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mous consent, the bill (S. No. 539) authorizing the construction of a railroad bridge across the Ohio river at or near Evansville, in the State of Indiana, was taken from the Speaker's table, read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on Commerce, not to be brought back by a motion to reconsider.

ME-SHIN-GO-ME-SIA.

On motion of Mr. SHANKS, by unanimous consent, the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. No. 183) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to make partition of the reservation to Me shin-go me-sia, a Miami Indian, were non-concurred in, and a conference asked on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses thereon.

POTTAWATOMIES AND ABSENTEE SHAWNEEES.

The SPEAKER. The Senate disagrees to the amendments of the House to the bill (S. No. 988) to provide homes for the Pottawatomies and absentee Shawnee Indians in the Indian territory, and asks a conference thereon. The Chair hears no objection.

CRIMINAL PRACTICE IN FEDERAL COURTS.

The SPEAKER. The Senate also disagrees to the amendments of the House to the bill (S. No. 468) to regulate criminal practice in the Federal courts, and asks a conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses thereon. The Chair hears no objection.

ABATEMENT OF TAXES.

The SPEAKER. The Senate also disagrees to the amendments of the House to the bill of the Senate (S. No. 881) to provide for the abatement or repayment of taxes on distilled spirits in bond destroyed by casualty, and asks a conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses thereon. The Chair hears no objection.

CONSTRUCTION OF A BRIDGE.

On motion of Mr. McCRARY, by unanimous consent, the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. No. 2207) to authorize the construction of a bridge and to establish the same as a post road were concurred in.

Mr. McCRARY moved to reconsider the vote by which the amendments of the Senate were concurred in; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table. The latter motion was agreed to.

ORDER OF BUSINESS.

Mr. DAWES. I move that the rules be suspended, and that the House resolve itself into Committee of the Whole on the tariff and tax bill.

Mr. HIBBARD. I hope the gentleman will let us have a morning hour.

Mr. L. MYERS. This is private bill day, and certainly the committees are entitled to their morning hour. We are to adjourn at an early day, and some committees cannot be called unless we can have the morning hour regularly. Committees might as well not be appointed if they are to be prevented in this way from reporting their business.

Mr. DAWES. I would like very much to yield for the morning hour; but I think the committees have had a reasonable opportunity to present their business.

Mr. L. MYERS. Not at all. The gentleman himself promised the House that if we would meet daily at eleven o'clock the committees should have their hour. We have thus far given way; but there is no necessity why we should still be deprived of the morning hour.

Mr. DAWES. Almost every evening since that promise was made has been set apart for business of the committees; and we have gen erally had the morning hour besides.

Mr. BANKS. I think that in justice to the public business we should have to-day and tomorrow for the consideration of the tariff bill and other measures in which the interests of the Government are essentially involved.

Mr. DAWES. At two o'clock to-day the Committee for the District of Columbia will be entitled to the floor; to-morrow has been specially assigned; and the only time this week that is left for the consideration of the tariff bill is between now and two o'clock. Hence I submit to the House that my proposition is not unreasonable.

Mr. BANKS. I ask whether there is not some method by which the business specially assigned for to-morrow and for to-day after two o'clock, relating as it does to private and comparatively unimportant matters, may be set aside for the purpose of giving time to the consideration of these great measures in which the Government is so much interested?

Mr. GARFIELD, of Ohio. I desire to say also that the bill which always elicits more discussion than any other appropriation bill, the sundry civil bill, is waiting to be acted upon. It is a very long bill, full of items likely to lead to discussion, and I fear it will not be possible to get it through the House, except after consideration for four solid days. Mr. SARGENT. Is not the disposition of business within the power of the House?

Mr. PACKER. I would like to have some arrangement made by which the Committee on Railways and Canals can report. We have not been called this session. We are now next on call, and if this morning hour is taken from us, I would ask that some evening of next week, not already assigned, be given to that committee.

Mr. L. MYERS. As I first made objection to the arrangement proposed, I desire the attention of the House for a moment. I am just as anxious that the public business shall proceed as anybody can be. But the Committee on Patents have been called but once this session. Mr. RANDALL. If they are never called it will do no harm.

Mr. L. MYERS. That is the impression of the gentleman; if correct, then the committee had better not have been appointed. The President has sent to us, with his recommendation, a letter from the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Patents, suggesting a revision of the patent code and some revision of the organization of the Patent Office. Not only has the committee public business to report upon, but there is all the private business we have been engaged upon during the session. Now, if we can have an evening of next week, and not be cut out of each Friday

one can. I ask that an evening of next week be assigned for the business of the Committee on Patents.

