The age-herald., 1898-06-05
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 foreign ceUntr'es, there shall be levied. collected and paid on such dutiable articles i5 per cent. of several duties and rate of duty now imposed by law upon said ar ticles, severally. it being the intent of this section to reduce existing duties on said articles 25 per cent of such duties"
 Reiected12S to 4. af. z,
 Mir. Mason called up his amendment pro- viding for a tax of four cents barrel on adulterated flour and made vigorous ap- peal for it's incorporation in the bill. Agreed sdotIs. t25 t to 2 .s oonta;n,ns m,xea flour to be labeled as cleomargarine is. The tax is to be represented by coupon stamps and the provisions regarding tobacco stamps are made applicable to the stamps.
 MT. Pettigrew offered an amendment re- pealing the law of 1875 authorizing the sec retary to issue bonds without direct au- thority from congress. Rejected-43 to 3l.
 MT. Allen offered an amendment provid- ing that no bonds certificates of indebt- edness issued under the proposed act should be used as basis for national bank circulation, and that the secretary of the treasury should not have authority to is- sue bonds to increase the gold reserve or for any purpose without direction of con- gross. Rejected-27 to 42.
 Tax on Patent Medicines
 MT. Chiffon (dem), of Texas, offered an amendment placing a stamp tax graduated in accordance with the price upon ''ar- ticles, substances, preparations or com pounds, except food products and prepara- tions otherwise provided for in this ace, that are made and sold or removed for sale under patent right, trade mark, or any name or designation not open to general use."
 The tax ranges from one-fourth of cent to a cent on five cent articles, to four cents on a dollar package an twow cents addi- tional on every fifty cents or fractional part thereof, over one dollar. The amendment was agreed to-41 to 31
 Mir. Lindsay of Kentucky offered an amendment providing that no stamp tax shall be placed on packages of newspapers, wholly or partly printed which weigh less than 100 pounds.
 In the course of the discussion, MT. Allen and MT Wolcott and MT. Aldrich entered into the matter of taxing newspapers. MT Allen maintained the tax would operate as a hardship on the country papers, MT. Wolcott held that the postal facilities were open to all newspapers and 1t was fact, he said, that the country papers did em- ploy the postal facilities to the exclusion of the express companies. The express com panies, he said, were used by the great newspapers of the coutry for the reason that they could gain time in the delivery of the papers to their subscribers. One of the most equitable taxes that could be levied, said he, would be tax on news paper circulatons, and the government would have only to accept the newspapers own figures as to circulation to raise rev. enue of $1OO,000,O0O a year.
 Considerable time was used in the dis cussion of the amendment, which was finally agreed to-42 to 20
 Ten Cents a Pound on Tea
 MT Tillman of South Carolina offered an nt,, .1 hat on- md of I1llN a duty of 10 cents pound be imposed upon tea imported into the United States. The amendment was agreed to-3S to S2.
 An amendment was offered by Mir. Petti- grew levying a tax of F per cent. on the value of all articles manufactured by trust. The amendment was rejectedN5 to A.
 Tine bill which had been considered in the committee of the whole was then reported to the senate In the senate the amend ments which had been agreed to were adopted.
 MT. Jones. of Arkansas, proposed to amend the bond pro position by striking out the words "after ten years from the date of their issue" thus making the re- demption of the bonds optional with the government within twenty years. De- feated1 to 42.
 An effort was made by MT. Jones to make the bonds payable at any time after three
  that too, was defeated-31 to 42
 MT. Cannon, of Utah, moved that the clause of the bond provision was appro- priated one-half of one per cent of the preparing, adver ising, issuing and dis posing of them, is stricken out.
 MT. Butler, of North Carolina, offered the proposition to establish a postal saw ings system in lieu of the bond provision. Rejected.
 In lieu of the bond provision Mir. Stewart offered a provision for the issue of treas ury notes to the amount of $400,O0 00.0O) re- ceivable for government dues Laid on the table-54 to IS.
 MT. Turpie, of Indiana, propos d as a substitute for the bond provision propo- sition to issue $15O0O GOO of treasury notes of denominations of $5, $10, $20 and $5l. or multipes thereof, the notes to be redeem able in one year and payable in three years from date of issue, to bear per cent. interest, to be good for public dues and to be used by the government in payment of war expenses. Rejected-2S to 45.
 Several minor amendments were offered and reflected As finally completed the bill was placed upon it's passage It was passed by vote of AS to 2S, the detailed vote be- ing as follows
 Yeas-Aldrlch, Allison, Baker, Burrows, Caffery, Carter, Chandler, Clark, Davis. Deboe, EllSins, Fairbanks, Foraker Frye, Falinger, Gear. German, Hale, Hanna, Hansbrough. Hawey. float, Kyle, Lindsay Lodge Mcbride McEnery, McMillan, Man tie, Mason, Mitchell, Morll. Murphy. Nell son. Perkins. Platt, (Conn.), Platt, (N. Y), Pritchard, Sewell, Shoup, Spooner, Thur ston, Turpie, Warren, Wellington, Wilson, Wetmore, Wolcott.-4S.
 Nayes-Allen, Bacon. Bate, Berry, But Ter, Cannon, Chiffon, Clay, Cockrell Dan- iel. Harris. Heitfield. Jonec, (Ark.), Jones, (Nev), McLaurin. Mallory. Martin, Money, Pasco, Pettigrew, Pettus, Rawlins, Roach, Stewart, Sullivan, Tillman Hurley, White 2S siaf
 Mir Allison mayed that the senate insist upon its amendments and the conferees be appointed.
 The motion was agreed to and Messrs Aldr.ch. Allison and Jones, of Arkansas, were named as conferees.
 The senate at TIA p. m. adjourned.