The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-03
THE FOREIGN MARKET.
Senator Hale Makes q Strong
Reciprocity Speech.
SHERMAN OPPOSED TO BLAINE.
Surplus Will Not Be Large This Year,
if there is Any.
Senate Holds Night session-rarin Ds-
bate Growing Interesting-Pubiic Debt
statement-House Discusses the.Assas-
sination Of Gen. CIsyton.


the south. but also with that on the north.
The House bill in relation to lotteries
was reported from the possotfice commit
tee and placed on the calendar, with no.
titea;ion by Sawyer that he would ask its
consideration as soon as the tariff bill was
passed.
The tariff bill was then taken up and the
sugar schedule considered. Carlisle gave
notice that he would move to strike out all
the paragraphs relative 10 sugar bounties.
Hale offered the reciprocity amendment
OF which he gave notice on June 10, and
addressed the Senate upon the desirability
OF such an interchange OF products IS the
amendment proposed. He said this had
been Subject which had given rise to the
closest attention. and had resulted in grave
and pertinent suggestions from eminent
public men of the 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 condi-
tions with the greatest impaiience. The
people OF all these countries had common
interest with the people of the United
States. Alluding to the late Pan-American
congress. Hale said it proved that some
considerations which had their influence
in the United States were also moving in
the minds OF the eminent men from the
sister republics who took part in the pro-
ccedings of that congress, and that they
pointed TO one sure, inevitable end. an in
crease of trade between the United States
and those people. Those considerations
which applied TO an extension of trade and
increased interchange for 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 represented the sorghum and beet
sugar districts that he was not in antagonism
with them. If those senators objected to
the policy OF trying TO secure benefits from
these countries for partial repeal of the
duty on sugar, he asked them how much
more they ought TO objecl to unreserved
repeal of these duties. Ii would be policy
not much short of lunacy TO repeal the
sugar duties. unless the repeal was used to
obtain benefits for the products of Amer
lean labor. To him one thing was as sure
as The tides, and that was that the policy
suggested by the president and secretary of
STATE. and which had secured the attention
anu approval of the wisest men in the last
thirty years, was policy that had come
10 stay with the American people. There
never was time more fitted to try the
plan OF experiment. than now, and to his
mind the amendment which he offered was
the most fitting solution of the question.
Allison made a long statement OF the re-
ceipts and expenditures OF the government
and The probable effect of the tariff bill on
finances. He said the total expenditures
for the fiscal year would be $4l1 900 600,
and the total revenues, including postal
receipts and everything, would be $780,
10000. If there were no tariff bill to be
passed and If the situation remained un-
changed, there would De q surplus OF reve-
nue. over expenditures for the fiscal wear of
SIS, 600, ,o0e. He had not included in the
expenditures the amount that would be
paid for silver or claims against the goy-
eminent other than those which have
passed congress. He figured out an in
crease of $1,000, 900 OF revenue under the
pending bill, as against decrease of $60. .5OO.-
600 from putting sugar and other articles on
the tree list, so that $33 sec. Geo had to be
taken off from the surplus OF $49. .0O0, 900.
leaving some SIS, ,00c .000 surplus at the end
OF the year. paying nothing on the sinking
fund. Taking into account the balance
now in the treasury (S107 coo o0o) and this
surplus. Allison calculated that the secre-
tary of the treasury would have s7s,00O.0oo
on the first of July, 1901. unless in the
meantime he redeemed ~ per cent bonds.
as he tAllison) hoped the secretary would
proceed 10 do without delay. In his jadg-
ment il was worse thing TO take off the
sugar duties. he had no fear there would
be any danger from it 10 the treasury,
certainly not within several years to come.
He was in favor OF further extension OF re-
clprocaI trade, but hoped that in any such
arrangement il would be seen to that the
United States had its just share of the bar
gain.
Gibson offer>d an amendment to the
sugar schedule BY adding the words
syrup of the beet, sorghum or sugar
cane" He made an argument against the
sugar bounty proposition, and said it was
a miserable dwindling away from Blaine's
broad and generous proposition of full
reciprocity.
sherman expressed his views on the
subject of reciprocity. and spoke of the
difficulties in the way of reciprocity by
treaty. The first proposition OF Hale's
amendment was an almost startling one.
Ii authorized the president of the
United States, without further legis-
lation. to declare the ports
OF the United States free and open 10 all
the products of any nation of the Ameri-
can hemisphere upon which no export
duties are imposed. Was Cuba, be asked.
a nafion9 He knew Senator Hale said to-
day that he meant TO include Cuba. Blu.
was Canada embraced in that list o.
nations. He had asked the senator tina.
question and the senator had replied: "No.
thar is quite q different thing" But il
any reciprocal trade arrangements
were made with any country they
eught TO be made with Canada.
He went on to criticize unfavorably
HaIe's amendment as one,that would allow
the free importation OF wool, COPPER. zine
iron. gold, silver, lead ores, etc, but was
informed by Hale that his amendment hau
not been carefully drawn, and was in
tens ed only to propose the principle al
reciprocity. His amendment was intende
10 apply TO only three or four articles
suear. coffee. rubber and nilrates
Hale was reminded By Sherman thai
Cuns produced no coffee and no rubber. sa
that the arrangement with Cuba eonI0
only be as to the article OF sugar.
Hale-Is there IS nothing to trade or wi;h
Advantage then there will be no trade rasde
TIE pIsn / suggest is compreke1ssve bat II l.
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that settles the quesuon.
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