The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-08-06
HE NATIONAL CONGRESS.
ANOTHER LIVELY DEBATE IN
THE TARIFF.
They Get Foul on Several N.ttors
Reid Didn't Say "To He'll With
Xour Inland Sea-"
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Apf Univ ITeSS.
WAsnlNGToN, August 5.-The Senate
met at 10 a. IN and at once proceeded
to- the consideration of the tariff hin
tho pending item being polished cvlin.
der and crown glass in the glassware
schedule
Mr.. Berry opened the days pr, G ,ed.
iuss with speech on the general sub
irct OF tariff legislation He denied
that tie tariff question had been settled
during the last presidential election.
These people had not then declared in
favor OF the protective theory. Int
rather III favor of the party that adyo-
Gated a tariff for revenue only.
Mr.. Wilson, of Iowa, replied to Mr..
Berry and expressed the discomfort
which he alwas telt at hearing Senator
discuss subject in regard to which he
bad so small an amount of definite in
formation as that Senator undoubtedly
possessed in reference to the subject Of
protection.
Mr. Berry criticised some of Mr.. Will
sons statements.
The discussion was participated in by
NeSSrs Spooner, Paddock, Butler and
Call
Mr.. Morgan moved to insert after the
words Iron ore, the words, Contain
ing more than one tenth of one per cent.
OF phosphorous and phoSphoric acid"
his purpose being to have steel ores ad-
mitted free of duty. He argued that
there was no reason why iron and steel
works should be confined to the noun
tain regions of tho country, and that it
would be very advantageous to have the
Bessemer ore from Cuba or from the
Mediterranean landed on the Gulf coast
or the Atlantic coast, and there con-
yerted into all sorts of structural steels,
and he recalled the statement of John
Roach, that if he could have free iron
aud steel ores he could build steel ships
rs cheaply as they could be built on the
Clyde.
Mr.. German argued in favor of the
same line of policy, and quoted an ex-
pert, Major Bent, of Pennsylvania, as
holding the same views as John Roach
rs to the capabilities of American ship
building, if foreign ores were admitted
free Of duty. Mr.. German said that no
steel could be produced east of the Allie
ghany mountains except from the for
cigu ores, as the cost of the transporta-
tion OF steel over the Lake Superior re-
gion amounted practically to prohibi-
bition.
Mr.. Payne corrected the latter state
ment and said that last year 400, 600
tons Of the Lake Superior Bessemer ore
possibly the best in the world) had been
brought east of the Allegheny noun
tain and used by the furnaces there.
Mr.. German said that he started with
the proposition that it was the question
of the cost of assembling the raw ma
terial that would control and determine
the points at which steel and iron could
be made. He quoted Mr.. Bent as say
ing that with free ore he could sell pig
iron in Liverpool and steel rails in Lon
don.
Mr.. German had not concluded his
argument, when, on motion of Mr.. AL
drich, at 40 o'clock, the Senate having
reached page "a of the bill, adjourned
until tomorrow at 10 a. m.
House.
WASHINGTON, August 5.-Mr. Snyder
of Minnesota, rising to question o
privilege, denounced as a falsehood al
article appearing in Detroit paper stat
inc that at a conference between th'
Minnesota delegation and Speaker Reed
relative to certain improvements OF tn
Sault Ste Marie canal, the Speaker hat
declared Ito hell with your inland sea.
Mr.. Mckinley, of Ohio, from the com
mittee on rules, reported, as substi
tute for the; Cummings resolution
resolution asking the secretary of tn
navy for the reasons for the increase 0
the force at the Kittery navy yard.)
In speaking to the resolution, MI
Cummings, of New York, said that h
rose in defense of public morality ant
public law, which had been menaced b
! high public official. The order increas
ing the force of the Kittery navy var
looked as though the design was to US
executive power for partisan purposes
IIe referred to the great evil whic
would result from the introduction O
politics into the navy yards; and goin
hack to the administration of the nav
department by secretary Robson,
commented severely upon the action {
that official in filling navy yards wit
partisan friends just previous to Cor
nressional elections. he quoted
length from the testimony taken by tt
Whitethorne committee in 1879 to sho
that the policy of the Republican part
had been to use the navy yards to e:
pedite political ends The policy we
worse than the shot gun policy.
The committee on rules had reportt
las a substitute for his resolution)
resolution which referred the whole
Tense to the offender himself.
Mr.. Boutelle, of Maine, said tn
no felt like making an apology +
answering the remarkable demonstr
tion that had been made by the gent
man from New York The gentlem;
in his search for sensations, had work
himself up to high state of exclteme e
over the fact that the Secretary OF I
Navy had really possessed the hare
hood to obey the mandatory lnstructio
of the Congress of the United States.
In concluding Mr.. Boutelle ooserv
that, in Justice to his colleague, I
Speaker, he desired to say, after all
figures the gentleman from New 10
had piled upon his own bosom over
alleged packing of the klttery yaro
the interest os the Speaker, that
yreatost majority ever cast Tor lnOH