The SPEAKER. The Chair does not see how the orders for to-day and to-morrow can be overridden except by unanimous consent. Mr. GARFIELD, of Ohio. If other gentle-morning hour, I will yield as readily as any men see a way by which we can get through the tariff bill, the sundry civil bill, and the very many private bills in which gentlemen feel an interest, by the 3d day of June, they see what I do not see. I have been waiting for seven days to get the sundry civil bill taken up, and if the tariff bill is to go over after only two hours' consideration to day—————

The SPEAKER. By unanimous consent the Committee for the District of Columbia might take next Friday for their business.

Mr. GARFIELD, of Ohio. I wish the Com. mittee for the District of Columbia would consent to that arrangement. After these two important bills, the tariff bill and the sundry civil bill, shall have been sent to the Senate, there will be a sort of interval of two or three days, when no pressing public measure will stand in the way of the District business. But if that committee should insist on occupying the greater portion of to-day, the two bills which I have named will be pushed back almost to the end of the session, and we shall tumble them both almost at the same time into the Senate, where they must, of course, cause considerable discussion. I hope the gentle. men who have charge of the District business will give way, and let the tariff bill go on today.

Mr. STARKWEATHER. If we could be well assured that nothing shall intervene to prevent our committee from occupying Friday of next week

The SPEAKER. If the gentleman should give way, and the arrangement suggested for next Friday should be made, the committee could not be dispossessed of that day except by unanimous consent. They would have the right to the floor against all other business.

Mr. STARKWEATHER. If that be the understanding, I am willing to agree to the proposition.

Mr. SPEER, of Georgia. I suggest that if certain members on this floor who occupy all the time in talking would agree not to talk any more during the remainder of the session, we might readily get through with all our business. [Laughter.]

The SPEAKER. That arrangement can hardly be made in public. The gentleman should use his private influence to that end. The gentleman from Connecticut, [Mr. STARKWEATHER,] the chairman of the Committee for the District of Columbia, proposes to waive the right of that committee to occupy to-day after two o'clock, on condition that on Friday next the committee shall have the same right. Is there objection?

Mr. BIRD. I object.

Mr. RANDALL. I hope that private business will be made to give way for public business of great interest.

Mr. L. MYERS. That is what I propose. Mr. RANDALL. Therefore I hope the motion to go into Committee of the Whole will be agreed to.

The SPEAKER. The Chair will again submit the proposition of the gentleman from Connecticut [Mr. STARKWEATHER] to take Friday next instead of to-day for the consideration of business reported from the Committee for the District of Columbia.

Mr. KELLOGG. After two o'clock― Mr. BIRD. I insist upon my objection. The SPEAKER. As objection is made, the question will be upon the motion to go into Committee of the Whole on the tariff bill.

Mr. L. MYERS. Has my motion been submitted to the House?

The SPEAKER. The gentleman asked unanimous consent; he could not submit his request as a motion.

Mr. RANDALL. I object. I do not want any extension of sewing machine patents.

Mr. SMITH, of Ohio. I ask unanimous consent to have taken from the Speaker's table and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary Senate bill No. 620, for the sale of the Black Bob Indian lands in the State of Kansas. Mr. LOWE. I object.

The motion to go into Committee of the Whole was then agreed to.

TARIFF AND TAX BILL.

The House accordingly resolved itself into Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, (Mr. SCOFIELD in the chair,) and resumed the consideration of the bill (H. R. No. 2322) to reduce duties on imports, and to reduce internal taxes, and for other purposes.

The CHAIRMAN. At the close of yesterday's proceedings in Committee of the Whole the committee had adopted the following substitute, moved by the gentleman from Massachusetts, [Mr. DAWES,] for the paragraph in relation to the duty on paper:

On all paper ninety per cent. of the duty and rates of duty now imposed by law.

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Mr. BROOKS. Before we proceed from the paragraph in relation to paper, I move to add to the substitute which has been adopted the following proviso:

Provided, That the duty on printing paper, whether sized or unsized, shall be equal, and twenty per cent. ad valorem.

Mr. DAWES. I hope that will not be adopted.

The question was taken upon the amendment moved by Mr. BROOKS; and upon a division there were-ayes 73, noes 50.

Before the result of the vote was announced, Mr. DAWES called for tellers.

Tellers were ordered; and Mr. BROOKS and Mr. DAWES were appointed.

The committee again divided; and the tellers reported that there were-ayes 80, noes 78. So the amendment was agreed to.

Mr. SHELDON. I move to amend by adding: "on vermuth, forty per cent. ad valorem."

The CHAIRMAN. As there is no opportunity for explanation of amendments as they are offered, the Chair requests the committee to preserve order.

Mr. DAWES. I suggest to the gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. SHELDON] to make it a specific duty of some kind.

Mr. SYPHER. This is an article not very well understood. I ask a paper be read in explanation.

Mr. DAWES. There will be no trouble about it if he makes the duty specific.

Mr. SHELDON. We cannot do that. Mr. DAWES. Very well then; I do not object to an ad valorem duty.

The amendment was agreed to.

