The morning news., 1888-07-10
4 SUGAR TRUST SPECTER.
REPUBLICANS CHARGE THE DEMO
GRATIS WITH COLLISION.

GRATIS WITH COLLISION.
saAner Havemeyer's Visit to the
National Capital just Before the
Change in the Mills Schedule De-
clared suspicious-Thirty Ready to
Speak on the Wool Schedule.
WASHINGTON July Elm the house to-
3av. after Mr.. Hemphill of South Carolina
had made an earnest but unsuccessful effort
10 call up the District OF Columbia business,
,be house went into committee of the whole
with Mr.. Springer in the chair on the tariff
hill the pending question being on Mr..
Cannon's amendment.
Mr.. Wilkinson of Louisiana desired to
correct what he declared to be misstate-
ments made by gentlemen on the other side
10 the effect that the sugar industry of
louisiana was languishing industry. An
industry which last year had produced 34O,-
100000 pounds could hardly be termed
angnishing industry. 1t had been called a
corpse, but if that were so 1t was the live
lest corpse the world had ever heard of.
NOT IN WITH THE TRUST.
He quoted and denied the assertion of the
gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Holiness that a
gigantic sugar trust was gotten up fo- the
Senefit of /, 200 planters of Louisiana. Those
200 planters, who employ between 200, 900
and 100000 persons, instead of being in
with the sugar trust were competitors of
he sugar trust, and, instead of helping to
put the price up, were helping to put it
DOWN. In substantiation of this view he
quoted from testimony taken before the
committee on manufactures TO the effect
that the Louisiana planters had reduced the
price of sugar, and he was further substan-
rated by Mr.. Buchanan of New JERSEY,
who, as member of that committed, stated
that the trust was unfriendly to producers.
A CUT OF oNE-HALF PROPOSED.
Mr.. Dingley of Maine offered an amend
nent fixing the rate of duty on sugar not
above No. Is Dutch standard. testing not
/ above Is degrees, at seventyone hundreths
/ Of a cent per pound, with an additional
/ duty Of two one hundrethS of a cent per
/ hundred for each additional degree or frac-
/ ton Of a degree. He stated that the rate
/ proposed by him was exactly one half of
the existing rate, and If his proposition
we're adopted he would follow it with
amendments making similar reductions in
! other grades. The motion was rejected
after debate by vote of So to 105.
Mr.. Weber of New York offered an
amendment which, while not interfering
with the rates Of duty proposed by the
bill, provides for a new classification of the
grades. This re-classification, he contended
would result III putting down practices
that had been indulged in by sugar refiners
whose great operations had beeI monopo-
lstic long before they were combined in a
sugar trust.
A PARTISAN CHARGE.
This was also rejected after a somewhat
heated debate, in which Mr.. McComas of
Maryland charged and the two
Messrs. Breckinridge denied that the
majority of the ways and means
Committee had given hearings upon
the sugar schedule to members of tle
sugar trust, and had Immediately thereafter
changed the sugar schedule in their bull to
tte advantage of the refners The vote
vas taken in some confusion, and resulted
u IS yeas to Sc navs.
Onmoton of Mr.. Mills, the duty on mo-
asses testing not above So was fixed at
cents per gallon.
Nr. Cannon of illinois offered an amend
ment Substituting for the sugar schedule
zoe sugar schedule as it originally appeared
the Mills bill Another long debate re-
suited upon this amendment, after which it
was lost
ANOTHER CHARGE OF CoLLUSIoN.
Mr. Weber of New York offered an
amendment providing that no drawback
-aii De alloH ed on sugar exported from the
nlted States. He said that the original
WI mad contained this provision, and he
as Tor time at loss to account for its
appearance. But he knew now that on a
a'aln day after the original bill had been
1uojuced, Mr.. Havemeyer of New York
p@red, and shortly after that the
rahge1 Dlll came before the house. He
1aFged that the amended bill was in the
efeSt OF the sugar trust of this country.
We eject OF his amendment would be to do
way with the other end of the line, which
omoted fraud upon the revenues of the
yernment. 1t was impossible for sugar
De exported upon the basis of draw
h equal to the amount of the original
Flty paid
pNCE MORE THE FRONT.
4r NchyEs amendment was rejected,
~ ne olletci another requiring drawbacks
oe paid only upon Polar tests, saying
a' ms was the last resort Of the sugar
~ and the gentlemen on the other side
- now an opportunity to free themselves
VII the suspicion which would become a
.aAty II they voted down his PROPOSE
W. Mills replied that the treasury ofl-
@S Already had authority to make polar
After further debate the amendment
lrJected. This concluded the consider
:5A T OF the sugar clause.
a1o next paragraph. relating to tobacco,
,,n.l | upon Mr.. Mills motion, left open for
4,Gle action.
n, W.. i Nuttiag Of New York moved to strike
NJ Mng arch provision.
r,",.. p'u'elle supported the motion in an
hN declaring that in his district
i"tagraph dealt a most serious blow.
ii,uE vote on the motion the house, at
,.I;oc6, adjourned.
b,rt stated that between twenty and
Il yoai " ,,ieiA oers are preparing to speak upon
Wi schedule when 1t shall be reached.
PEACE IN THE sEAI.RRIEs.