The times., 1897-03-30

| was in the hands OF trust and the tax
was TO raise the price and make available
| the asbestos deposits of California and
cheaper the price to the consumer. He
remarked incidentally that the committee
was very well satisfied with the way
| the minority had consumed the time; for
the country would understand that
| failure To perfect the bill was due TO
| Democratic obstruction.
| The provision admitting hollow steel
hillets thinner than five-sixteenths of an
| inch, at 30 per cent al vaiorem, and fin
ished seamless iron and steel tubes at 40
per cent ad valorem, was struck out. The
| Ways and Means Committee had had a
| meeting 10 escape Mr.. Baileys objection.
Fluid malt extract in casks was made
| dutiablc at 20 cents gallon instead OF 20.
The duty on lead i'll sheets, pipe. etc,
was Increased from Ia to IL cents
a pound. Other committee amendments
were agreed to as follows:
Copper in plates, bars. ingots and pigs
was relieved of "a duty of l cent pound
and put on the free list
Changes were made, specifying in detail
! the conditions under which yachts ana
their equipment are dutia BILE: making
watches, as well as watch movements,
Gutiabe at 40 per cent ad valorum; fixing
the duty on albumen at cents a round;
adding TO the agricultural schedule the
paragraph relating to nursery stock, agreed
to yesterday; reducing the duty on dates
from 1 12 to 1-2 cent a pound; increas-
ing the duty on wooden toothpicks from
I2 to cents per 600. and 3 per
cent ad yalorem.
II Fr nSpry-pi pitrnn and JltrDD
! peel was increased from to cents Il
pound.
Mr.. Grosvenor moved to change the duty
on pineappIes from 2 cents a pound TO 6
cents per cubic foot in barrels, and So per
1000 in bulk. Agreed to.
Mr.. Lowering united with his colleague,
Mr.. Mccall in protesting against the rates
in the wooden schedules, and added also, in
his complaint the cotton schedule. Speak
ing, he said, from his familiarity with the
manufactures of the State lie decided that
they did not want the high duties pro-
posed neither the compensatory nor
straight duties. democratic appause)
Massachusetts, he said, wants a tariff that
Will stand.
MIR Russell of Connecticut, from the
Committee on Ways and Means. offered
changing the phraseology relating to combed
cotton yarn, so as to restore the phrase
ology Of the pI esent law tthe Wilson hilD.
MT McMiHin got the floor for few mo-
ments To call attention to the instructive
spectacle of the wrangle between the
Massachusetts, Republicans
After considerable argument among the
Massachusetts men, Mr.. Walker insisted
no protection for themselves only for Amer
lean labor.
Mr.. Dingley said that no one, not even
the gentleman who had just addressed the
committee, would say that the woolen and
fine cotton industry in this country could
thrive without the duties carried in the
bill. The protection afforded was only
such as was necessary 20 equalize the abor
conditions in the United States and those
prevailing in other producing countries
This brought Mr.. Newlands to lis feet.
with a question that slowed that wages
We're not 10 be equalized as against orien-
tai countries and Mexico.
But we ali know - said he. that China
and Japan are making cottcns. They
have supplied their home markets aud are
entering the foreign market. The wages
paid are only oRe-qUarter European wages,
and this is cut in two again by the use Of
silver / ask these gentlemen how tley
are going to protect our labor against such
wages"
Mr. RusSell's amendments were agreed
to: also reducing the duty on substitutes
for cheese to Is cents; increasing the duties
on cotton fabrics valued at 81 so a
dozen. 25 cents a dozen ia addition to
30 pei cent; and putting ! cent pound
and per cent on burlaps weighing not
less than SIX ounces a square yard.
After the committee rose the joint TeSo-
luton from the Senate to give $4,000
out Of the fund for the lower Mississippi
for 1898 FOR the present flood emergency
was amended to carry deficiency items in
the departments and Members clerk pay
and passed 1t was 5:25 p. m. when the
House adjourned