Mr. BECK. I move to add the following:

Be it enacted, &c., That all laws and parts of laws requiring that all duties on imports shall be paid in gold be, and they are hereby, so far modified that hereafter one half of all duties on imports may be paid, by the individual or corporation paying the same, to the proper collecting officer of the United States of such import duties, in the legal-tender notes of the United States, and the other half of the duties which are required by law to be paid by such person or corporation shall be paid in gold; and all Jaws and parts of laws now in force are repealed so far as they come in conflict with the provisions of this act.

Mr. DAWES. I think that amendment is not in order at this place. I make the point of order on it.

Mr. BECK. I think it is in order. We have passed the tariff part of the bill. Mr. DAWES.

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Mr. DAWES. I have some amendments here.

Mr. BECK. To this part of the bill?
Mr. DAWES. I have two or three amend-

ments which the gentleman knows of

Mr. BECK. I will reserve my amendment, then, till we come to the close of the tariff sections.

Mr. DAWES. It may be in order, I think, the last thing on the bill. The gentleman must wait until then.

Mr. BECK. I will if it does not lose its place. Mr. DAWES. I do not know it is in order, but I suppose it is in order the last thing.

I now move the following amendment: On mustard ground, in bulk, ten cents per pound; when inclosed in glass or tin, fourteen cents per pound.

I move this from the Committee of Ways and Means. We propose to put mustard seed on the free list.

The amendment was agreed to.

Mr. DAWES. I offer the following amend

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Mr. DAWES. I offer the following amendment from the committee:

Insert after the word "acetic," line fifty-eight, page 4, these words: acetous or pyroligneous of specific gravity of 1.047 or less;" and in line fiftyeight, page 4, insert after the word "pound" these words: acetic, acetous, and pyroligneous, of specifie gravity over 1.047, thirty cents per pound; that the paragraph will then read as follows:

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On acids, namely, acetic, acetous, and pyroligneous, of specific gravity of 1.047 or less, five cents per pound; acetic, acetous, and pyroligneous, of specific gravity over 1.047, thirty cents per pound; carbolic, liquid, ten per cent, ad valorem; gallic, one dollar per pound; sulpubric, fuming, (Nordhausen.) one cent per pound; tannic, one dollar per pound; tartaric, ten cents per pound.

The amendment was agreed to.

Mr. DAWES. Now, as pending the first amendment I move the following amendment: Mustard seed, brown and white, free of duty. That puts mustard seed upon the free list. The amendment was agreed to.

Mr. KERR. I offer the following amend

ment:

On all copper imported in the form of ores, two and one half cents on each pound of fine copper contained therein; on all regulus of copper, and on block or coarse copper, three cents on each pound of fine copper contained therein; on all old copper, fit only for remanufacture, three and one half cents per pound; on all copper in plates, bars, ingots, pigs, and in other forms not manufactured or herein enumerated, including sulphate of copper or blue vitriol, four cents per pound; on copper in rolled plates, called braziers' copper, sheets, rods, pipes, and copper bottoms, and all manufactures of copper, or of which copper shall be a component of chief value, not otherwise herein provided for, forty per cent. ad valorem.

Mr. CONGER. I ask that the amendment be again reported. Inasmuch as there is no opportunity for debate, I think the attention of the House should be clearly directed to it by its being read again.

Mr. KERR. It is a portion of the original bill of the committee.

The amendment was again read.

Mr. KELLOGG. I suggest a modification of the gentleman's amendment, which I presume he will accept After the words "all manufactures of copper I propose to insert the words "including percussion caps." The duty on alcohol makes the price of this article higher.

Mr. KERR. I have no objection to that modification.

Mr. CONGER. I object to debate, unless there can be debate on the general proposition. The CHAIRMAN. Debate is not in order. Mr. CONGER. I make the point of order on this amendment that this proposition has already been considered in Committee of the Whole, and has been rejected.

Mr. KERR. That is not a point of order. The amendment of Mr. KELLOGG to the amendment was agreed to.

The question recurred on Mr. KERR'S amendment, as amended.

The committee divided; and there wereayes 76. noes 77.

Mr. KERR. I demand tellers. Tellers were ordered; and Mr. KERR and Mr. CONGER were appointed.

The committee again divided; and the tellers reported-ayes 78. noes 65.

So the amendment as amended was agreed to. Mr. CONGER. I move to reconsider the last vote.

The CHAIRMAN. That motion is not in order in Committee of the Whole.

Mr. CONGER. Then I give notice to these gentlemen that I will have a vote upon it. Mr. KERR. I object to that sort of talk. Mr. CONGER. I give notice that I shall desire a separate vote on this amendment in the House.

The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman can give notice in the House.

Mr. BUCKLEY. I offer the following amendment:

On gunny-cloth, thirty per cent. ad valorem. Mr. BECK. I submit that that amendment is not in order. We have passed the paragraph which includes the duty on gunny-cloth.

