The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-02-02
ON THE FREE LIST.
The House Disposes of the Sugar
Schedule. Of the Wilson
Tariff Bill.
On the Final Vote in Committee Of
thu. Whole All Duty and Bounty
Was Removed.
A Hawaiian Resolution Reported to
the Senate by the Foreign Re-
latiOns Committee.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-At the open.
ing Of the house, on motion of Mr.. Wise,
the presidents veto Of the New York
AMI New Jersey bridge bill was referred
to the committee on interstate and for.
eign commerce..
A few minutes later, when the house
went into committee of the whole to
resume the consideration of the tariff
bill, MI. Oates of Alabama called atten.
ton to the peculiar complication that
had arisen owing to the failure
OF the committee to complete the con-
sideration Of the sugar schedule. 1t
came over as unfinished business, while
special arrangement made last Saturday
the day was set aside for the considera-
ton of the coal and iron ore schedules.
Some discussion followed as to the par
llamentary status, and it was finally de-
cided by unanimous consent to go ahead
with the vote on the sugar schedule,
and after that was disposed of to take
up coal and iron.
The pending question was the Rob.
ertson amendment imposing a duty on
raw sugar and increasing the duty on
refined sugar, as amended by Mr.. War.
ner, placing raw and refined sugar on
the free list. The confusion entailed by
these two incongruous amendments had
first to be Strengthened out. Mr.. Dingley
claimed that the Warner amendment
was utterly inconsistent with the Rob-
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sidered as a substitute. Mr.. Robertson
took issue with him on the ground that
Mr.. Warmers amendment simply was
to place refined sugar on the free list,
leaving SO much of the house amend
ment as imposed a duty upon sugar be-
low No. 16 Dutch standard unaffected,
The debate OF the point of order con-
sumed over an hour and IA half. The
chair finally stated that the Warner
amendment was voted upon as an
amendment to the Robertson amend
ment. He wasnow asked, he said, to decide
that 1t should have been voted upon as a
substitute He declined to rule, and
submitted the question to the house to
determine whether it should be
considered as a substitute or an
amendment. Without division, it
was decided to treat the Warner
amendment as a substitute. The COM
mittee was then called upon to vote upon
1t as a substitute, its effect, if adopted,
being to place all sugars, raw and re-
fined, on the free list. The great mass
Democrats and practically all the
voted for the proposition,
only a handful of Democrats, including
Mr.. Wilson and several other Demo.
Gratis OF the ways and means committee,
MIR. Evarts, Coombs, and the members
of the Louisiana delegation voting
it. 1t was carried 16l to 80.
The coal schedule was then take up.
In the Senate.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-In the senate
Mr.. Turpie Dem., Ind.) from the CON-
mittee on foreign relations reported
favorably the following resolution:
Resolved, That from the facts and
papers laid before the senate, it is I'M
and inexpedient under the existing
conditions to consider at this time any
of annexation of the Hawaiian
to the United States; that the
provisional government therein having
been duly recognized, the highest inter-
national interest requires that it shall
pursue its own line of policy; foreign in
tervention in the political affairs of these
would be regard as an act un.
to the government of the United
States.
Il am directed by the committee on
relations" said Senator Turpie,
to ask immediate consideration of this
resolution. 1t is the unanimous express
sion OF the committee save the dissent of
The senator from Oregon, Mr.. Dolph, in
The first clause. l am also directed to
say that this resolution has no relation
to the special investigation now being
made by the committee"
II object to the present consideration
the resolution" said Senator Teller.
ut has not been printed"
Whenever that resolution comes up,"
added Senator Mills, II shall ask for a
of the question:"
"As this resolution may bring I'D con-
siderable criticism" repeated Senator
Teller, lit ought first to be printed"
Senator Turpie made a further appeal
put Senator Teller insisted, and the res
'lution went over under the rules.
A bill for an American commissioner
1t the Antwerp international exposition |
was presented by Senator Henderson.
Live stock For Sioux.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. - Secretary
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