The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-04
HIGH TAXES ON IMPORTS.
THE SENATE DEvoTRs THE DAY
TO THE TARIFF.

Senator Ecmunds Replies TO Some of
Senator Vance's Assertions The
Senator From Vermont Points Out
With Canada in 1854.
WASHINGTON, Sept 3.-In the Senate
this morning the tariff bill was taken up,
the sugar schedule being under considera-
ton Mr.. Edmunds addressed the Senate.
He referred TO the assertion in Mr.. Vance's
speech last night that the farmer bore all
the burden of the customs duties, while he
had no benefit from them; that the senat OF
had named a variety Of articles that were on
the free list, but he had not named the arti-
Gle of mica. found in North Carolina, on
which there is duty.
Mr.. Vance-There is no duty on mica in
this bill.
Mr.. Edmunds-Then there ought to be.
Mr.. Vance-Put 1t there.
Mr.. Edmunds-He did not speak Of the
duty on tobacco nor on rice, which the farm
ers of North Carolina raise. He forgot the
lumber interest of North Carolina. He shut
his eyes to the Importance of the pitch and
tar and turpentine that have given such a
of that state.
Mr.. Vance-They are put on the free list
also; and the duty on rice is reduced.
MIR. Edmunds-Well, let US unite to put
them where they belong. The fact is that
the farmer of North Carolina is in respect
to every material interest precisely in the
condition of the farmer of Vermont, and il
the tariff is bad for the farmer of North
Carolina it is bad for the farmer of Yer
mont.
Coming to the question of reciprocity,
MIR. Edmunds recalled the history and
practical operation Injurious to the Unite d
Statesl of the Canadian reciprocity treaty
of 1854.
MORGAN's AMENDMENT
Mr.. Morgan addressed the Senate in sup
port OF the amendment. heretofore proposed
by him as substitute for Mr.. Aldrich's
amendment. 1t provides for a
duty of 30 per cent. ad valorem on
corn, wheat, rye, barley, oats, hay, straw
potatoes, cotton, live domestic animals and
on 4sses, mules and horses, and that when
any of such articles are exported premium
of per cent. shall be paid on their value to
the owner. He opposed the reciprocity
amendments, and said that their eff
feet would be surrender to
Great Britain, because they would apply to
sugar, molasses, hides and coffee. all of
colonies
THE CROW AND THE FARMER.
Mr.. Voorhees, addressed the Senate. He
compared the senator who supported the
pending bill, but who withdrew from the
Senate chamber when it's iniuuties
were being exposed, to rapacious crow
wno stole his corn, but got away without
listening to the argument of the farmers
shotgun. The BILL he said, was full
of nuggets of gold for the manufact-
urers, but was as barren of fruit
for the ,por man as the tree that
was cursed by the Savior. Most of Mr..
Voorhees, speech was devoted to vivid and
picturesque denunciation of the Mckinley
bill as the anti-Christ of all preceding legis-
lation.
EvARTS ON THE RoBBER CRY.
Mr.. Evarts was the next speaker The
staple of the democratic oratory on
the bill, he said, was that
the supporters of protection of
American industry were robbers, and were
hiding and skulking behind evasion, pre-
varication and fraud-an oratory which
was perhaps justified by the same round
democratic senator's were all munte
banks on the subject of free
trade, and were not entitled to any credit
for the principles or for the arguments which
they expressed If there was any credence
to be put in the monstrous pretension that
every burden on imported goods was
not only borne by the consumers
of those goods. but that an equal burden
was transferred to the shoulders of those
who consumed like goods produced in the
United States, then the Democratic party,
he said, ought to turn free traders to-
morrow
DIRECT TAXATION NOT WANTED.
But such vague and general propositions
could stand no examination. Nobody had
ever dared to propose to the American peo-
pie that they should avoid the tariff burdens
by paying their taxes to tax gatherer as
he went around from door to
door. What then, he asked, did
the senator's on the other side
between the views of the British merchants
and those expressed on the other side of the
chamber 1t would not be polite, and
might not be true, to say that the Demo-
cratic party was on the side of England. but it
was certainly polite and credible to say that
England was on the side Of the Democratic
party. The distinction was obvious and
vauable. [Great laughter on the republican
side.
AGAINST RECIPROCITY.
Mr.. Evarts had several good words for
the policy Of fostering American trade by
such measures as the postal and steamship
subsidy bills, and then went on to speak Of
the various reciprocity amendments, and
to criticise them as being Objectionable
under "the favored nation" clause of in
ternational treaties
At the close of MIR. Evart's speech the
message Of the President in regard to inter-
national arbitration was presented, read
and referred to the committee on foreign
relations.
Mr.. Gray consumed the remainder of the
time Of the session in a speech upon the
general subject of the tariff and in criticism
of the bill. Mr.. Gray closed his remarks at
$50 O'Clock, and recess was then taken till
O'Clock
There was but small attendance of senaa
tors at the evening session. which was
mainly occupied by Mr.. Pierce in a speech
advocating the idea of reciprocity. The
Senate at 9:45 o'clock adjourned.