The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-01-19
SENATORS VOTE FOR THE BOUNTY.
The Amendment to the Tariff BIII
Accepted.
Mr.. sprInger's Omnibus 6In Passed
In the House
And the Dakota Men are All Angry In
Consequence.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.-The proposed su-
gar bounty was the topic again in the Senate
today.
Mr.. Reagan Of Texas, began the forensics
by pronouncing the Senate bill "bill Of
robbery" He charged the Republican Sem
tors who represent agricultural committees
with supporting measures which distinctly
and clearly sacrificed the interests Of the
States they represent. The proposed
bounty was pernicious policy and viola
tion Of the constitution. Mr.. Reagan though
the present duties on sugar and rice too high
and would keep:a duty on lumber and wool
He preferred the Mills bill to the present
law or the Senate substitute.
Mr.. lDawes chided Mr.. Reagan for
charging Senators with the moral turpitude
Of indifference to whether or NOT they Yio-
lated their oaths to support the constitution.
He should withdraw 1t or state his evidence
Mr.. Reagan disclaimed any personal allu-
| sion.
Mr.. Chandler regretted that the finance
committee had not excepted sugar cane from
| the proposed bounty as the Senators from
| Louisiana opposed 1t. He intimated the
| possibility that the Senators did not rep
resent the people Of their State. He then
branched off into a discussion Of the political
troubles In Louisiana. stating that colored
Knights OF Labor there who undertook to
| get better wages were shot down by the
militia. He read letter from Hugh NJ
Wallace, editor Of the Terrebonne Times, re-
hearsing some trouble and refecting on Mr..
Gibson.
Mr.. Gibson controverted the statements in
the letter and mentioned the fact that coll
ored people whom he had inherited were now
working on his plantation for their own ben
eft, without paying sou Of rent or sou Of
taxes.
Mr.. Spooner, in supporting the sugar boun-
ty proposition, took occasion to say that the
charge made by Mr.. Reagan came with par
ticular Ill grace from Senator, who, having
once taken the oath to support and defend
the Constitution. joined afterwards with
those who sought to destroy and overthrow
A long discussion as to the constitutional
power OF Congress TO give such bounties,
was carried on between Messrs. Spooner
and Hoar on the Affirmative, and Messrs.
Gray, Butler. George and Reagan, on the
opposite side.
Mr.. Gibson predicted that under the boun-
ty the production Of sugar would increase
the bounty fve-fold every year. so that In
five years the bounty to be paid out Of the
treasury would exceed the present revenue
from sugar.
Mr.. Spooner said if that statement were
correct he would not vote for the amend
ment. After Messrs. Spooner and Frye had
argued that the sugar production Of Louisi-
ana had decreased greatly since the war,
Mr. Eustis turned the tables on them by
stating that the production Of sugar In Lou
isiana for the ten years, from 1865 to 1874,
inclusive, was 490, 1000 tons, and for like pc
ri0d, from 1875 to 1884, 1,030.000 tons; an In
crease of 100 per cent in single decade.
Mr.. Spooner read figures to show that from
1851 to 1887 the revenue collected from sugar
amounted to 1851, ,31S, $40 OF nearly thousand
million dollars.
Mr.. Butler had read a newspaper inter-
view with Kansas representatives general
ly unfay0rable to the bounty proposition.
The discussion drifted into the relative ex-
penses Of the working classes living In Eu-
rope and the United States. Mr.. Butler con-
tending that they were less abroad, and
Messrs. Blair and Hoar that they were
greater. Mr.. Hoar had read letter from
the manager of Fall River cotton mill Civ
ing the list of wages paid there to various
classes Of operatives who number 1900, and
giving their deposits in the savings banks at
$4,000. 900, in contradiction Of testimony
taken before the Blair committee and read
70 the Senate some time ago.
The sugar bounty amendment was agreed
agreed TO. q to %, party lines being main
tained, except In the case Of Mr.. Payne OF
Ohio, who voted aye, with the Republicans
and Mr.. Quay CT Pennsylvania, who voted
with the Democrats against 1t. The Senate
then adjourned.