Show TAltKEJXTAIUFF IN THE HOUSE A Lively Scrimmage but Little Work Is Done Washington an Consideration of the tariff bill under the fiveminute rule was begun today Only three amendments were disposed dis-posed of and none were of material I moment save the attempt of De Forest For-est and Sperry Democrats of Connecticut Con-necticut t secure the adoption of an r amendment Increasing the duty on 1 Sumatra SIgar wrappers t the present rates Tne debate concluded with 0 brilliant 1 bril-liant tilt between Cockraa and Reed It 7 lant motion of Grain of Texas the I Senate bill relieving the Aransas i Pass Harbor company of Texas from the time limitations of the act of 1890 as to improvements of Aransas Pass wa passed before the House resolved itself into committee of the whole for the consideration of the tariff bill Boutelle made another fruitless attempt at-tempt to bring forward his Hawaiian resolution He made an impassioned protest against the refusal of the House fp consider the matter saying Congress should have the right to repudiate the odium under which i rests The Democratic majority should k have the right t unload from Congress Con-gress and the Democratic party this burden of outrage and disgrace Republican Re-publican applause There must be some limit declared de-clared the Speaker sharply to the right of gentlemen to violate the privileges priv-ileges of the House There must be some power in the majorityto protect I itself against these repeated violations The gentleman will resume his seat and the House under the special order adopted will resolve itself into a committee 1 com-mittee of the whole for the further consideration of the tariff bill r Boutelle retired to the rear of the I hal Richardson took the chair and < thp reading of the tariff bill beoan The reading of the tariff bill consumed 1 4 con-sumed over two hours At its conclusion 0 conclu-sion a row took over the > jj a place quests ques-ts tion of proceedure t ton proceeduIe Wilson wanted the schedules taken I up in the order in which they occur for three days Reed pointed out the Impracticability s of such a plan and wanted the time of limitation removed from the debate i de-bate At this point Bynum called for the 4 regular order and the chair recognized Wilson who offered the first committee amendment by striking out in the tobacco schedule the words commercially commerci-ally known in the description of wrapper tobacco He explained the amendment was desirable to prevent an incorrect interpretation at the custom house This amendment precipitated i pre-cipitated a fierce discussion Payne Republican of New York offered I of-fered an amendment to increase the > duty on cigar wrappers from 1 to 2 and supported i in a five minute 1 speech c DeForest supported Paynes amendment amend-ment He declared a high duty would not only protect the tobacco farmers 1 of Connecticut but was consistent II with the revenue plan of the Chicago platform F Marsh Republican of Illinois wanted want-ed t know why the constituents of w DeForest who elected him to Congress on the Democratic platform did not r take th medicine they had voted for Marsh declared the Democratic party did not have the courage to incorporate incorpor-ate in the tariff bill the redemption of the platforsn pledges I the Connect cut Democrats wanted protection for their tobaccV farmers why did thev not come outand help him to protect the farmers othe west protet Bynurn declared cigar manufacturers and operators fa the number of 45000 bad signed petitW for this reduction They were desert ig of more consider tion than the tobW farmers ton tan of three or four counties Connecticut Sperry said tha it sumatra leaf I came under the present fntv it lea yield 5OOOOO more han the proposed 1 schedule of the bill bi V Painter Democrat V Democrt Kentucky pro posed to reduce the ty of 1 to 30 andlScents Marsh offered a am1dmnt to the substitute to reduce t duty to 25 cents as he said to test ie good faith of the Democratic side emocrtc scored the Democrats for cowardice nd was hib erally applauded by the tepublican a A vote was then taken epUblcanl tlen n Paynes imfenament to place the mcament cktr at the eent rate Lost sons amendment was tV > n agreed h1 to and a vote was taken on Marshs 1 amendment to Painters substitute This precipitated a general discussion discus-sion as to what members had a right to precedence in the matter of offering amendments Richardson chairman of the committee commit-tee of the whole eventually decided in favor of Wilson who proposed an amendment to eliminate cables and cordage cor-dage from the operation of the 10 percent per-cent duty on cordage and twine except ex-cept binding twine so they too could come in free Morse Republican of Massachusetts offered an amendment to the Wilson amendment which sought to take binding bind-ing twine from the free list and put it back on the dutiable list Both the amendments and the Painter substitute were agreed toTe to-Te Republicans under the lead of Burrows then made a fight for the privilege of offering an amendment Morses amendment was voted down and Wilsons agreed to Wilsons next amendment was as to the cotton schedule to include cotton duck in its it provisions After some debate this was agreed to and Wilson then offered an amendment amend-ment to add to the free list sweat leathers binding ribbons cut felt etc for hat trimmings the present duty is 30 per cert Coombs Democrat of New York Democrat stated this class of material was not manufactured in this country Payne stated this was probably a sop to the hat manufacturers This led to a wordy duel between Reed and Cock ranThe The last amendment of Wilsons was agreed to and a recess taken until 8 oclock At the night session Powers Republican Repub-lican of Vermont opposed the bill and Bowen Populist of Nebraska and Hudson Populist of Kansas supported support-ed the bill Bowen proposed as a substitute the bill permitting the free entry of manufactured manu-factured articles when sent in exchange for agricultural products At 1020 p m adjourned |