Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-05-26
MORE RATES FIXED.
Hot Passage Between Harris and Hoar
About Courtesy.

ABOUT courtesy.
WASHINGTON, May 25.-When the
tariff bill was laid before the Senate,
Senator Frye rep, Msine,) protested
against cutting off action on the Ha-
waiian resolution.
Then followed a sharp clash between
Mr.. Hoar and Mr.. Harris. Mr.. Hoar
was disposed to continue the debate
He said that it was the universal sentl-
ment not only of the Senate but OF the
country that there should be no inter-
terence by the United States with the
domestic affairs OF Hawaii.
Mr.. Morgan, Chairman OF the For
eign Relations Committee, fully endors-
ed what Mr.. Hoar said, and the latter
was proceeding 10 say that he hoped
Mr.. Morgan's endorsement OF his state
ment would echo around the world
when Mr.. Harris, who mad grown very
impatient. broke in and declares that
the tariff bill was before the Senate aho
further debate on this subject was out
of order. Mr.. Hoar protested In vigor-
Gus terms against what he termed re-
peated ANGRY and discourteouS iec-
lures" from the Senator from Iennes-
see. =,
'The tariff bill is before the Senate, ="
retorted Mr.. Harris, land the Senator
from Massachusetts Is violating the
rules by continuing the debate on a
resolution that has just gone over AS
far as the courtesy Of the Senator from
Tennessee is concerned" he added In
whitening tones, "he owes less courtesy
10 the Senator from Massachusetts than
any other on the floor.
''If the Senator from Tennessee owes
anybody any courtesy" retorted Mr..
Hoar in kind, she is a hopeless bank
rupt; he could not pay one thousandth
OF a mill on the dollar"
HE could pay as much as the Sena-
tor from Massachusetts" returned Mr.
Harris, aid with this parting shot the
incident closed.
The Aldrich amendment to substitute
the Mckinley tariff on shot guns for
the 30 per. cent ad valorem in. the Sen
ate bill was laid on the table, as was
also a motion to increase the rate to 45
per cent. The rate for shot guns, rifles
aud pistols was fixed at 80 per cent.
Rates were then agreed to as follows:
Table aud carving knives and forks,
valued at more than S4 per. dozen, and
razor blades, scissors and shears, wholly
or partly finished, 45 per cent; all
other table knives, forks, steels, etc.,
IS per cent; files, file blanks, rasps and
floats, OF all kinds and cuts, four inches
in length and under, 80 cents per
dozen; over four inches and under
nine inches, sixty cents; over nine
inches one dollar. The House rate on
engraved plates (25 per cent. ad
valorem) was not changed. The rate
on iron and steel rivets was increased
from 25 10 80 per cent. The Jones
amennmeutS were agreed to liking the
rates on cross-cut saws at six cents per
lineal foot, mill saws ten cents foot, pit
and dray saws at eight cents; circular
and other'saws 25 per cent The rate on
wood screws was fixed at 30 per cent.
and on umbrella ribs made OF iron and
steel or other metals al so per cent.
Paragraph 156, "wheels," was passed
over. The duty on crude aluminium
was fixed at l0c per pound; on bronze
powder or aluminium in leaf at 40 pei
cent. The rates on gold and silver leai
were fixed at 30 per cent. The rate on
metallic pens Except goId) was fixed at
cents; on pins, hat, shawl and bolt pins,
commercially known as jewelry, 25 pei
cent. Chronometers, 10 per cent;
watches'and clocks, 25 per cent; manu-
factured articles paragraph I'D not
specially provided for in the bill, com
posed wholly or in part Of metal, sc
per cent.
AT 5 o'clock the Senate went into
executive session and at $40 p, m. ad'
jOurned.