Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-03
CONGRESSIONAL.
Further Tariff Consideration Occupies
the Time OF the Senate.
The House, Among her Matters, Talks Up the
Clayton Breckinridge Csse-Another
Raum Committeeman.
SENATE.

postofiioe committee and placed on the
| calendar with q notification by Mr.
| Sawyer that he would ask for its consid
GRAFTON as soon as the tariff bill is dis
| posed Of. The tart # bill was then taken
up and the sugar schedule considered.
| Mr.. Carlisle gave notice he would move
TO strike out ell paragraphs relating to
| sugar bounties. Mr.. Hale offered recip-
rocity amendment, of which he had given
notice on the 18th of June, and addressed
the senate upon it. The drsirability OF
| such an interchange of products as the
| amendment proposed, he said had been
the subject which had given rise to the
closest attention and had resulted in
grand and pertinent suggestions from
eminent public men of the United States
during the last thirty years.
During his speech Mr.. Hale assured
the senators who represented the sorghum
and beet sugar districts that he was not
in antagonlsm with them. If thos sem
ators objected TO the policy of trying to
secure some benefits from those countries
for repeal of duties on sugar, he asked
them how much more they ought to OBJ
ject 10 an unreseryed repeal Of those
duties. To him one thing was as sure as
the policy suggested by the president
and secretary of state, and which
had secured the attention and approval
of the wisest statesmen in the last thirty
years was the policy that had come to
stay with the American people. What
ever might be done now, whatever might
be incorporated in the pending bill every
enlightened man could see that that policy
was going, sooner or later, to be adopted
by the American people. There never,
he said, YVES q time more fitted to try the
plan of experiment than now, and in his
mind the amendment which he had Of
fered TO be corrected in its phraseolgy so
as to remove all doubts as to its coustruc-
ton was the most fitting solution of the
question. Everybody who knew the
president attitude on the question of
protection to American labor might be
sure that he would make no application
of the provision that would not, in its
results, tend to the upholding and ad-
vancing of American labor.
Allison made u long statement of the
receipts and expenditures OF the govern
ment and of the probable effect of the
tariff bill on the finances. He said the
total OF expenditures for the current ifs
cal year would be about S4ll 200 900,
and that the revenues for the year Gn-
Guiding postal receipts and everyth!ng)
would be S460, 900 900. Therefore if
there were no tariff bill to be passed, and
if the situation remained unchanged,
there would be a surplus of revenue over
the expenditures for the current fiscal
year of $40 900, 900.
Mr.. Gibson asked him whether he had
included in the expenditures the amount
ho Fnr siI
Mr.. AllIsOn-No.
Mr.. Gibson-Only those which have
passed congress
Allison figured out an increase of
81 200, 600 of revenue under the pending
bill, as against decrease of $50 500 900
from putting sugar and other articles on
the free list, so that S33 800 200 had to
be taken off from the surplus of S49,-
600, 900, leaving So 900, 900 surplus at
the end of the year.
Carlisle-Payiug nothing on the sink
ing fund?
Allisou-Paying nothing on the sink
ing fund. Taking into account the bal
ance now in the treasury, Sl07 600 900,
aud this surplus Mr.. Allison calculated
that the secretary of the treasury would
have SIS 200, 000 on the first OF July,
1891, unless in the meantime he re-
deemed - per cent. bonds as he (Alli-
SOM hoped the secretary would proceed
to do without delay. He de-
clared that in his judgment it
was d wise thing to rake OF the sugar
duties. He had not the slightest fear
that there would be any danger from it
TO the treasury, certainly not within sew
eral years to come. He was also in ia
yor of further extension of reciprocal
trade, but he hoped that in any such ar
rangement it would be seen to
that the United States had its
just share of the bargain.
Mr.. Gibson offered an amendment to
the sugar schedule by adding the words |
''syrup of beet sorghum or sugar cane"
He made an argument against the sugar |
bounty proposition, and said it was |
miserable dwindling away from Mr.. |
Blaine's broad and generous proposition |
of full reciprocity.
Sherman expressed his views on the |
subject of reciprocity, and spoke of the |
difficulties in the way of reciprocity by |
treaty. The first proposition of Hale's
amendment was a most startling one. 1t |
the president of the United |
States, without further iegisla ton, TO
declare the ports of the United States
free and open to all products of any ma
ton of the American hemisphere upon
which no export duties are imposed.
Was Cuba, he asked, a nation? He
knew that the senator (Hale) had said
to-day that he meant to include
Cuba, but was Canada embraced
in that list of nations?
He had asked the senator the question
and the senator had replied, "No, nos"
that it is quite q different thing. And
yet Canada is an independent govern
ment TO all practical purposes except as
to the tie which binds her to the mother
But if any reciprocal trade
were made with any coun-
try they ought to be made with Canada.
The amendment would authorize the i'm
portatiou of all products, including the
mescal or whisky of Mexico. He went
on to criticise unfavorably Hale's
amendment as one that would allow the
free importation of wool, copper,
zinc, iron, gold, silver, lead ores,
etc., but was informed by
Mr.. Hale that his amendment had not
been carefully drawn, but had been
simply intended TO propose principle of
Mr.. Spoouer suggested an amendment
to apply to Canada, putting duty of 10
per cent ad vslorem on green coffee, 3
cents and 10 per cent ad valorem on roast