The record-union., 1894-05-19
The Senate Settles Down to Earn.
est Work on the Tariff.
ELEVEN PAGES OF THE BILL DIS.
POSED OF YESTERDAY.
Representative Dunpby of New York
Has Hearing Before tho House
Rules Committee on ohe esoiution
to Investigate the Naval Plate
Frauds, Urging That the Matter
be Probed to the Bottom.

! Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
WASHINGTON, May 1S.-White-w winged
peace hovered over the Senate to-day.
| AS result of the compromise reached at
last nights battle, rule to inaugurate
earlier hours beginning next Mondays
commencing at 10 a. NJ, was agreed 10,
and the Senate, for the first time since the
tariff debate began. settled down to real
earnest work on the schedules of the
tariff. For five hours the consideration
was steadily pushed, the result being that
eleven pages of the bill were disposed Of
more progress than has been made in the
entire three weeks during which the bill
has been considered by paragraph. The
chemical schedule wss completed, and
the earth, earthenware and glasses sched-
ule, excepting 81 to 81 inclusive, which
were passed over by agreement, was
finished. Schedule c, metals and manu-
features of iron and steel, had been
reached when the Senate, at o'clock,
went into executive session.
The Republicans won their first VIC
tory to-day IN their effort to secure
higher rates than those granted by the
majority. They induced the Democrats
to take rough building and monumental
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stone, etc., from the free and place them
on the dutiable list at seven cents per
cubic foot, and to increase the duty on
this class of dressed stone from 20 to 80
per cent. ad valOrem.
The feature of the day was the denial of
half dozen Republican Senators that
any agreement had been reached to allow
| the bill to ultimately come TO vote, and
| in the announcement Of Frye and Dolph
! that they stood ready to go any length
and use parliamentary methods TO defeat
| the passage of the bill.
| The amendments agreed to fixed these
| rates: Cosmetics and like preparations,
40 per cent; CASTLE soap, perfumed, 35 per
cent; bicarbonate OF soda, Al cents per
pound; caustic soda, half cent pound;
| bichromate of soda, % per cent: sal soda,
one-eighth cents per pound; soda ash,
| quarter of cent per pound; silicate of
| soda, three-elghthS of q cent per pound;
strychnine. 40 cents per ounce; tartarate
of soda, two cents per pound; brick, un-
| glazed, 15 cents per pound; fire brick, 81
| per ton; lime, 80 cents per 100 pounds;
plaster paris, ground, 81 per ton; cal
| cined, 81 20; clays, unWrought, 81 per
ton; clays, wrought, 81 per ton; cast pol
ished glass, looking-glass, etc.. not ex-
ceeding q by 90 inches, % cents per
| square foot; above that, 80 cents; spec
taeles, 40 per cent; marble, rough, 90
cents per cubic foot; marble, dressed, So
cents per cubic foot; marble, manufact-
| ured, 10 per cent; granite and other
| building stone, rough. IL cents; dressed,
80 per cent; grindsrones, 10 per cent;
roofing states, % per cent.
| Morgan's resolution calling upon the
| Attorney General for information as to
| the existence of a sugar trust in violation
| of law was adopted.
| At 4:50 the Senate went into executive
session.
IN THE HOUSE.
| WASHINGTON, May 1S.-Soon after the
| House met to-day it found itself with a
| filibuster on its hand, caused by d motion
to consider appropriation bills running
counter to private bills. The legislative
and judicial appropriation bill was
taken up, after an agreement had been
reached to close general debate at the
| hour of O'Clock, and that the House adj
joura over Saturday. The discussion of
| the bill opened several interesting and
| important questions, among them being
| the sugar bounty question, the pension
| frauds investigation and the reduction of
members pay for absence.
The discussion of the sugar bounty
question was brought about by the omis-
sion from the pending bill of the pro-
vision OF the sugar bounty assessors.
Boatner of Louisiana gave notice that
| he would offer an amendment providing
| that the Secretary of the Senate and the
| Sergeant-at-Arms of the House should
respectively deduct from the monthly
| pay of each member and delegate the
amount of his pay for every day he was
absent without leave, except on account
| Of sickness of himself or family.
| Representative Cannon questioned the
| propriety and courtesy of the House, de-
claring by its actions TO Senators that
there was not going to be any sugar
| bounty In the next fiscal year.
Bingham, taking as his text the appro-
/ priasion of $500. 600 in the last appropria-
ton bill for investigating the alleged
pension frauds, made an attack on the
! pension policy of President Cleveland
and Commissioner Lochren.
| At o'clock recess was taken until s
| o'clock this evening.