The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-27

Washington, Nav Ex-senator Hill,
of New York. made his speech today,
attacking the proposed duty of three
fourths of a cent per pound on lead
ore and lead-silver bearing ore and
generally arraigning his colleagues for
their refusal to stand by the Demo
cratic doctrine of free raw materials.
The paragraphs of the tariff bill
passed over yesterday were taken up.
The first was 1856, relating to the duty
on wheels of iron or steel. car and loco
motive wheels. etc. The original Jones
amendment increased the rate in the
House bill from so to 40 per cent ad
valorem.
Today, Mr.. Vest moved to substitute
a specific rate of Ia cents per pound.
The Mckinley rate is 215 per pound.
Mr. Quay supported the Vest amend
nent as preferable to an ad valorem
duty. 1t was agreed to.
The Lead Schedule.
The lead paragraph was then taken
up. The House bill wade lead ore and
a lead dross dutiable at Is per cent. ad
valorem upon the lead contained there
in. and classified silver-lead ores as
silver ores where the silver contained
exceeded in value the lead contents
and admitted them free of duty.
The finance committee amendment
made lead ore dutiable at q Of one
cent per pound and made silver-lead
ores dutiable at the same rate on the
lead contents according to sample
and assay at the port of entry.
Mr.. Dubois offered an amendment
which was accepted by Mr.. Jones, fix
ing the method of sample and assay as
United States.
Mr.. Shoup Republican,. of Idaho
made quite an elaborate argument in
favor of a duty on argentiferous lead
ore. He contended that the miners OF
the west could not compete with the
peon labor of Mexico, and said If silver
ore was admitted free of duty from
Mexico, almost every silver-lead mine
in the United States would be closed.
Mr.. Shoup concluded at 1910.
Hill and Free Lead.
Something of q furry followed when
Mr. Hill arose, as it was well Under-
stood that he purposed a vigorous al
! tack on the lead schedule. He began
/ by moving to place lead ore and argen-
! tiferous lead ore on the free list but
/ there were only a few senators in the
chamber Mr.. Aldrich suggested the
absence Of a quorum. He wanted a
full Senate to witness the New York
senator's arraignment of his party as
Sociates.
I66 RleCIllC -DellS UTOuSH1 nllS-l1Nc
senators to the chamber.
Mr.. Hill said he realized as keenly as
any other senator the necessity for ear
ly action on the bill. The country was
anxious and eager. While the bill was
not satisfactory to him, and had not
been satisfactory to him since it YVES
reported. he now and always had been
in favor of its prompt disposition. He
had favored a change of the rules in
order 10 facilitate action. None of the
responsibility for delay rested upon
him. He regretted that a few senators
on his side. very few, he was glad to
say, were opposed to adopting the di-
rect method. But he was not disposed
to criticize them. He thought it was
idle for his party associates to criticise
their friends on the other side for ex-
ercising their privileges under the lib
eral rules of the Senate, when they re-
! fused to apply the remedy that was
open to them. They (the Republicans
were pursuing the same course the
Democrats pursued in $780, in the fight
against the force bill. The remedy for
this condition Of affairs lay in proceed
ing in a prompt, plain, manly fashion,
to arrange the rules. AS ne had said be-
fore, he continued. the bill was not sa=
tisfactory to him.
Free Raw Materials.
1t was not satisfactory to other
Democrats on this side of the cham
Der. and if the senator from MARYLAND
(Mr. Germany, the other day intended
to infer there was Democratic unity on
this bill, he had exceeded his author
ity. The bill will not be satisfactory
to him as long as 1t contained one rem
nant Of the Populistic income tax.
STILL he thought 1t the duty of the
Democrats not to defeat it, but to
n5dify and pass it. Mr.. Hill proceed
ed to explain that he had voted against
Mr. Tellers motion to table the bill
because he did not desire to kill the
measure before it was fully considered
and an honest effort was being made
20 modify it He had voted the other