Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-05-19
TILE TARIFF BILL,
Considerable Progress Made
in the Senate Yesterday.
MORE THAN FOR WEEKS.
The Chemical Schedule at
Last Completed.
List of the Amendments Agreed To.
The House OPENS with FIN
buster ON Its Hands-Exccutive
and Judicial Appropriations.


BY Associated Press,
Washington. May 1s-White winged
peace lowered over the senate today.
AS a result OF the compromise reached
at last nights drawn battle. the reso-
luton TO inaugurate longer hours. be-
ginning next Monday at 10 d. M, was
agreed to. and then the senate, for
the first time since the tariff debate.
began TO settle down to real earnest
work on the schedules OF the tariff.
For five hours the consideration was
steadily pursued. the result being that
eleven pages of the bill We're disposed
of-mor progress than has been made
in the entire three weeks during which
the bill has been considered by para
graphs. The chemical schedule" was
completed and the earth. earthenware
and glassware excepting Items "a to 90
inclusive which were passed over by
agreement, was finished, Schedule &c"
metals and manufactures Of iron and
steel, had been reached when the SEN
ate, at o'clock, went into executive
session.
a Republican Victory.
The Republicans won their FIRST vic
tory today in their efforts to secure
higher rates than those granted by
the majority. They induced the Dem
ocrats to take rough building and
monumental stone. limestone. freestone,
granite sandstone. etc. from the free
list and place them on the dutiable list
at cents per cubic foot, and to in
crease the duty on this class Of dressed
stone from 20 to 30 per cent ad valorem.
The feature Of the day was the denial
OF half dozen Republican senators
TINT any agreement had been reached
to allow the bill to ultimately come to
n vote. And the bold announcement or
Messrs. Frye of Maine and Dolph Of
oregon TINT they stood ready to go
to any length and use any parliament
tary methods for the defeat OF the
passage OF the bill.
some of the Amendments.
The amendments agreed 20 fix the
following rates:
Cosmetics and like preparations, 40
per cent; CASTLE soap. perfumed. 80
per cent; bi-carbonate OF soda, LIZ cent
per pound. Caustic soda, 10 cent per
pound: bi-chromate soda, 25 per cent;
sal-soda. IL cent per pound: soda
ash. IA cent per pound; salicate soda,
is cent per pound; strychnine, 30 cents
per ounce; tartarate of soda. cents
per pound: brick. unslRcked. 25 per
cent; fire bricks. 81 per ton; lime.
cents per 100 pounds; plaster paris.
ground. 81 per ton; plaster paris, cal
cined, 1925; clays, unwrought. 81 per
ion; clays, wrought. 81 per ton; cast
polished glass. looking glass, etc, not
exceeding "a by so square Inches. 50
cents per square foot; above that IS
cents; spectacies. 40 per cent; marble.
rough, 80 cents per cubic foot; marble,
dressed. IS cents per cubic foot; marble.
manufactured, IS per cent; granite and
other building stone, rough. II cents;
dressed, 80 per cent; grindstones. 10
per cent, roofing states, % per cent.
Mr.. Morgan's resolution calling upon
the attorney general for information as
TO the existence OF sugar trust IN
violation of the law was adopted,
At $3.50 the senate went into executive
session.