, 1890-05-21
SENATE AND HOUSE.
The Original Package Bill
Considered.
The Tax on Molasses and
Sugar Discussed.
The Duty on Wool a Charge
on the Consumer.
In the Senate.

WASHINGTON. May 20.-In the senate
t1day Stanford introduced a bill for loans
on public lands aud announced that he
would hereafter address the senate on
that subject.
The senate then proceeded to consider
the original package bill, addressed by
Wilson of Iowa In Its favor.
Vest opposed the bill.
McKenna of California moved to
amend the sugar schedule as follows: All
sugars not above No. 10, Dutch standard
in color; all tame bottom syrups of cane
or beet juice, Melada concentrated, Me-
lada concrete and concentrated molasses,
listing by polariscope. not above IS de-
grees, shall pay a dsty of "a 100 Of a cent
per pound. and for every additional de-
gree or fraction of a degree 3 100 of a
cent per pound additional; all sugars
above No. Is and not above No. l6 de-
grees 1900 cents per pound.
All sugar above No. l6 and not above
No. 20 degrees l.99 cents per pound.
All sugars above 20 degrees PIG per
pound.
Molasses testing not above Sc degrees
by polariscope 2 cents a gallon. Molasses
testing above Sc degrees 4 cents a gallon.
McKenna said his amendment made a re-
duction on existing duty on sugar about
SO per cent. 1t retained dividing line at
Is instead of 10 and secured the retiner
les of this country refining of sugar bo-
tween l3 and I6 which pending bill i'm
periodically sent to foreign re6neries. As
contrasted with the Mills bill the amend
49,. - n ra1tcffnp ~ onntraataI rr,t J.
ne present bill, and was not the case of
lowering or increasing rates but of change
Of policy. The Reardipg bill in all par
t~iculars, except the sugar schedule. was
brave and strong, strong because it was
brave. In sugar the schedule was timid,
time serving and weak. Weak because
it was time-serving and timid. In other
schedules the bill carried out Republican
principle. In the u IT sshedale the bill
refused to one industry, Republican prin-
ciple.
1t might be well for the Republicans 10
pause and consider what they were doing
as TO its practical and political effect. Tn,
Chicago platform enumerated ways and
means of reducing the revenue, declared
that the internal revenue system should
be destroyed rather than any part of the
protective system be surrendered. The
sugar industry was part OF the protective
system. 1t was surrounded by his bill.
The sugar scheduls pointed as directly as
ever for free trade-pointed 10 the benefit
Of buying in the cheapest market lDemo-
cratic applause. Wool was not pro-
duced to the extent of our wants, and no
one could predict when it would be.
democratic applause 1t was to-day a
declining industry democratic applause
aud had been given increased protection
in this bill because it was a declining in
dustry. and yet was called the Keystone of
the Arch of Protection. 1t the commit
tee was right on the position taken by it
in its repor,, the duty on wool was a
charge on the consumer. Democratic
applause. The Republican party could
not make sugar a scaregoat of the surplus
without involving the protective system
itself.
The senate laid aside the silver bill
and continued the discussion of the bill
as to the regulation OF imported liquors.
Wilson, of Iowa, who introduced the
till, addressed the senate in explanation
and advocacy of it, stating that it was
made necessary by the recent decision OF
the supreme court 1t was in response to
a suggestion contained in hat decision.
that congress could permit exercise of re
straining power of state and it was for
the purpose OF giving hat permission
that the bill was introduced and reported
The effect would be to leave each state to
determine for itself what its policy should
be in regard to the traffic IN intoxicating