The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-01-21

Change in the Lime Schedule.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2o.-No business
of i'm portance was done in the House in
the morning hour, and after some
dic&ering between Wilson and Burrows
it was agreed that debate on the pend
ing amendment substituting the agri.
cultural section of the Mckinley law
for the corresponding section OF tho
Wilson billy should close in twenty
minutes.
1t was also agreed that on next Tues
day, after the House goes into commit
toe of the whole, three hours should be
given to a consideration of the coal
schedule and three hours to the iron
ore schedule.
Then at 11:l7, the House went into
committee of the whole with Richardson
(Tenn.) in the chair. Brief speeches
were made by Grosvenor, Coombs, Mer-
Ger rep Neb.,) and Simpson.
Daniels (Rep, N. W offered an
amendment to the pending amendments
striking out the clause referring to
barley, thus putting barley on the free
list, but this proposition was promptly
voted down. The vote was then taken
on Henderson's amendment substituting
the corresponding portion OF the exist
ing law for the proposed agricultural
schedule OF the Wilson bill, and the
amendment was lost by vote of CO to
1l6
McRae and Dockery presented amend
ments to the sugar schedule, to be con-
sidered next Monday. Both amend
ments strike out tho clause providing
for tho ppad, rod uctiO0 NJ tho hountx,
on sugar and wipe it out altogei her,
thus making sugar absolutely free.
Grain (TeXas) offered q sweeping
amendment to the WOODEN 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
articles affected would be handker.
chiefs stockings and half hose, cords,
braids and lacings, rubber cloth, cloth
lining, Italian cloth, bunting, cloaks,
jackots, listers and other outside gar
ments.
AT the conclusion of his rem arks there
was an uproar in the House and gal
leries, which caused the chairman Mr..
Richardson, to speak sharply to tho
audience in the galleries and threaten
to have the galleries cleared.
Sim pson offered an amendment put
ting wool and manufactures of wool
on the free list. At leo the committee
rose, and the Presidents message
transmitting tho veto of the New
Yotk and New Jersey bridge bill, and
the latest Hawaiian correspondence
was read.
Tho most intense interest was shown
in ihn rcadir Z OF the message, num-
Der Of members crowding into the space
before the speakers desk. The read
ing was interrupted at intervals by ap.
! plause from the Republicans or Dom
ocrats, just as the Presidents policy
appeared to them respectively. At the
conclusion Of tho readiDg the cores.
pondence was referred to the committee
on foreign affairs and the House set
tied down again on the tariff.
After several members had taken part
in the debate the amendments of Simp-
son and Grain were voted down; then
Dingley offered an amendment chang
ing the tariff on lime from 10 per cent.
al valorem to cents per hundred
pounds.
Dingley's amendment was lost on
standing vote-.6S in the affirmative and
Ill in the negative; Wise, Tucker and
Marshall, all Virginia Democrats, voted
with the Republicans. Bynum (Dem.,
Ind offered the following amendment
to the Wilson bill: Strike out all Of sec
tion l1G and insert tho following:
"Sheots OF iron or steel, common or
black, excepting as hereinafter pro-
v!ded for, thinner than No. 10 wire
gauge ard not thinner than No % wire
gauge including sheets which have
been picked or cleaned by acid or by
any other material or pre- cess, 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, excepting as hereinafter pro.
vidCd for, thinner than No 25 wire
guage, and all iron or steel commerce
iron or steel, or which have been picked
or cleaned by acid or by any other ma.
terial or process, or which is cold rolled
| smoothed only. not polished, shall pay
duty OF nine. tenths of one cent per
pound. Provided, that the reduction
herein provided for as to sheets of iron
or steel thinner than No. 25 wire guage
shall take effect on and after October |,
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.
Bynum took advantage Of the oppor-
tunity presented by the introduction of
this amend ment to deliver a speech on
the tariff in general. He held that
failures and strikes were more frequent
under protection than they had been
under the Walker low tariff, and that
the greatest fraud ever perpetrated
upon the people in the name of protec.