Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-18
Fiftieth COngress-SecOnd Session
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 THE TARIFF DEBATE.

THE TARIFF DEBATE.
 SENATE.-The senate at 1920 resumed consideration of the tariff bill, the pending question being on the amendments to the tin plate paragraph. MT. Hale asked MT. Ali son to state what portions of the bill re- mained unacted upon. Mir. Allison specified as among the important matters yet to be acted on the wooden, sugar and wool and woolen schedules, with great many detatched portions from other sec, tions, such as rice, cutlery and various other things that would lead to more or less de- bate.
 The discussion of the amendment was con. tinued by Senators Vest, Allison, Platt Salisbury, Plumb, German, Aldrich, Mitch- ell and Call. Finally the vote was taken and the amendment was adopted-yeas 25, nays IS. (Mr. Brown voting aye.) It fixes the duty on tin plate (taggers, iron or steel, when valued at 3 cents pound or less, thinner than No. 10 and not thinner than No. 20 wire gauge, at l cent pound. On the thinner plates at 1-1O, 1 3-lO and 4-10 cents pe1 pound, and on corrugated or crimped plates 1 4-10 cents per pound. All other iron o1 steel sheets, plates and hoop (excepting tin plates), when galvanized or coated with zine, spelter other metal, are to pay l of cent per pound additional, and after January 1, 1889, tin plate is to pay 4 of a cent per pound additional.
 The amendment proposing 8 bounty on sugar made from beets, sorghum or sugar cane grown in the United States was then taken up.
 MT. Vest declared emphatieally his oppo- sition to all such bounties, which he consid- cred the most objectionable form of protec- tion. The idea of the government going in- to partnership with any individual or set of individuals in order to give them peculiar advantages at the expense of the large body O raIio of oha0lut "a ond utterly opposed to all free, popular govern ments.
 MT. Allison did not consider the amend ment as in any sense change of position on the part of the committee. The sugar pro- duced from sugar cane grown ia the United States did not keep pace with the increase of the population. The object of the amend ment was yielding, SO to speak, to those who believed that with proper encourage ment sugar could be produced successfully in the United States from beets and sorghum.
 MT. Morrill, said that the proposed bounty on sugar was not new project. He had drawn up and had offered to the committee before he left the city last summer similar scheme, but had been told that it was com plicated question and required study.
 MT. Sherman advocated the amendment. It was not, he said, new question, but had been proposed and debated at different times He admitted that there was a strong feeling Tn the country against a OlrecI bounty TOT Gne protection of anything. Yet such bounties, as to salt and fish and other matters, had been supported by the most eminent men in the history of the country. The United States could learn from the experience o1 France, Germany, Austria and Belgium as to the benefits of encouraging the production o1 beet sugar. He believed that within ter years sugar enough could he produced in this country to supply the market.
 Mr. Merrill remarked that in 1861, when the tariff was established, he had the cordial support of Louisiana representatives in i'm posing specific duty of 2 cent pound. prior to that time the duty had been ad va. lorem-30 per cent. under the tariff of 1S46 and 27 under the tariff of 1857.
 During the war the rate had been to three cents a pound, and had so remained until 1883. If the duty were allowed to remain as the finance committee had proposed in the substitute, it would still be one-third higher than it had been before the war. The object of protection was amply secured by the proposition to give bounty equivalent to the reduction of duty; and still the consumer would get his sugar at one cent pound less.
 MT. Eustis said that the tariffs, which had been advocated by Mr. Morrill,, were tariffs that were regulated by the needs of the gov ernment, but that the bounty proposition was an entirely new feature. There seemed to have been a newly discovered theory that a C6ElH IhW was LO US 1Edueo ToRdIu1SSs Ol the needs of the government and regardless of justice to the taxpayer. Louisiana has grown strong and vigorous under the tariff trust and had ''stood in" with it and abided by it for sugar and sugar alone. But when a proposition was made that would reduce the consumers price the answer was no. MT Allison said that it would be better crop of Louisisnna and dump it in the Gulf of Mexico than to keep uI the existing duty on sugar. The tax took $2S, COG, ,000 out of the pockets of the people in order that the sugar producers of Lous jana might receive one cent pound on tn, indnitessimaly small proportion of sugal which they produced.
 The present proposition would save $22,' GOO, 600 or $23, ,000,000 to the consumers O suger in this country, after the proposed bounty was paid. He confessed to "abso lute amazement" at the remarks of the sen ator from Louisiana.
 Messrs Plumb and Stewart advocated tn amendment, but without reaching vote and after a short executive session, the Sen ate at 5:40 adjourned till Il &. m. tomorrow HoUsE.-After routine business to. day tn consideration of the territorial bills was re l sumed. Mr.McDonald of Minnesota though that all the territories referred to in the om ! nibus bill were ready for admission into tn Union and he expressed himself in favor of division of Dakota.
 MT. Adams of Illinois characterized tn ! omnibus bill as a transparent subterfuge Under it the people of the territories woul not obtain single substantial advantag | which they could not obtain if it was nc | passed, while the defeat of the Senate bi \ would have the practical effect of continuin ! for one year the outrage on the people c Dakota.
 ! MT. Grosvenor of Ohio thought that tn presentation of the omnibus bill justi6e him in saying that it was not calculated t | facilitate the admission of Dakota into th | Union, but that on the other hand it was deliberate and most insidious arrangemer
 to hinder and delay the habitation of th territory into statehood.
 ! MT. Warner of Missouri spoke in favor C | the immediate admission of South Dakot
 and against that of New Mexico. l The senate bill was then read by section | for amendments. The reading having bee
 completed, MT. Springer moved to strike or l all after the enacting clause and substitut the omnibus bill.
 MT. Burrows of Michigan raised the poin of order against the substitute.
 The Speaker sustained the point of orde and ruled the substitute out.
 MT. Springer then moved to strike out tn l enacting clause and insert the House bi 8, ,466, with certain amendments.
 The Speaker ruled that this was not
 order. All the gentleman had right to d
 was to offer substitute House bill 6, ,466.
 The House bill No. 8, ,466 was finally r
 ceived as a substitute.
 1 MT. Springer then asked unanimous COT
 sent that the previous substitute offered h
 him (the one providing for division of D. kota) be considered in it's stead.
 The Speaker pro tenn, MT. Cox, submitte
 the request and there being no objection {
 stated. Subsequently question arose as
 whether this consent had been granted, bl
 no record of the transaction appeared in tl
 official reporters notes. Much confusic
 ensued, but finally consent was again givel Mr. Mcdonald of Minnesota then offere
 his substitute for MT. Springer's proposition
 This substitute embodies the principal fe
 lures of the omnibus bill, except that it pr
 vides for the immediate admission of Soul
 Dakota. Pending its reading the House at
 o'clock adjourned.
 A FREIGHT TRAIN WRECKED. 4 Fireman Killed and she Engine' Scalded to Death.
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 standing on Chicago, Milwaukee and
 Paul side track at Sylvanla was blown ov the main track by the gale last night.