The Forrest City times., 1890-05-24
The Fifty-Firs. Congress.

WAsuiNGroS, n C.. May la The House
 went into committee of the whole Mir.
 Grosvenor of Ohio in the chair, on the
 tariff bill.
 The committee proceeded to the consid
 eration of the bill, the pending amendment
 being that offered by Mr. Funston, of Kan
 sas, striking from the metal schedule the
 proviso that silver ore and all other ores
 containing lcai shall pay n duty of 1iSe per
 pound on the lead contained herein ac
 cording to sample and assay at the port ot
 entry
 The amendment was reiected9i to i26
 Alessrs Hopkins, Funston, Mason, Butter
 worth, Kelly, Post. Adams, Gear and
 Morrill, voting tn the affirmative and Mir
 Clunie in the negative. Mir. Hopkins oi
 Illinois, offered an amendment providing
 ore containing silver and lead shall pay .
 duty of half a cent per pound on the lead contained therein Lost-lOl to l22,
 The amendments offered Saturday by
 Mir Mckinley to the internal revenue
 clause of the bill were adopted. They pro vide that upon sample boxes of cigars, con
 taining twelve or thirteen cigars, the tax
 shall be Ic, amend tue administrative feat ures of the law and provide taat wholesale
 dealers in oleomargarinc shall keep suca
 books and rcnder such returns as the Com
 missioner of Internal Revenue may re quirc
 The following amendments were also agreed to on motion of Mir. Mckinley: Providing that the internal taxes or smoking and manufa etureed tobacco anc nn srua shall be lc pound after the irsi of October, iSao. or within sixty days iron tue approval of this act tinstead of lst oi January, ts9i, as proposed by the bilD. Making au indefinitc appropriation fol
 the payment of drawbacks.
 Rodnc;ug the bond of cigar manufactnr CTS from siao to si0o, Limiting ,o minimum of $50 tho amount Of drawback claims on tobacco ir original packages when the law takes effect
 Mir Henderson, of Iowa, spoke in favol of restoring tue present internal tax on to bacco and offered an amendment to that effect
 Mir Tucker Of Virginia, offered and al voea, an amendment abolishing the tas on tobacco
 Mfr Fuckers amendment was rejected e to lis Messrs. Atkinson of West Nir ! glnia, McComas, Kerr. Lchlbach. Ewart 1 Naddeu, Brown of Virginia md Mudc | voting with the Democrats, and MessrS | Heard, William of Illinois, Owens of Ohio ] Tarsney and Morgan with the Republicans ] Mir. leudersons amendment was re | jectca s6 tn lls,
 1 Mir Henderson of Iowa, offered at ! ameadent restoring the present. rate oi ! duty on wool aud woolens i Pending a vote the committee rose. l ruE SENATE 1 MT. Hale. iron, the Committee on Appro 1 priations. reported bas the annual uava' 1 appropriation bill
 1 The silver bill was taken up, and Mir i Doiph addressed the Senate. Ia eousid 1 ering the various plans proposed, he was satisfied that the plan proposed by the 1 Secretary of the Treasury was open te i fewer objections than any of the others il l the purpose was Co keep both gold and sil | yer coin in circulation, He argued agaies 1 the free coinage of silver as someihing l that would stop the coinage of gold. At the close of Mir, Doph's speech Mr l Teller criticised some points of it. 1 Mir, Mitchell expressed his dissent Iron 1 the views expressed by his colleague tMr 1 Dolphl, saying; Fl desire sG state, fol | whatever 1t amounts io, here agsi else
 where it may not amount to very mueh) 1 thal dissent from the speech just made in toto, and wish that distinctly understood. : 1 On motion of Mir Wilson, Of Iowa. it wa, l ordered that the Senate bill sublecting i'm i ported liquors to the provisions of the law 1 of the several States shall be taken up to morrow after routine morning business. l After an executive session the senate ad l journcd