Show XLVII CONGRESS q 1 SECOND SESSION SENATE Washington 8 The President laid before the Senate a memorial of the legislature of Kansas in reference refer-ence to pleuropneumonia in cattle After a brief executive session the Senate took up the tariff bill and consideration of the free list bagan The Senate went back to the paragraph par-agraph passed over informally yesterday yes-terday laying a duty of SI per ton on stones unmanufactured or un dressed free stone granite sandstone sand-stone and all building or monumental monu-mental stone except marble not specially enumerated The suggestion sugges-tion having been made that the language of the provision would apply to the stone coming in as ballast The paragraph was modified by striking out stones manufactured man-ufactured or undressed leaving it to apply to freestone sandstone granite and all building or monumental monu-mental stone excnpt marble not dressed nor specially enumerated An amendment to add upon stone as above hewn dressed or polished SI50 per ton was agreed to As phaltum and bitumen were added to the list Ingalls moved to add books and pamphlets bounder unbound and all unprinted matter not specially enumerated or provided for in this act engravings bound or unbouna etchings illustrated books maps and charts Thd paragraph struck e L uufc uj iue auueume yesieruay was agreed to Slater moved to put jute and jute butts on the free list and Beck asked for a division on the question ques-tion Jute ought not to be on the free list so long as flax was not The effect of putting it on the free list would be to transfer business from this country to Dundee Discussion followed The presiding officer laid before the Senate a message from the President Pres-ident transmitting a document from the secretary of the interior setting forth the urgent necessty for stringent strin-gent measures for the repression of various violations of the laws relative rela-tive to public lands The jute discussion was continued contin-ued by Beck Allison George Morgan Mor-gan Slater and Jones The motion to put jute on the free list was lost I Jute butts were put on the free list Morgan moved to strike out raw silk as reeled from the cocoon and silk cocoons and silk waste so he might move to put them on the silk schedule at 10 per cent ad val orem The debate which followed was devoted to various statements concerning con-cerning the silk industry in different differ-ent states some senators declaring It worthy of special encouragement and others doubted whether it could be made successful here The motion mo-tion was lost ayes 7 noes 39 The reading of the free list was completed com-pleted Allison offered an amendment which was ordered printed provi viding for the refunding of 09 percent per-cent of the duty paid on imported salt used in curing meats exported from this country Bayard moved to add to natural mineral waters in the free list the words together with the bottles in which they are contained and with this amendment pending the Senate adjourned I HOUSE TTT n L n Y aHll ug LUll CA joint reaom tion passed to admit free of duty the monument to George Washington Washing-ton to be imported by the Philadelphia Philadel-phia Society of Cincinnati The House then went into committee com-mittee of the whole on the tariff bill the pending amendments being those offered by Tucker and Morrison fixing the duty on steel rails at 710 of a cent per pound and 15 per ton respectively Tucker withdrew his amendment and accepted Morrisons fixing the rate at 15 per ton Several amendments were offered and rejected and after a discussion of some length the committee fixed the duty on steel railway bars aDd I railway bars made in part of steel weighing more than twentyfive pounds to a yard at 15 per toil by a vote of 110 to 90 I By a vote of 01 to 00 the clause relating re-lating to bar iron was amended so as to read as follows Iron in bars or in bundles rolled or hammered comprising flats not less than one inch or more than six inches wide nor less than threeeights of an inch or more than two inches thick rounds not less than three fnnrths of an inch nor more than trco = inches in diameter and squares not less than threequarters of an inch or more than two inches suqare 910 one cent per pound Curtin offered a provision that all iron bars blooms billets or sizes or shapes of any kind in the manufacture manufac-ture of which charcoal is used as fuel shall be subject to a duty of 22 per ton Agreed to On motion of Haskell the duty I on bars or shapes of rolled iron not specially enumerated were changed from J c to 1210 per cent and the duty on second classification of bar iron from 1210 to 1110 per cent per pound On motion of Mills the clause imposing a duty of 2Mc per pound on armor or other plate was struck from the bill Haskell moved to reduce the duty on sheet iron thinner than half an inch and not thinner than number 20 wire guage from 1310 to 2 110 per pound After debate the committee rose and Kelley made an attempt to limit the discussion on the pending paragraph to five minutes This = was opposed by the democratic side and after roll call a ompromisfl was agreed to limiting the time to thirty minutes and the House again went into committee and without acting on the pending amendment the committee rose and the House took recess S At the eveing session upon reas sembling the House went into committee com-mittee of the whole on the legisla tive appropriation bill After a brief explanation by Cannon Can-non Flowers took advantige of the Groat debate business pending the tariff bill and concluded a long speech upon the subject with the statement that there is no possibil ity of any reduction oven by this Congress The legislative bill was read by sections tor amendment The item appropriating 11700 for the main tenance of a botanic garden in Washington having been reached Lefevre moved to strike it out After discussion the vote resulted ayes 33 noes b3 no quorum The committee rose and the House adjourned |