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Show SENATE ANDj HOUSE. Continuation of Ouryltrport of the Proceeding of.Tnf-i-day. -4 THE SESSION ORAWING TO A CLOSCi Tiie tVmfereare Tariff ltepart Adopted. Personnel nl" the Tots Oa 'it. THE HOUSE PBOSifOINCS VERY LIOHT. . Trlecraph to Ue J0&MI Senate. WASiiiNOTrcvgepj. 30. Carlisle went on to RlTelcufw as to tbe in-creasedtaxatlonuiidr;uieronfirence in-creasedtaxatlonuiidr;uieronfirence bliL I n order to conSirusate for the enormi'ia Incrcaso'J taxation the tax of two cents a pound (amounting (amount-ing to $.,S00,07)) wa:o be taken oft tobacco. Tberemsral of that tax would relieve no taan and be bene ffcUI to nobody, except the manufacturers manu-facturers atli retailers of tobacco. Coming to the iiuealiou of a iaUNTVON SCGAH, he said it would amount, on a lasts of tho pretent production, to be-twecn be-twecn teveu and eight millions a year. This was the first time in the history o( tbe country that it was proposed to pay a bounty to domestic domes-tic produce, but no pait of the bounty, he asserted, would bepald to the grower of beet or sorghum cane. Every dollar of It would go to the sugar manufacturer. The producer would not receive a higher price for ills produce, nor would the conrumer recelvu any bent fit from tbe bounty, for tauntf-paid sugar would sell lit the trhrktU at the same price precisely as duty-laid refined re-fined sugar coming from other countries'. The courts bad invariably held that no State legislature could authorize a county or municipality to Impose taxes for the purpo- of MDKAGIN(I M ASVFAlll'REUS or any other Industry. If the Senate Sen-ate could not doit (without unlimited unlim-ited powers of taxins) how, Carlisle asked, could the general government govern-ment do it? Referring to the reciprocity amendment, he said it was a projio-sition projio-sition to confide to the Judjmeut or caprice of the Presldeut also a dc-terrulnaUjii, dc-terrulnaUjii, not merely of certain facts defined in the law, but of the results and effects of thon: facts and circumstances. The amendment w.is uot reciprocity. It was retaliation retalia-tion pu re and simple. The prono-l-tlonretallatelonthe people of the United State by Imposing a duty o! ten cents a pound on lea, three cent a pound on coffee, and from thirty-five thirty-five to fifty-nine per cent on Migar. unless China, Japns, Uracil ami Spain should do certain tlilncs oves which the conaurucni In the United States liad no control. Theameiid-ment Theameiid-ment was a msre political device to aicae, as far as potslbie, an INDIGNANT It'llMC sentiment audto eiieck for tiie time bsiug lite rising douof opposition to the extreme Hcy of protection. AllL-on criticised teveral of C'ar-iilesstatemeuU C'ar-iilesstatemeuU and denied tlielr accuracy. He dlOVrwl from Cat-lisle Cat-lisle absolutely a to the i lTix.1 of tlie bill, and gave as hU belief that It would reduce the revenues to no amount between forty aud forty-fire million dolfans. Coming down to tlie sugar question, ques-tion, he said he had coivifsed Willi the planters of IjouMana who btd come to Washington, and there wa not one of th-m wlio did not siy that the propo cd bounty would stimulate irnnienel tbe producllou of sujrtr lu liouisiana. and bo a great loon to them. Hut now the Senator from I.ouIfIana (GIumjIi) charged the coafems with discriminating dis-criminating agalnt that imiurtry. even If it were tme that all the Ijoublana sugar planlers desired the bounty, and denounced it and de dared that it was uncorutUutional riiey might find a Congress tliat would take Utau at their word. He U-IIcvl tlie bill wits, on thewliole, a fair bill to every section of tbe country. As n riWTECTIVE JIlHSl'ltF, hedldikitUelliitelU uetietal effect WMiId l to operate harshly oil one sectlou of the cct-ntry as against another section. He thought omi of the dutlei many of them too hLtb, and said n mote tlian once ou thu fliwr of the Senate. It should, If It proved Ixneficlal, as he believtoi II would, ctt!e thequev Hon of tariff for many yrars to ""Gray I'e brlillv, and Aldrlclt closed the debate. The Senate then proceeded to vote on tlie conference "pjidock, Pctlisrew and Plumb (Republicans) voted In tile negative. nega-tive. Following Is the vote: Yeas Aldrich, Allen. Allison, nulr, Cameron, Cosy. Cliandler, Cullom, Davis. D.xou, lllmunua. Evarts. Frye, Hale, Hawley, Hoar. IngalU. Jonr (Xev.l. SlcSlllUn, SIjnnewin,SIitcheIL3Ioody.Pierre, iiiif P.iwrr. Sanders, Sawder, Sherman. Signer, Stewart, Stock-bridge, Stock-bridge, Wil-on (Iowa), Wolctt "-aye lUrlr, Bates, Iliackburn, BlodtL Uut!r,tlWr.0fr". Coke, Colquim Daniel, Gorman. Rray, Hampton, Harris Hearst, Keiiua, Morgan, Paddock. Paco, Petllgrew, Plumb, PukIi i Itauaome, Reagan. Voorhees, WalUiall, Wll son l ld.) 27. The following pairs were announced: an-nounced: Teller and Berry, Dalph and Brown. Farwell and Jaine, Quay and Faulkner. Merrill aud Vance? DavU and Gibson, IlUcocL and Jo'ncs (Ark.). Hlgglnsand Mc-Pherson,Siuireand Mc-Pherson,Siuireand George. Turple and Wahburn, Vest anl Stanfonl. In addition Call aud Kustis were paired wltli Ptttigrewaud Paddcck, who vjted In Uio negative. So the conference report was -creed to and cow the tariff bill rlevds ony l,1? 'snatures of tho nrcsidlng officers of both Houses nd the President of the. United States. . .. The House concurrent resolution to correct tho enrollment of the tariff bill was agreed to. The conference report was agreed to on the signal servlco bllL The House bill to enable tbo Postmaster-General to test at small towns ind villages tbe practicability cf free delivery system pawed; also the Hou. bill to set apart a certain tract of land In California as a forest reservation. Adjourned. Iloa.r. Washington, SepL so. Tho bill was passed for the appointment of an additional Justice of IheSuprcme Court of Arteon;. On motion of SIcKiniey a coc current resolution was agreed to, directing the clerk or the House to number consecutively Iho para-graphs para-graphs of tbe enroled tariff bill. The Speaker hId before the Houc the bill to define and regulate the iurlsdlctlon of United States court". Referred to the Judldary commit-tef. commit-tef. Tho request of the Senate for a conference on the bill tq promote the administration of justice in the United States army was granted. Adjourned. |