Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1894-05-23
TARIFF IN THE SENATE.


Defeated, In Which the Negative
Votes Were All Given by the Re.
publIcans.
WASHINGTON, May 90 The tariff bill
WAS taken up and the debate on the
proposed duty of forty cents a ton on iron
ore was resumed. The pending amend
ment was that of Mr.. Plstt to increase the
duty from forty to sixty cents.
Mr.. Plat, who was speaking when the
senate adjourned last night, took the floor
again to-day.
Mr.. Platt continued his argumentin sup
port of his amendment, sixty cents a ton
being. he sa!d, at the present price of ore
equivalent to the duty of seventy five
| cents when the Mckinley act was passed.
| He closed with a declaration that the bill
| would not pass without full discussion
and that he did not believe would pass at
| all.
| Then a controversy sprsng up between
Senators Berry, dem, Of Arkansas, and
Hoar, rep, of Massachusetts. The latter
| called up the declaration in the Chicago
| platform that protection was robbery and
| plumber, and asked Mr.. Berry how he
could reconcile the pending bill with that
declaration.
| Mr.. Hosr said democratic senators con-
fesesed they had surrendered their own
| judgment to two or three men, and ex-
claimed passionately, "Stand up, demo-
cratic senators, If you will, and say you
are in favor, personally, of this bill-the
whole of you-a majority of you-one-
tenth part of you. You will not do It,
i ~ L. hal t. fal-
ed through and through. But because two
or three gentlemen have got together in q
! committee room or In a corner somewhere
like the witches in Macbeth and concoct-
| ed this hell broth you have promised them
| to swallow it." daughter in the CALLER
| ies.0
Mr.. Berry said that however the bill
might be it did not lie in the mouths of
republicans to denounce 1t for Its protec-
ton features except on the theory that
they preferred grand larceny to petty lar
cenoy, and preferred the Mckinley act
with sll it's in equities to any kind of rsduc-
ton of taxation.
Ga motion of Mr.. Harris, dem, of Ten
nessee, Mr.. Platt's resolution to increase
the duty on iron ore from 40 to go cents a
ton was laid on the table-yeas 80, nays
81. The negative votes were all given by
republicans. Senators Allen and PETER,
pop, and Hill voted in the affirmative. At
ter long discussion the Jones amendment,
making the duty on pig iron, etc., 81 a
ton, was sgreed to-yeas IS, nays 4,
Messrs. Allen, Mile, Palmer and PETER.
The next item was No. Ill, taxing all
iron in slsbs, blooms or other forms more
advanced than pig iron, less finished than
iron in bars 25 per cent sd valorem.
Mr.. Jones moved to substitute for the
item the following: Round iron, in coils
or rods, less than 7-1e of an inch in diane
ter and bars or shapes of rolled iron, not
specially provided for In ,his act, 8 II
cent. per pound; provided that all iron in
slabs, blooms, loops or other forms less
finished than iron in bars and more ad
vanced than pig iron, except castings, shall
be subject to duty of $40 cent. pei
pound; provided further that all iron bars
blooms or sizes or shapes of any kind il
the manufacture of which charcoal Ia used
as fuel, shall be subject to duty of 81:
per ton. 1t was sgreed to-Yeas A
nays9.