. rs;
and 1925 per gallon additional.
On motion of Plumb the following
amendments were also agreed to: The
paragraph relating TO still wines, by max
ing the rate per gallon, in casks, seventy
five cents instead of fifty cents aud twenty
four pint bottles, 81. so instead of 81. 65;
extra quantities to be taxed ten cents
per pint instead of five cents. The para
graph relating to ale, porter and
beer, in bottles or jugs, by making the
duty sixty cents per gallon instead Of
thirty five cents, and when not in bottles
or jugs t~hirty-fve cents per gallon instead
OF twenty cents The paragraph relating
to malt extract by making the duty in
casks thirty-fve cents per gallon instead
OF twenty; in jugs, sixty cents per gallon
instead of forty, and when solid or con.
densed 60 per cent ad valorcm instead of
forty, The paragraph rclati"g to sherry
juice and prune Juice hv making the duty
seventy-ive cents per gallon, instead 4
sixty, when containing o. more than Is
per cent of alcohol, and - per gallon
instead ofS2 aud 25 per cent al v,lorem
when containing more than i per cent 81
alcohol.
The paragraph relating to ginger ale,
soda water and other similar waters, was
amended, OF report Of the finance com.
mlttee, by reducing the rate irourthirteeu
cents to ten cents per dozen bpttles, and
on motion of Carlisle by inserting the
word artificial"
The paragraph relating t. mineral
waters and their limitations were struck
out on recommendation of the finance
committee.
Schedule /, relating to cotton mauufac-
lures and schedule j, relating to fax and
hemp, were passed over informally.
Schedule K, relating to wool and manu-
tactures Of wool, was then taken up.
All paragraphs from 357 to 3G9, relating
to raw wool, having been read, Carlisle
moved to have them all struck out so as
to have wool put on the free list. He
argued in support o. the proposition and
urged that the same reason which was
used to Justify putting sugar on the free
list could be applied equally to putting
wool on the free list.
10 reply Aldrich pointed to the fact that
while the home product of sugar had
only q slight increase in n series of years,
the home rroauction of wool had in
creased gro ~ usly.
Sherman stn'.,i some facts in relation
to the wool growing industry OF the Uni
ted States as a demonstration OF the wis.
dom Of the policy adopted in the tariff Of
1867. He argued that the wool growing
interest should be encouraged so that the
quantity produced would be sufficient for
all the wooden goods manufactured in the
United States. and for all foreign wooden
goods that are used here, The pending
bill, he said, in answer to a question from