Show vote on the tariff schedules hill opposed to duty on coal explains his position on the tariff option bill in the house washington jano 18 aul moved in the senate today to place 1 on the free list and emoke in favor of the redemption demp tion of the democratic pledges before the tariff bill camel up the senate passed a joint resolution directing the secretary of war to appoint a commission of engineers io examine and report upon the coat of deepening the harbors of superior and deluth the pulp paper and books schedule of the tariff was considered first frye offered a protest the first paragraph placing a duty of 10 per cent on mechanically ground wood and chemical wood pulp bleached or unbleached the production of wood pulp said frye employed men turning out a product valued at 35 and paying annual wages of under the operation 0 the present duty the cost of paper has greatly decreased wood pulp cas decreased in price from 4 cents pound to 1 lie appealed to the other side to make the duty specific instead of ad valoree valorem va lorem and proposed an amendment to substitute equivalent specific rates eay a ton on wood culp mechanically ground and on chemical wood pulp unbleached 5 a ton bleached the amendment was rejected 20 to 23 i the rate on roofing felt was fixed at 10 per cent printing paper sized suitable for books and newspapers 15 per cent copying filtering tissue sensitized paper etc 30 per cent an increase of per cent from the house rate parchment paper cardboard photograph and autograph albums wholly or partly manufactured SO percent prints 27 per cent lithographic labels 45 per cent the house rate is 25 pa per envelopes 20 per cent paper hangings 20 per cent blank books 20 per cent books engravings photographs etchings 25 per cent playing cards 10 cents a pack and 50 per cent ad va lorem manufactures of paper not especially provided tor 20 per cent this completed the pulp and paper paragraphs i the senate immediately proceeded with schedule the following rates were fixed without debate hair pencils and feather dusters 30 per cent brooms 20 button forms 25 gate buttons 25 pearl and shell buttons 1 cent a line and 15 per cent ivory buttons glass bone and horn 35 per cent shoe buttons 25 when coal was reached opposition was developed the house bill placed cealon the free list the finance committee amendment placed a duty of 40 cents a ton on bituminous coal and slack 15 on slack and culm and 15 per cent ad valoree valorem on coke As as the clerk bad read this paragraph hill and jumped to their feet the new york senator was recognized and ho sent to the clerke desk an amendment to relegate bituminous coal and shale to the free list he supported the amendment speech it was useless for him to enter into a lengthy argument ho simply i wanted to cull the attention of his dem 1 socratic colleagues to the fact that the country expected a democratic congress in any tariff measure to place coal on the free list during the coarse of bis remarks chandler interrupted hill expressing the opinion that coal would be on the free list before the bill became a law basing his opinion on the serene confidence felt by the nova leotia syndicate with which whitney was connected hill declared that he was opposed to certain features of the the socialist and income tax in particular but no one lie declared had ahe right to say he was opposed to the bill and was seeking paes its defeat god knows what the hill will be lik when it the senate and comes out of conference said he passionately god knows how many more extor eions and concessions will be wrung from the unwilling hands 0 the committee I 1 reserve the right to vote for it or not when I 1 see what it id finally aquire on behalf of the washington coal interests thought it was unfair to admit canadian coal at 40 per cent when canada charged 60 per ceni on coil imports perkins explained that he should refrain from voting on this because ho had a personal interest in coal mines on abo pacific coast hills amendment wae lost 7 to 61 kyle alien feffer populists lists hill and biby democrats nd hansbrough and washburn republicans public ans voted in favor of the motion the finance committee amendment placing a duty of 40 cents on bituminous coal and shalo and 15 centa 01 coal or culm that will paes through half inch screen was then agreed to vest proposed a series of increases of the duties on gloves which were agreed to without objection the miscellaneous schedule was completed without obstruction and at be senate adjourned tb hour in the house the anti option bill was upon ita congressional voyage hatch opened the debate with a speech in favor of the bill when hatch time expired warner democrat of new york delivered a vigorous speech the measure bryan of nebraska considered that the bill was to gambling in farm products and t was unjust to his abo were mainly farmers that other men should havone right to affect the price 0 their products it they had taken the rifle rain and drought and e shippers and chinch buga thora was no difference between the action of a burglar who went to a mans and robbed him of bis goods than of the action of the man who on the stock exchange drove down the price of the farmers products and thus deprived him of eo much to which be was justly entitled at 5 the bouee adjourned |