The morning call., 1894-07-03
SUGAR SCHEDULE.
Finally Adopted by the
Senate.
ONE VICTORY FOR MR.. HILL.
Repeal of Bounties Is to Take
Effect Immediately.
OTHER TARIFF AMENDMENTS.
From Present Indications a Final Vote
on the Bill VIII Not Occur
Very Soon.
OTHER TARIFF AMENDMENTS,

WASHINGTON, July 2.-The following
amendments to the tariff schedules were
agreed to in the Senate to-day: Changing
the rate GA bottles holding more than a
pint to q of a cent a pound; on vials
holding not more than pint, rs cents :;
cast polished plate glass not exceeding 241
90 inches. from 20 to 2215 cents square
foot.
All the amendments adopted in the COM
mittee of the whole were agreed 10.
The iron ore amendment was adopted
Senator Hill made the proposition TO
make the repeal Of the sugar bounty take
immediate effect instead OF IN 1895, which
was adopted by vote OF 80 to 81
Ransbrough presented an amendment to
the tariff bill providing for free coinage
of American silver at a ratio Of 16 to l
and that a duty be placed on imports of
silver equal TO the difference between the
London and the face value in this country.
The amendment was defeated.
The adoption of Hills amendment was
q defeat for the Finance Committee. The
Democrats standing for the amendment
we're: Coke, George. Hill, Irby and Pugh.
OF the Populists Allen and Kyle voted
against HiiPs motion.
An amendment offered by Kyle to
make the sugar schedule to go into effect
on the passage OF the act was agreed TO
without division; also an amendment
offered by Jones (Which he said had the
approval of the Secretary of the Treasury
to relieve sugar imports from the addi-
tional one-teuth of a cent from export in
bounty-gving countries upon the prOdue-
ton of proof that such bounties had not
been received.
Jones of Arkansas gave notice of an
amendment which would be presented to-
morrow in the shape of a proviso to be
added to section 1S2, repeating the bounty
proviso of the Mckinley law and to con-
tnue in force the bounty until January l,
1895, to the extent of nine-tenths of a cent
on sugar testing 90 degrees by the polar
iscope and the 10 on sugars testing not
less than so degrees.
PETER moved to strike out the sugar
schedule and place all sugars on the free
list. Lost, 80 to SO.
The final vote was taken Oh the adop-
ton of the sugar schedule, and it was
agreed to-3S TO 81. Allen and Quay voted
for the final adoption of the schedule. Hill.
Irby,' Kyle and PETER against 1t. Other
wise it was a strict party vote. Stewart
. of Nevada did not vote. This disposed Of
the sugar schedule.
On motion of White an amendment to
the sttll-wine paragraph was adopted, pro-
vidiDg that the per cent of alcohol on all
wine and fruit Juice should be determined
according to regulations prescribed by the
Secretary of the Treasury.
By a vote of 81 to u the committee
amendment striking cotton bagging from
the dutiable list and transferring it to the
free list was agreed to.
Mills moved to transfer burlaps, as well
as bags Tor grain made from burlaps, from
the dutiable list, thus putting it in the
same category with cotton baggng. This
gave Chandler a chance to deliver a
satiricai remark about Mills great rally
for free trade toward the end of the bill,
after getting dutiable coal and dutiable
everything else.
Before a vote was taken on Mills mo-
t!on Harris, at 7:35 O'Clock, moved that the
session take recess until 10 o'clock to-
morrow.
The motion was agreed to.