St. Paul daily globe., 1894-06-20
RAPID PROGRESS IS MADE.
SENATE PASSES A LARGE NUMBER or
TARIFF SCHEDULES.
BILL IS AGAIN DEFEATED.

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Allen, PETER and Kyle Join Him
In Voting to Place Iron Ore on
t. tho Free l.ist-A Bill Passed
Ratifying an Agreement With
the Yankton Tribe Of Sioux In
diana
WASHINGTON. June 19.-At the open
ing OF the session of the senate today
Mr.. VOORHEES, reported from the finance
committee resolution authorizing the
translation and publication Of the pro-
ceediugs of the recent Berlin silver
| conference. The proceedings of the
I conference, Mr.. Voorhees, said. had been
Ill this country less than twenty-four
hours. The resolution was adopted.
Some routine business was transacted
and several unobjectionable bills were
passed by unanimous consent. including
a bill to ratify an agreement with the
YanktOn tribe of Sioux or 'Dakotah
Indians, in South Dakota. Mr.. Aliens
resolution directing the secretary of the
treasury to inform the senate as to the
total number of persons engaged in
protected industries in the United States.
whose wages are or may be claimed to
be affected by the tariff legislation en-
countered opposition OH the Republican
side. as it had on several previous. Mr..
Allen said that it was not strange to him
that those who claimed that every person
in the United States was affected for
veal or woe by protection should
OPPOSE THE PASSAGE
a resolution that would determine
how much falsity lay in that claim. The
resolution went over. and the tariff bill
was taken up. AT the request of Mr..
Lodge, the senate went back to para
graph 326, fixing the duty on mating
and mats made of cocoa fiber or rattan
at 20 per cent. He offered an amend
ment to restore the Mckinley rate Q2-
cents per square ward ON mating and
cents square foot on mats. equivalent
to II and AZ per cent Respectively. The
amendment was lost, 25 to 30. At this
point several notifications proposed by
Republican senators to different para
graphs OF the bill were proposed, and
accepted by Mr.. Jones on behalf of the
finance committee and the Democratic
side of the house.
Upon the suggestion of Mr.. Sherman,
the duty on ink and ink powders was
increased to 25 per cent to make it con-
form to the rate on pigments. At the
request of Mr.. Allison, the finance COM
mittee agreed to strike out from para
graph 100 the reciprocity provision ad-
mittlng buckwheat, corn, cornmeal,
cats, rye, rye flour, wheat aud wheat
flour free of duty from such countries
as impose
NO IMPORT DUTY
on such products exported from the
United States.
|. The finance committee also agreed to
!, Mr.. Allison's request to place eggs Oil
the dutiable list at three cents per dozen.
An amendment was agreed to grading
the duty OH photographic prints from 27,
to As cents per pound, according to
thickness.
Mr.. Jones offered an amendment to
increase the duty on hair pencils,
brushes and feather busters, from 80
per cent to 35 per cent. aud to add at
the end Of the paragraph "bristles
punched or prepared in any manner,
71a Fer cent ad valorem."
This was agreed to, ass was another
amendment offered by him changing
the classification of gloves, so as to
make ladies' and children's gloves of
sheep origin, with exterior grain sur
face removed, not over seventeen inches
in length, dutiable at the rate of Si.75
per dozen pairs; over seventeen inches,
81. Is per dozen pairs.
The free list was then taken up. Am
beroid was ADDED to the free list. Salts
of ammonia. made dutiable in the SEN
ate bill, were stricken from the free
list. The finance committee amend.
ment, permitting the free entry of cat
tie, sheep or other domestic animals and
their increase, which have strayed
across the boundary. or been driven
across for pasturage, was agreed to. Mr..
Jones explained that the provision was
intended only to apply to Mexican bor-
ders, where it was sometimes impossible
to prevent animals from straying across
the border, and where it was sometimes
absolutely necessary in time of drought
to drive stock across the Rio Grande for
pasturage. Apples. green, dried, etc.,
heretofore placed on the dutiable list,
were stricken from the
FREE LIST.
The committee amendments striking
from the free list beef. mutton and
pork, which have been placed OH the
dutiabie list at 20 per cent, was
agreed to.
MIR. PETER moved to strike out .'bacon
and hams" The effect of the amend
ment would be to make bacon and hams
dutiable at 20 per cent. The amend
ment was agreed to without objection.
The Jones amendment adding MANILA
twine TO the paragraph placing binding
twine OH the free list was agreed to.
Bone char. heretofore transferred to
the dutiable list, was stricken from the
free list.
Borax was stricken from the free list.
The Jones amendment to paragraph AT
was adopted. the effect being to strike
from the free list sweat feathers, bind
ings, bands and tips when cut to length
fer trimming felt or wool hats.
ClayS or earthS, unwrOught or unman-
ufactured, not specially provided for,
was stricken from the free list. In the
coal paragraph "bituminous and shale,
and coal slack or culm" was stricken
from the free list.
A proviso was added to the paragraph
placing eggs Oh DituS, HSn ana insects
on the free list, SO as to exclude the
eggs of game BIRDS, the Importation OF
which was prohibited except for scien-
tlfic specimens. The finance committee
amendments to paragraph 4S5 was with
drawn, leaving Chinese mating OH the
free list.
Dates and pine apples were stricken
from the free list: cocoanuts. Brazil
nuts, cream nuts, palm nuts and palm
nut kernels We're left on the free list.
Dressed fur suitable for use only in
the manufacture of hatter's fur was
added 10 the free list. Gambler was
stricken from the tree list.
The yeas aud nays were
DEMANDED BY MR. HILL,
when Mr.. Jones offered the committee
amendment 10 strike iron nre frnIn- tLs.