The advocate., 1891-08-19
SENATOR PLUMB TELLS TALES.

2, 1891, the agricultural appropriation
bill then pending, Senator Plumb said:
The Senate last year passed an amend
ment giving bounty of 2 cents pound on
maple sugar, which is not only not ma
tiOnal industry, but is the production Of an
article of luxury. After it was passed as q
matter personal to himself, on statements
made by members of the finance commit
tee, that it would help to elect him (Mr
MOrrill to the Senate from Vermont, il
was kept on because his colleague (Mr. Ed
munds) threatened in writing that if it was
not kept on he would vote against the tariff
bill.
Mr.. President, do not like these things,
but they are facts. The whole machinery
of the United States government in regard
to the tariff and the whole system, revOlves
around the bounty of 2 cents q pound on
maple sugar, and a system which has been
called national system was made tender
to few people who own maple sugar trees
in the state of Vermont. That is fact.
do not wonder now that he does not want
competition. I do not wonder that he il
opposed to the people who want sorghum
sugar, under the circumstances, to make il
a national industry in fact, and produce all
the sugar necessary to be used by the peo.
pie of the United States in competition with
his sap-boilers in Vermont. The west, and
all that country interested in general pro.
iects, have revolved around the minor inter.
eets of Vermont for years, and will continue
to do so, have no doubt. Therefore he in
terposes his opposition, honestly, no doubt
Just as he has advocated the interests oi
small national banks in Vermont against
the people of the United States; just as hC
has stuck by all things that concern that lit
tie state, as he ought to do, of course, in
which he has found concurrence on thiC
side of the chamber and the other, to the
detriment of the people of the United
States. But, Mr.. President, when it is pro
posed that something shall be done which
interests the people of the west, which help
the great body of the agriculturalists of The
United States, which is truly national in
dustry, the Senator sticks in the Craw.
PLUMB's ARRANGEMENT OF THE FINANCE
COMMITTEE.
Senator Plumb thus continued tC
"speak out in meeting"
The finance committee has been against
the interests of all the people of the United
States. It has put it's hand ON their throats
It has deprived them of a proper volume oi
circulating medium. It has set in its pri-
vate councils, denied them what they needed
for their own development, standing by the
interest of credit, standing by the interest
of fixed capital. The time will come when
that committee and all of the people who
stand by interests of that kind will be over
thrown.
Senator Morrill, thus sought to bur
lesque Mr.. Plumb:
Mr.. President, am very much alarmed
at the prediction of the Senator from Kan.
sas that / am 80 soon to be overthrown
young as l am. So far as this question il
concerned. believe / have been an early
and constant advocate of the production OF
sugar from sorghum, and have never fal
tered in my support of it. l have stood by
that distinguished chemist, who is now sta
toned in New York, in relation to these OK.
periments.
Thus he compliments Senator Plumb:
The Senator from Kansas is a free lance.
He does not, presume, now wish to be as
sociated with any party whatever, except by
himself. Laughter. do not propose
myself TO retaliate upon him by reviewing