The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1894-07-12

stack at Is cents was agreed to by
a vote Of 81 to 6. The six were
Allen, Hill, Irby, Kyle, Mills, and
Peffer.
All the committee amendments
to tho leather schedules were
agreed to; also all tho amendments
under the title Of "miscellanoous
manufactures. -. :..:..>,x go. =, ss,nzss.a ..
The next reserve amendment
was pharagraph 575--as to paint
lings Oh the free list. Allen mov-
ed to strike out the pharagraph
and to substitute for it the provi-
sions of the existing laws as to du-
ty on paintings It was contended
however, that the motion was not
in order-the rule under which
the Senate was acting, being that
all the committee amendments
should first be disposed Of, after
which every line of the bill would
be open to amendment.
The view was sustained by the
chair and committee amendments
were agreed to.
The committee amendment
which had been originally offered
by Hill, exempting the salaries Of
the President of the United States
and of the Judges of the United
States from the income tax, was
rejected after brief struggle, by
vote of yeas "a; nays 36-ton
Democrats having voted for it and
six Republicans and three Popu-
lists against it.
Barbed wire was Il subject of
some dispute. Ain amendment
had boen agreed to into the COM
mittee of tho whole that. barbed
wire for fencing, should be admit
ted free of duty. This amend
ment was rejected and one offer
oil by Allen (Popc,) of iNebrasko
to place wire for fencing Oh the
free list was also rejected--ycas
32; nays 88. And 50 wire remains
on the dutiablc list, at ratios nc
cording to guage. Mica was tax
en- of the free list and put on tn
dutiablc list at 20 per cent. I'D va
loren upon motion of Ransom.
Ransom's amendment prevaile
by vote of 40 yeas and 20 nays
Some amusements was had on tn
floor by the personal appeal O.
Ransom to Senators to his amend
ment. His three minute speech
in favor of his proposition was the
only one he has made on the tariff
question, and after ho had con-
cluded the Senators gathered
about him and promised support.
After the vote Ransom interrupt
ed Morgan for the purpose of, rs
he said, completing his amend
ment;" which he proceeded to do
by moving to strike mica from the
free list whore it had been placed
by the committee. This was
agreed to amid much laughter,
which was only increased when
|Chandler crossed tho aisle, inva-
ded the ranks Of his political ene-
mics, and grasped Ransom by the
hand and congratulated him upon
his victory for the mica Industry
of North Carolina and New Hamp-
shire.
Morgan offered an amondmont
to como in as five additional sec
tions at tho end of tho bill, aimed
at trusts, and conspiracies in ro-
straint of trade and commerce, or
to increase the market price Of
Imported articles. He made n
speech in explanation and defense
of the amendment which would
have tho effect, ho said, Of repress-
ing those trusts in all their null
tiplled hideousness." Tho amend
ment was agreed to without divi-
SION. The first section Of it is as
follows:
Section rs. That every combi-
nation, conspiracy, trust, agree.
ment or contract is hereby declared
to be contrary to public policy,
illegal and void, when the same is
made by or between two or more
persons or corporations, either of
whom is engaged in importing any
ortic1a from nny foraipn country