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On emery ore, six dollars per ton, and on emery grains, two cents per pound."

The committee divided; and there wereayes 44, noes 63; no quorum voting.

The CHAIRMAN, under the rule, ordered tellers; and Mr. FRYE and Mr. KERR were appointed.

Mr. KERR. Let the amendment be again read.

The amendment was again read.

Mr. DAWES. That was the duty before the tariff of 1870.

Mr. KERR. Emery ore is now free. The committee again divided; and the tell. ers reported-ayes 74, noes 71.

So the amendment was agreed to.

Mr. FARNSWORTH. I offer the follow ing amendment:

On preserved or condensed milk, thirty-five per cent. ad valorem.

Mr. BUCKLEY. I rise to a point of order. Does that not relate to a subject we have already passed upon?

The CHAIRMAN. The Chair does not recollect any paragraph already passed to which this is germane. He will rule on the point of order if the gentleman will direct his attention to such a paragraph.

The question being taken on Mr. FARNSWORTH'S amendment, it was agreed to.

Mr. KELLEY. I offer the following amend.

ment:

On fire-crackers, one dollar per box of forty packs, not exceeding eighty to each pack, and in the same proportion for any greater or less number.

The amendment was agreed to.

Mr. HILL. I offer the following amend

ment:

On meal of oats, one cent per pound; so that it may be the same as flour of wheat.

This is merely to make the duty on oatmeal equal to the duty on wheat flour.

Mr. KERR. It is an increase of duty, and on a necessary of life.

The question was taken on the amendment; and there were-ayes thirty-four, noes not counted.

So the amendment was disagreed to.

Mr. BECK. I offer the following as an additional section, to come in immediately after this section:

And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws requiring that all duties on imports shall be paid in gold be, and they are hereby, so far modified that hereafter one half of all duties on imports may be paid by the individual or corporation paying the same to the proper collecting officer of the United States of such import duties in legal-tender notes of the United States, and the other half of the duties which are required by law to be paid by such person or corporation shall be paid in gold, and all laws and parts of laws now in force are repealed so far as they come in conflict with the provisions of this act.

Mr. DAWES. I suggest to the gentleman that he move to insert that at the end of the tariff portion of the bill.

Mr. BECK. This is the end of a paragraph, and I want a vote on it now.

Mr. HOAR. I rise to a question of order, and it is that the seventh section of the bill, which extends and changes the law in regard to the duty on ribbon, making larger and more comprehensive provisions, is a provision fixiag

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ment moved by Mr. DAWES; and upon a division, there were-ayes 74, noes 85.

Before the result of the vote was announced, Mr. LYNCH called for tellers. Tellers were ordered; and Mr. DAWES and Mr. BECK were appointed.

The committee again divided; and the tellers reported that there were-ayes 65, noes 92. So the amendment was not agreed to.

Mr. BLAIR, of Missouri. I move to amend by inserting before the section last adopted the following:

On type, type-metal, and stereotype-plates, ten per cent. ad valorem.

Mr. HARRIS, of Virginia. I move to amend the amendment so as to put these articles on the free list.

Mr. BINGHAM. The committee, I pre-accomplish his object by voting down this The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman can sume, have something to do with it.

Mr. SARGENT. I desire to offer a substitute for that amendment.

Mr. DAWES. Before the question is put, is not a motion to insert a rate in the section now under discussion in order?

The CHAIRMAN. It is not, unless the gentleman from Kentucky withdraws his motion. Mr. DAWES. I have a single item which I wish to insert.

Mr. BECK. The gentleman can put that in afterward.

Mr. DAWES. Can it be put in afterward? The CHAIRMAN. The Chair supposes 80. Mr. SARGENT. Loffer the following substitute for the amendment of the gentleman from Kentucky:

That from and after the passage of this act it shall be lawful to pay duties on imports in the notes of gold banks duly organized under the laws of the United States.

The amendment of Mr. SARGENT was disagreed to.

The question recurred upon Mr. BECK'S amendment.

Mr. DAWES. I am confused about the rules of the House, but it seems to me that if we insert a new section at the end of this section it will be impossible to go back and insert any thing in this section.

The CHAIRMAN. The committee have before them the last paragraph of section two, for the text of which a substitute has been adopted, but amendments are still in order.

The question was put on Mr. BECK'S amendment; and there were-ayes 89, noes 68. Mr. DAWES called for tellers.

Teilers were ordered; and Mr. BECK and Mr. BINGHAM were appointed. The committee divided; and the tellers reported-ayes 92, noes 62.

So the amendment was agreed to.

Mr. SARGENT. I move to add to the amendment just adopted the following:

Provided, That the notes of national banks required by law to be redeemed in gold may be received for import duties.

Mr. KERR. That is all right.

