The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-06-21
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
SENATE HAMMERING AWAY ON
THE TARIFF BILL.
several Sections Disposed of Without
Debate-Proceedings of the Berlin
Conference Ordered Printed-The
Anti-Options Bill Discussed.
SENATE.

~ x%MAsHINGToN, June 10 AT the
'Jppening of the session today Mr..
,F'Voorhees reported for the finance
committee a resolution authorizing
the translation and publication of the
proceedings of the recent Berlin con-
terence. The proceedings of the con-
ference, Mr.. Voorhees, said, had been
IN this country less than As hours.
The resolution was adopted Some
routine business was transacted and
several unobjectionable bills were
passed by the unanimous consent in
Guiding bill to tatify an agreement
with the Yanktown tribe of Sioux or
Dakota Indians and South Dakotans.
Mr.. Aliens resolution directing the
secretary of the treasury to inform
the senate as to the total number of
persons engaged in protected indus
tries in the United States whose
wages may be or claimed to be af-
4 fected by the tariff legislation en-
countered opposition on the Republi-
l. can side, as it has on several previous
days. Mr.. Allen said that il was not
strange to him that those who claim
that every person in the United
States was affected for veal or woe by
protection should oppose the passage
of resolution that would determine
how much felsity there was ia that
claim. The resolution went over and
the tariff bill was taken up.
AT the request of Mr.. Lodge the
senate went back to paragraph 296,
fixing the duty on mating and mats
made of cocoa fibre or rattan at 20 pei
cent. He offered an amendment to
restore the Mckinley rate of II cents
per yard on mating and per cent
square font on mats, equivalent to II
and AZ per cent respectively. The
amendment was lost, 25 to 3.
At this point several notifications
proposed by Republican Henators to
different paragraphs of the bill were
proposed and accepted by Mr.. Jones
on behalf Of the finance committee
and the Democratic side of the senate
! Upon the suggestion of Mr.. Sher-
man the duty on ink and ink powders
was increased to 25 per cent to make
it conform 60 the rate OF pigments. At
the request of Mr.. Allison the finance
graph 100 the reciprocity provision,
admitting buckwheat, corn, corn meal,
oats, rye, rye -four, wheat and wheat
hour free from duty from such coun.
tries as imposed no import duty on
, such products imported from the Uni
led States. The finance committee
&lso agreed to Mr.. Allison's request to
place eggs on the dutiable list at three
cents per dozen. An amendment was
agreed to grading the duty on litho-
graphic prints from q to As cents per
pound according to thickness
Mr.. Jones offered an amendment to
increase the duty on hair pencils,
brushes and feather busters from 80
per cent to 35 per cent and to add at
the end of the paragraph hristles-
punched or prepared in any n1Hnher5
&c ad valorem. This was agreed
to, as was another amendment offered
by him changing the classification of1
gloves so as to make ladies and Chill !
'dren's gloves of sheep origin with ex-
terror grain surface removed, not over
II inches in length, dutiable at the
rate of Sl.75 per dozen pairs; oyer II
inches, 81 IS per dozen pairs. N'-.'---
The free list was then taken upJ
Sal g or amonia made dutiable in the1
senate bill We're stricken from the free
liet
The finance committee amendment
permitting the free entry of cattle and
heep or other domestic animals and