St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-02
The SUGAR BATTLE OPENS
sENET05 HENDERSON MAKES 4
STRONG PLAY FOB PROTECTION
h Would Result in the Destruc-
tion of the Beet Sugar Indus
try and Cane Sugar Produc-
tion-Peffcr Favors a Bounty
on the Sweets-Harris Lectures
the Senate.

on the Sweets-Harris Lectures
the Senate.
NAsHINGToN.J June IA large horse
hoe of ros as rested on the desk of SEN
ltor Proctor, of Vermont. when the
lenate met at 10 o'clock this morning,
q honor of that gentleman's siXty-third
birthday anniversary.
Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts,, pre-
lented a petition from the New En-
tland Industrial army" asking legisla-
ion which would guarantee work to
he unemployed. 1t was referred to
he committee on rules.
The bill granting additional lands in
lie Hot Springs reservation to the
Berry hospital was passed.
1t was within five minutes of 1880
when the morning business was fill
lshed, and Senator Hill, of New York,
made no effort to get up his resolution
to instruct the bribery committee to
throw open its doors to the public. 1t
went over without prejudice, as did
Senator Dolph's resolution to bring E.
]. Edwards, one of the contumaclous
witnesses, to the bar of the senate for
sontempt. Senator Hill asked unani-
nous consent to consider joint resolu-
tion passed by the house yesterday
giving the secretary of war authority,
under the last Sundry civil apprOpria-
ton act, TO institute condemnation pro-
ceedlngs to secure certain lands near
the battlefield of Gettysourg. Judge
Dallas, he explained, had just held that
lD, hat
enough to warrant cond emnation pro-
ceeiings.
Senator Corkrell, of Missouri. OBJ
jected, insisting that the resolution
should go first TO the committee on
military affairs, and it was so referred.
The tariff bill was then laid before the
senate, and the great battle over
THE SUGAR SCHEDULE
began. The Mckinley law placed raw
sugars on the free list. imposed % cent
duty on refined sugar and gave bounty
of two cents to the sugar grower. The
house bill repealed the bounty and
placed all sugars, raw and refined, ON
the free list. The first bill reported
from the finance committee of the sem
ate gave specific duty of from =. cent
to 1866 cent per pound, according to
polariscopic test. The compromise
amendment, which is the one now
before the senate, made the sugar
Schedule go into effect Jan. l, 1895, the
rates being 40 per cent ad valorem on ali
sugars, raw and refined, one-eighth Of
one cent additional on sugars above
i6 Dutch standard, with an additional
Dne-tenth of one cent pound on sugars
from countries paying export bounties.
1t also continued the sugar treaty with
Hawaii.
Mr.. Manderson took the floor as soon
as Mr.. Jones had formally proposed the
compromise amendment. The sugar
tehedule, he said, was the interesting
schedule of the bill. 1t contained both
sweetness and light. 1t seemed to per-
Sade the whole bill. The bill could not
be touched without. laying hands on
sugar. The senate had even departed
from the consideration of the bill to
make explorations in sugar-not in the
cane fields of Nebraska, but in the CON-
mittee room. The sacoharine principle,
as it impregnated all nature, invaded
every feature of this bill. Mr.. Mander-
FAVOR OF PROTECTION
for the sugar-growing industry of the
country. The consumption of sugar,
he said, was enormous. Almost 5,O00,-
OOO,0O0 pounds of raw sugar had been
consumed last year, representing,
If grown and refined abroad,
grand total of $1S2, 100000 to be
paid to foreigners. Free sugar would
mean the immediate destruction of
the beet sugar industry, and the
gradual extinction of cane sugar pro-
duction in the Southern states. If
properly protected. he prophesied that
before 1905 the beet sugar production
would have SO developed in the North.
and cane sugar in the South, that the
United States could supply the entire
consumption of the country. Beet
industry to the farmers. When devel-
oped to the extent necessary to supply
the home demand, it would afford a
crop of TWO million acres. Was 1t any
wonder that the farmers of the West
wanted a continuation of the sugar
bounty?
Thay were enthusiastic over the pros
pect. 1t was the great boon which they
asked congress to save to them. Every
days labor to man.
No country in the world, Mr.. Man.
derson said, was so we'll adapted to pro-
duce beet sugar as the United States.
Beet growing ultimately would displace
cane growing. Cane contained l3 per
cent of sncrose or crystalline sugar,
sorghum but 9 per cent, while Deets
gave from Is to 10 per cent of crystal
line sugar.
MIR. Manderson denied that in foster
ing the growth of beet and cane sugar
any obligation existed to
PROTECT THE REFINERs.
There was no connection, he declared,
between the sugar grower and the
for the one and everything for the
other.
MIR. ManderSOn gave notice that at the
proper time he would offer as a substi-
tute for the sugar schedule the bounty
provision of the Mckinley bill. continu.
Ing it in force until July 1, 1905. He
argued at length in support of the con.
stituIionality of bounties, quoting ex-
tensively from court decisions. and
especially the decision of Justice Miller.
elf congress were to give bounty -
inquired Mr.. Caffery Dem.. La. y ITO q
farmer or manufacturer, do you con.
tend that the courts have no right to
Inquire whether the bounty is given fol
apublic or private use"'
II do" replied Mr.. Henderson. 1.-The
decision OF Mir. Miller is conclusive on
that point"
Mr.: PETER proceeded at great length
to support bounty instead of duty
on sugar. In the course of his speech,
he drifted into the discussion of the
silver question; touched upon his ideas
Oftha theory of government and the
panacea for the existing ills of the body
polite. 1t was 5:45 when Mr.. Peffel
concluded.
Mr. Harris, In charge of the tariff bill
then moved that the senate proceed t.
the consideration of executive hnsiness