The Portland daily press., 1890-09-03
TO SECURE RECIPROCITY.
Mr.. Hale Speakes in Explanation of
His Amendment.

His Amendment.
WASHINGTON, September 2.-ln the
Senate, today, the sugar schedule of the
tariff bill was considered and Mr.. Hale Of
fered the reciprocity amendment Of which
he had given notice June 10. He then ad-
dressed the Senate. The desrability of
such an interchange of products as his
amendment proposed, he said. had been a
subject which had given rise to the closest
attention and resulted in grave and pertinent
suggestions from eminent public men in the
United States in the last 80 years. Whoever
had seen the gradual falling off of American
trade with Central and South America
must have witnessed those conditions
with the greatest impatience. The
people of all those countries had COM
mon interest with the people of the United
States. Mr.. Hale said the late Pan-Amer-
ican Congress had proved that the same
considerations which had their influence in
the United States were also moving In the
minds of the eminent men of the sister
republics who took part in the proceedings
sure and inevitable end, an increase of trade
and commerce between the United States
and those people. Those considerations
which applied to the extension of trade and
not only to the nations of Central and South
America but to the islands of the Spanish
main.
MI. bale referred to the reciprocity mes
sage of President Harrison and Mr.. Blaine's
letter and attitude in support of it and to
subject; also to Mr.. Frelinghuysen's letter
of December II, 1884, transmitting the
Foster treaty with Spain; also to the recip-
rocity resolution offered in the Senate by
Mr.. Aldrich in December 1886 and to the
report of Abram S. Hewett in the House to
carry into effect the convention between the
United States and Mexico. Never until this
year had it been claimed, said he, that any
body In public or private life engaged In an
attempt to broaden the market for Ameri-
can farms and workshops in countries not
rivals in the same products, was thereby op-
posing the system of protection to. American
labor. That had never been claimed until
now. Mr.. Hale quoted in support of his po--
sition an article from the New York Tribune
and asked if the disastrous experiment tried
in 1877, when the duty on coffee was removed,
was to be now. repeated in the article of
sugar. He also read extracts from Mr.
Blaine's two letters to Mr.. Frye and COM
mented upon the fact that while the balance
ted States in many countries. the result was
much more favorable in regard to Mexico
when American imports were near
ly as large as the exports. This
was largely. he said, because of
the opening Of railroad communication tna WIN
Il
the passage of the steamship and postal sub
sidy bills passed some weeks ago by the Sem
ate. With the reciprocity proc osed in his
amendment and these bills enacted into a
law, increased interchange OF products
would inevitably follow.
MIR. Hale referred to trade tables with Cen
trail and South America to show the unfavor-
able position of the United States. In re-
gard to these countries, he said there was
sentiment among the people that something
should be done to remedy that condition.
That sentiment was growing into move
ment that would have some effect somewhere
at some time. 1t was a sentiment which
would not be effectively resisted.
Coming directly to the question of putting
sugar on the free list, Mr.. Hale said no one
could tell what benefit could come to the con-
sumer by the unreserved repeal of the su-
gar duties; no one could tell whether
the prices of sugar might not be proportion
ately increased by sugar producing coun-
tries. 1t had been urged against his amend
ment in certain quarters that none Of these
sugar producing countries with which the
arrangements IOf reciprocity were desired
would be induced, under any form OF treaty,
to give the United States such advantages as
were set forth in it. The answer to that
of those countries that did not greatly desire
the repeal of American duties on their pro-
ducts. There was hardly one of them which
had not expressed its willingness to enter
into reciprocal obligations and arrangements
that would result in the direction indicated.
Mr.. Hale quoted letter from Brazilian
merchant approving the idea of reciprocity
and saying that Brazil was in position to
make such reduction in duties that the
products America might enter Brazil at little
lower price than the products of Europe.
Mr.. Allison said, if the tariff bill passed,
he figured out decrease of 333 millions in
the revenue if sugar was put on the free list,
leaving surplus of IA or 10 millions at the
end of the year. He favored taking up the
question of putting sugar on the free list and
favored further extension of reciprocal
trade.
Mr.. Sherman thought that his own amend
ment providing for reciprocity with Cadada
and that offered bg Mr.. AldTich opened the
door wide enough.
Mr.. Hale said reciprocityswith the people
south of US and the people north of US were
Of very different kinds. By commerce with
southern countries articles would be admit
ted which did not compete with the articles
produced by American labor. Reciprocity
with Canada, included the freeEentrance into
the American market of the products of the
Canadian fisheries, the Canadian fields, the
Canadian mines and the Canadian forests.
The Pension List.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.-Pensions have
been granted to the following Maine peo-
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