Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1890-09-18

Senate to embOdy In the tariff bill, when
We repeal duties upon foreign products
which contribute to revenue only, provi-
sion which shall secure for the products Of
our farms and our workshops an increased
| market in the countries upon whose arti-
| cles Of production duties are so repealed.
This principle is plainly involved in the
amendment which has Teen offered by the
Finance Committee. 1t Is departure
from our previous policy. 1t broadens
| and widens that policy. 1t is great step
| in the direction of opening to the produc
| tion of our labor the markets of Central
and Southern America aud the islands of
| the great sea which lies between the con
/ tinents. 1t commits to the President, who
we know by his communications to the
| Senate, is in favor of this movement
powers which | am entirely willing should
| be placed in his hands. That he will ex-
! ercise them wisely and in the true interest
| of the American labor no man who knows
| his present attitude and his past history
can doubt.
And, upon the question whether the
\ situation of our finances Is such that we
can aifort TO repeal the entire duty upon
sugar we must trust somebody, and the
Finance COMMITTEES, which is the guardian
of the financial policy of the Senate, ought
TO be authority, and the amendment offer
ed by the Senator from Rhode Island who
Is in charge of the bill, must carry with
1t a. the conclusion of the Finance Com
mittee their belief that there will be no
| deficit in our revenues in the next fiscal
year, which begins July /, 1891. Under
this amendment. Mr.. President, and taken
in connection with the great measures for
the revival of our shipping interests which,
In charge of my colleague, have passed the
Senate and which now await favorable
action from the House of Representatives,
the principe which | have contended for
can be fully tried out; and then the Re
publican policy for the upbuiiding of the
American commercial marine and this new
feature of Republican policy for the open
ing of new markets to the countries south
of US will proceed hand in hand There is
nothing IN either of these great measures
that does not. in actual operation inure 70
the benefit of American labor, no bar is
let down IN the great protective system To
which the Republican party l. committed,
aud all these measures IN successful opera
tion will increase our trade. our manufact-
ures, and the market for all our farm and
other products and Will stand ss a monu-
ment Of the wisdom and patriotism Of an
Administration which for the first time
OF the Government
Mr.. Carlisle asked Mr., Hale whether or
not his amendment applied to Cuba ami
Porto Rico.
Mr.. Hale answered that he had so intend
ed il.
Mr.. Allen asked Mr.. Hale whether the
latter favored unlimited reciprocity with
the Argentine Republic.
Mr.. Hale answered that he WAS not con
stdering the question Of wool and hides
The limitation on reciprocity would be a
matter of arrangement.
Mr. Plumb inquired of Mr.. Hale whether
one Of the results OF reciprocity would not
be to stimulate the production Of sugar in
Brazil and, if so, whether that would be a
stimulus to the production of sugar in the
United States
Mr. Hale in reply, expressed the hope
that the experiment of producing beet and
and sorghum sugar in the United States
would BE- success; but there had been no
demonstration yet, he said, that there
would be greatly increased product of
sugar from those sources.
Mr.. Plumb said that he had been told
that the production Of sugar In Brazil was
declining every year.
Mr.. Aldrich remarked that tho falling
oil in the product OF sugar in Brazil was
not owing 10 the beet sugar Of Europe. but
TO the decentralization in labor which
followed the emancipation of the slaves.
He had no doubt that the production II
sugar would increase when there was a re-
coyrry from that condition of things
Mr.. Hale agreed fully with Mr. AldriCh
Mr.. Evarts asked attention to what lie
called very pregnant point" That
was 10 a sentence in the letter from Bra