The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-06-18
IN The SENATE.
Iarif Struggle Again Resumed Sen
ator Frye Fighting For Wool Pulp.

.WAsHiNaToN, Juno 1s.--The Senate
sfter some routine morning business to-
DAY, onterek on the twelfth week
OF the tariff debate. A bill
reported hUck favorably from the
COMMITTEES on agriculture by Senator
iishment OF experiment stations under
the direction OF the Secretary Of Agri-
culture to determine whether electricity
or gaseous vapor can be used as agricul-
tural motive power and offering a pre-
MUM of s2500 for q successful invention
o OF such motive power, met with
hep, Comm and senator Hoar (Rep.,
Mass.). They contended that it was aD-
surd TO offer such a premium. Senator
Harris suddenly interposed objection at
this point and the bill went to the calen-
At the request of Senator Platt, as the
tariff debate was resumed, the two para
graphs, 229 and 200, OF the silk schedule
passed over Saturday were again
passed over today and schedule
M-"Puip, papers and books"-was taken
up. Senator Frye, Republican, of Maine,
offered aprotest against the first paragraph
OF the schedule, placing a duty of 10 per
cent. on mechanically ground wood pulp
bIeac he'd.
WASHINGTON, June Ex-senator Frye
said he had no particular objection
TO the slight reduction of 10
to the other side to make the duty
specific instead OF ad valorem, and pro-
posed an amendment TO substi-
tute equivalent specific. rates,
$3.50 per ton on wood pulp
mechanically ground chemical wood pulp
unbieached 70 per ton and bleached IS
Senator Frye's amendment was rejected
20 to 80.
The rate on sheathing paper and roof
ing felt was fixed at 10 per cent. on print
ing paper, unsized, sized, suitable for
books and newspapers at 15 per cent. ian
increase from the House rate on unsized
paper, nitering paper, tissue paper,
sensitized paper, ETC., go per cent?,
an increase OF per cent. from the House
photograp and autograph albums.
wholly or partly manufactured, 30
per cent; photographic prints, "a
per cent, lithographic labels 40 cent.
House rate 25 per cent?, paper envelopes
~ per cent, paper hangings 20 per cent,
blank books 20 per cent, including
pamphlets and engravings, photogrs phs
etchings, Is per cent; playing cards 10
cents per pack and 80 per cent. ad
This completed the pulp and paper
paragraph and the Senate Immediately |
proceeded with schedule N. "Sundries."
The following rstes were fixed without |
debate:
Hair, pencils and feather busters 30 per
cent; brooms 20 per cent; button forms |
10 per cent; agate buttons 25 percent; |
searl and shell buttons, / cent per line |
md 10 per cent; livery buttons, glass,
bone and horn, So per cent; shoe buttons
% per cent.
1t was not until coal was reached that
opposition developed. The house bill
placed coal on the free list. The finance
committee amendment placed a duty of 40
'ents per ton on bituminous coal and =,
hale and ID cents on slack and culmand |
b percent ad valorem on coke.
As soon as the clerk had read |
he paragraph, Senators Hill and
'effer jumped to their feet.
The New York Senator was
ecognixed and he sent to the clerks desk
m amendment to- regulate the bitumi-
lous coaiand shale to the free list.