Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-07
SENATOR sTANFORD's POINTS.
How He Is Fighting In the Cloak-Ko

How He Is Fighting I'm the Cloak Room
for Protection for Fruit.
Senator Stanford may not be an orator but
he has convincing ways about him that have
upset more than one Of the eloquent tariff ex-
perts who have stumbled up against him on
questions in which the Pacific coast IL inter-
ested It is rarely indeed that the great Cali
fornia millionaire makes any remarks before
the Senate, and q set speech from his lips
would be the surprise of the session. But the
Senator IL a good deal less of an ornamental
legislator than some of his more petentious
fellow Senators. He is . worker; a scientific
worker who makes every stroke tell; q calcu-
lating dealer in cold facts, who knocks out his
theoretical and argumetative opponent every
time. Some of the Senator's methods are being
put into practice, to the discontinue of repub-
licans and democrats alike. The republican
tariff bill, now being discussed in the Senate,
puts fruit on the free list, and to this the
majority of the democrats agree, Mr.. Call and
Mr.. Pasco, of Florida, being in a diminutive
majority on the fruit question.
MR.. sTANFoRD's CLrNcHING ARGUMENTS.
On this free fruit proposition Senator STAN
ford has had something to say, but his remarks
have neither been noisy nor lengthy. He has
done more than any orator could do, and he
has done it very quietly. Day after day sees
in the republican cloak-room of the Senate q
sample or number of samples of California
fruit products. The sample which was there
yesterday differs entirely from that which is
on exhibition to-day. On one occasion it may
be box of Fresno raisins and the Senators
walk in and help themselves to handfuls Of the
delicious fruit. At another time it will be
basket OF Fresno figs, finer often than any figs
the Senators ever saw before. Then it will be
Riverside oranges, large and luscious,
and the arrival Of a box of the great
yollow beauties is whispered around
the chamber until every Senator who knows
the quality of ''Stanford's oranges" has buried
his lips in their sweet, juicy pulp. Even the
Florida Senators temporarily forswear their
allegiance to the great staple OF their state and
enjoy the California article. Prunes and grapes
are frequently to be found in the cloak-room,
and even the members of the subcommittee on
finance eat thereof and are glad. When every
body has satisfied himself as to the quality of
the fruit which happens to be on exhibition
then Senator Stanford incidentally remarks
that the Embarrassing industries of the United
States must be protected from competition on
uneven terms with the fruits Of foreign lands.
The fruit itself is the backbone of his argu-
ment. The argument ID unanswerable.
FRIEND OF BEET SUGAR.
While the Senator from California is engaged
in looking after the interests of the fruitrasers
of the Pacific coast he is not unmindful Of the
beet sugar producers, and unless spirit of lib
eral compromise is developed by those who
want to cut the duty on sugar, there will be no
tariff bill passed by the Senate this session-or,
at least, it will not be passed if Senator STAN
ford can help it. He believes that beet sugar
can be produced as cheaply. il not more 80,
than the product of the cane. He claims for it
absolute purity, in combination with larger
percentage of saccharine matter than in cane
sugar, and he fully expects to see the day when
the beet sugar of California is sold in the east
market cents nOnnd A 0f
beet sugar is now on its way to this city from
San Francisco, and the Senator expects to ex-
hibit it just when and where it will do the most
good to California.
CONSTANT STREAM FROM CALIFORNIA.
The loyalty which Senator Stanford displays
toward his state is almost without parallel and
it would deplete the pocketbook of any one
who was not millionaire several times over.
Every day, with a regularity that knows but
few breaks, there arrives at the Senator's resi-
dence In this city huge box, which has come
direct from California. In 1t will be found
edibles and liquids which were selected from
among the best that the Golden State can pro-
duce. These good things all decorate the din
ing table and tickle the palates Of the Sena-
tors guests. On more than one occasion the
Senator has sat at the head Of his mahogany in
this city and has feasted his guests with moth
ing but California products, from oysters to
coffee and cigars, saving and excepting only
that popular denizen of the regions round
about Washington-the terrapin. The venison,
the mutton, the quail, a week before the din
ner, lived, moved, and had a being in Califor-
mia, the two former as deer and sheep, respec-
lively. The nuts, jellies, marmalades pre-
serves, apples, plums, raisins, figs, oranges
grapes, and wines all ripened under the glow
ing sun Of the Pacific coast. Everything came
from California and everything was perfection.
And Senator Stanford proposes to have them
all protected