The sun., 1890-09-03
RECIPROCITY IN THE SENATE.
DBBhTE ON TIE AMENDMENT OFFERED
By MR.. HAZE

DBBlTE ON TIE AMENDMENT OFFERED
By hR. HAZE
Proposed Renewal OF the sugar Duty In Ez-
ehasGe FoF Concessions froua the Natioas
soueh ot Us- Senator Sherman Wants
ReeiPrOeity VITA Canada. Too.
WASHINGTON, Sent. 2-The Tariff bill was
taken up in the Senate to-day. and the sugar
schedule was considered.
Mr.. Carlisle (Dem.. Ky.j gave notice that no
would move to strike out all tho paragraphs
relating 10 sugar bounties
Mr.. Hale Rep., Mel offered the reciprocity
amendment OF which no had given notice on
June 10, and addressed the Senate upon It.
The desirability OF such an Interchange OF
products as his amendment proposed. he said,
had been subject which had given rise to the
closest attention. and had resulted in grave
and pertinent suggestions from eminent pub
lie men OF tho United States during the last
thirty years. whoever had seen the gradual
falling of OF American trade with Central and
South America and the isles OF the sea must
have witnessed those conditions with the
greatest imratieuce Tho people OF all those
countries had a common interest with the peo-
pie Of the United States.
Mr.. Hale referred to the reciprocity message
OF President Harrison. and to Mr.. Baine's let
| ter and attitude In support OF 1t. Never until
| this year had II been contended. said Mr. Hale.
that anybody. In public or In private life. who
| was engaged In an attempt to broaden tho
| market for American farms and workshops In
countries that were not rivals in the same
products. was thereby opposing the system OF
protection to American labor. He asked
whether the disastrous experiment that had
| been tried In 1872 when the duty on cofiee was
removed. was to be now repeated In the article
OF sugar. He read extracts from MIR. Blaines
two letters to Mr.. Frye. and commented
upon the fact that while the balance OF
trade was very LARGELY against the United
States in many countries. tho result was
much moro favorable In regard to Mexico.
whore American imports were nearly "a largo
as the exports. This was largely. he said. be-
cause OF the opening OF railroad communica-
| tion with Mexico: and that fact bore on the
| necessity for the passage OF the steamship and
postal subsidy bills passed some weeks ago by
the Senate. With tho reciprocity proposed In
| his amendment and with those bills enacted
| into law, the increased Interchange OF products
would inevitably follow. He referred to trade
| tables to show the unfavorable position OF the
United States in regard to tho countries OF
| Central and South America. and said there was
a sentiment among the people that something
| should be done to remedy that condition. That
| sentiment was growing into movement that
| would have some effect somewhere at some
| time. 1t was a sentiment which could not bo
efI0ctually resisted
Coming directly to the question Of putting
sugar on the free list. Mr.. Hale said that no
one could tell what benefit could come to the
consumer by the unreserved repeal OF the
sugar duties. No one could tell whether the
prices Of sugar might not be proportionately
increased by the suEar-producing countries.
1t had been urged against his amendment In
certain quarters that mono Of these sugar
producing countries with which arrangements
of reciprocity were desired would be induced.
under any form OF treaty. to give to the United
States such advantages rs were set forth In It,
The answer to that was plain and obvious, and
that was that thore was not one OF these coun-
tries that did not greatly desire the repeal OF
American duties on their products. There
was hardly one Of them that had not expressed
its Willingness to enter into reciprocal obliga-
tions and arrangements that would result IN
the direction indicated.
Mr.. Carlisle asked Mr.. Hale whether his
amendment applied to Cuba and Porto Rico.
Mr. Hale replied that he had 30 intended It,
and never had any other intention. and that II
there was any doubt as TO the construction
that would be put upon it it might be modified
letter from a Brazilian merchant approving the
idea Of reciprocity. and saying that Brazil was
thai e' the products W @ Of America might enter Bra.
zil at a little lower price than the products OF
Mr. Plumb tRep, Knn.l said that he had been
told that the production Of sugar In Brazil was
declining every year The Increase IN the
sugar eas 'I IN the island Of Cuba: and It Seemed 70
produet p@ ' Of u sue sugar in Brazil Would not largely
nsrsae And 4 that prodpetOn nuY1 TeFe re ssipH. ~
expense e Of the sugar -erH wing industry OF the
United States. which woud d be one OF the lead
Ing 5dlaS q the country Unmarked that the
falling off in the product Of sugar in Brazil was
not owing to the beet sugar Of Europe but to
emancipation OF the slaves. He had no doubt
that the production OF sugar would increase
when there was recovery from that condition
Mr. Plumb suggested that giving a bounty to
American sugar producers might appear to
Brazil as something lacking in the idea OF re-
come through the bounty given a greater sugar
producing country, no Senator need have any
aEDrShcns9n as to ThSt b ddd %0ud iSl,gW 10 tbn AL All
81 DlsSs ESsrts tN Esn: y, asked st.snticn to
merchant which MIR. Hale had read-that sem.
little difference bstwesn, TIC tarilr on yoqI IN
sRd the re.a sft % 0eSa RSara aSfsd
would come to the United States from only
th" S RSs
time alone could tell. 1t was evident that the
feeling not only of Brazil but OF tho other
South American countries WAS strongly bent
toward reciprocal arrangements. 1t was easy.
he said to find fault with any plan or scheme
and to suggest difficulties. But. to him one
and that was that the policy suggested by tho
President and tho Secretary OF State and which
had secured the attention and approval OF the
wisest statesmen in the last thirty years was q
policy that had come to stay with the American
Mr. Hoar tRep.. Mass.l inquired whether the
reciprocity was to he effected under treaties Dr
Mr. Hale thought that It could be done with
out treaties. He was willing to trust tho Pres
ident in the matter. Everybody who know
the Presidents attitude on the great question
OF protection to American labor might be sure
that he would mako no application OF tho
provision that would not In its results tend to
The unfolding and advancing of American
labor
Mr.. Allison tRep., Iowal made q long state
ment OF the receipts anu expenditures OF tho
Government and Of tho nrobable effect of the