The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-09

/ uuCeu eAClublNcly III 1iiAAos ANS
facture of it into cotton bagglng had
| grown up in this country, 50 that there was
now machinery sufficient to produce double
the amount of bagging needed for covering
the cotton in the United States, and, up, 20
last year, the competition mad been SO close
that bagging had to be sold at loss, or at
| least without profit.
CAN BE RAISED IN THE SOUTH.
Mr.. Sherman read a letter to himself
! from professor in Washington university
of St. Louis, to the effect that the Gulf
states could raise annually $l0O,OOO,O0O
worth of each of jute and ramie.
Mr.. Butler said, no doubt, ramie could
be raised in many portions Of the south as
successfully AS it was cultivated in India, but
said that the trouble was in its decortlcation,
which was done Ia India by Coolies stand
ing UP to their shoulders in water. and for
which no machinery had yet been devised.
Mr.. Vest referred to the writer of the
communication read by Mr.. Sherman as a
mere theorist who knew nothing about the
south, and who supposed he had made a
discovery as to the ramie, while the fact
was that experiments with it had been going
on for the last fifteen years.
| Mr. Coke spoke Of the great progress made
| in the south during the last fifteen years,
and said that the southern people had only
| Just commenced in their career OF pros
| perity. They would develop the south.
| They would make it a great country
which nature intended it to be-
| They had vast, almost unlimited resources.
| All they wanted was light taxes and an
! honest government. The rest they would
| do for themselves. They wanted no tariff
duties for protection. They would pay
custom house taxes for the support of the
government, but no more than were abso-
| lutey necessary for that purpose. AS to
LEI, I,,Axr
! jute and ramie, be would simply say
"'thank YOU but we Will cultivate that in
| dull time We are doing other things now
that are more profitable. We will get to
| juta and ramie in little while and will do
so without protective tariff. All that we
ask of the government is to keep your hands
OFF and let US alone. We viii do the rest"
CONTINUED AT GREAT LENGTH.
The discussion was continued at much
! length by Messrs. Sherman, Allison, George,
Coke, Platt, Butler, Jones of Arkansas,
! Aldrlch, Hiscock and Vance.
Mr. Sherman remarked that cotton
| bagging vas one of the industries of
| tue country, and should be dealt with
| precisely as otherM manufactures are.
| thought that the southern senators
| greatly misrepresented their section in SUP
porting the proposed amendment. Their
| remedy would be not i'll having cotton
| bagging admitted free Of duty, but in pro
| duclng jute and ramie, VIII ch could be pro
duced in tho south as cheaply as in India.
| He believed that if a reasonable duty were
put on ramie and jute, all such raw ma
! terial could be produced in the south and
would be the most valuable products OF
that section.
VANCE REPLIES.
Mr.. Vance madesone of his usual humor-
| GUS speeches in reply to Mr.. Sherman. He
| thanked that senator for his good advice.
| but said that, in the language of Capt.
| Bunsley, the point of that senator's observa-
tion lay in the application of it. The mean
| ing Of it was to keep the south quiet under
| a system of taxation by which the pockets
TO the sincerity of the advice given
| to the south, to emulate the
north and to manufacture for itself,
| he would simply ask the pertinent
! question, what, in that case, would become
! Of the northern manufacturers" That re-
minded him OF the case OF the fellow who,
IN burst OF patriotism, volunteered during
the war, and who, when his wife said,
| John, suppose you get killed, what is to
become Of mon replied, "What would be-
come of the devil9 You had better ask
| what would become of me" [Laughter.l
TIRED OF PATERNAL ADVICE.
Suppose" said Mr. Vance, ''we were to
boycott your patent medicine, your hair
| dyes, your wooden hams, your hickory nut
megs your left-handed raZOrs and your
! double bladed gimlets from which you pro-
tect from home competition by patents)
what would become Of you? And how
| long would it be before "a change would
come over the spirit of your Dreams and
the thing which once so delighted you
would do so no longer! ! am tired
of paternal advice, it is not nee
essarystos%ss tell the southern planter
that he should abandon raising cottol
on which he makes profit of $50 an acre,
and go to raising ramie in competition with
the Indian labOrer at cents a day. There
is no sincerity in that kind of advice. There
is no philosophy in it. There is no business
in it,"
AN IRISH STORY.
He related an anecdote Of an Irish land
lord who said to his baliiH, who had COM
| planned Of being fred at frequently by
| tenants Collect my rents and tell these
! fellows that no amount Of shooting at you
i going TO scare me-" So no amount Of
threats was going 10 scare him, Or. Vance
from his duty in these matters.
Mr.. Brown inquired of MIR. Allison as to
the existing and proposed rates on bagging.
| Mr.. Allison informed him that the existing
rate was q cents per pound and the pro-
| .
| Brown, "the substitute reduces by one
half tue existing duty"
A vote was taken on Mr.. Jones' amend
ment aud it was rejected by 10 yeas to
"a nays, Mr.. Brown voting with the repub-
icans in the negative
Mr.. Jones OF Arkansas, than moved to
reduce the rate from ID to * Of a cent per
pound, and the motion was rejected by l9
yeas to % nays, Mr.. Brown again voting
in the negative.
TIE VALUE LIMIT RAISED.
On motion Of Mr.. Allison the value limit
of cents per pound in the paragraph was
raised TO 81 cents.
Mr.. Vet moved to go ack to paragraph
| "a and put burlaps on the free list. The
motion was rejected by a vote Of l6 to 23-
Mr. Brown again voting in the negative.
Mr.. Vance moved to add proviso TO the
section-that the duty on no article in the
section should exceed the rate of 20 per
cent ad valorem. No action was taken on
/ Mr.. Vances motion, and the bill went over
till tomorrow, Mr.. Allison giving notice
that unless better progress were made with
the bill he would--to-morrow or the next
day-move eveningbsessions, or TO meet at II
o'clock and sit till o'clock or $50 o'clock.
The Senate then adjourned.
FARMERS WANT A BOUNTY.
A Petition Asking for So Per Cent
Drawback Presented.
WASHINGTON, Jan. S.-Senator Riddle
berper to-day presented resolutions adopted