The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-09
70 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAR TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1888

and yet the Heose bill only proposed a
reduction of the e1 isting duty on sugar
the tt effect of the House bill in
regard to the legal schedule would but
legfslatate Sc 900, 600 into the pockets
of the sugar trust, or II per cent. on
their capital and to take that amount
out of the pockets of the people. And
yet the Republican party is denounced
and this substitute Is denounced as
favoring trusts.
1 comparing the two bills. Allison
said the Senate bill was clear and
distinct measure of protection OF in
dustries, while the House bill was a
long step in the direction of free trade.
SENATOR VANCE
one of the minority members of the
finance committee, next addressed the
Senate. He drew an imaginary sketch
of the partnership entered into at the
close of the war between the govern
ment and manufacturers of the Un-
tied States. the terms of the partnership
being that the government was to en-
act the law and subject foreign prod
ucts to taxation for its own benefit.
NA1l0 tAO AOlAO P4OohSeo Wa y ~ OO
taken for the benefit of the home
| manufacturers. He described this as
an unholy and iniquitious system of
taxation upon many for the benefit of
the few. How, he asked, did the Sen
ate substitute q reduction of duties as
between the government and the peo-
pie on ne side and favored classes
on the other? 1t took off the tax,
on tobacco (25 0OO,0 0O) end a tax on
alcohol in arts e 900 ,000) and reduced
| the duty on sugar, nearly all OF which
taxes amounting in all to (65, 600, 000)
were pure revenue. In other words,
the Senate bill took SO from the gov
eminent for every 81 that it took from
the manufacturer. He characterized
as sheer nonsense, or worse, the as
sumption that high tariff meant high
wages. If it we're not SO, the operation
of the tax would be the same every
where, while the fact was that
wages differed in every State of
the union and different parts of the
State. AS to the claim that the manufac-
| turers furnish a home market for
the farmer, he instanced as refu-
tation of the claim that nowhere in the
United States was the decay of agricul-
ture more noticeable and lamentable
lnan IN NEW England, WneIe mau III nc
turtles most abound. The effect OF pro-
lection was to convert an independent
yeomanry into independent factory
operatives. The annual cotton pro-
duct of the South was seven million
bales, of which five million
were surplus. What was 10 be
done with that surplus and with
the surplus of wheat; corn and meal.
If it could not be disposed of in fore
ign markets If American producers were
conf ed to the home market, they
would have to do what the American
manufacturers did where they found
themselves in the presence of an over
stocked market, shut down their works
and turned the blessed American
IL borer into the streets to beg for
himself and his children. The House
bill, he said, was framed not only to
relieve the Treasury, but to relieve
tue people, while the Senate bill was
framed so as to relieve the Treasury
and to increase the burdens of the peo-
pie. That is the difference between
two bills.
Hiscock obtained the floor and after
an executive session the Senate ad-
journed.