Show SENATEJMADE GREAT PROGRESS Two Entire Tariff Schedules Completed Yesterday FLAX SCHEDULE NEXT ONTHE LIST IMPORTANT WOOL SCHEDULE WILL FOLLOW NEXT Tillraan Voted for a Duty on Raw Cotton Avowing that He Wanted S S the Bill Loaded as Heavily ns Possible so as to Disgust the People and Have Them Turn You OutSulzer in the House Denounces Weyler as a Murderer and a Thief Washington June liThe senate nade greater progress today on the taiff bill than on any day since the debate opened Two entire schedules covering 20 pages were completed namely schedules H on spirits wines and beverages and schedule I on manufactured man-ufactured cotton goods This brings the senate to the flax schedule with the important wool schedule standing next I The portion of the bill passed today is substantially the same as that reported I re-ported the committee changes being I unimportant while the opposition amendments of Mr Jones of Arkansas and Mr Vest were systematically rejected re-jected by majorities varying from five to ten Mr Allison secured the addition ad-dition of a new paragraph to the cottonS cotton-S schedule with a view to compensating The cotton manufacturers of the recent action of the senate in placing raw cotton on the dutiable list In paragraph 289 on motion of Mr Allison the house provision was restored re-stored The remaining paragraphs on spirits 290 to 293 Inclusive were agreed to as reported without opposition opposi-tion tionTne The wine paragraph led to some discussion dis-cussion That on champagne and ether sparkling wines was agreed to as reported re-ported The committee paragraph on still wines was perfected by striking out the provision for an additional duty of 3 cents on each bottle or jug and the substitution of a provision that the filled bottles or jugs shall pay the same duty as if empty Mr White of California presented statements from representative wine men of California criticising the pan graph on wines as not affording suf ficient protection Mr White added his view that these wines brandies and similar articles should be liberally taxed on the principle prin-ciple that they were articles of luxury although he would not make the tax prohibitory Mr Vest said the rates were practically prac-tically prohibitory In effect It com polled people to drink California wine or so without wine The senate paragraph was then agreed to The paragraph on cherry juice etc 298 was modified by the committee to include the house proviso on containing I taming no alcohol or not more than IS I per cent of alcohol and thus agreed toOn On ginger ale soda water etc 299 the committee changed the wording from other similar waters to beverages bev-erages containing no alcohol On mineral waters Mr Vest moved to strike out the entire paragraph and place the waters on the free list He said many invalids were dependent upon the use of the waters He presented pre-sented a protest from leading physicians physi-cians throughout the country against C the duty Mr Vests motion was > re aeeied The paragraph was then agreed to with a committee provision that all filled bottles shall have the character of their contents blown in the bottles Schedule I cotton manufactures was then taken up The first paragraph 301 cotton thread and yarn was con tested by Mr Jones Ark He sooke at length on the ability of the American Ameri-can cotton manufacturer to compete against he foreign producer without high duties Mr Mills Tex declared that every II pound of cotton grown in this country could be manufactured in American factories If the elements of cotton pro I duction dyes machinery coal etc were not heavily i taxed I S Mr Vest rommended Republican senators I sen-ators to the views of James G Blame the greatest apostle of protection that I ever lived in the United States expressed ex-pressed in 1SS1 that there was no reason rea-son why the American cotton manufacturers I manufac-turers could not compete with England The debate all through the first paragraph para-graph of the cotton schedule took a wide range covering the entire cotton I I S Question Mr Jones Ark offered an amendment I amend-ment in the nature of a test on the entire S en-tire cotton schedule proposing the Wilson Wil-son rates on cotton thread and yarns Rejected 20 to SO Mr McEnery La voted with the I Republicans in the negative The Democratic senatorsBacon Clay Mc I Laurin and TIllmanwho I who had voted for a duty on raw cotton were in the af titnO hlo io Irate I firmative on this motion to reduce the rate In manufactured cotton After this ontest rapid progress was made on the schedule the paragraph Ing being agreed to as reported On motion of Mr Allison paragraph 317 was changed to exclude braids and gorings Inserting suspendes and braces at 40 per cent and reducing the rate on labels for narnients to EO cent per pound and 30 per cent ad valorem Mr Allison also proposed a new paragraph para-graph 3194 He said the duty on raw cotton If It remained in the bill would i probably require an entire overhauling of the cotton schedule at a later stage i The additional paragraph provides that Ion I-on all cotton yarns finer than No 10 j single and the goods manufactured thereof the duty shall be 10 per cent in addition to the cotton schedule Mr THIman S C said he was one of the Democrats voting for a duty on raw cotton He avowed that he wanted the bill loaded as heavily as possible so as to disgust the people and have them turn you out If his Democratic associates could get any consolation by twitting him for his section in this general game of grab well and good 1 As to the Republican senators he warned them that no tariff bill would bring prosperity which gave con pensa too duties to the manufacturers out of the pockets of the people Mr Allisons new paragraph was agreed toyeas 30 nays 26 I I The vote was a party one the five I Democrats Bacon Clay McLaurin McEnery and Tillman voted in the negative with their associates It was now 410 and as exceptlonaddy rapid progress had been made Mr Allison Al-lison agreed to lay aside the bill An executive sesison was held before adjournment |