The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-11
DUTY ON RAW WOOL
Sherman Gives Notice He
Will Introduce Such an
Amendment.
FIGURE PLACED At FORTY PER CENT.
Senator Quay's Explanation
Brandy and Wine Schedule
Agreed To.

WASHINGTON, June II, 1S94.-The reading
of Saturdays journal having been dispensed
with Mr.. Morrill, rep, Vt.,) gave notice of
an amendment to the naval appropriation
bill and read an argument in explanation
and support of it. The amendment was that
the Superintendent of the United States
Naval Observatory shall be a person selected
from civil life, learned in the science Of as
tronomy to be appointed by the President,
by and with the advice and consent of the
Senate, with an annual salary of S., 600.
Mr.. Quay rep, Pa.), rising to q question
of personal explanation. sent to the Clerks
desk and had read newspaper article con-
Meeting his name with a syndicate of Phila-
delphia capitalists, said to be trying to OBJ
tain possession of street railroads
in Washington. He asserted that
the matter was that he introduced Mr..
Dolan, of Philadelphia supposed to be the
chief of the syndicate,) to Senators McMll-
lian and Faulkner, of the District of Column
bia Committee, and had asked some friends
in the other House to request some of the
Pennsylvania members to be present today
in order to constitute quorm. That was
the extent of his knowledge of or connection
with the matter He would not have men
mentioned it at ell, but for the fact that
Senator Chandler was understood to be the
authority for the article.
CHANDLER EXPLAINS.
Mr.. Chandler rep. n. H., said that he
had heard of syndicate for the formation
Of a traction company to obtain control of
street railways in Washington. That was all
he could say on the subject, except that he
might have talked with newspaper men on
the subject and asked them some questions,
OF they might have asked him some questions.
10 haH rH
Dolan's name connected with any such pro-
ject, and he certainly had made no remark
attrlbutlng any improper motive or any i'm
proper relation to any Senator-certainly
not to the Senator from Pennsylvania; and
he had no reason to doubt the exact truth of
Mr.. Quay's statement.
Mr., Quay suggested, facetiously, that the
subject might as well be referred to the Sc
lect committee investigating the connection
of the Sugar Trust with the Tariff bill; and
the Vice President, treating the suggestion
seriously, asked whether there was any OBJ
lection, and as there was none, he declared
that the suggestion was agreed to, and that
the matter was referred to the Select Com
mittee.
THE TARIFF DEBATE
The tariff was them at half past ten A. NJ,
taken up, the question being on the first
paragraph of the spirits and wine schedule
II. The paragraph passed by the House and
duty of $3.50 per proof gallon on brandy
and other spirits, not specifically pro-
Vided for Before the adjournment
ON Saturday Mr. Aldrich (Rep. R. L.
had moved to increase the rate to $3.50, as
under existing law. The amendment was
reiected-yeas. IS; nays, 27. Among the
Senators voting may" was Mr.. Mcpherson
Dem, N. j., who had been reported in the
papers as dangerously i'll at his home in New
Jersey.
After the vote was taken a discussion
arose as to the paragraph. A re-
duction from the existing rate of
Sherman, Allison and Platt, the argument
being that brandy was q fair revenue
article and yielded last year nearly three
million dollars. The argument was replied
to by Mr.. Jones Dem, Ark.) No motion to
reconsider was made however, and the duty
remains fixed at 81 so.
There was no contention over the next.
paragraph (233l, which declares that every
wine gallon of measurement shall be counted
as at least one proof gallon.
Nor was there any contention over the
next paragraph (233), providing for duty
not less than that upon distilled spirits, upon
all compounds OF preparations Of which dis
titled spirits are a component part of chief
value.
WANTS A DUTY ON RAW WOOL.
Mr. Sherman rep, o. gave notice of an
amendment to the Tariff bill, putting raw
wool on the dutiable list at 40 per cent
It includes all wool of the sheep,
hair of the camel, goat, alpaca and
other like animals, and all wool and hair on
the skin. noils, yarn, waste, card waste, bur
waste RACES and hocks, including all waste
or rags composed wholly or in part of wool