St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-26


enue Purposes Only in Order
to Save the Sugar Industry
from Ruin-Quay Gives Notice
of Three Important Amend
ments.
WASHINGTON, July 25.-In the morn
Ing hour in the senate the conference
report on the legislative, executive and
judicial appropriation bill was agreed
to. Mr.. Allen presented resolution
directing the attorney general to trans
nit to the senate full copies Of all cor
respondence (telegraphic or otherwise),
which passed between the department
OF justice and the railroads centering
in Chicago from June to the present
time. He asked immediate considera-
ton. but Mr.. Platt objected, and it went
over.
A resolution was adopted to investi-
gate the office of Col. Charles Tracey.
secretary of the board of charities of
the District of Columbia.
Col. Tracey is brother of Gen.
Tracey. the New York congressman.
Mr.. Vest. in the absence of MIR.
Voorhees,, chairman of the finance COM
mit!ee, who is ill, called up the confer.
ence report ON the tariff bill. He i'm
mediately yielded to Mr.. Coke. of
Texas, who secured the passage of a
bill granting to the Arkansas, Texas &
Mexican Railway company right of
way through the Indian territory.
At LOS p. m. Mr.. Catfery took the
floor and resumed the speech he began
yesterday afternoon. but his remarks
did not
AROUSE MUCH INTEREST.
He spoke principally as to the Justice
of the duty OH sugar.
Mr.. CatfeIy plunged Immediately into
the discussion of the complicated meth
ods of refining sugar III louisiana.
which sugar went into competition with
the sugars refined by the trust he
contended that the bounty provision Of
the Mckinley law prevented the exten-
sive refining of sugar by the producer.
He made an elaborate arg ument to
prove that. in virtue Of the Importance
of the contract made with the sugar pro-
ducers in the bounty provision of the
existing law. the Louisiana sugar pso-
pie asked no more than was their due
when they asked for tariff ample to
continue the existence of their indus
try. He maintained that a fair ad
valorem rate OF 45 per cent would FUR
nish sufficient protection both to the
producer and the refiner. He predicte d
that the Louisiana cane grower, wit h
the new facilities coming into use.
t. l.n oh 10 hs1A n ic
own against the sugar producers of the
world.
Louisiana. he said, was Democratic
state and did not desire to stand in the
way of tariff reform, but he insisted
that in marching to the goal of tariff re-
form his party should no: trample the
form of his PROSTATE state. = He would
not
FOUL HIS OWN NEST.
If the tariff reform measure as pre-
pared infripged upon his own ideas of
what it should be. he should vote for ii,
unless it struck down his own state.
''Do you want a protective duty on
sugar?" asked Mr.. Stewart Pop. New.
phatically. IL want the duty on sugar
laid purely for revenue purposes. The
question presented is whether great
Industry, built up under revenue. tar
iff shall be stricken down by a change
of theory"
In concluding, he said that while the
position taken by the Louisiana Demo-
Gratis may have somewhat alienated
them from their Democratic colleagues,
the fire of Democracy still burned in
their breasts, but II the tariff reform
was pushed too far, he said it in sorrow,
not In anger, they would be compelled
70 ttn oil lcA
entered an emphatic protest against the
provision in the sugar schedule continu-
ing III force the Hawaiian treaty, ad
mitting sugar from those islands free,
which, he said, gave the sugar trust
$4,000, 900 annually. "As loyal Demo-
crat, the position / have been obliged
e take has almost
TORN Ny HEART
out, but If the alternative comes my
allegiance to my state is paramo unit"
Mr.. Hinton said that from the first he
had recognized the necessity for COM
promise, and had voted for many
amendments made that did not reflect
his personal opinions in order to get a
bill that would co mmand 4S votes.
He believed in duty on coal and iron
for purely revenue purposes with such
Incidental protection as followed.
He applied The same doctrine to sugar
that he did to coal and iron. Forty
per cent on sugar he thought a fair rev.
enue duty. He was in ia vor of the
one-eighth differentlal on refined su-
gars.
Mr.. Quay (Rep., Pa.) gave notice Of
three amendments he should offer to the
pending motion before the senate:
First, to amend Mr.. Villas motion that
the senate recede from the q differen-
tial in the sugar schedule, so as to re-
cede from the whole of the sugar sched-
ule; the second, to add to Mr.. Gray's
motion. that the senate insist on all of
its amendments. that it reced de from the
sugar schedule; and the third, to add
to Mr.. Gray's motion another motion,
viz: That it reeede from the differen-
tial in favor of the refiners.
AT 2:33 the senate went into eXecu-
tive session, and an hour lat er ad-
journed.