The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-23
The Advocates of the Former Propose to
Have Sugar Placed on the Free List
IN Company with Lumber.
Fifteenth Annual Convention of the
Woman Suffragists.
Mr.. Calkins's Amendment Providing that
No New Paynaster Appointments
Shall Be Made for the Navy.
LUMBER VS.. SUGAR.
How the Lumber Men Propose to Retaliate
the Sugar Interest.

the Sugar Interest.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Jan. pa lively day."
this evening, in speaking OF the work of
Congress. In the Senate, after day of argu-
ment, lumber was put upon the free list, to
the outspoken disgust of the Representatives
OF the lumber-producing States, character
istcally expressed by Mr.. Conger when the
vote was announced in these words: "Well,
now, Pm ready to take up another bill"
senator who vigorously opposed this
proposition, which strikes at the principal
industry of his State, remarked tonight:
wait; we will see if our Southern brethren
will stand up to the rack and their consis-
tency; wait until we put sugar on the free
list-and why should we not do so? Sugar
is substance in universal use and whose
use there is no public reason for dscourag-
ing AS our own planters produce but
eleven per cent of the quantity consumed
in this country the duty is tax upon every
man, woman and child in Amer
| lea, and it is tax that
operates to force upon the market great
quantities of inferior and deleterious sub
stances-salt of zinc, glucose, and the like
which are disguised to pass as sugar. The
operation of this duty for the past twenty
years has caused no increase in the amount
of home production, but on the contrary a
diminution, as is shown by the statistics
Louisiana produced during the ten years i'm
mediatey preceding the war 2,974612 hogs
de e
trade, while for twenty years since the war
the entire product has aggregated only
1,9S6,215 hogsheads, and this notwith-
standing the supposed stimulus of a protec-
tive tariff. In the case of sugar, there
fore, the duty is clearly not
protective for the purpose, and the result of
a genuinely protective duty is to increase
the amount of home production. The con-
tinuance of this duty is as Objectionable as
were the duties upon tea and coffee, and, as
the recent experiences of the treasury prove
it offers as much premium to fraud and de-
ception as any other duty in the tariff, if not
more Why, the people of this country
have been paying in sugar duties, each year
since the war, five times the total value of
the entire Louisiana sugar crop, and have
paid in good faith, from the patriotic
motive or sustaining the revenues of
the government and protecting
native industry. Glass houses are bad places
fro m which 10 throw stones. If this propo-
sition is seriously made, we look for such
deluge of Southern and Democratic eloquence
as has not been encountered 'befo' de war
Plate glass will cease to disturb the North
Carolina senator and che would-be cham
pion of American labor, and the poor mans
interests will find their stereotyped argu-
ments worse than useless"
To-days action by the Senate has raised
grave doubts as to the possibility of passing
general tariff bill, as every such amend
ment increases the number of those who
will vote against the bill if it ever reaches
the point of action upon its final passage