The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-26
WOOL AND SILK FINISHED.
S4TISFACTORY TARIFF PROGRESS
MADE By THE SENATE.

The Tobacco Schedule Ais Agreed To AFTER .
Lively Controversy About Sik-senator
Morgan Very Much Afraid We Are Going
to Have Serious Trouble with Japan.
WASHINGTON, June 25.- Very satisfactory
progress was made by the Senate to-day in the
consideration of the Tariff bill. The discussion
was more fairly divided than usual between the
Republicans and the Democrats, but no long
speeches were attempted. More than a dozen
votes were taken by yeas and nays, but when
the bill was laid aside for the day all the carpet
paragraphs of the wool schedule, and the sched-
ue itself, had been agreed to. and the silk and
tobacco schedules had also been finished; so that
tomorrow the paragraphs which have been
passed over without action will be taken up. ac-
eording to Mr.. Allison's announcement yester-
day, and then the bill will DO proceeded with In
regular order until the end is reached.
The question over which there was most dis
bension to-day was the paragraph relating to silk
goods, and particularly to the cheap Japanese
silks or pongees. 1t was asserted that the du-
ties proposed on these goods were equivalent
TO 700 per cent. ad valorem. That statement
was contradicted. and it was denied that the
maximum rates exceeded 100 per cent. Amend
ments to place the limit at so. rs. 100. and 200
per cent. were voted down in swift succession.
The interest OF Japan In the matter was cham
pioned BY Mr.. Morgan of Alabama, who thought
that care should be taken not to outrage the
feelings OF that country while there was other
possible trouble with her, and who regarded 1t
as very unfortunate that a Japanese industry
had been selected to illustrate the ferocity Of
the Tariff bill.
When the Tariff bill was taken up the pend
Ing question was on Mr.. Vests motion to mako
the duty on Saxony carpets paragraph 37D 40
per cent. ad valorem instead of the committee
IN . nj go aAnta N-a -..- .a.I --I an wA- -z-g
ad va!orcm. The motion was defeated-yeas %.
nays 20.
MI Vest offered q similar amendment to para
graph 81 brussels carpets), and said that the
aHly on mattings was intended to force people
'otny the cheap grades OF carpets. Tho amend
mehl was re.ected-yoas. 90 nays. 2s.
to li il",iaT amendment was offered by Mr. Vest
Sslv 't% , %pSs Sac caEPeEs. B Fs!i%s!ef Fhs to o isixf bos saa
lhero!l call, Mr.. Tiilman Dem. =. o. said that
n MS oldc OF the chamber was beaten In every
nst"hcc' II was n mere waste OF time to have
seha!ors put on record. The amendment was
se:ected-ycas 10; nays. 27-and a similar
'@TpetSI VAS also reJecicd-i3 to 90.
al. White of California moved to substitute
10y Paragraphs 375 and 376 ingrain carpets) the
tealed. Wv"
The next paragraph. relating to Oriental. Der.
H., "m,l similar rugs, was altered so as to make
cen, '" ~ ~ cents per square yard and Az per
dr,.' y ''lN HlpNtu W hlTlkb u luC SptCiuC
aMly on Oriental rugs, leaving the duty 10 per
W" no. Nhlnrom. LOst-yeas, %; nays, 90.
rarlSTAph BY ldruggcts) was modified by
niaNilk OUT the second clause. The remaining
paragraphs in the wool schedule were not CON
eeslri' and then schedule Las to silks and silk
Sools. was reached. A motion by Mr.. Vest to
Nc We duty on spun silk paragraph 3S2l 80
XIII CcHl. al valorcm instead OF the rates in the
WAS rejected without the yeas and nays.
~. Jones, Arkansas. offered an amendment
e paragraph 1884 lsilk-woyen fabricsl, and as
Iiiorihuu MAJ the duties in that paragraph were
ntSntst on tho cheap silks and owest on the ex-
sSIl1s S'iks' These rates varied, he said. from
40 100 Ter cent.
JoMMa, RAT OF Connecticut replied to Senator
49, rN Japanese competition, no said, was a
apflOlS question, and hence the duties on
n"hea5 goods were high. But the duties In
Ia paIdGrhph were not equivalent TO 700 or to
cent. ~ i"'' "o"iu hol average 20 pef
d. retntation of that statement Mr.. Jones pro-
AZ ~ Il sample of Japanese pOngee silk valued
81, ms a yard, on which the duty would be
S TO- trhlS a yard. That would. he said, be equiv
80, 10 over 700 pcr cent. ad yalOrcm.
brottan - nigh rates" Mr.. Gray OF Delaware
L,sI "a are tyranny, pure and simple. AS
tc' ,, saii of Russia, that it Is u despotisIn
t"r,.'i ny assassination, 80 these high du-
Tha.Ie lyrann% tempered by smuggling"
II" ~ nole was taken ON a substitute offered by
''0"es' reducing The ratcs OH tho paragraph,