The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-07


After that the arrangement heretofore
made to apply. The proposition was as
sented to. Then Gorman's amendment to
reduce the duty on hops to s cents pound
was rejected.
Vest moved to place salt on the free list.
Negatived, yeas, &c; nays, 81. A party
vote, except that Paddock voted yea.
Vance offered an amendment for the re-
duction. of the duties on foreign products
purchased by exchange of American farm
products Rejected, yeas, %; nays, 30,
! party vote. On motion of Gibson sorghum
seed and sugar cane seed were placed on the
| free list.
The finance committee offered an amend
ment imposing duty OF 4 cents pound on
tin. Agreed to.
/ Call moved to put cocoanuts, plneapples
and bananas on the dutiable list. Re-
! jected.
| Spooner offered an amendment for the
admission of tin plates free OF duty after
the 1st of October, 1896, in case the Ameri-
can 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 1 cent per pound on tin plates,
and bounty of | cent pound for nome
product After much discussion Plumb's
amendment was rejected and Spooner's
| agreed to.
Aldrich offered committee amendment
as substitute fer section D, requiring
packages to be plainly marked and show
the country where the goods were manu-
featured. Agreed to.
Evarts offered an a nendment imposing Q
duty of 10 per cent ad valorem on all teas,
the growth or product of countries east oil
the Cape of Good Hope. when imported
from places west of the Cape OF Good Hope
He made statement in explanation of his
amendment which is intended to put stop
to the importation OF tea by way of Canada
and the Cape of Good Hope instead of di
rectly from China.
Sherman disapproved of the amendment
as retaliatory, the only effect of which
would be to add to the cost of the tea. Hi
had no excuse to offer for the course Of
Canada in imposing additional duties ON tes
and coffee imported from the United States
which course he regarded as perfectly
ridiculous.
German stated as an objection to Evarts
amendment, that large amount of tea wa!
imported into the United States from Cey
Ion and that there was no direct communi
cation between the United States aud Cey
lon.
Spooner moved to amend Evarts' amend
ment by adding the following: There shall
be levied and collected upon all coffee
green from the Dominion of Canada, 10 pc
cent. ad valorem and upon all coffee
roasted or ground, from the Dominion o
Canada, 3 cents a pound and 10 per cent. az
valorem.n
Discussion on the amendments was con
tinued at great length.
German moved to add to Evarts' amend
ment proviso that teas imported directly
into the United States on through bills Of
lading from countries east of the Cape o.
Good Hope and shipped to any port o.
:, l 1bo1 81 = fha1 r,+x
therein provided. Evarts accepted and {
vote was taken on SDooner's amendment
and it was rejected. Evarts' amendment
as modified was agreed to.
} On motion of Sherman section 246 (allow
| ing drawbacks of duties on imported ma
terials used in exported manufactures wa
amended by proviso that no drawback
shall be allowed in any case where the du
ties paid on imported materials are les
than 10 per cent. of the value of the manu-
featured goods, or where claim shall b.
! for less than $40.
!. Sections 25 and 26 of the bill, relating t.
dealers, in leaf tobacco, were, on recon
mendation of the finance committee, struc
out, yeas, "a; nays, 81; all the Democrat
( voting against it, reinforced by Plat
Stewart and Teller.
All the sections in the House bill, fror
81 to 46 inclusive, were, on recommends
ton of the finance committee, struck ou
Y They related to internal revenue provision
as to peddlers of tobacco, taxes on Tobacco
> aud cigars and vinegar factories.
" The sections from 81 to 80, relating
domestic wines, etc, were also struck GU
e and the committee amendments to the othe
L, sections of the bill agreed to.
!. Section 60 OF the House bill "a repealin
= section) was, on recommendation of tn
g finance committee, struck out. Aldric
offered an additional section, which we
|, agreed to, declaring the value of foreig
= coins, as expressed in United States a
counts, shall be that of the pure metal
V such coins and be declared quarterly by
: rectory of the mint.
This closed the consideration of the tart
bill except as to sugar, reciprocity ar
some few reserved paragraphs which WI
come up on Monday when speeches are
be limited to thirty minutes in lengt
Voting will begin Tuesday and after Il
third reading of the bill is reached Jhr
hours is to be allowed to each side for ge
eral discussion.
The conference report on the river ar
harbor bill was presented and read. II
presiding officer Qngalls) said that on
measure involving so large sum of none
and including so many considerations
would not take the responsibility of deca
ing the conference report agreed to unle
it appeared quorum was present on
discussion. There were but twenty o
Senators voting and so without acting
the conference report the Senate a
journed.
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