The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-07-05
TARIFF BILL PASSED
The Measure Goes Through the
Senate by a Close Vote.
SENATOR HILL VOTES A FIRM 10.
The Closing Day and Last Scenes in One
of the Most Prolonged Discussions
Ever Held Oh the Floor of
the Upper Branch.

"~ASHISGTON. July 0.-1ne LdriH Dill
passed by five majority. The vote was
SO to 81. Senators Allen and Kyle
voted yea. Senator Hill voted no. Sena-
tors PETER and Stewart, populists. voted
no. The Senate adjourned until Fri
day.
The Senate met at 10 a. III. in continu-
alton of Mondays Legislative session by
virtue OF the recess taken that night.
That bviated all the delays Incident to
the fOrmalities of a regular opening of
a new day. The tariff bill was taken
up at once and action on the amend
ments of the committee of the whole
occupied the hole of the days session.
First came the motion made by Senator
Mills Monday evening to place burlaps
and grain bags made thcrcfrOm on the
free list. 1t was carried by d vote Of rs
to II. Next came the famous "cOllars
and cuffs" amendment, fixing the duty
on those articles at 30 cents per dozen
and 30 per cent. ad valOrcm. and on
shirts at 80 per cent. equivalent. accord
ing to a statement made by Senator
Chandler. to an ad valOrem rate of from
50 to I25 per cent. That amendment
was agreed to by a vote Of 43 to 5.
Solid Democracy On Wool.
Then the great wool schedule came up
for action, Senator Sherman offering
an amendment to place wool on the
dutiable list at 80 per cent ad valOrem.
The longest discussion of the day tool
place on this prOpOsitiOn-appeals be-
ing made by republican senators to
democratic senators from the wool pro-
ducing states to supply even two votes
for the amendment, which would be
enough with the populist votes, to carry
it. But these appeals fell on deaf ears.
There was not d single d~isScnsiOn from
the democratic ranks on the question
of wool.
The committee amendment placing
bituminOus coal on the dutiable list at
40 cents a ton and coal slack at Is cents
was agreed to by a vote Of - to g.
All the committee amendments to the
leather schedule were agreed to; also
all the amendments under the title of
miscellaneous manufactures"
The next reserved amendment was
paragraph SO. as 20 paintings OF the
free list. senator Allen moved to
strike out the paragraph and to substi-
tute for it the provisions of the existing
law as to duty on paintings. The chair
held that the committee amendments
came first. and the latter were agreed
to.
Presidents Salary Not xempte
The committee amendment which had
been originally offered by Mr.. Hill eX-
empting the salaries of the president of
the United States and Of the Judges of the
ITnifAI Stat1G from iDrnn,A tav wa pa
iected after a brief struggle, by a vote
of-yeas "a nays 36-ten democrats
having voted for it and six republicans
and three populists against.
All the other reserved amendments up
to the close of the bill were agreed to
without opposition.
The late when the bill is to go into
effect was, on motion of Mr.. Jones,
fixed at August l, 1S94-with the under
standing that if necessary a later date
can be fixed hereafter.
Barbed wire was a subject of some
dispute. An amendment had been
agreed to in the committee of the whole,
hat barbed wire for fencing should be
admitted free of duty. This amend
mene was rejected and one offered by
Mr.. Allen. populist of Nebraska, to
place wire for fencing" on the free list
was also rejected-yeas 80; nays SO.
And so wire remains on the dutiable
list, at rates according to guage. Mica
was taken off the free list and put on
the dutiable list at 20 per cent. ad valo-
rem. upon motion of Mr.. Ransom.
Mica Made DutiabIe.
Mr.. RanSom's amendment prevailed