Wichita eagle., 1888-07-07
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in resisting his constituents on the subject
of wool, and he hoped the gentleman would
have the strength and bravery to get up
and avow to the house what his position
was.
Mr.. Mills hoped that he would always
have the courage to stand by his constitu--
ents and to utter his sentiments, and
when he believed a thing to be true he
would not cowardly run away from it
when the enemy delivered his first shot.
What he had said in New York was what
he said here and what he said to the
people of his state. He hoped that his
friends on the other side would have the
same high courage and would stand by
their whisky platform and not run away
from it. He saw some little intimation
that the bill which the gentlemen on the
other side were preparing was to make
flank movement on the whisky plank OF
the Chicago convention. They were gong
to stop at alcohol used in the arts AMI
make the balance of the reduction by 90
per cent cut on sugar What has become
of the declaration in the platform that the
Republican party intended to repeal the
internal revenue taxes before they took
any particle of protection from any
article. When the Republicans found
that the Democratic battalions were on
the march they began to say that they
did not want so much whisky
but would take sugar in it. Laughter.l
His people in his state convention had in
dorsed him in his course and would send
him back to congress. Applause from
Democratic sidel. He was no more afraid
to stand before the Democratic party of
Tammany hall than before the Democracy
of Texas. lt'was as good in one place as
another. 1t was good enough TO lay out
the Republican party in November, if that
party had the courage to stand by 1t plat
form. tApplause].
Mr.. Reed, of Maine, expressed his disap-
pointment at the remarks of the gentleman
from Texas. He had really expected, after
the challenge he had given, that the gen
tleman would not mount the Republican
platform but the Democratic, and that at
least he would represent the Republican
platform Alright if he had not the courage
to represent the Democratic platform cor
rectly. He had supposed that the gentleman
would repeat his speech Of four years ago,
in which he had said, wealth, prosperity
and power will bless the land that is dedi-
Gated to freemen, free labor and free trade.
Applause on Democratic side and laugh
ter on Republican side. Mr.. Reed eX-
pressed his qualification at the applause
on the Democratic side, because it showed
that that side recognized the courage its
leader had four years ago. but which he
seemed to be deficient in today. Laugh
ter Instead of defining his position, the
gentleman treated the house to declama-
ton of how brave he was, while he really
showed how brave he was not.
He (Reed) did not know what
the gentleman had said in New York,
but he judged ne had Fgone over for the
purpose of denying that he was free ira
der 1t was strange what an effect climate
had on the gentleman's courage and forms
of expression. Laughter.
Mr.. Mills said that he would let his
fri dc have tho la OF word. and ha tbarp-
fore called for a vote. Bnt Mr.. Burrows,
of Michigan. desired to be heard and he
quoted from former speech of Mr.. Mills
from which he deducted the conclusion
that it was the policy of the Democratic
party to strike down duties until no duty
would be left on any article that came in
competition with American products.
Mr.. Kelly. of Pennsylvania, sent 10 the
clerks desk and had read an extract from
speech delivered by Mr.. Scott, of
Pennsylvania, in April last in
which he stated that he had been
informed by an officer of the Edgar
Thompson steel works, that in one year he
had drawn out of the company as divi-
dends, the sum of s1,500,000. This state
ment of Mr.. Scott he kelly contradicted,
and he related the details of the CONVEX
sation between Mr.. Scott and Mr.. Andrew
Carnegie, which he had been instrumental
in bringing about, in the course of which
Mr.. Carnegie had emphatically denied a
former statement made by Mr.. Scott, that
he (Carnegie) had received dividends
to 81 800 900, from the Edgar
Thompson steel works.
The amendment offered by Mr.. Steele, Of
Missouri was rejected, as was also one
submitted by Mr.. Warner, of Missouri,
the present rate of duty on lead
ore. On motion of Mr.. Mills, the clause
was stricken out which imposes a duty of
al l.,
raZors, thus restoring the present rate.
On motion of Mr.. Mills clause was in
serted fixing the rate on new type for
printing at Is Der cent ad valorem. The
sugar and molaSSes and confectionery
clauses being reached, by agreement they
were all considered together. After an
had been reached that q
vote should not be taken today, Mr.. Can
non, of Illinois, offered an amendment
striking out all of the sugar and mo,asses
and inserting clauses fixing the
duties as follows:
Sugars not above No. 16 Dutch standard.
syrups, etc, and all molasses testing not
above So degrees, not otherwise provided
for. are to be exempt from duty, in the
event that no export duty is levied by
the country of expectation. Sugars
above No. 10 are to pay duty of three |
tenths OF l per cent; molasses above
SO degrees, 9 cents per gallon; maple sugar,
2 cents per pound of crystalizable sugar
maple syrup or molasses,
cents per gallon: glucose, cent per pound;
sugar candy, not colored, cents per
pound. All other confectionery not enum-
Grated, and on sugars after being refined,
when tin cured, colored or adulterated,
and on all chocolate confectionery 10 cents
per pound with a similar D rovision against
IN export duty. 1t is also provided that
to encourage domestic production, there
shall be paid bounty to United States
producers of sugar from beets, sorghum
ana sugar cane raised in the United States
as follows: On sugar, = cents per pound of
sugar contained therein: on
molasses above IS degrees, cents per gal
Ion; not above 90 degrees, cents.
In supporting his amendment. Mr.. Can |
non alluded to the frauds which, he as
serted, had grown up under the present
law, and criticised the bill for the perpet- |
uating the fraud. The bill was better |
than the present law, but it was far short |
of what it ought TO be. He commented |
on the fact that the Mills bill as originally !
drawn let in at the lower duty sugar I'M
der No. 10, Dutch standard, and prohib- |
tied the granting of drawbacks on the ex-
portation of refined sugars Why had the
changed these provisionss He
did not propose TO stand in his place and
charge any of the officials with fraud, but
he did say that from the report submitted |
by Secretary Manning he had right to
believe that in the matter of the importa-
ton of sugar there was fraud at every
step.
MIR. Funston, of Kansas, suggested that
the farmer who produced sorghum would
not be protected If sugar under No. Is was
free.
Mr.. Canon replied that the total produc-
ton of sugar in the United Stetes was
adout 300. 600, 900 pounds. nearly all made |