Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-04
THE CIRCUIT RACES AT SPRINGFIELD.
THE ruFTy-FIRsT CONGRESS.

aC TIdS
 THE FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Senators Discussing the Sugar Sched.-
 uIe-An Address by MT. Edmunds
 Against Reciprocity-Mr. MOrgan's
 Picturesque Remarks-Facts by NIT.
 Evarts.
 WASHINGTON, D. O., Sept. 3.-Mr. Call offered resolution which was referred to the committee on foreign relations declar- ing that 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 was an in suit to the people of the United States, and demanded prompt action by the gov ernment of the United States for the re- dress of that injury and for security against the recurrence of such cases.
 The tariff bill was taken up, the sugar schedule being under consideration.
 Mr. Edmunds addressed the senate. Coming to the question of reciprocity he recalled the history and the practical operation Gnjurious to the United States) of the Canadian reciprocity treaty of 1854. He spoke of the reduction of the duty on coffee three cents pound in 1872, and sta ted on the authority of the American minis ter to Brazil that as soon as that reduction was known at Rio Janeiro the price of cof- fee there was put up three cents @ pound. The same thing occurred, he said, two years afterwards, when coffee was put on the free list. Experience had shown from that day to this that the American con sumer had prodted nothing whatever from taking off that duty. But on the other hand the United States had lost nearly $150,O00, 900 which it would have received from the duty on Brazilian coffee alone. As practical farmer and farmers son, he thought that the farmers in the region where he lived understood that sort of business and were not extremely hungry that he, as one of their representatives, should go into anything of that kind now. If the duty of two cents pound were now taken off sugar he did not believe that the price of sugar would fall two cents 8 pound. It would be apt to turn out as coffee had turned out. He did not want to be led into putting sugar on the list on what he believed to be the fallacious and delusive idea that because sugar was now two cents pound cheaper in London than in New York it would then be the same price in both places. But even if the wholesale price of sugar did fall by means of the removal of the duty the price at the grocers would not fall. Somebody else than the consumer would make the money. As to reciprocity with Central and South America he said that the de- mand of a country for commodities did not depend as much upon num- bers as upon the state of it's society, its wealth and its civilization. When he looked at any Central American or South American state he thought, speaking with conservatism, that any one hundred average people in North America had during the last year consumed more of the products, merchandise, food and clothing that go to make up the comfort and luxury and happiness of mankind than any one thousand average people in the Central or South American states. Therefore the expectation of the United States being able to dispose of large in- crease of it's products there was, in his opinion, one of the greatest illusions that brilliant men or sober statesmen had lately fallen into. He did not mean by that, however, that he was not willing and glad to try it on the plan of receiving those products of those countries which the United States did not produce and giving to them products which they did not pro- duce.
 On motion of MT. Aldrich it was ordered that a recess be taken from 5:30 until 8 p.
 
 sideration of the tariff bill.
 MT. Morgan addressed the senate in sup port of the amendment heretofore proposed by him, as a substitute for MT. Aldrich's reciprocity amendment. It provides for a duty of 8 per cent. ad valorem on corn, wheat, rye, barley, oats, hay straw, pota- toes, cotton, live domestic animals and on asses, mules and horses, and that any of such articles are exported a premium of 3 per cent. shall be paid on their value to | the owner. He opposed the reciprocity amendments and said that the effect of | them would be a surrender to Great Britain, because it would apply to sugar, molasses, hides and coffee, all of which were largely produced in British colonies. | Mir. Voorhees, addressed the senate. The bill, he said, was full of nuggets of gold l for the manufacturers, but was as barren of fruit for the poor man as the tree that was cursed by the savior. Most of MF. Voorhees, speech was devoted to a vivid and picturesque denunciation of the Nc Kinley bill as the anti-christ of all preced- ing legislation.
 MT. Evarts was the next speaker. The staple of democratic oratory on the bill, he said, was that the supporters of protection of American industry were robbers and were hiding and skulking behind evasion, prevarication and fraud; an oratory which was perhaps justified by some round state ment on the republican side that the dem ocratic senators were all mountebanks or the subject of free trade and were not en
 titled to any credit for the principles ol for the arguments which they expressed
 If there was any eredence to be put ir
 the monstrous pretension that every
 burden on imported goods was no
 only borne by the consumer of those
 goods, but that an equal burden wal
 transferred to the shoulders of those wht
 consumed like goods produced in thu
 United States, then the democratic party
 he said, ought to turn free traders to
 morrow. But such vague and genera
 propositions could stand no examination
 Nobody had ever dared to propose to tn
 American people that they could avoit
 tariff burdens by paying their taxes to tn
 taxgatherer, as he went around from doc
 to door. What, then, did senators on tn
 other side mean? There was very grea
 concurrence, he said, between the views o
 the British merchants and those expresses
 on the other side of the chamber. ] , would not be polite and it might not b true to say that the democratic party wa i, on the side of England but it was certain ly polite and creditable to say that Englan was on the side of the democratic party
 The distinction was obvious and valuable } [Quiet laughter on the republican side ' Unity on the inside, independence on th 3 outside should be the watchword wit which to conjure the American people Unity in trade, independence in foreig s manufactures.
 l Death of a We'll Known Landlord. BETHLEHEM, N. H., Sept 3.-Horace W + Wilder, proprietor and founder of u a Centennial house here, died this eveninl s in his fifty-eighth year. He was one ( + the best known men in the White moul l. tains, his ancestors being among the fir @ settlers of the town. He was--a man culture and strict integrity and very cha t itable He leaves wife and three daugl
 ters. His death was the result of cor |. plication of diseases.
 welded at Seattle.
 T OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 3.-A notable we
 ding took place to-day at noon at Trini . cathedral, Dean Gardner officiating. 1T
 contracting parties were Rev. Andre