St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-28

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alton of the Hawaiian resolution.
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 per cent ad
valorem. Today Mr.. West moved to
substitute specific rate of he per
pound. The Mckinley rate is 21sc per
| pound.
| MIR. Quay supported the Vest amend
ment as preferable to an advalorem
| duty. II was agreed to.
The lead paragraph was then taken
up. The house bill made lead ore and
| lead dross dutiable at Is per cent all
| valorem upon the lead contained
therein, and classified silver lead ore 3
rs silver ores where the silver contents
exceeded in value the lead contents and
admitted them free of duty. The finance
| committee amendment made lead ore
dutiable at thres-fourths OF one cent
per pound, and made silver lead ores
| dutiable at the same rate on the lead
contents according to sample aud as
say at
THE PORT OF ENTRY.
Mr.. Dubois offered an amendment,
which was accepted by Mr.. Jones. fixing
as the method of sample and assay that
commercially adopted III the United
States.
Mr.. Shoup (Rep., Idaho made quite
an elaborate argument in favor of a
duty on argentHerous lead ore. He
conteuded that the miner of the West
could not compete with the peon labor
of Mexico, and said that if silver lead
ore were admitted free of duty from
Mexico almost every silver lead mine in
the United States would be closed.
Mr.. Shoup concluded at 1910, after
speaking over an hour and half. Some
thing of furry followed when Mr..
Hill, of New York, arose, as it was we'll
understood he proposed vigorous at
tack upon the lead schedule. lie began
by moving to place lead ore and argsn .
tiferous lead ore on the free list, but. as
there were only few senators in the
chamber. MIR. Aldrich suggested the
absence of quorum. He wanted full
senate to witness the New York SEN
ator's arraigument of his party asso-
ciates. The electric bells brought fifty
five senators to the chamber.
Mr.. Hill said he realized as keenly as
any other senator the necessity for
early action on the bill. The country
was anxious and eager. While the bill
was not satisfactory 10 him. and had
not been satisfactory to him since 1t
was reported, he was now. and always
i had been, in favor of its prompt DISPOSE
| ton. He had favored change OF the
! rules in order to facilitate action, be-
cause he believed that the best way 10
FACILITATE ACTION
was to give the majority the power t.
fix the time for taking the final vote
and whimS of the minority. None OF the
responsibility fer delay rested upon
him. He regretted that few senators
OH his side, very few. he was glad t.
Say, were opposed to adopting the
direct method. But he was not disposed
| to criticise them. They acted according
TO their ideas OF public duty. He
acted according to his. HI
thought it was idle for his
party associates to criticise their friends
on the other side of the political aisle
for exercising their privileges under the
liberal 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 1890 in the fight
against the force bill. The remedy
for this condition of affairs lay in
IN nj n in,
manly fashion to rearrauge the
rules. AS he had said before, he
continued, tie bill was not satisfactory
to him. 1t was not satisfactory to Othe.
Democrats OH this side of the chamber
and if the senator from Maryland (Mr
GOrmaD the other day intended to infer
that there was Democratic unity Oh this
bill he had exceeded his authority. The
| bill would not be satisfactory TO him as
long as 1t contained one remnant OF the
| PGpulistic income tax. Still, he thought
| 1.-THE duty of the Democrats not to de
feat it, but 10 modify and perfect it.
MIR. HILL PROCEEDED
to explain that he had voted against Mr.
Teller'S motion to table the bill because
he did not desire TO kill the measure be
fore it was fully considered, and:an hon
est effort was being made to modify it.
He had voted the other day, he went OH
oplace iron ore OH the free list. The vote
stood solitary and alone so far as Demo
cratic votes were concerned. He die
not anticipate that the motion he now
made would be carried. But it ought
not to require any argument to convince
a Democratic senate that LEAD ore
should 20 on the free list. The Demo
cratic party stood pledged to it. Leao
ore was d raw material, aud the party
was committed to free raw materials.
Mr.. Vest Uem., Mo- replied to Mr.
Hill. The duty proposed i'll this bid.
he said, was three-fourths of cent pei
pound. 1t was the rate fixed in The
Mills bill that had received such higl
commentator. 1t was proper, he
thought, that he should make few
words of explanation. The Mckinley
bill placed duty of " cents. on LEAF
and lead silver-braring ore. -
MIR. Stewart made brief speech com
planning of the discrimination shown in
the bill betwe labor in the East anc
in the West, as illustrated in this in
stance.
Mr.. Dubois followed with a snar,
thrust at Senator Hill for his attack OF
the finance committees amendment
He said he presumed MIR. Hill had mad
his speech on this question principally
for the purpose of defining his attitude
toward
| THE PENDING BILL,
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