The herald., 1894-06-06
THE SCHEDULE PASSES.
Sugar Compromise Amend.
ments Adopted.
The Passage of the Bill Now
Assured.
A Duty Of Forty Per Cent on All
Sugars.
Full Report of tho Proceedings I'm the
Senate - Sensational Debate
Respecting the
Trust.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
WASHINGTON, June 5.-The compro-
mise amendments to the sugar schedule
were ali adopted in the senate today and
the pivotal schedule on which the fate
OF the tariff measure depended went
through without change. On the vital
amendment to place all sugars on the
free list the Democratic line was drawn,
but the Republicans were unable to hold
their own forces in the sot. Messrs.
Manderson and Perkins voted against
the amendment and Mr.. Gray was paired
against it, while Mr.. Sherman, who was
present, did not vote at all. Only one
OF the Populists, PETER, voted for free
sugar. Messrs. Kyle and Allen, In the
final issue, Joined with the majority of
Democrats against it. Had all the
Republicans and Populists and the
two disaffected Democrats joined hands,
sugar, raw and refined, would have gone
on the free list. On all the other amend
| ments offered by the Republicans the
majority against them ranged from 8 to
TO- The adoption of the sugar schedule
practically insures the passage of the
bill at an early date. although it ia inti-
mated the Republicans will make final
stand on the sugar schedule when it ia
reported and considered in the senate.
As adopted today the schedule inn
poses duty of 40 per cent ad
vaiorem on all sugars, raw and
refined, with differential OF one-eighth
of cent per pound in sugars above l6
Dutch standard and additional one-tenth
of cent against sugar imported from
countries paying an export bounty. 1t
continues the Hawaiian treaty, admit
ting sugars from the Sandwich islands
free of duty and places duty OF cents
per gallon on molasses testing above 40
degrees by the polariscope. The eched-
ule goes into effect January l, 1895, end
the bounty Is continued until that date.
Before the voting on the sugar eched-
ule began there was sensational de-
bate in regard to the sugar trust.
in which Senators Chandler, Aldrich
ana sherman on the Kepuollcan eide
and Vest and Brice on the Democratic
side took part.
Speaking on the sugar schedule of the
tariff bill, Senator Chandler expressed
his beiief tnat senators should not have
speculateo IN snares OF the sugar trust
while the tariH question was pending.
he said that no votes should be taken
until the lnvestigation committee had
probed the whole subject OF undue In
nuence.
Mr.. Aldrich, ailuding to statements
made In the senate yesterday regarding
the alleged influence OF the sugar trust
In framing the mckinley Dill, SAID tnat
wniie tnere was sugar trust In 1871, 1t
was not tne gigantic concern ltis now, ana
speculation in Its shares was compare
lively Trivial.
Mr. vest retorted that In three weeks
sugar went up 80 points. There
were then, ne said, the same lies, the
same iaisincations, the same attacks on
public men as have characterized the
consideration OF the pending DILL.
senator sherman also insisted that
the trust OF lo90 was not the trust OF
To-Day.
do you know what the capital OF the
sugar trust In 1871 was Z" asked Mr..
Brice.
Il do moi" replied Mr. Sherman.
ut was 1000, ,O0O," said Mr.. Brice.
"The stock of that corporation went up
from 63 to 90. The stock advanced $780,
O0O.O 900 by virtue OF the act OF your
committee"
Between what periods did this fiuc-
tuation occur q asked Mr.. Aldrich.
"Between May and October," replied
Mr.. Brice emphatically, adding, after
the Representatives of the trust had
made their agreement with those who
controlled the BILL"
Mr.. Aldrich protested that he did not
understand what the senator from Ohio
meant by an agreement existlng be-
tween the sugar trust and those in
power in 1890, but he did know that
the sugar trust had dictated the
schedule in the present bill.
"Who dictated the 50.cent protection
in the Mckinley bill?' inquired Mr..
Vest passionately.
mo sugar trust" said Mr.. Aldrich,
"aDd you yourself admitted 1t in the
Record. You said you could not resist
the arguments OF the Philadelphia sugar
refiners."
In the midst OF this sensational de-