The Daily bulletin., 1890-06-27
Accepted by The United States
Senate Slight Changes in
Sugar Schedules.
stia!nH'g Views and FO-
iicy Rejected.
SoiOnel nar-ckei. GA the situation.
SAN FRANCIsCO. June l0lh.

SAS FRANCISCO, June 10th.
The Senate Finance Committee
has reported the Tariff bill with
amendments but its consideration
has been postponed till July lst.
The amendments are numerous but
unmportant except IN the sugar
and iron schedules. The Senate
Committee made the following
changes in the sugar schedule of
the House Bill:
In the sugar schedule . cents per
pound bounty is extended to maple
sugar. No bounty will be given for
less than 800 pounds of sugar per
year. The persons who apply for or
receive bounty and not entitled
thereto shall pay fine not exceed
ing $4,000, or be imprisoned for n
period not exceeding five years, or
both. Sugar between l3 and lG,
Dutch standard, shall pay a duty
Of $40 cents per pound instead of
being free, as provided for by the
House Bill. Sugar above lG, Dutch
standard, Clio cents per pound in
stead of 40 of 4 cent.
This amendment IS favorable to
reiincrs. The House Bill made
raws between l3 and IL, Dutch
standard, free the Senate bill makes
it subject to Il duty Of 5000 per
ton. -As seventy.iive per cent of
Islands sugar does not grade above
No. l3, Dutch standard, this small
protective duty will not be OF much
advantage. 1t will chiefly benefit
reiiner5 who are further cared for
by an increase in the duty on re-
fined to 5000 from $500 per ton.
This bill as amended will almost
certainly be accepted by the House,
Mr.. Mckinley being reported as
saying that he regarded all the
amendments by the Senate Com
mttee as uninportant.
The duty on rice is fixed as fol-
lows: rice flour and rice meal 1
cent per pound, reduced from !
cents.
BIAINE's SUGAR POLICY.
Secretary Blaine has been heard
from on the Sugar Tariff. lie writes
to Ex-Mayor Cony, Augusta, Maine /:
"iou are in error in supposing that
| am opposed to sugar being admit
ted duty free, but to the proposed
method of making it free. If in the
pending tariff bill sugar is placed
ON the free list We give to certain
countries free market for S95, ,000,-
900 OF their products, while they are
not asked to open their markets tc
the free admission of single dollar
Of American products. We ought
to have, in exchange for free sugar
from certain countrics,a a free market
for breadstuffs and provisions, be.
sides various fabrics from all parts
Of our country. In short, we ought
to secure for tree sugar free market
for $50, 100000 or S70,000,00C
worth of our own products. 1t will
not require a reciprocity treaty tc
secure this great boon. The Tariff
bill can contain all the necessary
conditions. Legislative power is
able to secure the desired end.
"Within the last twenty years we
have given the countries South Of us
free admission for nearly $50, 900, ,00t
worth of their products without re.
ceiving any advantage in exchange
If sugar be now made uncondilion
ally tree. we shall have given to th,
Latin-American countries free ad
mission for $3.50, 1000, 900 of thei
products. 1t is time, l think, Il
look out for some reciprocal adyan
tages. We are very rich nation
but not rich enough TO trade on this
unequal basis"
This is very suggestive utter
ance by the Secretary Of State, fol
lowing so close upon the Pan-Amcr
lean Congress. 1t is confession
that his policy in calling that con
gress, presiding over and manipulat
ing it, has been deliberately ira
velsed by the leaders of the Rcpub
lcan party in the House, and it serves
to explain the sudden change o
front by Mckinley in the Ways an,
Means Committee when, without an,
outside pressure, his original pro
posal to reduce the duty on suga
30 per cent was changed to fre
sugar, with compensa,ing bount!
to American producers. About tha
time Blaine had closed the Pan
American Congress. His arbitration
proposals had been accepted and th
project of reciprocal trade with tn
United States was TO be submitte
to their respective legislatures b
the Latin-American Governments.
BLAINE LAID OUT.
This programme, if carried ou'
would have made Blaine the mo,
popular rs well ~ the strongest ma
in the Republican party, # not
the United States, hence the polit
clans, who have personal aims e'
clusively, thought it necessary
thwart and humiliate him, whic
was done by placing sugar on I'll