Show XLVII CONGRESS SECOND SESSION SENATE I Washington 1 The President presented the joint resolutions of the legislature of Illinois in relation rela-tion to the Yellowstone National Park Blair and Mahone petitioned for national aid to common schools I Ingalls presented petitions of citizens cit-izens of Dakota Against the division of the territory and asking its admission ad-mission with its present boundaries bound-aries Vest presented a memorial favoring favor-ing the extension of the limits ot Yellewstone Park Morrill offered a resolution suspending sus-pending so much of the act of February Feb-ruary 28th 1878 as authorizes and directs the secretary of the treasury to purchase silver bullion at the market price not less than 2000 000 nor more than 54000000 worth per month and cause the same to be coined into dollars as fast as purchased pur-chased Finance Sherman introduced a bill amendatory amend-atory of the law fixing the Donn aries a-ries of the collection district of Kentucky also a resolution which wa agreed to directing the committee com-mittee on education and labor to inquire into the expediency of providing pro-viding by law against the employment employ-ment of convict labor by the United States either on public works or by contractors under the United States The credentials of Rlddleberger senatorelect from Virginia were filed At the close of the morning business the tariff bill was taken up Morrill in reply to Beck said he expected the session of today to last to late in the evening The pending question was on Fryes amendment proposing an ad valorem duty of 40 per cent on all sugars Prve subseauently modified his amendment so as to make the duty en all sugars under thirteen Dutch standard 35 per cent and on sugars above thirteen 45 per cent A long debate ensued Fryes amendment Kellogg said if adopted would ruin the Louisiana Louisi-ana sugar producers who generally voted the republican ticket He was sorry to hear the attack made from the republican side of the chamber upon those black cohorts I Kellogg gave some statistics on the sugar production of Louisiana He said it employed about 890000000 of capital of which 810000000 was in machinery 400000 people lived by it and 60000 or 70000 men and women were employed as laborers of whom more than twothirds were colored The number of exslaves owning homes and other property was two or three times as largo in Louisiana as in any otherstate that that class of population was more quiet and orderly there than in any other southern state and these results re-sults are largely attributable to the sugar industry Jiair remarked the nappy condition condi-tion of the laborers employed in the I production of sugar as depicted by the senator from Louisiana was clearly the result of protection and was analagous to the condition of factory operatives at the north produced pro-duced by the same cause and was a complete answer to the arguments and attacks bordering upon blackguardism black-guardism with which the northern industries had been assailed Beck said the more he considered the question the more satisfied he became that efforts were being made to get away from the finance committee and that the bill was in the interest of refiners That bill was more favorablo to planters than to any other and was the best they could get Fryes amendment was rejected The amendment making the duty on molasses 25 per cent was lost yeas 12 nays 44 A substitute offered by Morrill on behalf of the committee on finance for the sugar schedule in the committee bill was adopted The amendment has been pub ished Kellogg offered an amendment proposing additional duty of 10 per cent upon sugar and all products pro-ducts named in the schedule imported im-ported from Cuba where produced by slave labor Lost George offered an amendment reducing re-ducing the duties on lead in the schedule 10 per cent upon the arti cles imported from countries where slave labor was not employed Lost Morgan gave notice of an amendment amend-ment which he would offer in the Senate prohibiting the adulteration of sugar and molasses by mixing glucose with it Beck gave notice of an amendment amend-ment to prevent the sale of any mixture containing glucose sugar without advising purchasers of the fact of its being a mixture Sherman offered an additional proposition to be printed and referred ferred to the committee on finance imposing an additional duty of 10 per cent ad valorem on articles named in this article when an export ex-port duty is levied upon such articles ar-ticles by the country producing them Consideration of the sugar schedule sched-ule in committee of the whole being be-ing concluded the Senate took up the tobacco schedule amendment of the finance committee fixing the duty on cigars at 8250 per pound and 25 per cent ad valorem was adopted Hawley offered the following substitute for the second paragraph Tobacco in leaf unmanufactared and not stemmed when the greater part of a bale box or package is suitable for wrapper 25 cents per pound upon the whole contents of the hale box or package if stemmed Si per pound all other tobacco in leaf unmanufactured and not stemmed 85 cents por pound tobacco stems 15 cents per pound and tobacco manufactured manufac-tured of all descriptions not specifically spe-cifically enumerated or provided for in this act 40 cants per pound The question was taken on the first paragraph par-agraph of the Hawloy