The National tribune., 1894-06-07

was as follows: Resolved by the Senate Of
the United States that of right it belongs
wholly to the people OF Hawaii to establish and
| maintain their own form of Government and
| domestic policy; that the United States ought
not in any way to interfere with, and that in
| reference in the political affairs of these
| islands by any other Government will be re-
garded as an act unfriendly to the United
| States" Mr.. Turpie asked for q vote on the
resolution. 1t represented, he said. the unani-
| nous sentiment of the Senate, he thought, and
| would meet the approval of men OF all shades
of political opinion in the United States.
The resolution was passed unanimously by
SIS Senators.
The tariff bill was taken up No real prog
ress was made with the bill, the entire day
being occupied with the speeches of Senators
Sherman, Camden, and DOlph The two first
named devoted their attention legitimately to
the tariff but the last wandered off into de-
nunciation of newspapers in general and corre-
spondents in particular. This delay is not,
however, unexpected. It has been supposed
from the beginning that the sugar schedule
when it was reached, would be a resting place.
and the anticipation seems to be realized.
Mr.. Sherman took up the income tax and
cited statistics TO show that much of the stock
of banks was in small holdings. and that the
income tax would fall upon the poor and thrifty.
1t was justifable, he said, on y as a war tax.
He favored the tax during the war and favored
its repeal afterward. He believed the indus
trial depression was due to the tendency of this
bill, and said that the Senate committee i'm
proved the bill, undoubtedly, by making it
more protective. They thus confessed the
principle of protection, which they ought to
have extended to every schedule
Sugar, he said was a proper article to tax,
both for protection and revenue. He would
have favored bounty and duty, thus giving
both forms of protection. He would rather
give duty of two cents a pound than any
bounty. He had never approved of the sugar
disposition in the Mckinley bill. But that bill
laid a moral obligation, though not legal one
on the United States to protect those who had
invested their money in sugar production at
the invitation of the United States.
The sugar schedule had been drawn by the
refners of sugar in their own interest. The
ad valorem duty of 40 per cent. on all sugars
would permit differentiation of raw sugars
which were purchased from the planters of
Cuba and other countries. Fraud would de-
feat the end of revenue to the Treasury, and
protection to the sugar planters. On refined
sugar. that is, sugar that is above Is Dutch
standard, an additional one-eighth of one per
cent was levied. Here he went on, is where
the trick of this schedule lay. As soon as re-
fined sugars were touched the duty was
changed from ad valOrem to specific. 1t had
been asserted by Mr.. German and other Demo
cratic Senators that this one eighth was all the
protection afforded to the refners This was
papabe MISREPRESENTATION. The ad valorem
duty OH the difference between tile cost of raw
and refined sugar afforded the refners four
tenths of one cent without the one-eighth ad-
ditional, so that the protection accorded the
refners under this schedule was fully five
eighths of a cent per pound.
In the House. Mr.. Sickles offered Joint reso-
luton reciting that it had recently been de-
cided by Pennsylvania court that authority
had not yet been specifically given to carry out
the provisions of the act of March g. 1893 max
ing appropriations to preserve the Gettysburg
battlefield, and that there was imminent dam
ger that portions of the battlefield would be
irreparably damaged if immediate steps were
not taken to preserve the field. The Secretary
of War is authorized to obtain such lands on
or in the vicinity of the battlefield as may be
necessary for the execution of the act of March
3, 1893. The resolution was passed.
AT 1885 o'clock p. N. the House went into
Committee of the Whole on the bill to repeal
the State bank tax. and Mr.. Black (Ga., d. re-
sumed his speech in favor of tue total repeal of
the law.
While he was not an enemy of the rich and
was not inclined to attribute all the evils of the
country to the wealthy class. he did think there
must be something radically wrong with the
financial policy which produced such an I'M
equal distribution OF wealth as obtained In this
country. The trouble was not that the country
was too rich, but all the wealth was in New
York and Boston and Philadelphia and other
money centers.
Mr. Walker Mass. T. said he had no wish
to defend the banking system of the country.
There was no man more hearty or more thor
ough in condemning the existing financial sys-
tenn than he, and there was not another civilized
country on earth which would tolerate it for
10 fau harI lou I'll,
would force into circulation by economic laws
every dollar the citizen could be induced to
safely take.