The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-26

idea we must dismiss entirely from cur
minds. The fact is, the bill is not
finality. Let it be understood I do not
say this under my own authority. I
desire to give the opinions of the Dem
ocratic leaders themselves upon that
subject"
Mr.. Reed then quoted from the re-
marks of Mr.. Wilson in the House and
Mr.. Mills in the Senate to show that
the tariff bill passed is but one step in
the march toward free trade.
Mr.. Reed, continuing, said:
How many errors, how many mis-
takes and blunderS there may be in the
tariff bill as it has finally reached the
president and not yet discovered, can
only be conjectured.
As He Sees Sugar.
'T have not permitted myself to COM
ment upon the scandalous stories or
even visible scandal connected with
the passing OF the tax upon sugar.
But it is due to the country that the
aspects of it which are commented up
on should be carefully and fairly dealt
with.
'sThe House Of Representatives saw
fit to not only abolish the sugar bounty,
but also to take off the duty connect
ed with the sugar tariff. When the
bill arrived in the Senate, 1t was en-
gagged in the task of passing a bill
which diminished the revenues $75,000,-
600. 1t then became necessary, in the
opinion of all intelligent people, to put
a tax upon sugar if this bill was to be
persisted in. Thereupon a tax was
proposed upon sugar of 40 per cent.
with a differential of one-eighth for the
sugar refinerS and still another differ
entail to protect them against the ex-
port sugar countries which paid an
export premium. This was bill
which passed the House. Anticipat-
ing, in fact knowing, that the bill
would be unpopular in every possible
way, they endeavored to relieve them
selves from the burden of the vote
which they had just given. and, there
fore, availed themselves of the extra
ordinary powers which resided in the
House and by a course of action en-
tirely unprecedented they provided that
a bill might be introduced into the
House giving free sugar, which bill
could not be amended, should not be
debated over half an hour and might
then be passed, and accordingly this
was done. OF course this was a pure
farce. Everybody knew It, no matter
how they voted upon the subject.
'sThe Senate voted to put on the bill
an amendment authorizing the con-
ready been granted under the Nc
Kinley act, and which was promised to
the people of the country for q. period
of ten years. This the Democrats re-
fused to adopt so their 'pop-gun' bill
and all the rest Of the pop bills slept
the sleep in which they knew they
would rest. The only valid action
which the House performed with re-
gard to the trust has been to furnish
them with almost infinite wealth, for
Mr.. Wilson himself on the floor Of the
House, gave the figures which showed
that in all probability the bill for
which he was then voting and for
which he was demanding votes and
which he finally carried, gave TO the
side the protection to refining it.
Working the Pension Racket.
ct desire to point out to you the fact
that at a time when the revenues Of
the country are decreasing, when 1t has
been already necessary to put out $780,
000, 900 of Understanding bonds, the
expenditures of the first session of the
Fifty-third Congress with both houses
under Democratic rule, have exceeded
the expenditures Of the first session of
the Fifty-first Congress by S27, 000 900.
The chairman of the committee on APP
preparations has endeavored to make
up figures which would indicate that
the first session of the Fifty-frst Con-
gress, which was Democratic, was S29,-
900 600 more economic than the second
of the Fifty-second Congress, the
House of which was Democratic alone.
But comparison of figures will show
that the pensions for that session OF
the Fifty-second Congress were $780,
900 900, while those of the Fifty-third
Congress were $151, 900 which makes
exactly this difference of 5000 900.
In other words, they have deprived the
pensioner of $29, 700, 900, the exact
amount claimed by economy"