The morning call., 1894-06-19
FOR OR AGAINST THE BILL.
Nobody Knows What 1t Will
Come to at Last.
OPPOSED TO THE INCOME TAX
And to Several Other Features Not
Necessary to Be Mentioned
Now.


tariff bill came up to-day the Senate passed
joint resolution directing the Secretary
of War 30 appoint a commission of engi-
neers to examine and report upon the cost
of deepening the harbors of Superior and
Duluth.
The pulp, papers and books" schedule
in the tariff was considered first. Frye
offered a protest against the first para
graph, placing duty of 10 per cent on me-
chemically ground wood pulp and chem
lcal wood pulp. bleached or unbiesched.
The production of wood pulp, said Frye,
employed 10000 men, turning out a pro-
duet valued at S35, 10000 annually and
paying annually wages of 500, 900, 000
Under the operation Of the present duty
the costs of paper had greatly decreased
and wood pulp had decreased in price
from " cents per pound to IA. He ap-
pealed to the other side TO make the duty
specific instead of ad valorem, and pro-
posed an amendment to substitute
an equivalent specific rate of 81 80
per ton Oh wood pulp mechanically
ground. chemical wood pulp unbleached
So per ton, and bleachsd Sc 80. The
amendment was rejected 20 to %.
The rate of shipping paper and roofing
felt was fixed at 10 per cent. Printing pa
per. unsized and sized, suitable for books
and newspapers, Is per cent; copy, filter
ing, tissue, sensitized paper, ETC., 80 per
cent IAN increase of per cent from the
House rate); parchment paper. cardboard,
photograph and autograph albums, wholly
or partly manufactured, 80 per cent; ltho-
graphic prints, II per cent; liGhOgra phic
labels, 10 per cent Uhe House rate is 25) :;
paper envelopes, 20 per cent; paper hang
ings. 90 per cent; blank books. 90 per cent !;
books. engrayings, photographs, etehings,
% per cent; playing cards, 10 cents per
pack, and 90 Eper cent ad valorem; manu-
features of paper not specially provided
for, 20 per cent. This completed the pulp
and paper paragraphs.
The Senate Immediately proceeded with
schedule IN" sundries. Following rates
were fixed without debate: Hair and
feather busters, 80 per cent; brooms, 20;
button-forms, 10; agate buttons. %; pearl
and she'll buttons. cent per line and Is
per cent; ivory buttons. glass, bone and
horn, 50 per cent; shoe buttons, %
When coal was reached opposition was
developed. The House bill placed coal on
the free list. The Finance Committees
ton on bituminOus coal and slack, 10 on
slack and culm. and Is per cent ad valorem
on coke. SIS soon as the clerk had read
this paragraph Hill and PETER jumped to
their feet. The New York Senator was
recognized. and he sent to the clerks desk
an amendment to relegate bituminous coal
and shale to the free list.
He supported his amendment with a
II W
into lengthy argument. He simply
wanted to call the attention of his Demo
cratic colleagues to the fact that the coun-
try expected a Democratic Congress in a
tariff measure to place coal on the free list.
During the course Of this remarks SEN
ator Chandler interrupted Senator Hill, ex.
pressing the opinion that coal would be on
the free list before the bill became a law.
basing his opinion on the serene conf
dence felt by the Nova Scotia syndicate
with which Mr.. Whitney is connected.
Hill declared he was opposed to certain
features of the bill, the socialist and popu-
listic income tax in particular. but no one,
he declared, had right to say he was OBJ
posed to the bill and was seeking to COM
pass its defeat.
GOD knows what the bill will be like
when it passes the Senate and comes out
OF Conference i'd he. God knows how
many extortions and concessions will be
wrung from the unwilling hands of the
committee. l reserve the right to vote for
it or not when see wha. it is as a final"
Squire, on behalf of the Washing ton
coal interests, thought it was unfair to ad-
nit Canadian coal at 40 per cent, when
Canada charges 60 per cent on coal i'm
ports.
Perkins explained that he should refrain
from voting on this paragraph, because he
had a personal interest in coal mines on
the Pacific Coast.
a vote was taken on Mr.. HlPs amend
ment at $3.50 o'clock and it was lost to 81.
Kyle. Allen. PETER Pop.), Hill and
Irby D). and Hansbrough and Wash
burn r. voted in favor of the motion.
The Finance Committees amendment.
placing q duty of 40 cents on bituminous
coal and shale and 10 cents on coal or culm
that will pass through half-inch screen.
was then agreed to.
Vest proposed series OF increases of
the duties on gloves, which were agreed to
without objection.
The miscellaneous schedule was COM
pleted without obstruction, and at 6:l5 the
Senate adjourned.