The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-04
In the senate

WASHINGTON, Sept. Call offered a
resolution, which was referred to the com
mittee on foreign relations, declaring the
murder of General Barrundia on the
steamer Acapulco, by the authorities of
Guatemala, while under the protection of
the flag of the United States, an insult to
the people of the United States and de-
manded prompt action for redress.
The tariff bill was taken up, the sugar
schedule being under 90 consideration. Ed
munds addressed the Senate, he referred
to the assertion in Vance's speech last
evening, that the farmer bore all the bur-
den of the customs duties while be had no
benefit from them. E lmunds went on to
mention the mica, tobacco, rice, pitch, tar
and turpenJine tax which benefited the
farmers of North Carolina. Vance de-
ciared there was nothing on the free list
except rice on which the duty was re-
duced. Coming to the question of reci-
procity Edmunds recalled the history and
practical operations luxurious to the
United Stales) of the Canadian treaty of
1851
He opposed placin sugar on the free list,
and as to reciprocity with Central and
South America, said the demand of the
country for commodities did not depend as
much upon the members thereof as upon
the state of it's society, its wealth and its
civilization. When he looked at any Cen
Iral American state he thought speaking
with reserve and conservatism that any
one hundred average people in North
America had, during the last year,
consumed more OF the products OF
merchandise food and clothing that go
to make up the comfort and happinessof
mankind than any LODI average people in
the Central aud South American state
! Therefore the expectation of the Unites
States being able to dispose of large ind
crease of its products there was, in his
opinion, one of the greatest ideas that bril-
| liant men or sober statesmen had of late
| fallen into. He did not mean, however,
that he was not willing and glad to try il
on the plan of receiving any of the products
of those countries which the United States
did not produce, and giving to them pro
ducts which they did not produce.
| Morgan addressed the Senate in support
of the amendment heretofore proposed by
him as substitute for Aldrich's reel
procity amendment. 1t provides for q
duty of 3 per cent. ad valDrem on corn,
wheat rye, barley, oats, hay, straw, pota-
toes, cotton, live domestic animals. or
asses, mules and horses,s and that wffer
any such articles are eXporeeda premium Of
per cent. shall be paid on their value tt
the owner.
Voorhees, addressed the Senate His
speech was vivid and picturesque denun
citation of the Mckinley bill as the anti
Christ of all preceding legislation.
Evarts spoke of the various reciprocity
amendments, and criticised them as being
Objectionable to the Favored nations
clause of international treaties. He con
cluded by saying: MAKE your tariff a.
you think right; let others make theirs a:
they think right, and when you reach, al
some have reached, position that you car
devour the substance of other nation:
better by free trade than you can preserv,
your own substance by protection, ther
change your laws.'
Gray complimented Hale on his amend
ment which meant nothing less than abso
lutte free trade throughout the western
he misphere.
Hale corrected the statement as Il
Canada, and said he never had any lnten
ton of including that country.
There was but small attendance
the evening session which was occupied
by Pierce in a speech advocating reclpro
city.