The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-15

Washington, May 1.-THE seventh
week of the tariff debate in the Senate
began today.
Bills to pension the widow Of Rear
Admiral MacNeal Fairfax at a rate
of 500 a month. and increase the pen
sion of the widow of Major General
Doubleday to 800, were placed on the
calendar. Under the agreement one
hour was devoted to the consideration
of the bills on the calendar.
Aldrichs motion to make the duty
on alumina six-tenths instead of four
tenths of a cent ad valorem, was dis
cussed.
Butler said speeches were being made
merely to kill time to which Chandler
responded, Better kill time than in
dustries."
The amendment was tabled-2S to II.
Mr.. Aldrich moved to substitute five
tenths for four-tenths.
The Aldrich amendmen was tabled.
Mr.. Platt Republican,, of Connecti-
cut, said that despite the fact that for
years this chamber had rung with
Democratic denunciation of the sugar
trust, the Democrats, excepting one,
had agreed on, so he understood, ID
caucus, and had voted for a prOhibitory
duty on refined sugars. Surely Demo-
cratic tariff refOrmers must be hard
driven when they were forced to swal-
low the words and opinions of years.
PIatt and the Sugar Trust.
Mr.. Platts observation on the sugar
trust ruff1ed some of the Democrats,
and he was soon engaged in a contro-
Versy.
THE duty provided in this BILL said
TT IJr1s, k-.v
cut Senator, is reduction on refined
sugar in the Mckinley bill from p to
Is of one cent. per pound
This bill makes no such reduction
retorted Mr.. Platt, decisiVely.
Then all the sugar experts in this
country are wide of the mark" said
Mr.. Harris.
oh. said Mr.. Platt, there is not
a speculator, a stakeholder or a man
IN the sugar trust in New York. or a
senator on this floor VINO demands this
sugar schedule, who does not under
stand what it means for the trust. This
schedule gives the trust a duty of at
least $s of a cent, sometimes fuctuat-
ing as high as half a cent"
Mr.. Allison said the ad valorem pro-
vision in the bill, in view of great diff
ference between the value of raw and
refined sugar, certainly would afford a
protection of three-tenths of cent be-
fore the differential of one-eighth of a.
cent was reached.
Mr.. Vest called attention to the fact
the Mckinley law gave the raw ma
terial free to refiners and then gave
the latter protective duty of one
half Of cent per pound.
MIR. Allison insisted, however, the
great difference in the price of raw
and refined sugar gave the refiner the
benefit Of at least three-tenths of
Fcent under forty per cent. ad vaIorem
duty before the one-eighth was imposed
at all.
The discussion of the sugar schedule
was adroitly adverted by Senator Vest
into a debate about American wages.
Finally Mr.. eGallinger (Republican), of
New Hampshire, got the floor. and pro-
ceeded to read, for the benefit of his
political adversaries, the editorial opin-
ions of some Of the great Democratic
dailies. denouncing the surrender of
Democratic principle made in the Jones
amendments.
Amendments Agreed To.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Gauingers
remarks, the Jones amendment fixing
of a cent was agreed to without divis-
ion. as was the next Jones amend
ment fixing the duty on carbonate of
ammonia at 20 per cent; muriate Of
salammoniac at 10 per cent. and sui
phate Of ammonia at 20 per cent.
| The next finance committee amend
ment fixing the duty on bone char
suitable for decolorizing sugar, at 20
! per cent. was also agreed to.
! Mr.. Jones offered an amendment to
place a duty of one cent per pound on
crude boraX and changing the duty on
refined borax from 20 per cent. to 2
cents. TIC amend ment was creed to-.
1 Mr.. Jones offered an amendment 10
/ transfer refined copper from the free
| list to the dutiable list at 10 per cent.
/ ad vaIorem. This was also agreed to.
| 1t was then ten minutes Of o'clock
and Mr.. Allison suggested an execu-
tive session, while Mr.. Jones suggest
led the Senate sit an hour longer to-
night.
Harris Cutting Sarcasm.
Mr.. Harris, who had charge of the
bill. arose and with cutting sarcasm
rejected both suggestions.
I'm view of the fact" said he, with
the trip-hammer elaboration so char
iacteristic of him, that the Senate has
lonly consumed one hour in the discus
sion of this article, on which the eyes
of Republicans are fixed with such in
tense interest, the article of chalk, [
think the United States Senate should
take a rest and 1 move the Senate adj
ljourn.'
Accordingly at 5:55 the Senate adj
ljourned.