The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-01-24

WASHINGTON, Jan. 80. After tho
transaction of some routine business in
the House Wise (Va.) moved that the
New York and New Jersey bridge bill,
together with the veto message, be re-
ferred to the committee on interstate
and foreign commerce, which was done.
A motion was then made that the
House should go into committee Of tho
whole, but before the question was de-
cided the House sought to unravel the
tangle in which it was placed by ad-
journing yesterday without completing
tho consideration of the sugar schedule.
A special order having been adopted
last Saturday setting aside to-day tues.
day. for consideration for coal and iron
ore schedules, the House was unde.
cided as to whether that order should
go into effect at once or whether the
sugar schedule should first be com.
pleted.
After a quarter Of an hour had been
spent in the discussion, the Speaker
ruled that the sugar clause should be
given right of way. Then House then,
at ll:25, went into com mittee of the
whole and Ric hardson took the chair;
but the committee was beset with
shoals and quicksands, as tho House
was, and more than an hour was spent
in getting it's bearings. Late yesterday
afternoon an amendment had been
offered by Robertson Dem, La pro-
viding for duty of one cent per pound
and upwards for raw sugar. To this
Warner, of New York, had ofre. ed a
subs titute, tho effect of which was to
place all sugars, raw and refined, on the
free list, while the bounty is abolished.
The House had adjourned without
acting upon Robertson's amendment,
although it had adopted Warmers sub.
stitute. The question was as to the
status of Robertsop's amendment. 1t
took an hour and three-quarters to
como to the conclusion that Warmers
substitute had displaced the Robertson
amendment. The Warner substitute
was then agreed to, and all sugar was
made free and tho bounty abolished.
Amendments to the Coal Schedule.
At five minutes after the coal
schedule was taken up and Oates (Ala.)
offered an amendment striking coal
from the free list and putting a duty of
forty cents ton upon it and twenty
cents per ton on slack.
Wise (Va.) offered an amendment to
this amendment placing the duty at
fifty cents per ton.
McKaig Oem Md submitted sub
stitute providing for the retention OF
the present laws cents per ton on
coal and 80 cents per ton on slack.
Hit (Rep., Ill offered tho following
amendment 10 the substitute: Insert
a. the end Of paragraph 439, provided.
That If any article is imported, the
product Of any country which imposes
duty on said article from the United
States tn there shall be levied COL
lecsed and paid upon said imported
article the rate of duty existing prior
Il the passage of this act"
Wilson wv. Va.,) made the point Of
order against Hits amendment that it
was not germane to the subject under
discussion, and also that it was in the
nature of retaliation. The point was
sustained and Hits resolution was
ruled out.
Raynor, of Maryland, made an elo-
quent plea for free coal. He said he
held position antagonistic to his State,
which wanted protective tariff on
coal but he was not a Democrat in
everything else and Republican on
on coal and not on other articles in
which no was not interested. Said he:
Il have followed tho mem bers OF the
ways and means committee far beyond
the outposts and | shall never desert
them now when the poisoned arrows
are flying from the very citadel OF pro-
lection" democratic applause).
Wise IVA spoke in favor of his
amendment putting tax Of so cents
per ton on coal The Secretary OF the
Treasury was compelled to issue bonds
for the support OF the Government when
the committee on ways and means was
putting coal on the tree list. This was
to be compensated for by internal
revenue taxation, to which he was
opposed.
We had paid $500, 600 into tho Cana
dian treasury in the last year on coal
we sent there, yet it was proposed by
this bill 10 allow Canadian coal to come
in free. Clarke dem Ala.) was in
favor OF FREQ coal.
Tucker (Dem., Va said he had no
personal interest in the coal mines OF
Virginia, but as representative of the
State he advocated the amendment sub.
stituting the coal schedule of tho MIC
Kinley law for the corresponding pro-
vision Of the Wilson bill, and he as
serted that putting coal on the free list
would not cheaper the product to those
people who lived west of the Alleghanies
and east OF the Rockies.
Oates, Wheeler and Turpin (Ala.)
wanted tariff duty upon coal. In the
further course OF the debate Turpin
(Ala.) offered an amendment to the sub.
stitute providing that the tax OF rs cents
per ton should be decreased 121S cents
a year, and cease altogether after the
SIKH wear.