The record-union., 1894-07-04

After brief argument in support OF
the amendment the vote was taken and
the amendment, with the aid OF RepuD-
lican votes. was carried-40 to Is.
When the announcement was made
Morgan was about to offer his antitrust
amendment. Ransom asked him to pause
moment. Il only want to perte { the
amendment said he. 'sand strikcsmica
from the free list"
The howl of laughter that greeted this
request rather disconnected the North
Carolina Senator, and his embarrassment
was added to by Chandler, who rushed
over into the middle aisle and profusely
congratulated him.
Mica was then stricken fran the free
list without objection, and Morgan offered
his antitrust amendment, which has al
ready been printed. Morgan's amend
ment was agreed to without division.
Allen offered an amendment to para
graph lS2, repeating the sugar bounty in
the Shpae of provlso, continuing the
bounty until January /, 1893, to the eX-
tent of paying the growers of sugar and
maple syrup nine-tenths of cent on
sugar testing above 80o and eight-tenths
OF cent on sugar below s00. Inns was
the amendment of which notice was
given by Jones on behalf of the Finance
Committee yesterday.
Harris asked him TO yield to allow hi ~
to move to lay the motion OF the table.
''If that represents the action OF the
Finance Committee L will yield" said
Hill, 'bIt If not want to address the
Senate at length. After the action of the
Senate yesterday cannot submit to this
proviso."
81 am a member of the Finance Com
mittee," said Harris, land on my own
responsibility l desire to make the
motion.n
Manderson said great injustice would
be done to growers of sugar beets IN the
sudden abrogation in the bounty! pro-
posed by the pending bill. 1t would not
only be injurious. but dishonest.
Caffery favored the amendment. He
did not believe in bounties, but thought
that equity and good faith demanded that
the amendment should prevail.
Harris then renewed his motion to lay
the amendment on the table. Agreed to
so to 22-the parties dividing.
Allison offered an amendment reducing
the duty on uncleaned rice from l cent to
$40 of cent per pound. Agreed to.
An amendment offered by Aldrich was
agreed to, putting a duty of three-fourths
OF a cent per pound on the lead contained
in type material.
The duty on files. file blanks and rasps
was raised from 80 cents per dozen, to 30
cents.
Manderson moved to reconsider the
vote by which his amendment providing
for diminishing bounty on sugar was
defeated, and Harrison moved to lay that
motion on the table. This motion pre-
vailed, although the Populists and the
Senators from Louisiana voted with the
Republicans against the motion.
Hill offered an amendment to the in
come tax paragraph providing that State,
county. municipal and town taxes paid
by corporations should be included in
their running expenses. Agreed to.
Senator Hill followed with a brief
speech. He said that In his opinion the
bill imperilled the possibility of perman-
ent Democratic success in any Northern
State for many years to come. AS be-
tween a Populistic income tax on the one
hand and a Republican tariff on the
other, he chose the latter as the less
OF two evils. AS between pernicious
class legislation fraught with dangerous
consequences to the country on the one
hand, and simply high tariff taxation on
the other, he preferred to endure the lat
ter, at least for a brief period. Continu-
ing, he said: Eliminate the income tax
and there is no difficulty in framing an
honest. consistent and genuine tariff bill,
upon strict revenue lines, with all raw
materials free, which can be passed by
the vote of every Democratic Senator,
without the aid of a single Populist vote.
anu w ulCA Vic SOubbAJ WOSslA HClColuO
and approve. This is not even pretended
to be such measure. Numerous Senat-
ors urge that the Democratic side of this
cham Der must fall as though Democratic
principles have been surrendered or bar
tered away to secure the triumph of this
b0tched compromise measure, which IS
acceptable to no one. / am sure ii they
expressed their honest sentiments they
do not approve of this bill any more than
[ do. The issue OF tariff reform had been
postponed and preserved intact rather
than emasculated and disfgured in the
manner now proposed. The bill does
not meet public expectations, but at the
best is an empty and beggarly fulfill
ment of Democratic pledges. 1t does
those things which it ought not to do
and leaves undone those things which it
ought to do. Mr.. President, l do not fail
to appreciate the gravity of the situation,
but the course which duty and consist
ency require me to pursue at this hour is
as clear to me as the MONDAY sun. Sink
or swim, live or die, survive or peri sh
1 can not and will not support the bill in
its present shape"
The tariff bill passed-39 to 81.
AGRICULTURAL APPROPRIATIONS.
The Bill as Reported to the Senate Car
rIes So, ,212. 1865.
WASHINGTON, July 3.-The agricult-
ural appropriation bill was reported to
the Senate by Senator Call from the Com
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