The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-06

Senator'S Should Not Have Specu-
lated While the Bill Was Before
Them.
Washington June 5-The compromise
1 amendments to the sugar schedule were
all 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 act.
Messrs. Henderson and Perkins voted
against the amendment and bIr. Quay
was paired against it, while Mr.. Sherman,
who was present, did not vote at ali.
! Only one of the Popuists. Mr.. Feffer,
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 Republicans the ma
| jority against them ranged from ) to 10.
The adoption of the sugar schedule rr6c-
/ tically insures the passage of the oill az
! an early date, although it is intiinated
! that the Republicans will make final
stand on the sugar schedule when 1t is
reported and considered in the Senate. As
adopted today, the schedule imposes a
duty of 40 per cent ad valorem on all
sugars, raw and refined, with a differ
, entail of one-eighth of a cent per pound
on sugars above 16 Dutch standard, and
! an additional one-tenth of a cent. against
sugar imported from countries paying an
export bounty. 1t continues the Ha-
waiian treaty, admitting sugars from the
Sandwich islands free of duty, and places
a duty of 2 cents per gallon on molasses
testing above 40 degrees by the polar
iscope. The schedule goes into effect
January l, 1895. and the bounty Is con-
tinued until that date.
Should Not Have Specialized.
I Speaking on the sugar schedule of the
tariff bill, Senator Chandler expressed his
belief that senators should not have
speculated in shares of the sugar trust,
/ while the tariff question was pending. He
said no vote should be taken until the
investigation committee had probed the
whole subject of undue influence.
! Mr.. Aldrich, abiding to statements
made in the Senate yesterday, regarding
1.-THE alleged influence of the Sugar trust in
now, and speculation in its shares was
comparatively trivial.
/ Mr.. Vest retorted that in three weeks
| the sugar stock went up 50 points.
There were them he said. 1.-The same
lies, the same falsifcations, the same at
! tacks on public men as have character
| lied the considera ton of the pending
/ bill"
i Mr. Sherman also insisted that the trust
of 1890 was not the trust of today.
do you know what the capital of the
Sugar trust in 1890 was?" asked Mr..
Il do not replied Mr.. Sherman.
! "It was s50000,000,'' said Mr.. Brice. The
/ stock advanced s20,0OO00o by virtue of the
4 a. Of our nn
between what periods did this fluctua-
/ ton occur?" asked Mr.. Aldrich;.
Between May. and October replied
/ the representatives of the trust had made
their agreement with those who con-
| trolled the bill
Mr.. Aldrich protested that he did not
understand what the senator from Ohio
meant by an agreement existing between
| the Sugar trust and those in power in
/ 1890, but he did know that the Sugar trust
present bill.
| Who Dictated 1t:
! "Who dictated the so cent protection in
| the Mckinley bill?'' inquired Nj. Vest,
pa ssionately.
No Sugar trust said Mr.: Aldrich,
land you yourself admitted 1t IN the
Record. You said you could not resist the
/ arguments of the Philadelphia sugar re-
| finerS.
In the midst of this sensational debate.
I
prevailed, the hour of o'clock arrived,
| and under the agreement, the vote was
! taken on Mr. Jones amendment 1xinS
January 1. 1895, as the date on which the
repeal of the sugar bounty system could
| go into effect.
Mr.. Allison offered an amendment to re
duce the sugar bounty for the remainder
of the calendar year to efght-tenths OF a
cent per pound and to make the sugar
schedule go into effect lmmedlately Oh
! the passage of the bill.
/ The three Populists this tune, voteG
| in party lines and it was defeated, 81 tc
| The Senate then passed the, next para
! graph, number 1879, hxlng the duty OF
Mr.. Jones offered the Compromise
amendment, fixing, the duty on raw ano
with differential of one-eighth of one
! cent on sugars above 16 Dutch standard
and an additional one-tentt on sugars
| irnported from countries giving an export
bo-nty, continuing the Hawaiian treaty
! in force and imposing duty of cents
| a gallon on molasses.
Mr. Ledge Offered, la a substitute to t hhf
Senate committee on finance, fixing q
specific duty on sugar, beginning with
| cent per pound on sugar testing 50 de-
grees. by the polariscope. test and grading
| the duty according to fineness. Lost-2i
! to 81.
/ WIFI lIle MI. SileI Oll6IGt
an amendment to place all sugar on The
| free list.
Mr. Hill DemocraD, of New York, asked
1 if this would precipitate the direct ques
| ton, as to whether sugar should go OF
| the free list or not, and being informed
! it would, said he hoped a record-nlakins
vote would be had upon it.
| Mr.. Hill voted in favor of free sugar
and announced that he was authorized t.
say that Mr.. Irby. who was absent would
| have voted for free sugar had he beer
present. The amendment was lost-a6 t
| 81, as follows:
The Votes.
Yeas-Aldrich. Allison, Cameron, Chand
| Ter. Cullom, Dolph, Dubois, Frye, Gal
! iinger, Hale, Hawley, Higgins, Hill, Hoar
Lodge, Mcmillan, Mitchell (Ore), Morrill,
Patton, PETER, Pettigrew, Plat, Power
/ Shoup Teller and Washburn Total-26.
! Nays-Allen, Blackburn, Blanchard, But
| Ter, Caffery, Call, Camden, Cockrell, Coke
Daniel. Faulkner. George, Gibson, Gordon
Gray, Harris, Hunton. Jarvis, Jones lark }
! Kyle, Lindsay, McLaurin, Henderson
Martin, Mills, Morgan, Murphy, Pasco
/ Perkins, Pugh. Ransom, Roach, Smith
Vest, Villas, VOORHEES,, White Total-37
! The pairs were as follows: The frs
named would have voted yea and the las
named nay;
Proctor and Bate, WoIcott and Briee
Carey and Mitchell (Wis.), Davis and Tur
| pie. Dixon and Mcpherson, Jones New
and German. Hansbrough and Palmer
1 Irby and Quay, Squire and Walsh, Wilson
/ and Berry.
Senators Sherman and Stewart did no
| vote, and were not paired
! Two Republicans, Henderson and Per