The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-17
WILSON FIXES NEW RATES.
The Chairman Still Offering Amend
mentS TO His Tariff Bill.

AnG OuEN Out 70 ~ CT SCAN'
Ad valorem-A Cut of Per Cent. on
skins and Leather-The Members
Feast on a Box of California Raisins,
Sent 20 be Used During the Debate.
Crisp Knocks Out Reed.
Washington. Jan. 16.-There was but
little routine business to be disposed of
by the House to-day.
At11:l2 o'clock the House went into
committee of the whole to consider the
tariff bill. with Mr.. Richardson, dem, of
Tennessee, in the chair.
A number of amendments were offered
by Mr. Wilson, chairman of the commit
tee on ways and means, and they were
agreed to without objection.
They first reduced the tariff on furs
from 20 per cent. ad valorem to 10 per
cent. ad valorem.
Calf skins, tanned or tanned and
dressed; dressed upper leather, including
patent, enameled and japanned leather,
dressed or undressed and finished; cha
mois and other skins, were reduced from
20 per cent. ad valorem to 10 per cent. ad
valorem.
Bookbinders' calf skins kangaroo, sheep
and goat skins. including lamb and kid
from 20 per cent. ad yalorem to Is per
cent. ad valorem.
In the book schedule, the clause requir-
ing that books entitled to free admission
should not have been rebound within
twenty years was struck out, and AL
photographic charts were added TO
those articles admitted under this seized
ule.
AN INTERESTING DEBATE.
An obstacle was encountered by the
amendment proposed by Mr.. Wilson to
the milk schedule The amendment pro-
posed raises the tariff on condensed or
preserved milk from 20 per cent, ad
valorem to a specific rate of cents per
pound
An interesting debate followed, in
which Messrs. Payne, rep, of New York
Curtis, rep. of New York NOrthway rep,
of Ohio Hopkins, rep, of Illinois, and
Bowers, rep. of California. took part for
the republicans. and opposed the imposi-
ton of so small tariff on condensed milk
Spice and humor were added to the de-
bate by MIR. Bowers, who, leaving con-
densed milk 10 take care of itself, Grifted
into the subject of raisins.
Feast FOR THE MEMBERS.
Mr. Bowers has a very forcible way Of
stating things and as object lessons
are the order of the day, he pro-
duced a box of raisins grown in his own
AlolIlGA. WI ANu he pun up dEdluSU JbIEY
Simpsons ShOddy overcOat. The gentle
man from Kansas, he said, did not know
whether the overcoat was shoddy or
wool, or whether it was American or
foreign. MIR. Bowers guaranteed his
raisins to be genuine American product,
no shoddy, but all wool and yard wide.
The republicans crowded around Mr.
Bowers TO sample his American
product, and for while there
was a school boy scrimmage for
raisins, when Mr.. Bowers interfered in
order TO save some of his sample for the
democratic side. The House was in a
turmoil and the galleries were laughing
at the scene presented on the floor, when
MIR. Enloe laughingly suggested that the
republicans were destroying the argu-
ment of MIR. Bowers
Mr.. Wilson's amendment prevailed, de-
spite the efforts of the republicans to
secure higher rate of duty. The votes
were all on strictly party lines.
A CHANGE IN CIGARETTES.
Mr. Wilson also amended the internal
revenue feature of the bill by defining
cigarettes as wrapped in paper" This
was also done without objection.
A long and interesting discussion was
precipitated by the renewal of the effort
of MIR. Burrows, rep, of Michigan to Sc
cure recognition to offer an amendment
In its course Messrs. Reed and Burrows
dIbdCh6O IlS FulluS VI Ou6 CndlE yeSUef-
day IN regard TO recognizing the chairman
of the ways and means committee to Of
fer number of amendments consecu-
lively. They asserted that there was no
similitude between the conditions exist
ing in the Fifty-tirst congress and in the
Eifty-third.
CRISP KNOCKS OUT REED.
The chairman re-afirmed the decision
which he had announced yesterday,
and as a precedent he read from the jour
nal of the kifty-frst congress, which
showed that while the Mckinley bill was
under discussion MIR. Reed had recongized
republican to offer an amendment aud
had recognized another republican to
offer an amendment to the amendment
and recognized another republican to offer
substitute TO the amendment, and then
recognized another republican to offer an
amendment TO the substitute, and then
when democrat, Mr.. Bland, asked for
recognition, coolly told him that no more
amendments were in order Democratic
laughter, in which Mr. Reed ioinedl
The chairman then announced that he
would not recognize Mr.. Burrows.
THE FREE WOOL SCHEDULE
Mr.. Wilson wasrecognized and submitted
an amendment providing that the free
wool schedule should not go into effect
until Aug. /, 1894. This short amendment
had enough controversial matter in it to
provoke rafting debate, which lasted
until the hour for taking a recess. Mr.
Payne, of New York, offered an amend
ment substituting Oct. l, 1898. as the
date for the free wool provision to take
effect. Mr. Wilson's amendment and Mr.
Payne's and several others, as well as
substitutes of various kinds, were left
pending when at ) 80 o'clock the House
took recess until s o'clock.
THE NIGHT SESSION.
There was a somewhat better attend
ance of members on the floor tonight,
and the usual good attendance in the gal
leries. The interest in the tariff debate
shows no signs of waning among the
people. if the attendance at the night
session can be taken as any criterion.
Mr.. Arnold, of Missouri, dem, opened
the debate with a defense of the Wilson
bill, but he depressed to the silver ques-
ton during good part of his time.
Mr.. Ellis, rep, of Oregon, was next
recognized. He held that the bill was ex-
ceedingly sectional in its provisions, and
the Pacific coast had been particularly
harshly treated Every article produced
on the Pacific coast had been placed on
the free list.
Mr.. McDearmon, dem, of Tennessee,
spoke half an hour in favor of the Wilson
bill, and then at 30 o'clock the House