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Show THE SENATE. The- Dtbatc on lfie Tariff Bill tontinHfd igala r To4a. e ACCIDENT ON THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. The Sen Tork Ccatral Train WretVert. A Pathtlie.Morj rVorn jftxlco. B j Telfxrach to lis .itwu Knaic. WA-SliiNcnos, Sept. S. Tho Senate Sen-ate this morning agreed to the conference con-ference report on the river and harbor har-bor bill without a division. The bill now goes to the President. The taria bill iwu taken up, the debate on the bill and amendments to be limited to thirty minutes for any Senator on an voce sullect. Altera numlier of verbal amendments amend-ments had been agreed to, Plumb oQercd an amendment imposing Jl. 55 per gallon on distilled spirits. He said he offered It because lie believed be-lieved It would be necessary to have additional revenue thus provided ($245,(0,a to meet the requirements require-ments of the-imvernment. The reduction re-duction of revenue wlilcfo the bill (as it passed the Houe) wouldaf-fect wouldaf-fect had been esUnrated at -?1,000,-000. Jty the restoratlob' of the tobacco tax In the Senate thatre-duction thatre-duction hail been dlmloUhjedx to. $30,000,003, qualified by The somewhat some-what ambiguous statement from the. finance committee that If Imicrts-Uons Imicrts-Uons were kept up on thu present cslr, notUhtandlDg the! Increase of duties, the reduction of revenue would be oiily about ii,h00. Jlerry asked Plumb how many applications bad alreAly. bsen received re-ceived under the newyenstoHllw. riUmbgaVB the ntrmber' ftf- ovw four Imndred toutand " Cock rell There wTTbelrtween 503,000 and 700.000Jn jlU. Plumb said he had "bo doubt that there would be 700,000 to b00,0M applications ap-plications .under that law and tlie appropriations under it would amoupt to at Ieat sixty millions a year within the next three or four years. He estimated the expenditures of thd government t $450,030,003, IU revenues at $100,000,000, and said a deficit was Ju-t as sure as the rising of the tun. Wilsont Iowa) opposed the amendment amend-ment on the ground that It would put $35,000,000 Into the pockets of men who owned to 103,000,000 gallous of distilled spirits un hand. Dawes opposed the amendment because be-cause the lncrcasetl tax would not apply to whisky on hand, which would be thus appreciated In price to the amount of S3 cento per gallon, and also lx-cau- he would not admit ad-mit by implication thatthependiug bill would result In deficit. Plumb modified the amendment by making it apply to all whL-ky hereafter produced or withdrawn from bond. Amendment rejected; yeas, 17; nays. 39. Vance moveu to reduce the duty on cord clothings from 50 to 25 cents p-r square foot. Rejected. The sugar section was then taken up, the immediate sjtjtet under consideration con-sideration being the finance committee' commit-tee' amendment to the paragraph imposing duties on all sugars atnve number 13 Dutch standard. Sherman argued against tlie amendment and in favor of the Houe proposition which would allow all sugars under No. 12 Dutch standard (including good qualities of brown sugar largely used by the people) to come In free of duty. |