The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-03
OUR FOREIGN TRADE.
Debating the Best Methods of
Extending it.
SHALL IT BE BY RECIPROCITY?
The Views of Various Senators Upon the
Subject-Hale Defines His Position
Sherman's Attitude


the resolutions of the Buffalo Merchants
exchange favoring reciprocity not only
with the nations to the south but also with
that On the north.
The House bill in relation TO lotteries
was reported from the postofTice committee
and placed on the calendar with a notifica-
ton by Sawyer that he would ask its con-
slderation as soon as the tariff bill passes.
The tariff bill was then taken up and the
sugar schedule considered
Carlisle gave notice that he would move
to strike out all paragraphs relative to
sugar bounties.
Hale offered a reciprocity amendment of
which he had given notice on the 9th of
June. He addressed the Senate upon the
deslrability of such an inter change of pro-
ducts as the amendment proposed. He
said it had been a subject which had given
rise to the closest attention aud had re-
suited in grave and pertinent suggestions
from eminent public men in the
United States during the last thirty
years. Wherever there had been
q gradual falling off of Ameri-
can trade with Central and South
America and the isles of the sea, they must
nave witnessed those conditions with the
GREATEST Impotence. TIE people of all
with the people of the United States.
Abiding to the late Pan American con-
gress, Hale said it proved that the same
considerations which had their influence
! in the United States were also moving in
the minds of eminent men from our sister
republics who took part in the proceedings
| of that congress, and that they pointed to
one sure, inevitable end-increase of trade
between the United States and these peo-
| fThOCp G WI cd
to an extension of trade and increased in
terchage of products applied not only to the
nations of Central and South America but
to the islands of the Spanish main.
Hale assured the Senators who repre-
sented the sorghum and beet sugar districts
that he was not in anJagonism to them. If
those Senators objected to the policy of try
ing to secure some benefits from those
countries for the repeal of the duty
on their sugar, he asked them how
much more they ought to object
to an unreserved repeal of those
duties. 1t would be, he declared, policy
not much short of lunacy to repeal the sugar
duties, unless the repeal was used to obtain
some benefits for the products of American
labor. To him, one thing was as sure as
the tides and sunrise, and that was that the
policy suggested by the President and sec
rotary OF state, and which had secured the
attention and approval of the WiseSt states
men in the last thirty years, was the policy
that had come to stay with the American
people. There never was a time more
fitted to try the plan than now, and to his
mind the amendment which he offered was
most feasible.
Allison made lorg statement of the re
ceipts and expenditures of the government
and PROBABLE effect of the tariff bill on the
finances. He said that the total expendi
lures for the current fiscal year would bt
about four hundred and eleven million dol
lars, and the total revenues, including
postal receipts and everything, would bt
about four hundred and sixty million dol
lars. If there were no tariff bill to BIZ
passed, and if the situation remained un
changed, there would be a surplus OF rev
enues over expenditures for the curren
fiscal year of Si9,000,000. He had not in
cluded in the expenditures the amount Ina
would be paid for silver or claims agains
the government other than those which
have passed Congress. He figured out a.
pending bill as against decrease of So,
100000 from putting sugar and other al
tlcleS on the free list, so that S}3, 900, GO
had to be taken off from the surplus o
100000, leaving some $4,000, 90
}, surplus at the end of the year
paving nothing into the sinking FUND
Taking into account the balance now in tn,
~
Allison calculated the treasury woul
have SIS 100000 on the 1st of July. 1891
unless in the meantime we redeem 4 q pc
cent bonds, as he, Allison, hoped the sec
rotary would proceed to do without delay
n He declared that in his Judgment it was
r wise thing to take off the SUGAR duties
He had not the slightest fear that ther
> would be any canger from it to the trea:
s. ury, certainly not for several years TO come
e He was also in favor of further exter
It sion of reciprocal trade. but hoped that
# any such arrangement it would be cen
;. that the Unit I'd States had its just shar
,. of the bargain.
~ Gibson offered an amendment to TIL
sugar schedule by adding the words .'syru
of beet, sorghum or sugar cane" He mao
- an. argument against the sugar bounty DR.
= position, and said it was dwindling ava
:. from Blalne's broad and generous propos
- ton of full reciprocity.
= Sherman expressed his views on the SUI
- ject of reciprocity and spoke Of the diff
y culties in the way of reciprocity by treat,
y The first proposition of Hale's amendmer
: was almosta startling one. 1t authorize
,, the President of the United States will
,. ontfurther legislation to declare the por
20 of the United States free and opon to a
Il the products of any nation of the Amer
can hemisphere upon which no expo
duties are imposed. Was Cuba, he aske
nation! He knew Senator Hale sa
a. today that he meant to include Cub
al But was Canada emraccd in that list
il nations. He had asked the Senator tht
6 question and the Senator replied, IN
8 that's quite different thing" And vet
at any reciprocal trade arrangement
ps were made with any country, the
rs ought to be made with Canad
ne He went ON to criticise unfavorably Hale
as amendment as one that would allow Il
I'd free Importation of wool, copper, Yin
"a gold, silver, lead ores, ETC., bat was
n formed by Hale that the amendment HI
to not been carefully drawn, but was simp
tie intended to propose The principle of i
ciprocity. His own amendment had be-
intended to apply to only three or TO
articles-sugar, coffee, rubber and nitrate
Il He was reminded by Hale that Cuba pl
be duced no coffee and no rubber, so that
80 arrangement with Cuba could only be as
~ the article of sugar.
at Hale--If there is nothing to trade up
ne with advantage, then there will be
trade made The plan which | suggest
Il. is comprehensive, but it is not definite
BIC there is nothing to make bargain upC
or that settles the question.
IL Mr.. Sherman-My friend from Maine
or whiting down his magnificent thee
n until there is nothing Of it left,
r Spooner suggested that the amendme
e. apply to Canada and putting a duty
nd IL per cent. ad valorem on green coffee a
a 3 cents pound and 10 per cent ad valort
a on roasted or ground coffee, and 10 r
eel cent on tea, these duties being eliminat
n from the Canadian tariff. Recess till D..
he In the evening session Gibson moved
NJ substitute for the sugar schedule pal
he graph in the existing law imposing dut
or on sugar.
ct Dolph concluded his speech against a
it reciprocity with Canada in the matter
coal, timber or agricultural products.
rs Vance spoke in support of the amer