The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-01
READY FOR SIGNING.
The Senate Finally Adopts the
Conference Report on
THE MkINLEY FARIFF BILL.
Carlisie's spaech-His Exposition Of the Reel
procity clause, It's Unconstitationality
and its Burden to the People.
In the Senate.

and its Burden to the People.
In the Senate.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.-The House bill
to promote the administration of justice in
the army passed with verbal amendment t.
A resolution to continue the select com
mittee on the irrigation and reclamation of
grid lands curing the pre- ent Congress was
agreed TO.
The deficiency bill for $40, 3l6 for compen-
sation of members passed Il motion to re-
consider by Mr.. Mos glL was entered.
Carlisle made an argument against Ger
tain features OF the tariff bill. He as
serted that the bill, as /, now stood Except
sugar and molaSScs) removed from Lne free
list more than it took from the dutiable
list and placed on the free list lie also
asserted that the bill would reduce the
revenues, and increase the Taxation. I'm
less all his calculations were at fault, the
average rate OF duty under th5 conference
Dill AMI the ad uinis trative bill on dutiable
ARTICLES would be go per cent. instead of
49, per cent. unter the existing law.
Carlisle went on TO give 6gIres as TO the
increased taxation under the conference
oil. In order to compensate for the encr
nous increase In taxation the tax OF : cents
pound (amounting 10 81. S00,000) was to be
taken Off tobacco. The removal of that tax
would relieve no man and be beneficial to
nobody except manufacturers and retailers
OF tobacco.
Coming to the question of a bounty on
sugar he said 1T would amount, on the
basis OF present production, to between
seven and eight millions a years
This was the first time in the his
tory OF the country that it was proposed
to pay bounty To a domestic producer
But no part OF this bounty, he asserted,
would be paid to the grower of beet or
sorghum or cane; every dollar of it would
go to the sugar manufacturer. The pro-
Queer would not receive higher price for
his produce nor would the consumer re-
ceive any benefit from the bounty, for
bounty paid sugar would sell in the mar
kes at the same price precisely as duty
paid refined sugar coming from other coun-
tries.
The courts had invariably held that no
state legislature could authorize a county
or municipality to impose taxes for the pur
pose OF encouraging manufacturers or any
other industrial pursuit II the states
could not do it with unlimited powers of
taXlng) how, Carlisle asked, could the gen
eral government do it!
Referring to the reciprocity amendment,
he said it was proposition to confide to
the Judgement or caprice of the President
alone the determination, not merely of GER
tain facts defined in law, but of the results
and effects of those facts and circum-
stances. The amendment was not recipro-
city. 1t was retaliation pure and simple.
The proposition was TO retaliate on the
people OF the United States by imposing a
duty OF III cents pound on tea, cents a
pound OF coffee and from So to 50 per
cent. on sugar, unless China, Japan, Brazil
and Spain should do certain things over
which consumers in the United States had
no control. The amendment was a mere
political device TO appeal so far as possible
10 an indignant public sentiment and check
for the time being the rising cloud of OPP
position to the extreme policy of protec-
ton.
Senator Allison criticised several of
MIR. Carlisles statements and denied
their accuracy. He (Allisonj differed from
Carlisle absolutely as to the effect of the
bill, and gave it as his belief that it would
reduce the revenues to an amount between
forty and forty five million dollars.
Coming down to the sugar question he
had conversed with the planters of
Louisiana, who had come to Washington,
and there was not one of them who
did not say the proposed bounty would
stimulate immensely the production of sugar
in Louisiana and be a great boon to tham
But now the Senator from Louisiana (Gip-
som charged that to Congress was dis
eliminating against that industry. If it
were true that all Louisiana sugar planters
sought no bounty and denounced it. and
declared it unconstitutional, they might
find Congress that would take them at
their word. He believed the bill was, on
the whole, fair ore to every section
OF the country. As protection
measure, he did not believe it's general
effect would be to operate harshly on one
section OF the country. as against another
section. He thought some Of the duties
many of them-too high. and said so more
than once on the floor of the Senate 1t
should have d fair trial and if il proved
beneficial, as he thought it would, it would
settle the question of tariff for many
years to come.
Gray spoke briefly and Aldrich closed
the debate. The Senate then proceeded to
vote on the conference report Paddock,
Pettigrew and Plumb, Republicans voted
in the negative.
| The following is the vote:
Yeas-Aldrich, Allen, Allison, Blair,
Cameron, Casey, Chandler, Cullon, Davis
Dixon, Edmunds, Evarts, Frye Hale,
Hawley, Hoar, Ingalls,, Jones, of Ne
vada; Mcmillan, Henderson, Mitchell,
Moody, Pierce, Piatt, Power, Sanders.
Sawyer, Sherman, Spooner, Stewart
tockbridge, Wilson, of Iowa; Wolcott-33.
Nays-Barbour, Bate, Blackburn, Blod-
gett, Butler, Carlisle, Cockrell, Coke, Col
quit, Daniel, German, Gray, Hampton,
Harris, Hearst Kenna, Morgan, Paddock.
Pasco, Pettigrew, Plumb, Pugh, Ransom.
Regain, Voorhees,, WaltlalI, Wilson, of
Marpland-27.
The following pairs were ANNOUNCED
'Fellor and Berry, Dolph and Brown, Far
well, and Paine, Quay and Faulkner, Mer-
rlll and Vance. Davis and Gibson, Hiscock
and Jones, of Arkansas; Higgins and Nc
Pherson, Squire and George, Turpie and
Washburne, and Vest and Stanford. In
addition, Call and Eustis were paired with
Pettigrew and Paddock, who voted in the
negative.
So the conference report was agreed to
and now the tariff bill needs only the SIP
natures of the presiding officers of both
houses and the President of the United
StrteS.
The House concurrent resolution to cor
rect the enrolment of the tariff bill was
agreed to-
The conference report was agreed to on
the signal service bill. The House bill to
enable the postmaster general to test at
small towns and villages the practicability
OF the free delivery system, passed Also
the House bill to set apart a certain tract
of land in California as forest reservation
Adjourned.