The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-18
WOOD PULP AND COAL
Much Progress Made With
the Tariff by the Senate
Today.
DAVE HILL AT IT AGAIN.
A Good Proposal With Bad
Motive = Silk Laid
Over.

WASHINGTON, June is. 1s94.-At 1880 the
Tariff bill was taken up in the Senate today,
the pending question being on the first two
paragraphs of the silk schedule (29S and 299,
which had been reserved on Saturday. At
the request of Mr.. Platt rep, Conn., those
paragraphs went over without action till
tomorrow.
Schedule NJ, pulp, paper and books, was
then taken up, the first paragraph being one
putting duty of 10 per cent, ad valorem on
wood pulp.
Mr. Frye rep, Me- argued against the
ad valorem rate and in favor Of specific
duty. Maine, he said, was like Bozzaris
s'bl ,eding at every veinn from this tariff
bill; and this wood pulp business was one OF
Names great industries. The annual pro
duction of wood pulp amounted the eoS SS5,, 3d.
1000, and of that some S23.9OO,O00
was spent for labor. 1t was a very
beneficent industry and had reduced
the cost of paper very much. The principal
competitors of the United States in the
matter Of wood pulp were Austria. Sweden,
Norway and Canada. He proposed a specific
duty of 81 50 per ton. dry weight, on mech
anically ground pulp: S5 a per ton on
chemical wood pulp unbleached, and S6-50
ton bleached-these rates being equivalent
to ten per cent. al rGlorem
SCANDALOUS ATTACK RESENTED.
The amendment was opposed by Senators
Jones dem, Ark and Vest dem, No. on
the part of the Finance Committee. Mr..
Vest said that one of the most vicious and
outrageous attacks made upon Mr. Jones
and himself in connection with the bill was
that they had been influenced by some
Democratic leaders in New York lone OF
them being ex-Secretary Whitney, to fix the
schedule on wood pulp because they had
made large Investment in Canadian timber
lands for the manufacture of wood pulp.
He only mentioned this, he said, to show
how utterly unjust and reckless were the
statements made in relation to public men
who were engaged in public duty. Mr..
Jones said his only object iii framing the
paragraph, which was, in fact, the same as
it came from the House, was to make paper
as cheap as possible. Nobody had applied to
them in the interest of importers or of out
side manufactures.
Sir. Fry's amendment was advocated by
Mr. Gallinger rep, N. H. Mr.. Platt rep,
Conn ], and Mr. Allison rep, Iowa.. 1t
was reiected-yeas 20, nays 25
Paragraph sos was then agreed to; also
paragraph 304 putting duty of 10 per cent.
on steathing paper and roofing felt the
House rafel. Paragraph 305, printing paper,
unsized, was struck out, and paragraph 305
was amended so as to read, printing paper,
unsized, sized or glued, suitable only for
books and newspapers, 10 per cent. ad val
oreIn.
The next paragraph was one placing
duty Of 25 per cent. on copying paper, filter
ing paper, silver paper. tissue paper. etc.
The duty in the House bill was 25 per cent
The amendment of the Finance Committee
was to make it 50 per cent The amendment
was agreed to, with the understanding that
it might be changed when the bill comes
into the Senate
The next paragraph (30S), as to parchment
papers, etc, was, at the request OF Mr..
Gallinger, allowed to stand over for the
present, without action.
The duty ON paper envelopes 1909 was fixed
at 20 per cent, on paper hangings and paper
for screens or boards, writing paper, draw
ing paper and all other paper not specially
provided for at 20 per cent; on blank books
Of all kinds (31D, 20 per cent; and on books,
pamphlets, engravingss, ETC., not specially
provided for, 25 per cent. on playing cards
C3l2), 10 cents per pack and so per cent. ad
valorem: and on manufactures of paper not
specially provided for G3l3l, 20 per cent
sUNDRIEs NOW.
This finished schedule II and schedule n,
"sundries" was taken up.
Paragraph 314 and 315, hair pencils,
brushes ETC.. and button forms. hastings,
nohairs, ETC., were agreed to as they came
from the House-20 per cent. and To per
cent. In paragraph 316, agate buttons, %
per cent, and pearl and shell buttons. 15 per
C0ED., UuO dSSClipOlfS NO1Sio OilO-AOA OAOOh
of an inch" were inserted.
Paragraph 317 was amended by making it
read 'buttons of ivory, vegetable ivorv,
gass, bone or horn, wholly or partially
manufactured, 35 per cent. ad valorem."
No change was made IN paragraph 31S
shoe buttons, 25 per cent.
At this point comes in the amendment of
the Finance Committee to insert a new para
graph Goal, bituminous and shale 40
cents per ton; coal slack or culm, such as
will pass through a half-inch screen, 10 cents
per ton"
HILL FOR FREE COAL.
Mr. Hill dem, N. Y J moved to strike out
the paragraph and to admit coal free of
duty. He said that he presumed, from what
had taken place in the last two weeks that
his motion would be defeated by sub
stantially unanimous Republican vote, and
to be voting against that class Of amend
ments The country expected he said that
a Democratic Congress in framing tariff
reform bill, would put bituminous coal on
the free list
That was REQUIRED, substantially, by the
Chicago democratic platform Every
democratic orator in the land, who had
spoken on the subject, had demanded free
coal. If there was one thing mole than
another to which the democratic party stood
solennly pledged it was to place raw material
on the free list He observed that, since he
began his remarks the Senators who had
charge of the measure had left their seats.
He assumed that they had nothing to say in
defence Of duty on coal. He was waiting
to hear from them the plea that they had
been bulldozed into putting coal on the duti-
able list: and he would like to know what
Senators had stated that they would refuse
to vote for the bill if coal should be put on
the free list
MONTICELLOS WOMAN FIEND.
MONTICELLO, NY, June Is, 1S94.-The