The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-19
TARIFF PROGRESS
Senators Patching Up All
the Loose Odds and
Ends, Now.
CHANDLER VERY SARCASTIC
He CoRgratulates Democrats On
Their Progress in Protection
Ideas-Vote Soon.

WASHINGTON, June 10, 1S94.-The fact
that there is no further desire on the part of
Mr.. Quay rep. Pa to delay progress on the
Tariff bill was indicated by his making a
motion this morning to dispense with the
reading of yesterday journal.
A resolution offered on the 18th OF May
by Mr.. Allen pop, Neb.l calling on the Sec
rotary of the Treasury for information as to
the total number of persons engaged IN pro
tected industries in the United States whose
wages are or may be claimed to be affected
by tariff legislation, was taken up and was
being discussed, objections to its scope beng
pointed out by Senators Chandler rep, N.
HI and Morrill, rep, VI, and these objee-
lions being resisted by Mr.. Allen, when, at
half-past ten the tariff bill was taken up.
Paragraph $50, which was reserved yester-
day. was the first paragraph TO be acted
upon. 1t read as it came from the House:-
Mating and mats made of cocoa nbre or
rattan, 20 per cent. ad valorem."
The Finance Committee proposed to
amend it by making it read-Matting and
mats made of cocoa fibre or rattan, and
floor mating manufactured from round or
split straw. including what is commonly
known as Chinese mating, 20 per cent. ad-
valorem.
Mr.. Lodge rep. Mass.) offered an amend
ment to make the duty the same as in exist
ing law-12 cents a square yard on mating
and s cents a square foot on mats, and made
an argument in support OF it in which he
presented the views of the manufacturers
and workinen to show why the present rates
should be retained. If all industries. he SAID,
had been treated alike in the bill, he should
not have proposed anything in favor OF the
mating industry.
But he learned from a circular which he
supposed every Senator had received that In
the matter of matches the duties had been
-o;eod ~, stV1a bnf Ona 0vAP the 0llfl6S
in the existing law In the case OF the large
safety GAS match rr the increased
amounted to 100 per cent. and in
the wax taper matches to from 100 to 800
Per cent. increase. He regarded the dis
tinction made between the men who made
mating and the men who made matches as
wholly indefensible. -ss
WILLING TO MAKE IT FREE.
Mr.. Vest dem, No. remarked that the
Finance Committee was willing to
let Chinese mating go to the free
list. The Mckinley act had made
the duty II per cent, while for 20
years before the duty had been only 20 per
cent. One of the largest manufacturing
firms of mating in the country had repre-
scented that it would be satisfied with 20 per
cent. and the Finance COMMITTEES had given
20 per cent. The Finance Committee had
also given 20 per cent. on matches.
And the agitation about the increase
of duty on matches came from
the fact that the ad valorem of 20 per cent.
on the higher priced matches, the wax
matches, only used by the rich and luxurl-
Gus. made the rate higher than on the com
mon matches used by the large body OF the
people.
After further discussion Mr.. Lodges
amendment-which he had modified by re-
ducing the figures to nine cents and seven
cents-was rejected by a vote yeas, %;
CORRECTING ERRORS.
Mr.. Sherman rep, Ohio called attention
to a discrepancy between paragraphs II and
48. Paragraph 81 makes the duty on ink
and ink powders and printers ink 20 per
cent. and paragraph AZ makes the duty on
the pigments from which the ink is made Is
per cent. Mr.. Vest recognized the discrep-
ancy. and agreed to have the duty on ink
made % per cent, and that was done.
Mr.. Allison rep, Iowa. moved to go back
to paragraph 100 (making the duty on buck
wheat, corn, etc, 15 per cent. ad valorem)
and to strike out the proviso that those pro-
ducts shall be admitted free of duty from
any country which imposes no import duty
on the like product when exported from the
United States.
Mr.. Jones dem, Ark agreed to Mr..
Allison's motion, and the proviso was struck
out. r=sla
A new paragraph 1850 was also in
serted, on motion of Mr.. Allison. ''three
cents a dozen"
Paragraph 30S, as to parchment papers,
which was reserved yesterday at the
request of MI Gallagher, was then
taken up. Mr.. Jones moved to strike
out the paragraph and to insert a
new paragraph, making the duties IN parch-
insnt papers,, thirty per- cent, ad valorem,
and on photographic and photographic prints,
forty, thirty, twenty, eight, six and five
cents a pound in proportion to weight, size
and thickness nIspsgas F9e ca
CHANDLER
Mr.. Chandler, in a bitterly sarcastic
speech, congratulated Democratic Senators
on the progress which they were making in
the science of protection. AID valorem
duties were vicious and tended to frauds;
but the latter part of this amend
ment went on the system of specific
duties. 1t had been constructed
painfully, patiently, assiduously and
scientifically" Mr.. Vest said that after MIR.
Chambers speech he had great doubts about
the amendment. He was afraid that with
all that laudation there was something
wrong. The amendment was agreed to.
On motion of Mr.. Jones dem, Ark,
paragraph 314 was amended SO as to make
the duty on hair pencils, brushes and feather
busters 35 per cent. ad valorem, instead of
80, and to add the words ION bristles, ~
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