The evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1887-1905, 1894-06-02
THE SUGAR SCHEDULE
II Forms the Topic For Tariff
Speeches in the Senate.
CHANGES MADE In THE BILL.

Doing-The House Passes a Few Meas
ures and Then Discussed the State Bank
Bill.
WASHINGTON, June 2.-When the
senate met, Mr.. Hoar of Massa-
chusetts presented petition from
the New England industrial army
asking Legislation which would guar
antee work to the unemployed. 1t was
referred to the committee on rules.
The bill granting additional lands in
Hot Springs to the Berry hospital was
passed.
Senator Hill asked unanimous consent
to consider a joint resolution passed by
the house Thursday, giving the secretary
of war authority under the last sundry
civil appropriation act to institute con-
demnation proceedings to secure certain
lands near the battlefield of Gettysburg.
Judge Dallas, he explained, had just
held that the language of that act was
not broad enough to warrant condemna-
ton proceedings.
Senator Cockrell of Missouri objected,
insisting that the resolution should go
first to the committee on military at
Id1TS, ana III WAS SO TeI6fTSu.
The sugar schedule of the tariff bill
was then laid before the senate, and Mr..
Henderson delivered long speech and
gave notice that at the proper time he
would offer as a substitute for the sugar
schedule the bounty provision of the Nc
Kinley bill, continuing it in force until
July /, 1905. He argued at length in
support of the constiiutionality of boun-
ties, quoting extensively from court de-
cisions, especially the decision of Justice
Miller.
Mr.. PETER followed Mr.. Henderson
with lenghthy speech in support of a
duty ON sugar. In the course Of his
speech he drifted into the discussion of
the silver question; touched upon his
ideas OF theory of government and the
panacea for the existing ills of the body
polite.
1t was 5:45 when Mr.. PETER con-
Guided.
Mr.. Harris, in charge of the tariff
bill, then moved that the senate proceed
to the consideration of executive bust
ness. Before he made the motion he de-
clared, with his wonted emphasis, that
the country was impatient and had
right to be impatient over the slow
progress made with this bill, and that
business interests everywhere were suf-
fering from the utterly unexcusable de-
lay. He gave notice that after Monday
he would, if he was able, compel the
senate to endure longer hours until the
bill was disposed of.
The senate, at 5:47 p. m, went into
executive session and at $500 p. m, ad-
journed.
The Mckinley law placed raw sugars
on the free list, imposed one-half cent
duty on refined sugar and gave bounty
of cents TO the sugargrower. The
house bill repealed the bounty and
placed all sugars, raw and refined, on
the free list. The first bill reported
ate gave specific duty of from cent to
polariscopic test.
The "compromise" amendment, which
is the one now before the senate, made
the sugar schedule go into effect Janu-
airy /, 1896, the rates being 40 per cent
ad valorem on all sugars, raw and re-
fined, one-eighth of one cent additional
on sugars above 10 Dutch standard,
with an additional one-tenth of one cent
a pound on sugars from countries paying
export bounties. 1t also continued the
sugar treaty with Hawaii.
In the House.
WASHINGTON, June 2.-The house
passed the senate resolution di-
recting the secretary of war to trans
NIT to the senate reports of any
surveys or estimates Tor the construc-
lions of locks or dams in the Mississippi
river between the c., st. P. and M. rail
way bridge and the Falls of st. An
thony, which he might have in his pos
session.
The senate bill providing for the carry
ing out of the award of the Paris trib-
unal of arbitration tor the protection of
seals in Behring sea, was passed.
Mr.. Gear secured the passage of bill
for the relief OF A. p. H. Stewart.
A resolution directing the president to
give six months notice to the Russian
government of the abrogation of the last
treaty between the two countries was
under the rules sent to the committee
ON foreign affairs.
The house went into committee of the
whole to consider the Brawley state
bank bill. Mr.. Brosius of Pennsylvania
addressed the house.
banking system and deprecated return
to the obnoxious and unstable state
bank system which had proved so detri-
mental to certain sections of the country,
notably south and west.
Mr.. Swanson Dem, Va.) followed
Mr.. Brosius, and defended the issue of
bank state notes.
Mr.. HENDERSON rep, Ills.) defended
the existing national banking system and
recalled the events of the panics of past
years under the state bank regimes.
The next advocate of the repeal of
the existing laws against state banks
was Mr.. Tucker Dem, Va.), who took
the ground Tat any tax laid, not for the
purpose OF raising revenue, but to skill"
off an industry, was an improper law.
Mr. IZlar dem 8 CA the snccassnr