Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-07

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.i
WASHINGTON, September 6.-The tariff
bill was practically finished to-day, with
the exception of the sugar schedule, and its
reciprocity accessory which are left to the
last moment. 1t had been decided that de-
bate should close to-day, but the Senatorial
statesmen felt so sorry that the end of their
oratory was reached they concluded
they must have just one more day,
and therefore Monday will be devoted
to sugar and reciprocity in halfhour
speeches, meeting at 10 o'clock and adjourn
ing at 6, and thus affording opportunity for
just 16 more good-sized speeches.
1t is quite certain that the Aldrich reci-
procity amendment, which is the amend
ment of the Finance Committee, will be
adopted and that free sugar will be made
contingent on reciprocity. II is not prob
able that any broader reciprocity scheme
than this will receive the sanction OF Con-
gress at this time, and it is thought that in
view of the silence of Speaker Reed in mis-
campaign speeches on this subject even this
timid approach to reciprocity may be
crushed out in the House.
TIN PLATE CHANGE.
During the debate to-day, Mr.. Spooner
offered the amendment proposed by him on
the got b Of August to the tin paragraph. It
provides for the admission of tin plates free
of duty after the 1st 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 and en-
tered for consumption.
Mr.. Plumb moved to amend the amend
ment by providing for a duty Of 1 cent
pound on tin plates and for a bounty of 1
cent pound for the home product, and
Mr.. Carlisle said that Mr.. Spooner's
amendment was a confession that there was
no expectation of the manufacture of tin
plates in the United States. Mr.. Spooner
denied the correctness of that assumption
and argued in support of his amendment.
Plumb's amendment was defeated, and
the Spooner proposition, having been ac-
cepted by Senator Aldrich, was adopted
without much opposition. Mr.. Aldrich,
for the Finance Committee, offered an
amendment imposing a duty of 4 cents
pound on tin. Agreed to without the yeas
and nays.
RETALIATING UPON CANADA.
MIR. EVartS onered the amendment pro-
posed by him yesterday imposing duty Of
10 per cent advalorem on all teas, the
growth or produce of the countries east Of
the Cape of Good Hope, when imported
from places west of the Cape of Good Hope
He made a statement in explanation and
advisory of the amendment which is in
tended to put a stop to the importation of
tea by the way of Canada and of the Cape
of Good Hope instead of directly from
China.
Mr.. Sherman disapproved of the amend
ment as being a retaliatory measure, the
only effect of which would be to add to the
cost of tea. He had no excuse to offer for
the course of Canada in imposing additional
duties in tea and coffee imported from the
United States, which course he regarded as
perfectly ridiculous.
Mr. Spooner moved to amend Mr.. Evarts'
by adding to it the following;
''There shall be levied and collected upon
all coffee, green, from the Dominion of Can
ada 10 per cent ad valorem, and upon all
coffee, roasted or ground, from the Domin-
ion of Canada cents per pound and 10 per
cent ad valorem." The question was taken
on Mr.. Spooner's amendment and IT was re-
jected. Mr.. Evarts' amendment, as modi-
fed, was agreed to.