St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-28

posed the amendment. Then lively
tilt ensued between Mr.. johnson (Dem.,
o. and Mr.. Tarsney.
Mr. r..Childs (Rep., Ill.) proposed an
amendment to the zinc schedule, 10
make zinc in block and in pig dutiable
at cent per pound; zinc in sheets, IL
cents per pound, and on old and worm
out zinc, d cent per pound.
Mr. Hartman (Rep., Mont.) offered a
substitute to the Morgan and Sweet
amendment, and spoke in the interest
or the lead miners of Montana. Mir.
Morgan replied to Mr.. TarSney in Il
heated speech, saying the lead trust had
made the lead ore schedule, and that in
the changes made after the bill was re-
ported in congress, the duties on white
lead were made at the instigation of the
lead trust.
Mr.. Wilson closed the debate for the
committee.
Mr.. Rawlins (Dem., Utah offered as a
substitute for Tie Whole lead schedule a
paragraph placing uniform duty Of 20
per cent on lead ore and all manufact-
ureS of lead. He appealed to the Demo-
Gratis not to discriminate against an
article which was the chief property Of
the West. His amendment was in the
interest of the consumers and the pro-
ducerS alike. The vote was then taken.
THE SWEET AMENDMENT
to the main amendment of Mr.. Morgan
was lost without division. The R3WlinS
amendment was also lost, as was the
Hartman substitute. When the time
came to vote on the Morgan amendment,
Mr.. Johnson (Dem., o. asked that the
vote be taken on each of the three
propositions in the amendment, a re-
ductiOn on white lead from Z to cent,
a reduction of duty, OH sheet and lead
piping from l Il to l cent per pound aud
to make lead aud silver lead ore ION free
list In DilD dutlable at one cent per
pound. He withdrew the request, how
ever, but MIR. Bland renewed it, as far
as pertained to a separate vote on the
proposed reduction on the manufactures
of lead. Tne other two amendments
were lost, % to 107.
Mr.. Wilson (Rep., Wash9 made the
point OF no quorum, but Withdrew it.
The amendment relating to the man
ufactureS of lead was also lost. Amend
mentS TO zinc schedules were lost with
Out division. Mr.. Wilson then offered
an amendment to increase the duty on
morphine and all salts thereof from 50
to 70 cents per ounce.
Mr. Anderson (Dem., W. Va.) chal-
lenged the statement of his colleague,
Mr. Wilson, chairman of the ways and
means committee, made during the con-
slderatlon of the coal schedule, that the
Canadian tariff law provided that Can
ada shall remove the duty levied on our
coal whenever
CANADIAN COAL
was admitted free in the United States.
lie wanted to offer an amendment III ak
ing free coal reciprocal. but counld not
secure recognition for that purpose.
Ihe morphine amendment was agreed
to, as were several other amendments.
Mr.. Wilson then brought forward IL
series of amendments comprehending
tue entire metal schedule.
MIR. johnson (Dem., O. said he de-
sired to offer three separate propositions
as amendments to tile proposed reduc-
ton OF the duty on steel rails from 20
per cent To % per cent, SO that the COM
mlttee could vote to reduce the duty
still further, to 10, 10 or per cent, if it
desired.
Mr.. Hopkins (Rep. I'D denounced
emphaticaily the amendment to still
further reduce the duties in the metal
schedule
Mr.. Bynum, of Indiana, one Of the
Democratic members OF the ways and
means committee, said that while he
favored the proposed reduction in the
Jill GO AoA tto ltiS PICOCAG CliISIIulAGLkS
were concerned, lie feared that some OF
them would reduce the schedule below
the revenue point. This was especially
the case with the proposed reduction OH
steel rails, which, i'll his opinion, would
give the foreign manufacturers an
undue advantage.
MIR. DalZelI tRep., Pa.) called atten-
ton 10 the fact that within two hours
of the close of the consideration of the
customs schedules of the tariff bill the
committee brought in this proposition
to radically cut the already enormously
low rate OF the metal schedule. The
duty in the Wilson bill OF 221 per cent
would close
EVERY FURNACE
east of the Alleghenies aud in the state
OF Pennsylvania. Yet al this late hour
it was proposed to lower II to 20 per
cent.
Mr. Simpson Pop. Kan.) offered an
amendment 10 trans; er fence wire from
the dutiable to the free list.
Mr. Caldwell (Rep., o. in opposing
the bill on general grounds, presented q
resolution about 100 feet long signed by
$1,000 lab0rerS, protesting against the
bill. Mir. Granger contended that 20
per cent duty Oil pig iron would not
compensate the difference in wages
paid here and abroad.
Mr.. Hepburn (Rep., Io) called atten-
tlOn TO the provisions i'll the bill per-
miItIng returning Americans To bring
in from abroad $3.50 worth of clothes
free of duly. This exemption was in
the interest OF the rich who were able 10
pay the duty. Over SS,000.0J0 revenue
would be lost by this provision.
Mr.. Robertson Oem., Lao sent to the
clerk desk and had read an amendment
to place cotton bagging On the free list.
The duty of 10 per cent in the bill un
cotton bagginS was a violation of the
pledges OF the Democratic party
A retreat from the position taken in
the last congress when a bill fer free
cotton bagging was passed.
MIR. Washington (Dem., Tenn offered
an amendment to make the DUTY on pig
iron S3 per ton.
Mr.. Terry Dem, Ark.) offered an
amendment to Mr.. Simpsons amend
ment, to have free fence wire 20 into
effect upon the passage OF the bill.
MIR. DalZell demanded a separate vote
OF tile amendment To reduce the duty
on pig iron from 22115 to 20 per cent al
valoIem, and the amendment To that
amendment.
Mr.. Washington's amendment to
make the duty So per ton was lost
without division.
The committee amendment given
above was adopted, 123 to 90.
The amendments 10 paragraphs 100,
10, Ill, 112, l13 and ia were agreed 10
without objection.
The vote then came upon the three
amendments of Mr.. johnson to reduce
the
DUTY ON STEEL RAILS.
The first proposition was to reduce it
to 5 per cent. The Republicans re-
fused to vote. 1t was defeated, IS to
1913. The other two, TO make the duty
10 per cent and 10 cents respectively,
shared the same fate, the first so TO 120,
the second 40 to 142. The vote then
recurred on the committee proposition
to reduce the duty from 25 to 20 per
cent, which was adopted.
The amendments of MesSrs. Terry
and Simpson TO transfer wire rods para
graph l2D from the dutiable to the free
liss were lost, 80 to 121. The committee
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