The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-20
NEARING THE END
Many More Clauses of the
Tariff Bill Passed by
the Senate.
SALT ON THE FREE LIST,
And the "All Sugar. Paragraph
Stricken 0ut-Some Quail
fled Votes.

WASHINGTON, June 20. 1894.-The Tariff
bill was laid before the Senate at half-past
ten this morning, the pending question being
the paragraph Cos placing salt on the free
list.
Mr.. PETER pop. Kas.l moved to strike the
paragraph from the free list and to put salt
on the dutiable list at the rate of five cents
per hundred pounds. He stated that person
ally he favored free salt, but that the State
of Kansas was largely engaged in that indus
try, and that he felt, in view of what the
Senate did yesterday, that the salt industry
of Kansas was as much entitled to protec-
ton as the quicksilver of California,
the ollar and cuffs OF New
York, or the woollen manufactures
of Rhode Island. He read correspondence
from Hutchinson and Fort Scott, Kansas, in
which it was stated that the salt product of
Kansas, which in 1888 was only l55,0OO
barrels, was last year 1,0S0,000 barrels, and
that the withdrawal of the present duty
would benefit no one while it would in]ure
the w~orkingmen in the salt industry OF the
country. The salt area of Kansas extended,
he said, $50 miles north and south and 70
miles east and west. so that the supply was
practically inexhaustible.
Mr.. Quay rep, Pa.) read a paper giving
the statistics as to the total salt product OF
the United States.
rae range of prices of foreign and domestic
salt and the advantages which the foreign
producers enjoyed, and arguing against the
withdrawal of the duty.
NOT LIKE SUGAR. YOU KNOW.
Mr.. Platt rep, Conn.) did not think that
salt ought to be made free: he thought
there should be a reasonable duty on it.
He did not know that anybody of late had
asked for the removal of the duty. The
replies to the inquiries of the Finance
Committee, as published in bulletin No. 40,
from States where salt was produced
were universally in favor of a con-
now just one-fifth the price in 1860; it was
the cheapest of all manufactures-one cent
for ten pounds of common Salt-and the
removal of the duty would not make a par
ticle of difference to the consumers. As
tonishing as it might seem, MI. Platt
If the salt industry of the United
States had made the price of salt SO low that
it was cheaper by the barrel than sand, lit
erally-to use a familiar phrase, cheaper
than dirt"-why should anything be done
which, the salt producers insisted,
would injure or destroy their businesss
The duty on salt was purely a revenue duty
and yielded last year about 100000; and he
was unable to discover why. from the Demo-
cratic standpoint, that revenue should be
abandoned.
Mr.. Hawley rep, Conn., also advocated
the retention of duty on salt and read ex-
tracts from a memorial of the salt producers
of the United States and from their an
swers to the inquiries sent out by the
Finance Committee.
Mr.. Allison rep, Iowa. said that the re-
moval of the duty on salt was a sort of ira
dition. 1t had come down from an ancient
period when q struggle was made for a re-
- ~c H. 4 I J,,+- .-l l>l 4-,6 "a n
part of the Democratic idea for a
great many years. Why. he asked,
should the entire salt duty be taken
of! The Senator from Kansas proposed
a uniform duty of five cents per hundred
pounds, an average reduction of existing
rates by one-half. He would support that
proposition. He expressed surprise at hear
ing nothing from Democratic Senators who
represented salt-producing Statesmen
York, West Virginia OF Louisiana.
The vote was taken on Mr.. PETERS motion
and it was rejected:-Yeas, "A; nays, 80.
Mr.. PETER was not sustained by his co
Populists-Senaters Allen and Kyle-who
voted with the Democrats against his motion.
So salt remains on the free list.
SEEDS AND SHRUBS.
Paragraph Gil seeds was amended SO as
TO read "Seeds-Anise, canary, caraway
cardamon, coriander, cotton, croton, cum
min, fennel, ~fenngreek, hemp, hoarhound,
1ituotai u, AoROs ~ oOhh p VI VI DC4C,
sugar, beet, nnangelwurzel, sorghum or
sugar cane for seek and all flower and grass
seeds"
Paragraph 615 was amended so as to read:
sShrimps and other shell fish, canned or
otherwise"
Paragraph GIG was amended so as to read:
"Silk, raw or as reeled from the cocoon, but
not doubled, twisted or advanced in manu-
facture in any way"
Paragraph 622 "Sulphate of Soda" was
passed over
"Foreign postage and revenue stamps,
cancelled or uncancelled, were put on the
free list as a new paragraph.
Paragraphs G38, stone and sand" was
amended, on motion Of Mr.. Hale, rep, Me9
and assented to by Mr.. Jones, tDem., Ark
by striking out these words free stone,
granite, sandstone, limestone and other
building OF monument stone, except mar
bic, unmanufactured or undressed, not spec
tally provided for in this act.n
ANOTHER SUGAR TEST.
Paragraph 64l. 'All Sugars" having been
reached and the amendment of the Finance