Frederick citizen., 1895-02-01
PASSED BY The HOUSE
Decisive Vote To Repeal Diff
ferential Sugar Duty.
Tho Financial Question in the Sem
ate-Mr. Manderson's Compromise
Measure, After Discussion, Re-
ferred to the Com mmittce-PoolinS
Bill Amendment Suggested.


Washington. Jan. 3o.-By the decl-
sive vote Of 239 to 81 the house at the
close Of an interesting session yester-
day. passed the bill repeating the diff
ferential duty of one-tenth Of a cent
q pound imposed in the tariff bill on
sugars imported from countries paying
an export bounty on that article. The
representatives voting against the
passage of the bill were:
Republicans-Adams, Belden, Bing-
ham. Boutelle, Bowers. DalzelI, Curtis,
Daniels. Gillette. Hooker. Lefever,
Loud. Loudenalger. Marvin. Payne.
Quigg. Ray. Reed. Robinson. storer,
Sherman. VanvOrhis. WadSworth, We
yer. Wanger.
Democrats-Covert. Davey. Meyer,
Ogden. Price and Robertson.
While the bill was In committee Of
the whole all amendments were voted
down except one. and that was pend
Ing when the committee rose. It was
offered by Mr.. Dlngley (rep.. Me.) and
provided that the repeal of the differ
entail duty was not to be held 10 i'm
ply that the United States surrendered
Its rights under treaties to Offset boun-
ties by the imposition OF equivalent
differential duties whenever congress
deems it desirable to enforce them.
A yea and nay vote upon this amend
ment was had in the house, resulting:
yeas. 1l2: nays, 156.
On this amendment the republicans
and populiSts, with the exception of
Baker. OF Kansas. voted aye, and the
democrats, generally no. The follow
ing democrats voted with the republi-
cans: Barnes. Covert. Geary, Harris,
Lester; Martin Qnd); Meyer, Price
and Ryan.
An amendment, offered by Mr.. Hit.
to repeal the one-eighth of a cent ad-
ditional duty on refined sugars was
rejected by a vote Of IS to 1o9: and
an amendment by Mr.. Vanvorhis, of
New York. to place all sugars and mo-
lasses on the free list was rejected,
rs to 100.
This action was taken at the re-
quest of Mr.. Wilson, chairman of the
committee on ways and means, in
charge Of the bill, who stated that the
chances of its becoming a law de-
pended entirely upon its going through
the house as an independent measure
in the shape in which 1t was reported.
In the Senate.
The financial question was brought
TO the front early in the session of the
senate by a resolution which was Of
fered by Mr. Henderson (rep., Neb.),
| and which. after discussion, was re-
ferred to the finance committee. Ii
embraced seven propositions which
Mr.. Manderson admitted looked like
hodge-podge, but which really were
he said, compromise that might be,
and ought to be embodied into law
These were:
A reserve of two hundred millions
| in gold and two hundred millions IL
silver; the issue of bonds payable in
gold or silver; the destruction of lega
tender notes when paid in gold or sill.
yer; the exchange. for five years, wher
| demanded of gold coin for silver coin
and of silver coin for gold coin; the
use of the new bonds for national bank
currency (of not less denomination
than Sl0); the requirement of paymen
Of duties in gold on goods imported
from countries having a gold stand
ard and in gold or silver on goods i'm
|
standard; and. finally, the free coinag.
of silver and gold at the ratio of i
to 1, and the enlarged coinage of sub
sidiary silver coin. Interesting re
marks on this proposition and on tn
finance question generally. were mad
by Senators Henderson and Tellel
(rep.. Col)
Amendments to the pooling bill
which Mr.. Butler (dem., S. C.) sal,
he would call up to-day-were sug
! gested by Mr.. Chandler (rep, N. H.)
looking among other things. to tn
| preliminary submission of proposed
changes of railroad rates to the inter
state commerce commission TIL,
bankruptcy bill was discussed for {
couple of hours. and the commercial
travellers bill (allowing the issue o.
5000 mile mileage tickets) was passed
| Beochcr and Schenck Indicted.