amendment as above ending with SI per pound Lost yeas 18 nays 20 The remaining provisions of Hawleys motions were agreed to The portion por-tion rejected was then modified by Sherman and adopted as follows Tobacco in leaf unmanufactured when greater portion of a bale box or other package is suitable for wrappers is 75 cents per pound upon the whole contents of said bale box or other package The Senate is still is session HOUSE Washington 1 Kelley Penna asked that an agreement should be entered into whereby the House should sit until 6 oclock every day that the tariff bill was under consideration con-sideration Morrison 111 regarded the request re-quest as a proper one and a tacit agreement was entered into as suggested sug-gested by Kelley The House then went into committee com-mittee of the whole and resumed consideration of the tariff bill Carlisle moved to strike out the item imposing a duty of 4 of one cent a pound on sulphate of iron or copper Agreed to Tucker moved to reduce the duty on brown acetate of lead from 4 to 3 cents per pound whereupon a I debate ensued Hoar contending that the lead mining industry required re-quired protection He opposed the amendment which was lost 80 to 96Morrison moved to reduce the duty on white acetate of lead flour 6 to 5 cents per pound On motion of Kelley the clause imposing a duty of 10 cents per pound on white acetate of lead fit for medical use was struck from the bill Cox moved to reduce the duty on dry white lead from 3 to 2 cents per pound The motion was 10st65 to 82 82Willis moved to reduce the duty on white lead mixed with oil from 3 to 2M cents per pound In the course of a discussion Anderson of Kansas asserted what he claimed to be an attempt by Belford to read him out of the Republican Re-publican party he gave notice that he shonld claim for himself the right to do his own thinking he should do so as a republican and it was not in the power or any man 10 rule him out of the party Randall said he stood there and spoke in his own representative relations re-lations He recognized the fact tnat there could not be free trade between be-tween nations where the wages of labor varied Insofar as tariff was concerned be would make it so that it would cover the gap between foreign labor and the labor of the people of the United States He did not believe Congress need go much further it was a question which ought to be settled on business prim if ciples Taking the three bills tii 1 f and comparing them he had deliberately l r i delib-erately come to the conclusion that I i the commission bill was far preferable J f fl 4 prefer-able to the ways and means bill f 1 and he had voted in every instance 1 1 in favor of imposing the duty recommended t re-commended by the commissionThe ri H Senate bill was preferable to either c His object was so to regulate the revenues that they would give inci i dental protection to the people of 1 t his state and nothing more J tr Cox said the democrats were for r that kind of freedom which would take the shackles from industry and pay for the frugal administra 1 I 1 tion of government That was j k ti their position He suggested to the f f gentleman fromPennsylvamaKelly t that since there was disorder in his l t camp ro withdraw his forces and discipline them The amendment 11 was lost l I On motion of Haskell the duty ion i-on salts of potash not otherwise f it provided for be reduced from 25 to 1 jt t 20 per cent ad valorem 1 Kelly moved to increase duty on t f 1 hydrate or caustic soda from three I i fourths of a cent to one cent per fj j i pound Agreed to85 to 78 fI I tOn 1 On motion of Robinson salt cake 1 f crude or refined was struck from i f 1 the list of articles bearing a duty of r it onefourth cent per pound 4 Ellis moved to strike out the i item imposing a duty of 25 1 t per cent ad valorem on bone char or bone blackfit for sugar refiners 9 l the intention being to place the t r articles on the free list Agreed toby 1ij to-by 80 to 75 hOn f j h-On motion of Candler the paragraph para-graph lelating to dyes was so Ii j amended as to provide for a duty of 40 per cent on analine dyes instead t of 35c per pound and 20 per cent li i 1 ad valorem r On motion of Kelly the clauses were struck out imposing a duty of II fr C 20 and 10 per cent respectively on 11 i a analme oil and artificial alizarine i i f the intention being to restore I those articles to the free list i Calkins Farwell of Iowa Smith f Illinois Dingly Hitt Anderson q t Kanlas Ray Rice Andrlch Houck K 1 Updegraff Prescott and Strait voted with the democrats in the A i 1 affirmative jOn j 1 On motion of Carlisle the duty on the oxide of zinc ground in oil was i reduced from 2 to IC per pound i tJ On motion of Randall the duty ion If i-on the oxide of zinc fit for medicinal tf use was reduced from lOc to 5c per r pound On motion the duty on rendered I if oils not otherwise provided for was t Jf reduced from 25 to 20 per cent ad 5 valorem in IOn I-On motion of Carlisle the duty on 1 i j ground or powdered spices not I i specially enumerated was reduced ii from 5 to 3 cents per pound H i Springer moved to strike out the il lr duty of 50 cents per pound on chloroform t chlo-roform for the purpose of placing ttf it on the free list Lost l Morrison moved to strike out the duty of 81 per gallon on fusil oil ttF LostWillis r1JJ Willis moved to increase the duty r F to 2 Lost The committee rose 1 Adjourned I f J t |