The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-26
END SEEMS IN SIGHT
SENATE HAS COMPLETED ALI,
SCHEDULES OF THE TARIFF BILL.
Now Ready to Take Up the "Passed-
Over Paragraphs and the Inter-
naI-Revenue Provisions.
RAPID PROGRESS YESTERDAY
MANUFACTURES OF WOOL. SILKS
AND TOBACCO DISPOSED OF.
Duty Advanced Slightly on Wrapper
and Leaf TObacco--Heavy Impor-
tations OF Merchandise.

WASHINGTON, June 25.-The Senate to-
day completed the wool schedule the silk
schedule and the tobacco schedule of the
tariff BILL and with this accomplished the
tariff leaders had the satisfaction of know
| ing that all the schedules of the bill and
| the free list had been gone over once. There
| now remains only to go through the bill
! second time, passing on the items passed
! over These are very numerous and i'm
| portant, including hides, gloves, coal, tea
and beer After that the internal revenue
features of the bill will be all that remain.
| Progress was rapid to-day, although every
! paragraph relating 10 carpets was stub
! bornly contested. Consideration of the silk
! schedule led to a long contest against the
| proposed duties on silk fabrics Senators
| Teller and Mantle joining with the Demo-
| Gratis in opposition. The paragraph was
| passed by the slender majority of two. The
tobacco schedule went through with little
| friction after the committee had advanced
the duty slightly on wrapper and leaf to-
| bacco.
When the session opened to-day con-
! sideraton of the wool schedule was resumed
at Paragraph 37O relating to aubusson, AK
minister, moquette and chenille carpets Mr..
Vest moved to strike out the specific rate.
| The vote was II to "a, four short Of
| quorum. There was some delay in announce
! ing the result owing to the anxiety to Sc
cure quorum, but Mr.. Vest insisted on a
speedy announcement remarking that the
suffering country could not wait while Re-
| publican senators mustered a quorum.
When the want Of q quorum was
nounced Mr. Vest derisively said: And
this with the country just wallowing and
dying while the bill waits.
THE senator is out of order" interrupted
Mr.. Chandler jocularly.
And so is the country" added Mr.. Gray.
A call of the Senate brought ffty-two SEN
ators to the chamber and Mr.. Vests amend
ment was then rejected-21 to 26.
Paragraph 81 (saxony wilton and tour
nay velvet carpets) was agreed to, with an
increase in the specific duty from 60 to g.
cents per yard the ad valorem being left
! at 40 per cent.
on Paragraph S72 Cbrussels carpets
figured or plair0 the specific duty was in
creased from A to 45 cents per square yard,
with 40 per cent. ad valorem in addition.
| Mr. Vest criticised the rates. saying it
was the evident purpose to prohibit the i'm
| portation of cheap mattings and cheap car
| pets, thus making it impossible for poor
man to cover his floors except with higher
| priced American carpets
! Mr. Allison answered briefly that the du-
| ties were imposed as compensation for
| the increased duties on raw wool.
On Paragraph 37S (velvet and tapestry
velvet carpets) the specific duty was in
! creased from 40 to Al cents per square yard,
with 40 per cent. ad valorem in addition.
TILLNAN PROTESTS.
Mr.. Vest again moved to strike out the
! specific rate This drew a brief but en-
| NJ 10
| liked to differ with the distinguished Demo-
cratic leader, he said but" he continued,
lit is perfectly clear we're beaten on every
one of these items, and, well-it's just
waste of time, that's ALL"
Mr.. Vests amendment was rejected-19
to 27.
In Paragraph 374 tapestry brussels car
! pet the specific duty was increased from
! 2S to 20 cents per square yard, with 40 per
| cent ad valorem additional.
MIR. Allison proposed SUBSTITUTE lor
| Paragraph 3761a providing that carpets OF
every description, woven whole for rooms,
! Including Oriental, Berlin and similar rugs,
/ shall nav a duty of 10 cents per square foot
| and Al per cent. ad valorem. This led to
extended debate, Mr.. White and Mr Eest
son explained that Oriental rugs were lux
uries some OF them costing $lo,oQo. ne atso $50
red shot al the 1bat While the rates
| might be high, they were not as hlgh as
the duties on oranges and Zante currants,
the products of California.
| Mr. Allison secured a new amendment to
| Paragraph 3T7 (druggets, etc striking out
| felt carpeting He also withdrew the com
| mittee changes to Paragraph $50, designat-
ing the meaning of the word wool.
All remaining paragraphs OF the Wool
| schedule were agreed to as reported, ana
| at 1 o o'clock the Senate entered on the silk
| schedule Consideration Of the schedule
rapidly Until the pd9ragapn 9r r 4n
! Allison had perfected the paragraph IN
| minor particulars Mr. Jones spoke in OPP
position to the rates. saying they ran from
| hibitory and most burdenSome on the
| cheap silks. He exhibited samples of jap
| anese and Chinese silks which, he said,
would be barred from the country.
Mr.. Mantle said that, while he believed
| in a good stiff protective tariff, 20 TO 100
| per cent is necessary yet he entirely
| sympathized with this opposition to eXces-
He would oppose them on the same ground
! that he favored putting straw mating on
the free list for he did not believe in this
manner of meeting the competition or the
Mr.. Platt of Connecticut, replying to Mr..
Mantle Teferd ada 70 r6 6he ha Ra9PH Pace coas
against Oriental competition. He declared
that Mr.. Jones's statement as TO duties OF
/ representation, was due to a misunder-
standing. The rates would not average
above 20 per cent
OPPOSED BY TELLER.
| I.
| a fair duty. but not for a 700 per cent.
/ duty, and for this reason the committee
ought to furnish exact information. He
spoke of the rapid growth of trade in Jap
anese textiles. 1t was due, he said, to the
low rate of wages in Japan, and to the diff
| ference in exchange between Japan and the
1 United States, giving that country a bonus
of about 100 per cent. AS to the state
ment that Japan had gone TO the gold
standard, Mr.. Teller said this had been
/ done merely by cutting their yen, or coin,
/ in two and that the standard was practi-
cally unchanged. He could not vote for a
| ZOO per cent. duty against Japanese Chi
| nese or any other goods. He wanted this
| to be a Republican tariff bin, although he
said he considered the Wilson bill about as
! good a protective measure as some that
| bore the Republican label
Mr.. Platt of Connecticut, commented on
! the way the Chinese are being rung" on
an alleged 700 per cent. duty. The allega-
/ ton was made by the Japanese importers,
/ and against them Mr.. Platt submitted Off
/ cial customs returns showing, he said, the
/ low percentage of the proposed rates.
Mr. Jones moved substitute paragraph
| scaling down the duties all lines of silk
/ fabrics Rejected--23 to 26-Messrs Mantle,
| Pettigrew and Teller voting with the Dem
/ ocrats in the affirmative.
In view OF Mr. Piatt's statement that the
] duties would not average above Is per cent,