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Show SEX ATE. TneTarln Hill Aiucndrurnla Tbr mil Read a Third Time. Wasiiinoton, Sept. 9. The tariff bill was taken up, pending the question ques-tion on Gibson' amendment to reduce re-duce the sugar test from SO degrees by polariscope to 7(5. Rejected. In reply to a question from Edmunds, Ed-munds, the presiding ofllcer,IngaIls, ruled that under the arrangement, cutUngotrtbedebate today, answering answer-ing or asking questions by senators, would be prohibited. Gibson offered two other amendments amend-ments to the sugar section. Rejected. Re-jected. Carlisle moved to strike out of tho sugar section ail paragrafhs relating relat-ing In bounty. Rejected yeas 3, nays 3 4; lartj cte. Gibson moved to striLo out the eug-tr section aud substitute the sugar clauses of MRU' bill. Rejectedyeas Reject-edyeas 25, nays 35. Plumb moved to Insert the 1st of January, 1S9I, Instead or the 1st or November, 1S9J. Rejected. AIJilcli's amendment was agreed to yeas 32, uaj a 27. Aldrich then moved the reciprocity recipro-city amendment proposed by him on September 1st and accepted the verbal modification of it as suggested suggest-ed by Hoar. Kvarts moved as a substitute the amendment .proposed by him at Last night's session, and which merely mere-ly directs the President to communicate commun-icate U10 facts to Congress. ItVJectnl yeas 30, uayn 31. All the democrats voted In tha affirmative-, ns did abo Dolpli, Kvarts and Sanders. Edmunds also moved the modification of the: Aldrich amendment in a similar sense. Rejected yeas C, nays 09. The six affirmative votes were given by Cameron. Davis, Edmunds, Ed-munds, Frye, Paddock and Plumb. Edmunds moved to strike out Aldrich's afeenJmttit to the words "on and after the let dar of July, IS9I." RJeclcd yeas 29, nays 84. Gibson moved to Insert wool in Aldrich's amendment. Rejected yeas 19, nays 33. Gray moved, as substitute for Aldrich's amendment, tho section directing the President, without further legislation, to declare the porta of Uie L'nllcd States free and open to nil tho products of any country of the American hemisphere hemis-phere upon which no export duties are. Imposed, whenever atd so long as the government of such country be admitted to the ports thereof free of all national, provincial, municipal and other taxes, Hour, ceremval, preserved meats, Mali, vegetables, rice, lumber, agricultural imple ments, machinery, vessels or beats of Iron, steel or wood, etc-, products of tho United States. Rejected-yeas Rejected-yeas 20, nays 33. Aldrich's amendment was then adopted; yeas 37, nay s 2S. The democrats voted cgalnst Aldrich's reciprocity amendment and only two republicans, Edmunds Ed-munds und Kvarts. Aldrich offered of-fered an aidlUoualsecUon, providing provid-ing that the sugar schedule and bounty para'taphs shall take effect on the 1st of March, 1591, and Uiat prior to the 1st of February, 1S9I, sugars may Le refined In bond without with-out the payment of duly. Various other amendments of fered by Aldrich was agreed to, Including In-cluding the following: Declaring all special taxes shall become due ou thu lat of July. 191, and on every Jst of July Uiercafterj making the proviso in paragraph -lot, putting ou the frru llat animals imported sjntlally for breeding purposes, a(-ply a(-ply only to female; filling the bunk for dates on which the duUes shall be levied on articles exempted from duly, as the 1st of October, 1S90. The committee amendment to the paragraph placing upon the free list all sugars not abovo 10, Dutch standard, which had been jawed over without action, was taken up. An amendment to substitute No. 13 for No. 16 wjs agreed to yeas 35, uays23 Plumb offered aft amendment for t'ie appointment of a conlnib!on of live disinterested lienons, to be known as a custota commleslon, with a irmancnt ofllee In the city of Washington. Agreed to yeas SI, nays JO. rim commission l to bo com-ixxed com-ixxed of five disinterested person-, to Ik appointed by the Prcldeut,by ntnl with thesdxlcuand consent of tho Senate, to continue in office six yeans unless sooner removed for Inefficiency, In-efficiency, neglect of duty Jor mt!-feasance mt!-feasance in 0 flier, no more than three of them to be frm THE SAME IVMTIL'st, TARTY. The ralnry Is to be $7000 with traveling travel-ing exiiensjs, niid tlltry nri to hav a cicrk,iuographer. messenger, aud suclfoUier clerlcsl assistance as they may re-quire. The provisions for Uie duties of Uie romni!sioncrs are lengthy and exhaustive. The bill was repotted to the Senate aud all the amendments adopted In thenommittea of the whole were agreed to, except tlio- on which separate votes were demanled. The first was Plumb's amendment for a customs commission. Tho amendment amend-ment was agreed to yea, 31; nays, 29. Daniel demanded a separate vote oil the committee amendment striking strik-ing out the Internal revenue sections sec-tions lu relation to tobacco. The amendment was agreed to and the sections struck out-yeas, 30; nays, The reciprocity amendmeut or-rend or-rend by Aldrich for the finance committee was agreed to yeas, SS; nays, J). The next vote was on the amend-nient amend-nient to paragraph 703, lowering the sugar standard to be admitted free of duty from No. 10 to No. 13. Agreed to yeas 39, nays 24. All the reserved amendments hav-Ing hav-Ing been disposed of, the presiding ofllcer announced that the bill was before the Senate for amendment. Plumb called for a separate vote on a committee amendmeut, striking strik-ing outof the bill Uie provision for a bou nty of a dollar a pou nd on slU reeled from cocoons produced In the United States. The amendment to strikeout was agreed to. Yeas 52, nays 5 (Edmunds, Hoar, Mitchell, Plumb aud Teller). Several amendments were offered of-fered 311 1 rejected, and then Uie question was: "Shall the bill be engrossed and ordered to a third rraling?" On that question the yeas and nays were taken and resulted, re-sulted, yeas 33, nays 23, a patty vote. The bill was read a third Ume and Uie question stated to be: "Shall the bill pass?" Aldrich thereupon moved an adjournment, ad-journment, but. withdrew his motion mo-tion so as to pass to execuUve session, ses-sion, soon after which Uie Senate adjourned. |