Mr. SARGENI. It is all right because the Government guaranties the issue of these

banks.

Mr. DAWES. I move to amend the amendment by adding to it the following:

And provided further. That this section shall not take effect until the national currency and gold are at par.

Mr. SARGENT. Let my amendment stand upon its own merits.

Mr. DAWES. Very well; I will withdraw my amendment for the present. The amendment moved by Mr. SARGENT was then agreed to.

Mr. DAWES. I now move to further amend by adding the following:

And provided further, That the provisions of this section shall not go into effect until the national currency shall be at par with gold.

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amendment, and then moving to insert the articles on the free list when that portion of the bill is reached.

Mr. COX. I move to amend by striking out "ten" and inserting "five" as the rate

per cent.

The CHAIRMAN. The Chair will state for the information of the committee that he does not understand that the committee passes from a paragraph so as to preclude amendment until the Clerk has commenced reading the next paragraph of the bill.

Mr. BROOKS. I think we had better finish with the banks before we go into the type. Mr. DAWES. We will want the type to print the greenbacks.

The CHAIRMAN. The Chair will adopt the suggestion of the gentleman from New York, [Mr. BROOKS,] which he is aware is the best, if the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. BLAIR] will withdraw his amendment for the present

Mr. BLAIR, of Missouri. I will withdraw my amendment with the understanding that I shall have an opportunity hereafter to offer it. The CHAIRMAN. The Chair will endeavor to give the gentleman an opportunity. Mr. GARFIELD, of Ohio. I move to add the following to the additional section just adopted:

And this provision shall not continue in force after any increase shall be authorized by law in the present volume of United States Treasury notes.

Mr. BINGHAM. I rise to a question of order. I do not see what we have to do here with limiting the effect of future legislation upon the issuance of Treasury notes. It is not

germane at all.

Mr. GARFIELD, of Ohio. It is perfectly

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Mr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts. to amend the amendment by adding to it: Nor shall any new bank be incorporated until the present bank notes are at par with gold.

Mr. BINGHAM. I raise the point of order that the amendment of the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. BUTLER] 18 not germane to the amendment of the gentleman from Obio, [Mr. GARFIELD.]

The CHAIRMAN. The Chair sustains the point of order.

Mr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts. I will modify my amendment, so as to provide that this provision shall not go into force until a law is passed to prevent any new national bank being organized.

The CHAIRMAN. That does not render it any more germane.

Mr. WHITTHORNE. I move to add to the amendment the words "unless said issue of Treasury notes is made to retire five-twenty bonds of the United States."

Mr. RANDALL. I would also suggest to include "three per cent. certificates." 11 The CHAIRMAN. No further amendment is in order.

Mr. SARGENT. I would suggest to the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. GARFIELD] to include in his amendment the words "except as to gold notes."

Mr. GARFIELD, of Ohio. That is not necessary; gold notes are not Treasury notes.

Mr. SARGENT. They are not Treasury notes, but as they are equivalent to gold, they ought not to be excluded; the issue of Treas. ury notes is increased.

Mr. GARFIELD, of Ohio. I will accept the amendment, and modify my amendment accordingly.

The question was then taken upon the amendment proposed by Mr. WHITTHORNE; and it was not agreed to, upon a division-ayes thirty-six, noes not counted.

Mr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts. I move to amend by adding the following:

And provided further, That this last proviso shall not take effect till national banks redeem their notes at par in gold.

Mr. GARFIELD, of Ohio. I raise a point of order that the amendment is not germane. The CHAIRMAN. The Chair overrules the point of order.

The question being taken on the amend ment of Mr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts, it was not agreed to.

The question recurred on the amendment of Mr. GARFIELD, of Ohio; and being taken, there were-aves 62, noes 80.

Mr. GARFIELD, of Ohio, called for tellers. Tellers were ordered; and Mr. GARFIELD, of Ohio, and Mr. WHITTHORNE were appointed. The committee divided; and the tellers reported-ayes 46, noes 76.

So the amendment was not agreed to.

Mr. STARKWEATHER. I move to amend by adding the following:

And this provision shall not be in force until one year from the passage of this act.

The question being taken on the amendment, there were-ayes 31, noes 69.

So the amendment was not agreed to. Mr. HOAR. I move to amend by adding the following:

Provided, That one third of all notes so received shall be withdrawn from circulation, and the paper currency shall be diminished in amount to the extent of such payment.

Mr. FARNSWORTH. I make the point of order that the amendment is not germane. Mr. HOAR. It proposes to provide what shall be done with the money paid in.

Mr. FARNSWORTH. It proposes to regu. late the disposition of the currency.

The CHAIRMAN. The Chair sustains the point of order. A provi-ion fixing the sort of money in which customs shall be paid would be germane to the purpose of the bill; but the Chair does not think it germane to go on and arrange what shall be done with the currency when paid in.

