St. Paul daily globe., 1894-06-19
HILL IS BADLY BEATEN
MS MOTION TO PLscE COAL 0Y IT,:
FREE LIST
DEFEATED BY A VOTE 81 TO 7.

Be Like When 1t Passes the
Senate ami Cones Out of
Conference" shouts the New
York SeDator-5eve Scheu-
ules Passed.
WASHINGToN, June 1S.-The senate,
After some routine business today. ell
tered on the twelfth week of the tariff
debate. The temperature was swelter
Ing, the mercury standing 81 deg. in the
chamber. Some private bills were
passed. and while the senate was dis
cussing bill which had been intro
duced by Mr.. PETER, and favorably re-
ported bv the committee on agriculture,
to pay $500 for an invention that would
utilize electricity or gaseous vapor as a
motor for agricultural machinery, the
tariff bill came up. Mr.. Harris, how.
ever, allowed the passage Of a joint
resolution allowing the secretary of war
TO appoint a commission OF engineers
to examine and report upon the cost of
deepening the harborS of Superior and
Duluth, and the tariff bill was laid before
the senate. At the request of MIR. .Platt.
the two paragraphs, 29S aud 29J, of the
silk schedule, passed over Saturday,
were again passed over today, and
schedule NJ, pulp papers and books"
was taken up. Mr.. Frye offered pro-
test against the first paragraph of the
schedule placing a duty of 10 per cent
OH mechanically ground wood pulp and
chemical wood pulp, bleached or un-
blea' he'd. The production of wood
pulp, said Mr.. Frye. was an
ENORMOUS INDUSTRY,
employing $4,000 men. turning out a
product valued at S35,000.00O annually,
and paving an annual wage of S23, ,O00.-
900. Under the operation OF the pres
creased. The wood pulp had decreased
from 4 to l 4 cents per pound in the
last ten years. 1t was produced in five
states. but principally in Maine and
New York. He appealed 20 the other
side to make the duty specific instead
Of ad valorem, and made proposition to
substitute proportionate specific rates,
say $3.50 ton on wood pulp mechan-
lcally ground, chemical wood pulp UNI
OASoSiSu ~ pSi lOlis anu oiNoShSu SO.oO
per ton. he Democratic members of
the finance Committee refused to accept
the amendment, and it was rejected
POPS. .,,>>, a..
The rate on sheathing paper and roof
Ing felt was fixed at 10 per cent; on
printing paper, uusiZed, sized, suitable
for books and newspapers, at Is per
cent, an increase from the house rate on
unsiZed paper from II to 15 per cent;
on copying paper, filtering paper, tissue
paper. sensitized paper, etc, an in-
crease of 5 per cent on the house rate;
on parchment paper. cardboard, photo
graph and autograph albums, wholly or
partly manufactured, 30 per cent; lithO-
graphic prints, 27 per cent; photographic
labels, 45 per cent (houSe rate 20 per
cent?; paper envelopes, 70 per cent;
paper, hanging, % per cent: blank
books, 20 per cent; books, including
pamphlets and engravings, photographs,
etchings, 25 per cent; playing cards, 10
cents per pack and so per cent ad
valorem; manufactures OF paper not
specially provided for. 20 per cent.
This completed the pulp and paper
paragraph, and the senate Immediately
proceeded with; schedule n. "sundries."
The following rates wele fixed without
debate: Hair pencils aud feather dust
ers, 80 per cent; sbrooms, % per cent;
button forms. 1O per cent; agate but
tons, 25 per cent; pearl and shell but
tons. cent per line and Is per cent;
ivory buttons, glass, bone and horn, "a
per cent; shoe buttons, 25 per cent. 1t
was not lntil coal was reached that
opposition developed. The house bill
PLACED COAL
On the free list; the finance committees
per ton on bituminous coal and shale;
15 cents on slack and culm and Is per
cent ad valorem on coke.
AS soon as the clerk had read this
paragraph Mr.. Hill and Mr.. PETER
jumped to their feet. The New York
senator was recognized, and he sent to
the clerks desk an amendment to rele
gate bituminous coal and shale to the
free list. He supported his amendment
with speech. 1t was useless for him
to enter into a lengthy argument. He
simply wanted to call The attention of
his Democratic colleagues to the fact
that the country expected Democratic
congress in any tariff reform measure
to place coal on the free list. 1t had
been demanded by the Democratic plat
form, and by every Democratic senator
who had spoken during the campaign of
1892. If there was anything to which
the party was pledged 1t was free raw
materials, and if there was any raw ma
terial it was coal.
Mr.. PETER followed Mr.. Hill in sup
port of free coal, although on different
line. He raised a laugh at the outset
by saving that he had stronger reason
for advocating free coal than the de-
mand of Democratic platform. II
have no more respect" said he, "for the
Democratic platform than the Demo
Gratis themselves have"
Mr.. Vest said he understood Mr.. Hill
was opposed to this bill on account of
It's income tax feature. "Yet he comes
here this morning." said Mr.. Vest, land
asks who compelled US to place
A TAX ON COAL.
"We are here to give information. but
not to those who know as much about
the matter as ourselves" Mr.. Hill'S
perpose, the speaker thought, was to
elicit some statement he could use in
fighting the bill.
Mr.. Vest declared that he would not
hesitate to antagonize the command of
his party on a question like this. If
the platform demanded free coal, and
he could get only a reduction Of 35
cents, he would take it.
Mr.. Chandler expressed the opinion
that coal would be on the free list be
fore the bill became law, basing his
opinion on the ''serene confidence" felt
by the Nova Scotia syndicate, with
which Mr.. Whitney was Interested. that
when the bill came out of conference
coal would be on the free list There
was, he declared, some understanding
with somebody.
Mr.. Hill declared that he was opposed
to certain features of the bill, the So
cialist and Populistic income tax in par
ticular; but no one, he declared, had a
right to say he was opposed to the bill
and was seeking to compass its defeat.
"God knows what the bill will be
like when it passes the senate and
comes out of conference" said he, pas