, 1890-09-07
ALMOST FINISHED.
The Senate Puts in a Good Day
on the Tariff Bill.
Consideration of the Measure
Almost Completed.
Voting Will Probably Begin
Next Tuesday.

the free list was lost-veas l6, nays 36-
and the rate OF duty of 20 per cent. ad
yalorem restored.
After some discussion on the para
graph regarding the duty IN fish it was
amended to read as follows: Fresh fish
caught by citizens of the United States
in the high seas or in the oren waters of
the lakes forming the boundary between
the United States and the Dominion OF
Canada. This puts them IN the free
list.
The paragraph relating to fish on the
dutiable list was then taken up, the ques-
ton being on the finance committee
substitute for the house paragraph.
which fixed the duty at one cent per
pound on fish. fresh or sailed. The
committee amendment fixes the duty at
halt a cent per pound.
Gray offered an amendment providing
that such fish shall be admitted free of
duty from any country that admits Ameri-
can fishing vessels into their ports for the
purchase Of supplies, including bait.
Gray's amendment vas rejected and the
comrpittec substitute Slightly modifed)
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Fish, smoked, dried, sailed, picked,
fresh. frozen, packed in ice or otherwise
prepared for preservation, not especially
enumerated or provided for in this act,
one-half cent per pound.
The paragraph placing a duty of ff-
teen cents per pound on hops was then
then taken up.
German moved to reduce the rate to
eight cents,
Pending discussion the question as to
an extension of time for the consideration
of the tariff bill was started. Aldrich
submitted a proposition extending the
time for the consideration of the tariff
bill to and including Monday, when the
discussion should be limited to thirty
minutes, and when the sugar schedule
should be taken up; after hat the arrange
ment heretofore made to apply. The
proposition was assented to.
Then Germans amendment to reduce
the duty on hops to eight cents per pound
was rejected.
Vest moved to place salt on the free
list. NegatIved-yeas 20, nays 34-a
party vote except that Paddock voted
yea.
Vance offered an amendment for the
reduction of the duties on foreign pro-
ducts purchased by excelsior of American
farm products. Reiected-yeas %, nays
30-a party vote.
On motion of Gibson sorghum seed and
sugar cane seed were placed on the free
list.
The finance committee offered IN
amendment imposing a duty of four cents
per pound on ia. Agreed to.
Call moved to put cocoanuts. pine ap-
ples and bananas ON the dutiable list. Re
jected.
Spooner offered an amendment for the
ADMISSION of tin plates free of duty after
the LIST of October, 1896, in case the
American production of the article shall
not equal in any of the intervening years
one-third of the amount imported.
Plumb moved to amend by providing
for a duty of one cent per pound on tin
plates and a bounty of one cent per pound
for the home product. After much dis
cussion Plumb's amendment was rejected
and Spooner's agreed to.
Aldrich offered a committee amend
ment as a substitute for section 5 requlr-
lng packages to be plainly marked and
show the country where the goods were
manufactured. Agreed to.
Evarts offered an amendment imposing
a duty of 10 per cent ad valorem on all
teas the growth or. produce of countries
east OF the Cape of Good Hope, when inn
ported from places west of the Cape of
Good Hope. lie made a statement in ex-
PLANTATION OF the amendment, which is in
tended to put a stop to the importation OF
tea by way Of Canada and of the Cape OF
Good Hope instead of directly from
China.
Sherman disapproved OF the amend
ment as retaliatory, the only effect of
which would be to add to the cost of the
tea. He saw no excuse to offer for the
course of Canada in imposing additional
duties on tea aud coffee imported from
the United States, which course he re-
garded as perfectly ridiculous.
Morgan stated as an objection to
Evarts' amendment that a large amount
of the tea imported into the United
States came from Ceylon, and that there
was no direct communication between the
United States and Ceylon.
.Spooner moved to amend Evarts'
amendment by adding the following:
There shall be levied and collected upon
all coffee, green, from the Dominion of
Canada, 10 per cent ad yalorem, and
upon all coffee, roasted or ground, from
the Dominion of Canada three cents per
pound and 10 per cent ad valorem. Dis
cussion on the amendment continued at
great length.
German moved to add to Evarts'
amendment the proviso that teas i'm
ported directly into the United States on
through bills of lading from countries
east of the Cape of Good Hope and
trans shipped to any foreign port or place
snail not be subject to the duty therein
provided.
Evarts accepted the modification. and
the question was taken on Spooner's
amendment, as modified, was agreed to.
On motion of Sherman section "a
following drawbacks of duties on i'm
ported materials used in exported manu-
f%aetures) was amended BY the provision
that no drawbacks shall be allowed in
any case where the duties paid on i'm
ported materials are less than 10 per
cent. OF the value of The manufactured
goods. or where the claim shall be for
less than $40.
Sections So and 26 of the bill, relating
TO dealers in leaf tobacco, were, on the
Recommendation OF the finance committee.
struck out-yeas "a. NAYS 81. All the
democrats voted against it, reinforced by
Flat, Stewart and Teller.
All sections IN the house bill from 81 to
20, inclusive, were, on the report of the
nnance committee, struck out. They re-
lated to internal revenue provisions as to
peodlers OF tobacco, taxes on tobacco and
cigars and vinegar factories.
The sections from So to 60. relating to
domestic wines, etc We're also struck out
aud the committee amendments to the
other sections of the bill agreed to.
Section SO of the honse bill was, on the
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