Mr. DAWES. I offer the following amend. ment to come in before the section last adopted: On plate glass, ninety per cent. of the duties and rates of duty now imposed by law.

The CHAIRMAN. The Chair requests the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. DAWES] to withhold that amendment for a moment, as the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. BLAIR] proposed sometime ago an amendment which be withdrew in order to allow other propositions to be acted on.

Mr. DAWES. I withdraw my amendment for the present.

Mr. BLAIR, of Missouri. I wish to inquire of the Chair whether, if my amendment should be adopted, a motion would afterward be in order to place on the free list the articles named?

The CHAIRMAN. The Chair will decide that point when it arises.

Mr. COX. The gentleman from Missouri had better present his amendment now.

Mr. BLAIR, of Missouri. I move to amend by inserting "on type, type-metal, and stereotype-plates, ten per cent. ad valorem."

Mr. COX. I move to amend the amendment by striking out "ten" and inserting "five," so as to make the duty five per cent. ad valorem.

The question being taken on the amendment of Mr. Cox, there were-ayes 67, noes 35; no quorum voting.

Tellers were ordered; and Mr. KILLINGER and Mr. Cox were appointed.

The committee divided; and the tellers reported-ayes 61, noes C2.

So the amendment of Mr. Cox was not agreed to.

Mr. DAWES. I move that the committee rise. I will move to go into committee again when I ascertain that members have returned to their seats.

The question being taken on the motion of Mr. DAWES, there were-ayes 60, noes 55.

Mr. BLAIR, of Missouri, called for tellers. Tellers were ordered; and Mr. Dawes, and Mr. BLAIR of Missouri, were appointed.

The committee divided; and the tellers reported-ayes 57, noes 57.

The CHAIRMAN. The Chair votes in the affirmative; and the committee decides to rise. The committee accordingly rose; and the Speaker having resumed the chair, Mr. ScoFIELD reported that the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, having had under consideration the Union generally, and particularly the bill (H. R. No. 2322) to reduce duties on imports, and to reduce internal taxes, and for other purposes, had come to no resolution thereon.

REVOCATION OF LEAVES OF ABSENCE.

Mr. DAWES. I move that all leaves of absence granted by the House be revoked on and after Monday next.

Mr. GARFIELD, of Ohio. And that no more be granted.

The SPEAKER. The Chair cannot entertain the motion.

Mr. DAWES. I think that the motion, to revoke all leaves of absence is a privileged question.

The SPEAKER.

Where leave of absence has been granted by unanimous consent, the Chair doubts the power of the House by a majority vote to revoke it.

Mr. DAWES. I think it has been done before, and that the House, by giving notice, has revoked all leaves of absence from and after such a day.

Mr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts. After giving leave of absence to a member I do not think it would be good faith to revoke it.

sent.

The SPEAKER. It is not within the power of the House by a majority vote to revoke a leave of absence granted by unanimous conYou may, by unanimous consent, grant to a gentleman leave of absence for two weeks. He goes to San Francisco, and if by a majority vote you could revoke that leave of absence, you would leave him under the censure of the House for not being present, when he had unanimous consent to be absent.

Mr. DAWES. The member always takes leave of absence under the power of the majority of the House to control it.

Mr. GARFIELD, of Obio. I ask whether the vote be by a majority or two thirds makes any difference as to the justice of the proposition?

Mr. DAWES. I believe that a majority of the House can always control the conduct and decoruin of members.

The SPEAKER. How can a majority control the conduct of a member when under the rules of the House you have given him the right to absent himself from the proceedings of the House for a certain time? The Chair would not, under his present understanding of the matter, entertain any such motion.

Mr. GARFIELD, of Ohio. I move to change the proposition of the gentleman from Massachusetts, so as to revoke on and after

The SPEAKER. The Chair does not see how this would make any difference as to the right of the matter. There is nothing in the world easier than to prevent the granting of leave of absence. It is always doue by unanimous consent, and a single objection will pre vent the granting of leave of absence to any member. The Chair has no recollection of a member getting leave of absence except by unanimous consent.

Mr. FARNSWORTH. I give notice, then, Mr. Speaker, that hereafter I may be considered as objecting to the grant of leave of absence to anybody.

The SPEAKER. When a request is made by any member for leave of absence hereafter the Chair will look to the seat of the gentleman from Illinois to see whether he rises to object. [Laughter.] He must rise, however, and make his objection.

Mr. FARNSWORTH. If I am not here I want it understood that I object to granting any further leave of absence.

The SPEAKER. The Chair cannot enter. tain any standing objection. So far as it affects the business of the House the Chair wishes to state there is much more than a quorum present.

Mr. GARFIELD, of Ohio. I ask a parlia mentary question. In the committee, on divis ion by tellers, we are constantly finding ourselves without a quorum. Under the ruling of the Chair are we not therefore cut off from compelling a quorum?

