The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-18
FIFrIETH CONGRESS.
The Senate on Tin and the
Sugar Bounty.
OMNIBUS BILL IN THE HOUSE.
Large Land Grant for an A ricuItural
College in Dakota-state Off
GERS to be Elected
SENATE

SENATE.
WASHINGTON, January H.-Among
the bills reported from the committees
and placed on the calendar were the
following: Granting the right of way
Tor railroad across Fort Pima military
reservation in Arizona; granting the
Big Horn Southern Railroad right of
way across part of the Crow Indian
reservation in Montana.
The Senate then resumed considera-
ton of the tariff bill, the pending ques-
ton being the amendments TO the tin
plate paragraph The discussion was
continued by Allison and Vest. The
arguments were carried on at great
length on behalf Of the Republicans, the
argument being made that there was an
abundance of tin in Dakota and other
parts of The country, and the increased
duty on tin plate would develop the
tin mines and a remunerative tin plate
industry. On behalf of the Democrats
they argued that the proposed increa Sc
ia the duty on tin plate was for the
purpose of establishing a nonresident
industry, dangerous exceptional legis-
lation carrying protection to an ex-
treme never before.
CONTEMPLATED BY JUDIoIoUs MINDS.
Sherman argued in favor of the
amendment not so much as matter
protection of tin as of iron and stet ,
plate industry. OF the 5000 tons OIL
tin plate annually imported, fully 275,-
600 tons consisted of iron and steel, the
remaining eight tons only bsing tin.
Allison said the present duty was
about 80 per cent, the proposed duty
about 70 per cent. The debate was
further continued by Platt, Salisbury,
Plumb, German, Aldrieh, Mitchell and
Call. Finally, the amendment was
adopted-yeas %, nays 1S-Brown Yot-
ing aye. 1t fixes the duty on tin plates,
taggers iron and steel. when valued at
Sc. per pound or less, or thinner than
No. 10, and not thinner than No. 20,
wire gauge, at 1c. per pound; on thinner
pound, and on corrugated or crimped
plates, 12-1Oc. per pound; all other
iron or steel sheets, plates and hoop
excepting tin plates) when galvanized
or coated with zinc, spelter or other
metal, &c. per pound additional. After
January 1st. 1889, tin plates 7lc. per
pound additional.
THE SUGAR BOUNTY.
The amendment proposing bounty
on sugar made from beets, sorghum or
sugar-cane grown in the United States
was then taken up.
Vest declared emphatically, his OPP.
position to all such bounties, which he
considered the most Objectionable form
of protection. The idea of government
going into partnership with any in
diyidual or set of individuals, in order
to give them peculiar advantages at
the expense of q large body of people,
was q relic of absolute tyranny, and
utterly opposed to all free popular
COVER nents.
Allisu in reply to a question by
Eustis, Es bing why bounty was pro-
posed. said the object was to induce the
production of sugar in this country
from beets, from sorghum and from
sugar-cane.
Eustis asked Allison to state whether
the proposed bounty of l cent per
pound on sugar produced in this
country was not in direct contradic-
ton to the ground taken by the fence
committee for large
REDUCTION OF THE IMPORT DUTIES,
ths ground now being ascertained to
limit the sugar capacity of che United
States.
Allison did not consider the amend
ment as in any sense a change on the
part of the committee. The sugar pro-
duced from cane grown in the United
States had not kept pace with the in
crease of the production.
Eustis asked whether, when the sub
stitute was reported, a ma orIty of the
finance committee was not as we'll in
formed as to the sugar producing
quantity of the United States as it was
when it reduced the bounty on sugar.
Allison said he did not know exactly
what the Senator from Louisiana
meant, but by inquiry he (Allison) had
not
KNOWN QUITE AS MUCH
on the 9Th of October, when the bill
was reported as he knew when he
offered the amendment. and he even
confessed to having received some in
valuable information from a witness
who had been before that committee
within the last few days.
Gibson asked Allison whether the
had not heard of the increase
of 25 per cent. in the sugar cane area in
Louisiana in the last three or four
years, and of the increase of nearly 100
per cent. by cane by improved methods.
Allison replied that the committee
had some testimony in that line, but
the committee also learned that there
was no diffusion plant in Louisiana
except that erected by the government
of the United States, and even with
that diffusion, the success as applied to
sugar cane, Spreckles had disclosed
to the committee very conclusiVely
that he could.
BEAT THAT PRODUCTION FROM BETS.
1t should be borne in mind that the in
crease in the importation and consump-
ton of sugar was go great that 5O,OOO,-
coo pounds of sugar would be required
to supply the annual increase of con-