The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-04
IT PASSED BY FIVE VOTES.
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commonly useu TOT leHclH6 nHa't pe "' mitted free Of duty" was carried by a vote of 3s to s2.
 Mir. Mills offered an amendment pro- vlding that wire rods. rivets. screws fence nails. and other Iron or steel rods, and all iron made from them. shall be admitted free of duty This was de-
 feated by vote of 52 to i7.
 The vote then fecurred on MT. AL lens amendment. which was defeated 32 to 3s.
 Mir. Villas. dem, of Wisconsin. next offered m amendment putting all wire md material for wire used exclusively for fencing on the free list under treas ury regulations. This was defeated by vote of e9 yeas and 40 nays,
 Mir. Morgan, dem.. Of Alabama, of fered an amendment to come in as five additional sections at the end of the bill. aimed at trusts, combinations and conspira6 les In restraint of trade and cummsrce. or to Increase the market prlce of Imported articles. He made q speech ir expla 'ation and defense of the proposed amendment. which would the effect. he sad. of represslng those tructs in all their multiplied hideous- ness"
 Mir. Cray, dem, of Delaware, recog- nized the desi,a bility of the proposed legislation. but questioned the wisdom of presenting 1t as an amendment to a tariff bill in the present hour. He sug- gested that the matter De referred to the judiciary committee. Air Voor- haaS ha nf ha Nn mi tee, said the amepdmAs1t received his full appreciation. After further discus sion the amendment was agreed to.
 The first section follows: Section 15- That every combination, conspiracy, trust, agreement or contract, Is hereby declared to be contrary to public policy. illegal end void when the same is made by or between two persons or either of whom Is engaged in importing any article from any for eign country into the United E~ates and when such combination, conspir- acy, trust, agreement or contract is intended to operate in restraint of law full trade or free competition in lawful trade CT commerce or to increase the market price in any part of the United States of any article or articles im- ported or intended to be imported into the United States or any of manufac- ture into which such imported article enters or is intended to enter.
 Every persohWho is or shall hereaf- ter be engaged in the importation of any commodity from any foreign coun- try in violation of this section of this act or shall combine or conspire with another to violate the same, Is guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof in any court of the United States such person shall be fined in a sum not less than s1O0and not exceeding s5, 900 and shall be further punished by in the discretion of the court, for a term not less than three nor exceeding twelve months.
 MT. Allen offered the amendment to the sugar schedule of which MT. Jones gave notice yesterday, but which he did not to-day offer in the senate. The provides that the bounty shall stand unrepealed to the extent that there shall be paid to producers of sugar from beets, sorghum, sugar cane or maple syrup, produced in the United States during the year 1894, on sugar testing not less than 90 degrees by the polariscope, ,nine-tenths of one cent per pound.
 MT. Jones asked MT. Allen to with draw it, but he declined. After dis cussion the amendment, on motion of MT. Harris, was tabled by a vote of to P.
 Mr. Power, rep, of Montana, moved that the wood schedule shall not take effect till June; 1885, Rejected.
 These amendments were agreed: h. creasing the dutiable on files, para graph Al, from 30 cents per~dozen, to 95 cents. Making the duty on type metal Q7D %cent per pound on the lead contained therein, and 15 per cent on new types. Reducing the duty on cleaned rice 093) from 1 cent per pound to 8-1O cent.
 MT. Pettigrew, rep, of South Dakota, offered an amendment providing for a tariff commission. Rejected.
 Mr. Manderson moved to reconsider the vote by which the senate refused to adopt his amendment for a diminish ing bounty on sugar. The motion was tabled.
 The affirmative votes were all derso- cratic.
 An amendment was adopted to one of the income tax sections, on motion of Mr. Fill, approved by MT. Vest, pro- viding that all state, county, municipal and town taxes paid by corporations shall ta >ncluded in their operating and business expenses.
 There was 2 large crowd of specta- tors in the galleries, most of them la dies. The atmosphere was hot and swel.ering
 Chairman Wilson, of the house com mlttee on ways and means, and Messrs. Springer and McMillan were interested spectators.
 At 10 D. n. the bill was read the third time. And then MT. Smith, dem. of New Jersey ldressed the senate. "fde re- er&tted that the socialistic income tax" haa not been eliminated from the bill, b<. he said he could not onny that the democratic senators who favored the idea had met its opponent fairly. The astonishing persistence shown by the advocates of the idea made it certain that there was one way of escape, and that was by a trial. For all except this portion of the measure he would vote with genuine satisfaction. He would vote for this measure because he was a democrat.
 MT. Allen, pop. of Nebraska, announc- ed that he would vote for the bill, be- cause he thought 1t should be passed and placed in the hands of a conference