Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-09-09
THAT TARIFF BILL.
The Senators Linger Over Its
Consideration.
A HIGHER DUTY PUT ON SUGAR.

Allison Gives Notice That He Has Some
thing to Say aud viii Say It-Plumb
Prophecies q Paucity of Pewter
Lemon Testifies in the Raum Investi-
cation and Declines To BE Squeezed,
but Is Rather Sour on Cooper.
WASHINGTON CITY, Sept. 9-The senate
sat up until past IL O'Clock last night,
hammering away at the tariff bill, and
Allison, just before midnight, made the
rather startling remark that he desired to
speak on the sugar question in reply to
Aldrich, and that the bill would not be-
come a law unless he had the opportun
lty to do so. The evening session wa
devoted entirely to talk, the debate cover
lug the whole ground at issue and slop-
ping over on the reciprocity question.
Among the speakers were Evarts, Rea-
gan, Spooner, and Aldrich. Spooner said
he would not favor reciprocity with Can
ada. He hoped to see the day when the
American flag would fly over Canada. and
when the British flag was gone Com
mercial union would come with political
union, and not until then. And it would
come much earlier in that way than by
trucking to an aggressive, unfriendly
neighbor.
Plumb Figures Out a Deficiency.
A number of paragraphs in the bill
were altered during the day, and a large
portion of the time was take up by Plumb,
who spoke in favor of an amendment i'm
posing tax of 81. % per gallon on distil-
taHs In IL ho
there was going to be deficit of at least
$50, O00, 600. and he went on to show how it
was going to happen much to the salts fac
tion of the Democrats. IL was no good
however, for his amendment was re-
jected-S9 to l7-many Democrats voting
against il.
The Sugar Schedule.
The sugar schedule then came up on the
committee amendment to increase the
duty on sugars above No 10 Dutch stand
ard to 0.6 cent per pound, instead of GA
cent. Ii was agreed to- Then "A bounty
was inserted for maple sugar, and an at
tempt to provide bounty on sugar made
from imported molasses was defeated
Reagan complained that the bill discrim-
mated against the south and at the night
session Allison gave him lecture for say
ing so, anu showed TO DIS own SatlSfac-
ton, but not to Reagan's, that the bill
didn't do anything of the kind. Then
Aldrich said he would have all the
amendments voted on at the night ses-
sion, and the senate took a recess
Hut They Weren't All the Same.
Aldrich proposed, but the senate dis
posed, and there was but one amendment
voted on at the night session. Mander-
son had offered an amendment for the adj,
mission, free of duty, of machinery for
the manufacture of beet sugar and for the
refunding of duties collected on such ma
chinery since Jan. l, 1890 Mr. Eustis
moved to amend the amendment so as to
extend it to machinery for beet and sorg.
hum sugar. 1t was pending the vote on
this matter that all the talk came in
When the senators grew weary of elo,
quence they voted, and Eustis was de
feated, while Henderson had the satisfac-
ton of adding another provision for the
house to consider. 1t looks very like an
other postponement of the final vote
Secretary Window Takes Trip.
WASHINGTON CITY, Sept. Secretary
Window left Washington yesterday for
Williamstown, Mass, where he will re-
nain To-