Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-05-23
IN the SENATE.
Democrats Refuse Decent Tariff Rate on Iron
Orc and Manufactures.

WASHINGTON, May 22.-In the Senate
the tariff bill was taken up, the pending
question being the amen endment by Platt t.
increase the duty en- iron ore from 40 to 60
cents ton. Plat continued his argumen
in support of the amendment, 60 cents q
ton b. ing, he said. at the present price of
ore, tqnval. mt to Is cents when the McKin-
ley act was passed.
A controversy sprang up between Berry
and Hosr and the latter called up the de.
claration in the Chicago platform that pro-
lection was robbery and plunder. and
asked Berry how he cou1 reconcile the
pending bill with that declaration.
Berry said however Objectionable the bill
might be, it did not lie in the mouths OF
Republican senators to denounce it for its
protection features, except on the theory
that they preferred grand larc ry to petty
larceny, and therefore they preferred the
Mckinley act with all it. iniquities to any
kind of r. duciinn of taxstion.
On motion of Harri., Piatts resolution to
Increase the duty on iron ore from 40 to 60
:ents ton was laid on the table Yea., 32 /;
'qys, 2l. The negative vote s were all Re
publicans.
Allen and z. fl ,r and Hill voted in the
fi,mative. After a long discussion the
Jones amendment, making the duty on pig
iron. ETC., 81 ton, was agreed to-yeas
50, nays 4. (Allen, mills, Palmer and
Ptffer.)
The next item on III bill. taxing all iron
in slabs, blooms or other forms mo e ad-
vanced han pig iron, and less finished than
iron in bars, is % per cent. ad valorem.
Jones moved to substitute for the item the
following: r, und iron in coils or rods,
less than Is of an inch in dismeter, and
bars or shares Of rolled iron not specially
provided for in Il is act, $40 of q cent a
pound provided that all iron in slabs,
blooms. loops or other forms lees finished
than iron in bars snd more advanced than
pig iron. except ca.ting., be subject to q
duty of 10 Of a cent pouud; provided,
further, that all iron bars, blooms or .iz-s
or shares Of any kind, in the mann facture
of which charcoal is used as fuel, be sub.
ject to duty of Sl2 a tor.
Sherman suggested that the item lie over
until tomorrow. JoneH withdrew the
amendment and Quay renewed it. Shtr-
man then expressed will pgness to accept
the amendme mt. Hale 4, clared the amend
ment to be a step in the evolution of the
.band onment of the prize pies of free trade
and tariff for revenue only. 1t was q
mar, in the dirt cti,n OF protection, with
out being ample protection. lie was glad
that the proceedings, today, rendered it
impossible for any party to commit i'self in
the future to the do trine Of free trade.
Teller said he saw nothing in the amend
ment to indit ate that the Democratic party
hai changed its views and abandoned free
trad.. Teller continued II am bound to
say that this is better bill than had any
idea would come to US frou the ID. mocrstic
party after its declarati n at Chicago. l
sm glad to get it with all it,, con.istencies.
If, when We get through the bill is not Whist
We want, let us 60 to the people AMI sub
nit the question to thst great forum where
right will ultimately p,.vail." Jones'
amendment (no~ Qras's) was sg eed to,
yeas, 55; nays,9.
The next item, lI2. fix-d duty Of 25
per cent. al vxlorem (bv the commit e
amendment 28) ON b iron, round iron.
bars or shapes of rolled iron. Jones moved
to substitute for the itera the following
Bar iron, rolled or hammered. comprising
fats not less than three-eighths Of an inch
thick. Lie cent . pound; round iron no,
less than three quarters of IN inch in diam