Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-08
A SWEET SUBJECT.
Cannon's Sugar Amendment
Discussed.
PIG IRON KELLY's LAMENT
The Chicago Platform Assaulted b!
Republicans Free Whisky.
Taxed Sugar.

hepuUllcdHS Free WHISKY.
Taxed Sugar.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
WASHINGTON, July THE House
joint resolution was passed soliciting
Leonard A. Harris, of Ohio, Jno.. A..
Martin. of Kansas, and John F. Hart
ranft of Pennsylvania, to fill the vacan-
cies on the Board of Managers of the
National Home for disabled volunteer
soldiers.
The hour having expired the House
went into Committee of the Whole on
the Tariff bill. The pending amend
m ent was that offered by Cannon, OF
Illinois, in the sugar schedule.
Kelly, Of Pennsylvania, announced
himself Republican devoted to the
doctrines Of his party and to the utter
ances of its National Convention. He
was protectionist and believed the sys-
tenn of protective duties had developed
the country to its present state of devel-
opment. 1t was essential to the main
tenance of that position. He was sur
prised to hear the gentleman from
Illinois (Cannon) MAKE an assault upon
the platform recently adopted by the
Republican party. He then quoted from
the Chicago platform the protection
plank, and regretted that the doctrine
there enumerated had been assaulted
from the seats Of Republican members.
From the remarks made by these gentle
men, he dissented, in the name of the
Republican party, at whose birth he had
been, and to whose interests he had been
devoted from that time to this. Kelly
then defended the protective system in
regard to sugar, and opposed the bounty
policy.
At the conclusion of his remarks Mr..
Nelson, of Minnesota, suggested that the
gentleman from Pennsylvania was the
only man who was thoroughly endorsed
by the Chicago Convention. This re-
mark caused considerable laughter. !.
Kelly accepted the compliment and
said the Convention did endorse his po-
sition and he was ready to say: "Lord
lettest Thou now Thy servant depart in
peace, for mine eyes have seen the glory
OF the Republican party, [Laughter.]
M'KENNA CHIPS IN.
McKenna, of California, said he toe
was Republican and for that reason he
rose to oppose the amendment. If it had
true basis of fact, or of principle, for tie
same reason urged to support it, every
item of the Mills bill could be support.
ed; for the same reason given to put
sugar on the free list, every American
product could be put on the free list
The amendment was opposed to the
principle of protection. 1t was distinctly
and accurately opposed to the Chicago
platform. That platform declared pro
lection to American industries to be the
supreme principle of the Republican
party. It conceded the necessity of 8
reduction Of the revenue, but distinct
ly enumerated the means of reduction
Protection was not to be sacrificed if il
was taken from any American industry
The gentleman might say. when you
give bounties you give protection. He
did not deny this; but what assurance
could be given of the stability of this
protection? I? Were the gentlemen willing
to extend the bounty system to any otheI
industry? Were they willing to interpret
the Republican platform as differing
from the system of bounties to the indus.
tries Of the country? The question oI
protection by tariff and projection by
bounty was not verbal distinction. II
was substantial distinction. It was the
distinction between what people were
used to and what people were moi
used to-, and he asked the Repub.
licans of the House, when they were
about to submit the question OF pro.
lection to the hazard Of dispute, not to
cast into the scales, an odious and OBJ
jectionable form of protection. The
amendment was distinctly un- -Repub-
lican, and distinctly antagonistic to the
declarations of the Republican party in
convention assembled. He was sorry,
sincerely sorry, that the gentleman had
offered the amendment. He hoped il
would not receive any substantial votes.
If it received substantial Republican
VOTE. he would go from the House dis.
appointed in his party, disappointed in
the belief that it expressed and affirmed
that the principle Of protection must be
universal. The Republican party de-
clared this was it's universal policy, and
it would succeed; it would deserve e
succeed. [Applause.I
CANNON AND THE PLATFORM.
Cannon said the gentleman from
Pennsylvania (Kelly) had seen proper to
arraign the amendment and his (Can.
non's) position as a Republican, as not
patriotic. If the gentleman was correct
about this matter, if the Chicago Con.
vention meant what it said, and if he
(Kelly) alone of a party of a million
people who had the right to construe
the platform, he (Cannon) must get of
of it. He had no feelings save those oi
kindness toward the gentleman from
Pennsylvania, but the gentleman could
not ask him to sit still and listen to him
(Kelly) placing the party to which they
both belonged in position which to his
mind it did not occupy. In conclusion
Cannon said he had to choose between
taking the tax off whisky and off sugar,
he would take it off sugar.
THE JAYHAwKER's SORGHUM,
Peters, of Kansas, said he would favo,
a protective duty on sugar even if not a
pound was produced outside of Louisi.
ana, but it had been demonstrated that
the highest grade of sugar, from sor.
ghum, was produced in Kansas.
-Bayne, of Pennsylvania, inquired Il
the sorghum crop had proved a success
before the State bounty had been