St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-11-01

rill, of Vermont, Republican. Senator
Aldrich, of Rhode Island, Republican,
moved to amend the tariff bill as report
ed by Senator Morrill,, as follows:
AMENDMENT.
All sugars not above No. 10, Dutch
standard in color, all tank bottoms,
syrup of cane juice or Of beet juice,
melada, concentrated melada, concrete
and concentrated molasses, tested by
the polariscope not above rs, shall pay
a duty of 1.25 cents per pound and for
every additional degree or fraction of
degree, shown by the polariscope test,
they shall pay four hundredths OF cent
per pound additional.
All sugars above IS, Dutch standard
in color, shall be classified by the Dutch
standard of color and pay duty as fol-
lows:
All sugars above IS and not above 16,
Dutch standard, 2.45 per pound.
All sugars above No. is and not above
No. 90, Dutch standard, 2.75 per pound.
Mr.. Aldrich said in support of his
amendment that the object of it was to
reduce the tariff on sugar "a per cent.
Senator ingalls,, of Kansas, Republi-
can, favored the amendment.
Senator Frye, of Maine, (who sue
ceeded Hon. James G.. Blame in the
Senate and who is Mr.. Blaine's adviser),
furnished some tables on the subject
and strongly advocated the passage of
the Aldrich amendment. He said the
tables showed "that we pay more for
our sugar, every man, woman and child
in the country than we pay for our flour"
Senator Jonas disputed the accuracy
Of Mr.. Frye's figures.
Senator Frye said: "Here is profit
to the Louisiana farmers of S127 an
acre, while the people paying the tax
really pay 10 per cent. more on the sugar
than they do for the bread they eat. !
propose after this amendment is acted
on to offer an amendment reducing this
duty to IS per cent"
The vote was then taken on the adop-
ton of the amendment of Senator AL
drich and resulted in its rejection by 80
nays to 81 yeas. Of the 80 nays, % were
Democrats and 9Were Republicans. OF
the 81 votes in favor of the passage Of
the amendment, all were Republicans.
Among them were Hon. John A. Logan,
now candidate for Vice President of the
Republican party, and Senators Frye
and Hale, of Maine. See page 1915
Cong. Record, Forty Seventh Congress,
second session, Jan. 81, 1888.
Senator Frye of Maine, Republican,
then offered the following amendment:
"In lieu of the duties and rates of du-
ties now imposed on molasses, melada,
concentrated melada, tank bottoms,
syrup of sugar cane juice, concentrated
molasses and sugar imported from for
eign countries, there shall be levied,
collected and paid the following duties
and rates of duties, that is to say: On
all molasses melada, concentrated mel
ada, syrup of sugarcane juice, tank bot
toms, concentrated molasses, and on
all sugars not above No. 10, Dutch
standard in color, % per centum ad
yalorem on all sugars above No. 13
Dutch standard in color, IS per centnm
ad valorem provided, that the Secreta-
~ Of the Treasury shall, by regulations,
prescribe and require that melada, syrup
of sugar cane juice, tank bottoms and
concentrated n1olasses, shall be taken
by the proper officers in such manner as
to ascertain the true value of such arti-
cles, and that samples Of sugars shall be
taken by said officers in such manner as
to ascertain the true color and value of
such sugars.
"The provisions of the preceding sec
ton shall take effect on the passage of
this bill, and the duties therein provided
for shall be collected on all such goods
which may be in the public stores or
bonded ware houses at that time, in
stead of the duties now imposed there
upon by law
Senator Frye said in support of this
amendment:
Looking on the Democratic side of
this d Amber, I see every Democrat pre-
parody vote for a duty higher than
forty ttaQ per cent. on sugar.
"The Imposition of the Finance Com
mittee isy farly AZ per cent. The prop
osition of 3 Senator from New Jersey
fMeP hersotAl Democrat) is over I'D ner