St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-19

cane sugar industry OF their own States
Mr.. Frye asked why the cane sugar. in
dnstry should be protected when it was
acknowledged that it was failure. Mr..
SpOoner replied that it was not exactly
certain that the diminished production
was not due to the war. He was not
willing to withdraw protection from any
American industry that needed it. Mr..
EustiS said that the short sugar crop of
1887 was due to the season, and that the
crop for 1SS7S was the largest ever pro-
duced in Louisiana, except before the
war. Mr.. Spo0ner read figures to show
that from 1851 to 1887 the revenue col
iected from sugar amounted to $751; 49,
$40. Mr.. Butler had read at the desk
published interviews with Kansas rep
feSentatives unfavOrable to the pro-
posed bounty. He made an argument
against it. Mr.. Edmunds, having called
his attention to the act of congress
granting bounty to fishing vessels
passed in 1892, he said that congress had
no more right to pass that law than it
had TO pass this one. Mr.. Allison said
that, having tried for century what
effect high protective duties would have
on the production of sugar, and found
the
SYSTEM TO BE A FAILURE,
it was believed to be wise thing to
test the experiment of whether or not,
by stimulation, a necessary supply
could be produced in this country, in
stead of paying foreign countries from
S1O0,O0O,G0O to $3.50, 100000 year for
sugar. In his belief, even with the
bounty, it would he a slow process.
After further discussion, the vote was
taken ON the sugar bounty amendment.
1t was agreed to by vote of q to Is.
Mr.. Payne, of Ohio, voted with the Re
publicans, and Mr.. Quay, of PennSyl-
vania, voted with the Democrats against
it.
The amendment provides that until Apr ].
1900, there shall be paid to the producer OF
sugar testing not less tnan eighty degrees by
the polariscope, from beets. sorghum Or
sugar cane, grown within the United States.
bounty of l cent per pound, under such
rules and regulations as the commissioner OF
internal revenue shall prescribe. The pro-
Queer of said sugar to be entitled to said
bounty snail have first filed with the commits
SiOnef OF internal revenue notice OF the
the place of productions, with a general,
description of the machinery and methods,
to be employed by him, with an estimate OF
the amount OF sugar proposed to be pro-
duced in the next ensuing season. The COM
missioner of internal revenue shall issue TO
the applicant license, which shall not ex-
tend beyond one year from the date thereof.
No bounty shall be paid to any person en-
gagged in refining sugars that have been I'M
ported into the United States. or It1educed in
the United States upon which the bounty
herein provided for has already been paid or
applied for, nor to any person unless he shall
have first been licensed. The bounty herein
provided for. including the expenses Incl
dent to the payment thereof shall be paid
from the duties collected and paid into the
treasury on sugars imported into the United
States, and a sufficient sum for SAID purpose
is hereby appropriated and shall be paid an
nually from the duties so collected. Any
person not entitled to the bounty herein pro-
vided for who shall apply for or receive the
same, shall be guilty of nisdeneanor, and
upon conviction thereof, shall pay a fine not
exceeding s., 900. or be imprisoned for
period not exceeding five years, or both, in
the discretion of the court.
On motion of Mr.. Allison it was Or
dered that Monday next recess shall
be taken from till s p. IN. The house
bill constituting Columbus, O., port
of delivery was passed. The senate at
SIS adjourned till tomorrow at II a. m.