The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-22

| give up the production of cottm and
! to turn their attention and capital and
resources into new field Of industry
BUTLER's DIFFERENCE WITH BROWN.
Mr.. Butler called attention to the remark
| of Mr.. Aldrichs last Saturday TO the effect
! that there was a radical difference of opln-
! ion between himself (Mr. Butler) and Mr..
| Brown as to the necessity for a duty on
rice. What he had said was that he thought
the rice industry could get along without
| prot ctiou, and he stood by that statement
to-day. He was ready to meet the Senator
| from Rhode Island half way, if the duty on
farming implements and on woolen clothing
| tauch as were IL ed by rice planters and rice
workers. were placed q, any hing like
| reasonable rate. He would stand by his
| proposition as to rice
Mr.. Aldrich made statement to show
| that, while the present duty on rice was lib
| per cent. al valorem, and while it would be
! so per cent. under tho substitute, the duty
on woolen clothing was only 40 per cent.
above the duty on well.
TO BE FURTHER CONSIDERED.
After further discussion Mr.. Aldrich
suggested that the rice paragraph
should go over until tomorrow, and
that, in the meantime, the finance commit
| tee would examine the facts and figures
presented by the senator from Georgia (Alr.
| Brown. If this examination showed, as it
might, that the rates reported by the COM
mittee were too low, the committee
| crease as might seem just and
| proper. The suggestion was agreed to and
| the rice paragraph went over till tO-mor
| row. On the suggestion of Mr.. Vest it was
| agreed that the ge eral debate should go on
! to-day until O'clock after wlich the ten
minute ru should be enforced. and that
all debate shall cease tomorrow at o'clock
| nd IN ha hi ShaH
THE WOOL SCHEDULE.
Schedule K, "wool and manufactures of
WOOL was then taken up. Mr.. Vance
moved to anne d the first paragraph of it
| by maxi it read "all woods, hair of the
| alpaca, goat aud other like animals should
! lie admitted free of duty" and he addressed
! the Senate at length in su port of the
amendment During the progress OF his
! speech, Mr.. Vance alluded to Mr.. Allison
who reported several amendments to the
wool and woolen schedule. The amend
ments were sent TO the printer without be
| ing read. They will have the effect
! t. increase the proposed rates of
| duty slightly as follows: Cheap
wo1ls valued at II cent or less, from 213 to
4 cents; valued at over II cents, from to
5 cents; second class. from IL TO II cents;
and ON manufactured articles the increase is
about 10 per cent.
Il
Mr.. George presented some general OBJ
! servatiOns on the bill, first taking the
! ground that the bill which the Senate was
| considering was not bill tiat originated
in the House of r epresentativeS, as the con-
| stitutiOn required bills to raise revenue t.
originate. Technically speaking, it mig
| be called an amendment, but the H use bill
| bad only been a jurisdctiOnal fact by which
| the Senate had assumed control of the ub-
| ject.
MIXING RICE AND SUGAR.
The discussion of the rice question be-
! came mixed up with the sugar question,
and Mr.. Gibson advocated adequate protec-
| ton for both rice and sugar.
Mr.. Hoar asked Mr.. Gibson why was it that
instead of speaklng of the rates of duty left on
| sugar and rice, which were so large, as COM
! pared with other things, they spoke of the
| bill itself as ''robbery"! If it was robbery,
were not sugar and rice, the greatest rob-
| bers, left?
Mr.. Gibson discl lined having character
! lied the tariff AS robbery. He mad always
said that the benefits and burdens of the
| tariff should be equalized There should be
no discrimination. He did not ask for any
| greater protection for the interests which
| he represented tlau be was willing to ac
! cord to the interests of other sections. He
was far from being a free trader, but he was
| not in favor of using tho power of the gov
| ernnent TO favor one interest at the ex
| ponse Of other interests. or one section at
! the expense of other sections.
AGAIN AFTER MR.. BUTLER.
| Mr.. Aldrch asked Mr.. Butter whether
| he thou ht that rice required the present
protective duty of 1l3 per cent.
| Mr.. Butler thought it did not
| Mr.. Aldrich-How much duty would you
say was right9
Mr. Buter-I think the rates fixed in the
| Mills bill would be Gn view OF the rates on
! other articles about right.
M Aldrich-ls that the amount of pro-
lection necessary for the production of
ricef
Mr. Butler-I cannot say that it is abso-
! lutely necessary. If you reduce the rates
| in everything else we are willing to have
the tariff on rice 30 per cent.
| Mr.. Vest quoted a statement made by
! Comptroller Trenholm before the House
! committee on ways and means to show that
the cost of labor on the rice plantations is
| equal TO nine-tenths of the cost of rice, and
! he commea ted upon the fact that OF the
| proposed reduction of the existing duty one
| half v ould fall upon the peculiar wards OF
| the Senators on the other side who voted
| the republican ticket with unanimity and
pertiuacty unrivaled, politically.
APT TO FLOP TOGETHER.
Mir. Butler suggested to Mr.. Aldrich that
|
the differences Of opinion between himself
| (Nr. Butler) and tho Senator from Georgia,
nor should he indulge in too much hilarity
on that point. The seua ors on the demo
cratic side would 10 very apt to
"Aop" very closely together on the
bill. The senator from Rhode Island
should rather devote himself 10 recounting
some little differences on his own side; 70
in, tance, on the iron schedule and on the
lumber schedule. The senator from Kansas
| (Mr Plumb had been manifesting some de-
sire to be independent and to ''act on his
own hook, and so, he understood, had tue
senator from Nebraska (llr. Manderson).
sPAsMs OF INDEPENDENCE.
These senator's had shown occasional
spasms of independence and had NANTES ed
some disire to sec equal justice done 10 their
on-tituents, so that the senator from Rhode
| Island bad about as much as he could do TO
keep those gentlemen straight, without
crossing tho ine and coming 20 the demo-
cratic side of the chamber to reconcile
differences there. He Mr. Butlerl would
! be glad u see the bill SO arranged as to 90
ample and equal justice TO every in
| dvidual. The only point which be
raised On the rice schedule was that
the rates pro osed in the substitute were
unjust, unfair and unequal IN operation.
/ He believed that the intention OF the
! finance committee was 10 aim blow at
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