The SPEAKER. The gentleman is putting a hypothetical question. If the House gets itself into difficulty by granting unanimous consent to members to absent themselves from the proceedings of the House, that is the fault of the House itself. It is the easiest thing in the world for the House to prevent all such trouble hereafter. As the Chair has stated, leave of absence is only granted by unanimous consent, and the House can keep members here by refusing to grant leave of absence.

Mr. GARFIELD, of Ohio. But after the House has granted leave of absence to so many members, can we now rectify our error?

The SPEAKER. The House has granted leave of absence, and must act in good faith. Mr. DAWES. Mr. Speaker, I am clear in my remembrance that during the last session of Congress we did pass a vote of this sort as to indefinite leave of absence. I do not see what objection there can be to it.

The SPEAKER. Certainly no exigency has arisen requiring any such extraordinary action on the part of the House. There are more than one hundred and sixty members present.

Mr. GARFIELD, of Ohio. But not on division by tellers in the committee.

The SPEAKER. That is another question, in reference to which the Chair knows nothing. He only knows it would be an extraordinary act of power to recall a leave of absence granted by unanimous consent.

Mr. DAWES. Would it be in order to move that all members excused from attendance are requested to return?

'The SPEAKER. That would be in order; and the Chair thinks this debate will have the effect of bringing members here who are absent.

Mr. DAWES. Then I make that motion. Mr. SPEER, of Pennsylvania. How can that be done?

Mr. DAWES. It will reach absent members by publication in the press.

Mr. STORM. What about members being absent without leave from the House? The SPEAKER. They are liable to the discipline of the House.

Mr. DAWES. I wish to add to the resolution the words "shall be notified by the Clerk."

The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Monday next all indefinite leaves of absence. | Massachusetts [Mr. DAWES] moves that all

members of the House now absent by its leave shall be notified by the Clerk and respectfully requested to return as soon as possible.

Mr. RANDALL. Shall they be notified by telegram or mail?

Mr. W. R. ROBERTS. I call for the reg. ular order.

The SPEAKER. The Chair would remark that the number of members at present absent by leave of the House is not large.

Mr. DAWES. This resolution at all events will not do any harm. Perhaps those members who are in the city will take the hint and be found more steadily in their seats.

The SPEAKER. In the opinion of the Clerk, who keeps the record, there are not more than twenty or twenty-five members now absent by leave of the House. In the opinion of the Chair there are from one hundred and fifty to one hundred and seventy members in the Hall now.

Mr. RANDALL. Would it be in order to notify the members who are in the city to attend the night sessions of the House? Last night the chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means was himself absent.

The SPEAKER. If the chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means will accept a suggestion of the Chair

Mr. DAWES. I am always ready to accept any suggestion from the Chair.

The SPEAKER. The Chair would suggest to the chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means that a call of the House every morning after the reading of the Journal has been found to be a very effective mode of securing the attendance of members.

Mr. DAWES. I thank the Chair for the suggestion.

The SPEAKER. The Chair will further remark that on a roll-call yesterday one hundred and ninety-nine members voted, and that is a very full House.

Mr. DAWES. That was on Thursday; to-day is Friday; and it takes just last night and to-day for members to return to their homes.

Mr. BURCHARD. I would suggest that two o'clock, the hour when the Committee for the District of Columbia is entitled to the floor, is approaching, and I call for the regular order.

The resolution offered by Mr. Dawes was adopted.

TARIFF AND TAX BILL.

Mr. DAWES. I move that the House resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union to resume the consideration of the tariff and tax bill.

The motion was agreed to.

The House accordingly resolved itself into Committee of the Whole, (Mr. SCOFIELD in the chair,) and resumed the consideration of the bill (H. R. No. 2322) to reduce duties on imports, and to reduce internal taxes, and for

other

purposes.

The CHAIRMAN. Before the Committee of the Whole rose the pending question wILS on the amendment of the gentleman from Missouri, [Mr. BLAIR,] which the Clerk will again report.

The Clerk read as follows:

On type-metal and stereotype-plates, ten percent. ad valorem.

Mr. CONGER. I offer the following amendment to the amendment:

On copper, the ores of copper, and all manufaetured articles of which copper is the component part, ninety per cent. of the duty now imposed by law.

Mr. BLAIR, of Missouri. Is that amend ment in order?

The CHAIRMAN. It is not in order. Mr. CONGER. May I ask the Chair why it is not in order?

The CHAIRMAN. The duty on copper bas nothing to do with the duty on type.

Mr. CONGER. Copper is a component part of type-metal.

The CHAIRMAN. The Chair has sustained the point of order.

Mr. BROOKS. I offer the following amendment to the amendment of the gentleman from Missouri:

On lead and all other materials that enter into the casting of type, ten per cent, ad valorem.

