The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-09-22
STILL WASTE TIME
Discussions in the Senate Drag Their
Weary Length.
The Debate on Federal Election Laws
Bitter and Tedious.
THE SUGAR QUESTION is DISCUSSED
Claus SpreckIes Is in the City and of
Course His Presence Is Expected
to Have Some Weight.

WAsHINGTON, Sept. 22-[Special -
81 expect the debate in the house owe
the bill repeating the federal election
laws to be as acrimonious and long in
duration as was the debate in the senate
when the democrats filibustered against
the force bill" said Representative Bur
rows, Of Michigan, to day. "The repub
licans in the house are determined that
the bill shall never pass until the demo
Gratis bring in and force the adoption of
cloture. Our blood is up and we intend
to make the fur fly when the measure
comes before the house. | presume no
effort will be made to limit the debate
until it has progressed several days.
There will be some Of the hottest
speeches ever heard in the house. Then
the committee on rules viii! try to reach
an agreement to limit the debate.
ave will decline all negotiations, after
which / have no doubt the committee
will force ~cloture. w want to tell them
what we think of them and then compel
them to resort to the thing they have
always denounced. Even after cloture
is reported the republicans will filibuster.
We intend to die in the last ditch |
have no sort of notion that the bill can
pass the senate. The democrats set the
example in dilatory tactics in a flibuster
against the force bill, and now the hen
will come home to roost and their plan
will serve to defeat their own measure.
The bill will soon come before the house,
but | don't expect it to pass until the
senate disposes of the silver repeal bill,
as If might go to the senate and displace
that measure if action was taken upon it
before the senate passed upon silver"
But a few more days will be given by
the house committee on ways and means
to tariff hearings. These days are de.
voted to sugar, and it is likely the pro
~ceedings will be the most interesting of
any which have taken place. Claus
Spreckles, the great sugar producer and
refiner of California and Hawaii, is in the
city and will likely have something to say
to the committee. Mr.. S~prcckles will
probably say that he does not care per
sOnally whether there is a bounty or a
duty, or whether both are abolished, as
to admit sugar free and discourage the
home industry would help him in his i'm
mense sugar producing business in Ha-
waii, especially since the arrangements
by which products from certain countries
como in free of duty under commercial
reciprocity are to be abolished.
Mr.. Spreckles, however, prefers to have
the sugar bounty retained and no duty
placed upon the imported article as at
present. Claus S~preckles is sly. He
comes here under the pretense of looking
after Hawaiian annexation. 1t is proba- {
bic that the bill which will be reported
by the ways and means committee will T
abolish the sugar bounty and place the
duty at l cent a pound upon the raw I
article, but it is believed that while the
senate may, for the purpose of raising C
revenue, adopt the duty feature, it will
insist upon continuing the bounty for at
least a few years. Many million dollars
have been invested in beet sugar factories
and thousands of farmers and others
have engaged in the production of sugar
beets under the inducements held out bv
the bounty law. To repeal it now would
be gross deception and rank injustice,
it is thought the senate will not
endorse.
"A bill has been introduced in congress-
% annex the territory of Utah to the
state of Nevada. 1t is we'll known that W
he population Of the sage brush state
las been steadily declining for years. 5(
n 1880 it had a little over 62, 600 inhabi
ants, while in 1890 the number was less ia
han 10000. 1t has lost in population
lnce the last census, so that at present II
he number of its inhabitants probably
loes not exceed 30 700, and depopulation fl
,Oes on. Yet Nevada, with this small TO
lumber of people and with comparatively
resources, has as much &c
in the senate of the United States -
New York, and her senators are now
onspicuouS in using it to obstruct, and -