The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-10-01
PASSED BY THE SENATE
The Conference Report Adopted By IS
Yeas 10 27 Nays.
The Bill Now Awaits the Signature
OF the Presiding Officers of the
House and Senate and
the President.

A resolution continuing the select COM
mittee on irrigation and reclamation of
arid lands during the present congress
was agreed to.
The deficiency bill Of sl0,Sl6 for the
compensation Of members passed. A
motion to rec onsider by Mr.. Morgan was
entered.
The conference report on the tariff bill
was taken up.
Carlisle asserted that the bill as ii now
stood excepting sugar and molassesj, re-
moved from the free list and placed on
the dutiable list more than il took from
the dutable list and placed on the free
list. He also asserted the bill would re-
duce revenues and increase taxation.
Unless all his calculations are at fault.the
average rate of duty under this conference
bill and administrative bill on dutiable
articles would be 60 per cent, instead of
45% per cent under the existing law. Car
Isle went on to give figures as 10 in
creased taxation under the confer
ence bill. In order TO compensate
for the enormous increase OF taxation,
the tax Of 2 cents pound (amountng TO
$3.50, 600 was to be taken off tobacco. The
removal of that tax would relieve no man
and be beneficial TO nobody except the
manufacturers and retailers of tobacco.
Coming to the question OF the bounty ON
sugar, he said il would amount, on the
basis of present production, 70 between
seven and eight million dollars a year.
This was the first time in the history of
the country that il was proposed TO pay
bounty to a domestic producer. No part
of the bounty, he asserted, would be paid
to the grower of beet, or sorghum, or cane.
Every dollar of il would go to the sugar
manufacturer. The producer would not
receive higher price for his pro-
duce, nor would the consumer
receive any benefit from the bounty, for
the bounty-paid sugar would sell in the
same markets and at the same price pre-
cisely as duty-paid refined sugar coming
from other countries. The courts had in
variably held that no state legislature
could authorize a county or municipality
to pass laws levying taxes for the purpose
of encouraging manufactures or any other
industrial pursuit. IL the states could not
do il with unlimited powers for taxing)
how, Carlisle asked, could the general
government do it. Referring TO the re-
ciprocity amendment, he said il was
proposition to confide to the judgment or
caprice of the president alone the deter
mination not merely Of certain facts de-
| fined in the law, but the results and ef-
| fects of those facts and circumstances.
| The amendment was not reciprocity-it
was retaliation, pure and simple. The
| proposition was one 10 retaliate on the
people of the United States by imposing a
duty of 10 cents pound on tea, 3 cents
| pound on coffee and from 35 to 80 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 appease, as
| far as possible, indignant public senti-
ment and check for the time being the
rising cloud of opposition to the extreme
policy OF protection.
| Allison criticized several of Carlisle's
statements and denied their accuracy.
| He (Allison) differed from Carlisle abso-
lutely as to the effect of the bill, and gave
| il as his belief that il would reduce rev.
enues TO an amount between $4,000, 900
and A5,OO0,000. Coming down to the
sugar question, he said he had conversed
with planters of Louisiana, who had come
to Washington, and there was not one of
| them who did not say the pro-
posed bounty would stimulate inn
mensely the product of sugar in
Louisiana, and he great boom TO them,
but now the senator from Louisiana
| (Gibsonl charged the conferees with dis
eliminating against that industry. IL it
were true that all Louisiana sugar planters
spurned the bounty and denounced il and
declared IL unconstitutional, they might
find congress that would take them at
their word. He believed that the bill on
the whole was fair one for every section
of the country as protective measure,
and he did not believe its 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-were too high. and had said so
| more than once on the fioor OF the senate
He hoped the bill would have fair test,
and IL il proved beneficial, as he believed,
il would settle the tariff question for many
years to come.
Gray spoke briefly and Aldrich closed
| the debate.
The senate proceeded TO vote on the
conference report. Paddock, Pettigrew
and Plumb republicansD voted i'm the
negative. The following is the vote:
Yeas-Aldrich, Allen, Allison, Blair. Cam
eron, Casey, Chandler, Cullom. Dawes,
Dixon, Edmunds, Evarts, Frye, Hale,
Hawley, Hoar, ingalls,, Jones (of NevadaJ, !,
Mcmillan, Manderson, MITCHELL Moody,
Pierce, Plat, Power. Sanders, Sawyer,
Sherman, Spooner, Stewart, Stockbridge,
Wilson (of Iowa., Wolcott-33. Nays
Barbour, Bate, Blackburn, Blodgett, But
Ter, Carlisle, Cockrell, Coke, Colquitt,
Daniel, German, Gray, Hampton, Harris,
Hearst, Kenna, Morgan, Paddock, Pasco,
Pettigrew, Plumb, Pugh. Ransom, Rea-
gan, Voorhees,, Walthall, Wilson (of
Marylandl-27.
The following pairs were announced: /:
Teller and Berry. Dolph and Brown, Far
well and Payne, Quay and Faulkner, Nor
rill and Vance, Davis and Gibson, His
cock and Jones Of Arkansas. Higgins and
Mcpherson, Squire and George, Turpie
and Washburn, Vest and Stanford. Call
and Eustis we're paired with Pettigrew
and Paddock, who voted in the negative.
So the conference report was agreed 20,
and now the tariff bill needs only the sig.
natures OF the presiding officers OF both
houses and the president Of the United
| States.
The house concurrent resolution To cor
rect the enrolment of the tariff bill was
agreed 10.
| The conference report was agreed 20 OH
the signal service bill.
House bill TO enable the postmaster
general to test at small towns and viii
lages the practicability ofthe free delivery
system passed; also house bill 10 set apart
certain tract Of land in California as a
forest reservation.
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