The morning news., 1894-01-21
WORK ON THE WILSON BILL.
The Amendment TO Admit Barley Free
Voted Down.

ing Cut In the Woolen and Cotton
Goods Schedules Rejected-Bynum
Offers an Amendment to the Iron
Schedule.
Washington, Jan. 20.-No business Of
Importance was done in the House in the
morning hour and after some dickering
between Messrs Wilson and Burrows, it
was agreed that the debate on the pend
ing amendment substituting the agricul-
tural section of the Mckinley law for the
corresponding section of the Wilson bill)
should close in twenty minutes.
1t was also agreed that on next Tues
day, after the House goes into committee
of the whole, three hours should be given
to consideration of the coal schedule, and
three hours to the iron are schedule.
Then at II: IL o'clock the House went
into committee of the whole, with Mr..
Richardson, of Tennessee, in the chair.
Brief speeches were made by Messrs.
Grosvener, Coombs, Mercer, rep, of Ne
braska, and Simpson.
Mr.. Daniels, rep, of New York, offered
an amendment to the pending amendment,
striking out the clause referring to bar
ley, thus putting barley on the free list;
but this proposition was promptly voted
down.
The vote was then taken on Mr.. Hen
derson's amendment, substituting the cor
responding portion of the existing law for
the proposed agricultural schedule of the
Wilson bill, and the amendment was lost
by vote of 63 to 1l6.
The following populists and independ-
ents voted with the democrats: Messrs
Harris, of Kansas, Davis, of Kansas,
KEN, of Nebraska and Simpson, of Kan
sas.
WANT SUGAR MADE FREE.
Messrs McRae and Dockery presented
amendments to the sugar schedule to be
considered next Monday Both amend
ments strike out the clause providing for
the gradual reduction of the bounty on
sugar and wipe it out altogether, thus
making sugar absolutely free
MIR. Grain, of Texas, offered sweep
ing amendment to the woolen and cotton
goods schedule reducing the tariff on
them under the Wilson bill from 35, 40
and As per cent. to 25 per cent. The ar
ticle affected would be handkerchiefs,
stockings and half hose, cords, braids and
lacings, rubber cloth, cloth Innings,
Italian cloth, bunting, cloaks, jackets,
ulsters and other outside garments. Mr.
Grain was given thirty minutes to
speak in favor of his amendment. He
contended against what he called the fal-
When his time had expired, he was anx-
ious to speak fifteen minutes longer, but
Mr.. Payne, rep, of New York, objected
in the name of the republicans.
Then Mr.. Fithian, dem, of Illinois, was
recognized and tried to yield his time TO
Mr. Grain, but Mr. Payne contended that
that could not be done except by unani-
nous consent, and he objected.
GRAIN HARD TO DOWN.
Mr.. Grain then moved to 'strike out
the last word" this giving him the right
to speak on his motion, but Mr. Payne
again tried to block him by making the
point that a motion could not be made
during a debate.
This was Intellectual, and Mr.. Payne
and his republican colleagues took the
situation philosophically and allowed MIR.
Grain to continue.
At the conclusion of his remarks, there
was an uproar in the House and galleries,
which caused the chairman, Mr.. Rich
ardson, to speak sharply to the audience
in the galleries and threaten to have the
galleries cleared.
Messrs. Wilson and Reed seconded the
efforts Of the chairman and called atten-
tion to the rules forbidding visitors to
participate in the applause and demon
StnrationS on the floor.
Mr.. Simpson offered an amendment
putting wool and manufactures Of wool
on the free list.
MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT.
At1 30 o'clock the committee rose and
the Presidents messages transmitting the
veto of the New York and New Jersey
bridge bill and the latest Hawaiian cor
respondence, were read.
The most intense interest was shown in
the reading of the message, a number of
members crowding into the space before
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terruDted at intervals by applause from
the republicans or democrats, just as the
Presidents policy appeared to them re-
spectively.
At the conclusion of the reading, the
correspondence was referred to the com
mittee on foreign affairs, and the House
settled down again to the tariff.
After several members had taken part
in the debate, the amendments of Messrs.
Simpson and Grain we're voted down, and
MIR. Dingley offered an amendment chang
ing the tariff on lime from 10 per cent.
ad valorem to 6 cents per hundred
pounds.
Mr.. Dingley's amendment was lost on
a standing vote, 68 in the affirmative
and Ill in the negative. Messrs. Wise,
Tucker and Marshall, all Virginia demo
Gratis, voted with the republicans.
BYNUM OFFERS AN AMENDMENT.
MIR. Bynum, dem, OF Indiana, offered
the following amendment to the Wilson
bill: Strike out all of section 116 and in
sert the following: Sec. 116. Sheets of
iron and steel, common or black, except
ing as hereinafter provided for, thinner
than No. 10 wire gauge, and not thinner
than No 25 wire gauge, including sheets
which have been picked or cleaned by
acid, or by any other material or process,
or which is cold rolled, smoothed only, not
polished, shall pay duty of 35 per cent
ad valorem. All sheets of iron or
steel, common or black, except
ing as hereinafter provided for,
thinner than No. 25 wire gauge, and all
iron or steel commercially known as COM
mon or black taggers' iron or steel, or
which have been picked or cleaned by
acid, or by any other material or process, |
or which is cold rolled, smoothed only,
not polished, shall pay a duty Of 9-10 of
! cent per pound; provided, that the re-
duction herein provided for, as to sheets
of iron or steel thinner than No. 25 wire
gauge, shall take effect on and after Oct.
l, 1894"
The purpose of this amendment is to
define more exactly the different classes
of iron, and it does not materially alter
the Wilson bill in these particulars.
PROTECTION BAD FOR LABOR.
Mr. Bynum took advantage Of the op-