Evening journal., 1890-09-04


Reciprocity-Ar. Vests Criticism.
WASHINGTON, Sept. Ain the senate a
resolution offered by Mr.. Call declaring
the shooting Of Gen. Barrundia an insult
to the American flag was referred to a com
mittee. The tariff bill was taken up and
the sugar schedule discussed Extended
speeches on the general subject Of protec-
tion were made by Messrs. Eyarts, Voor-
hees and Gray. The evening session was
devoted to speeches on the bill.
MIR. Edmunds Against Reciprocity.
When the tariff bill was taken up-the
sugar schedule being under consideration
Mr.. Edmunds addressed the senate Com
ing 10 the question Of reciprocity Mr.. Ed
munds recalled the history and the praeti-
cal operations-injurious, as he claimed, to
this country--of the Canadian reciprocity
treaty Of 1854
He spoke Of the reduction Of the duty on
coffee--3 cents a pound-in 1872, and stated
on the authority of the American minister
to Brazil that as soon as that reduction
was known at Rio Janeiro the price OF
coffee there was put up 3 cents pound
The same thing occurred, he said two
Eears afterward, when coffee was put on
the free list. Experience has shown from
that day TO this that the American con
sumer had profted nothing whatever from
the taking off OF that duty. But on the
other hand the United States had lost
nearly $1,000 600 which it would have re-
ceiyed from the duty on Brazilian coffee
alone
The Stand of Vermont.
AS a practical farmer and farmers son,
he thought that the farmers in the region
where he lived were not extremely hungry.
and that he, as one of their representatives,
should go into anything Of that kind now
II the duty Of cents pound were now
taken Off Of sugar he did not belieye that
the price Of sugar would fall 2 cents
pound. It would be apt TO turn out az
coffee had turned out He did not want to
be led into putting sugar on the free list
on what he believed to be the fallacious
and Elusive idea that because sugar was
now ? cents pound cheaper in London
than in New York IL would then be tho
same price in both places But even if the
wholesale price of sugar did fall by means
Of the removal OF the duty the price at the
grocer's would not fall
The Reciprocity He Does Favor.
When he looked at any Central Amer
lean or South American state he Thought
that any one hundred average people IN
North America, during the last year, CON
sumed more Of the products merchandise,
food and clothing that 20 TO make up the
comfort and luxury and happiness of man
kind than any one thousand average peo-
pie in the Central or South American
states Therefore, the expectation Of the
United States being able to dispose Of q
l iurtra pF ifu
in his opinion, one of the greatest illu-
sions that brilliant men or sober states
men had lately fallen into. He did not
mean by that, however that he was not
willing and glad to try IL on the plan Of
receiving any of the products of those
countries which the United States did not
produce, and giving 10 them products
which they did not produce.
MIR. Morgan's Reciprocity Amendment.
Mr.. Morgan next spoke in support of the
amendment heretofore proposed by him as
a substitute for Mr. Aldrich's reciprocity
amendment II provides for a duty OF 3
per cent. ad valorem on corn, wheat, rye,
barley, oats, hay, straw, potatoes, cotton,
live domestic animals, and on asses, mules
and horses; and that when any of such
articles are exported a premium Of per
cent. shall be paid on their value to the
owner He opposed the reciprocity amend
ments, and said the effects Of them would
be surrender to Great Britain, because
they would apply to sugar, molasses, hides
and coffee, all OF which were largely pro
duced ia British colonies
Views OF AIessrs. Voorhees, and Evarts.
Mr. Voorhees, said the tariff bill was full
Of nuggets Of gold for the manufacturers,
but was as barren Of fruit for the poor man
as the tree that was cursed by the saviour
Most Of Mr.. Voorhees, speech was devoted
to vivid and picturesque denunciation OF
the Mckinley bill as the anti Christ OF all
preceding legislation.
Mr. Eyarts next addressed the senate.
He deplored the downfall OF American
! commerce. Under the weak and wicked
policy of navigation and trade no steamers
/ started from American ports, and no
steamers OF American build and owner
I ship under the American flag penetrated
into any foreign ports. Every effort to ex-
) tend foreign trade that had been made by
the Republican party had been ridiculed
} and denounced, and had failed solely from
| Democratic opposition. Mr. Evarts went
on to speak of the various reciprocity
amendments and to criticise them as being
] Objectionable under the favored nation7
clause of international treaties He con
cluded by saying: Make your tariff as
you think right Let others make theirs
as they think right. And when you reach,
as England has reached, the position that
you can devour the substance of other ma
tions better by free trade than you can pre-
serve your own substance by protection,
then change your laws
Senator Gray Takes the Floor.
Mr.. Gray said the bill had issued from
the house of representatives with the in
dorsement of great party, but its leaders
and guides, who had attempted to scale
the frigid Alpine heights of ambition had
found their followers tagging far behind
and were now seeking (properly enough)
to reform their lines on a lower plane aud
to meet the demand everywhere comingup
for freer and larger commerce and for a
greater measure Of exemption from taxa
ton. He complimente-i Mr. Hale on his
amendment, which meant nothing less
than absolute free trade throughout the
western hemisphere, from the Arctic ocean
to Cape Horn, including Cuba, Porto Rico
and Cf necessary Canada
Mr. Hale corrected the statement as to
Canada, and said that he had never had
any intention Of including that country.
Then" said Mr.. Gray, your proposition
is only less comprehensive less promising
and less statesmanlike than had sup
| posed"
A Young Philadelphian Drowned.
AsBURY PARK, n. j., Sept 4-Horace