The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-27
THE DUTY ON LEAD.
The Senate Rejects Plumb's
Amendment to Reduce 1t.
1T WILL CERTAINLY REMAIN
As Provided for in the House Bill-The
Sugar Schedule is Passed Over
for the Present.
T WILL CERTAINLY REMAIN

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. 26-TSpecial
telegram to THE HERALD. THE Senate to
day voted down Mr.. Plumb's amendment
reducing the duty on lead ore from - to
q OF cent per pound, and they made
equally short work of Mr.. Coke's amend
ment making lead extracted from silver ore
free of duty. This action on the part of the
Senate furnished satisfactory evidence that
when vote shall be, reached on the tariff
bill the item of lead ore will be adopted as
1t came from the House.
The tariff bill was then taken I'D the
pending question being on the lead para
graph to which Coke offered an amend
ment TO make lead extracted from silver
ores free of duty and Plumb also offered
one reducing the duty on lead and lead
ores from = cents to u of a cent Before
proceeding with the paragraph Plumb gave
notice of an amendment to the bill which
he would offer at the appropriate time
Inc amendment was read. 1t is with
some few moditications) the bill for
reciprocity with Canada introduced by
ButterWorth in the House. Plumb pro
poses to restrict the operation of the re-
clprocal arrangement to manufactured
articles and minerals. Plumb then spoke
IN favor OF his amendent Sanders opposed
the two amendments. AT the close of the
discussion Plumb's amendment to reduce
the duty on lead ore from II cent
to q of cent pound was voted on and
rejected.
Coke'S amendment making lead extracted
from silver ore free of duty was then voted
on and was also rejected No other amend
ment was offered to the paragraphs and
none to the next two paragraphs, lead in
pigs, cents pound land lead in spots 90
cents per pound.
The paragraph relating to metallic min
eral substances in a crude state not speci-
| ally provided for having been reached,
Blair spoke against the amendment re
ported by the finance committee striking
out the duty Of 35 per cent on mica. 1t
went over without action.
The next paragraph putting duty of 3
cents pound on crude nickel was strick en-
outon recommendation of the finance COM
| mittee.
The next paragraph, relating to nickel
and nickel oxide, was amended under the
| report of the finance committee by reduc-
! ing the duty from Is to cents a pound
| The paragraph relating to watches was
amended on the recommendation of the
finance committee by making the duty on
all watches % per cent. ad valorem
The paragraph relating to zinc in blocks
or pigs was amended on the recommends
cioh "a piS ny reducing
the duty from II to = cents per pound.
The committee substitute for the para
graph as to metal manufactures not spe-
cially provided for was agreed to-
Schedule ID, Wood and manufactured
wood, having beea reached, Mcpherson
wished to offer substitute for the whole
schedule, but he reserved it until the com
mittee amendment should be disposed Of
The paragraph relating to sawed boards.
ETC., was, on the recommendation of the
committee, amended by reducing the duty
from 80 per cent. to 10 per cent. and bv
adding words imposing duty of 20 per
cent. on veneers not especially provided for.
! The next paragraph, pickets and palings,
was amended by reducing the duty from &c
per cent to 10 per cent, and the paragraph
by reducing the duty from 81 to 80 cents
per thousand.
Aldrich moved to amend the paragraph
which puts duty of 10 per cent on chair
cane manufactured blu. not made into fin.
ished articles by suriking out the words
manufactured, but made into finished ar
ticles" and inserting in lieu of them the
words, "or reeds whether wrought or man.
ufactured from rattans or reeds. and
whether round, square, or any Other
shape" Agreed to.
Schedule E, relating to sugar having
been reached, Aldrich said the committee
proposed to let that schedule be passed
over informally for the present: so sched-
ule +, relating to tobacco and its manufac
ture will be the first thing to come mn to
morrow Adjourned.