The amendment to the amendment was agreed to.

The question recurred on the amendment of Mr. BLAIR, of Missouri, as amended.

The committee divided; and there wereayes 57. noes 77.

Mr. BLAIR, of Missouri, called for tellers. Tellers were not ordered.

So the amendment, as amended, was disagreed to.

Mr. DAWES. I offer the following amend

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Mr. DAWES. I object to debate; if we are going to debate at all, let us do it fairly. Mr. BROOKS. I move to amend the amendment by adding to it the following:

And on lead and all other materials that enter into the casting of type, fifteen per cent. ad valorem, The amendment to the amendment was agreed to.

The question recurred upon agreeing to the amendment of Mr. BLAIR, of Missouri, as amended; and being put, it was disagreed toayes 46, noes 80.

Mr. BLAIR, of Missouri. I offer the following amendment:

On type, type-metal, and stereotype-plates, twenty per cent. ad valorem.

The question was put on the amendment; and there were-ayes 47, noes 73. Mr. BLAIR, of Missouri, called for tellers. Tellers were not ordered.

The amendment was disagreed to.

Mr. BURCHARD. I offer the following amendment:

On screws commonly called wood-screws, two inches in length, four cents per pound; less than two inches and not less than three fourths of an inch in length, six cents per pound; less than three fourths of an inch in length, nine cents per pound. The amendment was agreed to-ayes 70, noes 55.

Mr. DUELL. I offer the following amend

ment:

On Moisic iron made from sand ore by one process, ten dollars per ton.

Mr. GOLLADAY. I move to amend the

Mr. CONGER. I offer the following amend- amendment by striking out "ten dollars" and

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Mr. KERR. Is that amendment in order? The CHAIRMAN. For what reason does the gentleman raise the point of order on the amendment?

Mr. KERR. That has just been acted on by the committee.

The CHAIRMAN. It has not been acted on; it was proposed. The Chair thinks that it is in order unless there is something in the bill prior to it fixing the duty.

Mr. KERR. I make no such objection as that.

The question was taken on Mr. CONGER'S amendment; and there were-ayes 35, noes 86. Mr. CONGER called for tellers. Tellers were not ordered.

So the amendment was disagreed to.. Mr. KERR. I offer the following amendment, to come in at the end of the amendment last adopted:

On seal oil, ten per cent. ad valorem.

The duty is now twenty per cent., but only two gallons have been imported during the last two years

The question was put; and there were-ayes 45, noes 77.

So the amendment was rejected. Mr. STRONG. I desire to reduce the duty on aniline dyes, and I therefore offer the fullowing amendment:

On aniline dyes or colors, thirty-five per cent. ad valorem.

It is now thirty-five per cent. and fifty cents per pound.

The amendment was rejected.

Mr. BLAIR, of Missouri. I offer the following amendment:

On type, type-metal, and stereotype-plates, fifteen per cent. ad valorem.

Mr. BROOKS. If that is to be pressed I wish to renew my motion to include lead and all the other materials which enter into type. making.

Mr. BLAIR, of Missouri. Is the gentleman's object to defeat my amendment?

Mr. BROOKS. No, but you cannot make type

inserting in lieu thereof "$6 30."

The amendment to the amendment was agreed to.

Mr. DUELL'S amendment, as amended, was then adopted.

Mr. KELLOGG. I simply wish to offer an amendment reducing a duty. I move to insert at the end of the section the following:

And the duty on wrought scrap-iron, old and fit only for remanufacture, as defined by the existing law, is hereby reduced to the same duty as that on pig iron.

This is a reduction of $1 10 a ton.

Mr. RANDALL. That is not in order. The committee have already passed on that subject.

The CHAIRMAN. The Chair thinks it is not in order.

Mr. KELLOGG. On what ground is it ruled out?

The CHAIRMAN. On the ground that the subject-matter to which it is germane has been passed.

The Clerk read the following:

SEC. 3. That all acts and parts of acts requiring duties to be assessed upon packages, commissions, brokerage, cost of transportation, shipment, transshipment, and other like costs and chargos incurred in placing earthen or crockeryware on ship-board, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this section, are hereby repealed.

Mr. MERRIAM. I move to amend the lows: section just read, so that it will read as fol

That all acts and parts of acts requiring duties to be assessed upon packages, commissions, brokerage, cost of transportation, shipment, transshipment, and other like costs and incidental charges incurred in packing and shipping of merchandise, are hereby repealed, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this section are hereby repealed.

The amendment was agreed to, upon a division-ayes 80, noes 43.

Mr. MERRIAM. I move to further amend this section by adding to it the following:

And that no allowance for damages by sea or land shall hereafter be deducted from the invoices of imported merchandise.

The amendment was not agreed to.

The committee then proceeded to the consideration of the following section, being the free list:

SEC. 4. That on and after the 1st day of July next

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