The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-05-18

THE SENATE ADOPTS A FEW MORE
AMENDMENTS.

Several COMMITTEES Appointments Made
by Vice President stevenson--The Naval
Appropriation Dill Passed by the House
of Representatives - The Agricultural
Measure Read by Paragraphs.
WASHINGTON, May Sat the open
Ing Of the session of the senate Tuesday
Mr.. Allen Pop, Neb.) introduced and
asked for the immediate consideration
Of resolution calling upon the secre-
sary of the treasury for information as
to the total number of persons engaged
In protected industries; the number of
such persons whose wages are claimed
to be affected by projections the num-
Der whose wages are not affected also
the proportion of the population of the
United States dependent upon the for
eign market fog the sale of the products;
also the number of persons gengaged in
protected industries who are native
citizens, the number naturaliZed and
the number who are aliens; also the pro-
portion of native or naturalized citizens
who are being displaced by aliens. The
resolution went over.
The vice president announced the fol-
lowing committee appointments: Mr..
Patton, on claims, Indian affairs, cpl
demic diseases, agriculture and forestry;
Mr.. Proctor, on fisheries; Mr.. Davis, on
census; Mr.. Mcmillan, on naval affairs.
The tariff bill was taken up at noon.
Three items III the chemical schedule
were passed, and then Mr.. Aldrich
broke in with an amendment to place a
duty OF Is per cent on coal tar products.
The amendment placing duty of Is per
cent on coal tar preparations not pro-
vided for in the bill was defeated;
amendment TO make copperas dutiable
at three-tenths of cent per pound was
defeated; amendment restoring the
house rate on coloring for brandy,
wine, beer and other liquors coo per
cent? was adopted; also the Jones
amendment transferring from the free
list and making dutiable at 10 per cent,
drugs, such as barks. beans, berries,
balsams, buds, bulbs, dubious root,
excrescences, fruits, flowers, dried
fibres, dried insects, grains, gums and
gum resin. herbs, leaves, lichens,
moses. nuts, roots and stems, spices,
vegetables, seeds aromatic, seeds of
morbid growth, weeds and woods, used
expressly for dyeing; amendments in
creasing the duty on sulphuric ether
from 80 to 40 cents, nitrous ether from
20 to % cents, and fruit others, oil or
essences. from 81 to S2,Ewere agreed to.
Mr.. Aldrich moved to increase the
duty on crude glycerine from cent to
ga cent; lost, Is to 81.
Mr.. Lodge moved to increase the
duty on refined glycerine from to 4
cents; lost, 81 to 49,
Mr.. Aldrich moved to transfer indigo
and its extracts from the free list to the
dutiable list at three fourths of a cent
per pound; lost, 10 to %.
Mr.. Gallingher moved to increase the
duty on ink, ink powders, printers ink,
ETC., from 20 to 30 per cent ad valorem;
lost, 81 to "a.
Mr.. Allison moved to transfer iodine
from the free list and to place it on the
dutiable list at 90 cents per pound; lost
The Jones amendment placing duty
of cents pound on icorice was
agreed to.
The following Jones amendments
placing an additional duty of 80 per
cent on calcined magnesia; placing
duty on epson salts of one-ffth of
cent and reducing the duty on morphia
from rs to so cents per ounce were
agreed to.
In the next paragraph castor oily Mr..
Chandler moved to strike out 35 per
cent and substitute 65 cents per gallon;
lost.
Mr.. Aldrich moved to substitute Is
cents per gallon for 20 per cent ad
valOrem on cod liver oil; lost.