The record-union., 1894-06-14
WHY HE WAS NOT A REGENT OF THE
STATE UNIVERSITY.
Senators Sherman, Hansbrough. Du-
bois, Stewart, Shoupe, Mitchell of
Oregon and Frye Address the Son.
ate in Opposition to the Placing of
Wool OH the Free List.
Special to the RECORD UNION.

resentative Geary, that he founded the
Stanford University in a spirit OF re-
venge and resentment because he was not
elected Trustee of the University of Cali
fornia. Perkins said that when he WAS
Governor of California he appointed
Stanford Regent of the University, but at
the request of the latter the Legislature
did not confirm his nomination. Gov
ernor Stoneman also would have made
Stanford Regent, but the honor was de-
clined.
The resolution offered by Morgan
passed, calling on the Secretary OF the
Treasury for statement of what amount
of gold coin had been received by the
Treasury Department since November l.
1888: how much was received from the
sale of bonds, and to what person or
banking institutions such bonds were
sold and what outstanding obligations
had been redeemed in gold since that
date.
Hoar offered resolution calling on the
President to inform the Senate what, If
any, representation has been made to the
Government by representatives OF for
eign countries as to contemplated retalla-
ton on account of the proposed lmposi-
ton of a discriminating duty on sugar
against bounty giving countries; facts as
TO the probable exclusion of our agricult-
ural products from Germany or Guate-
mala, and any information in his posses
sion relative to the proposed retallatory
legislation by the Cortes of Spain on ac-
count of the abrogation of the reciprocity
treaty under the Tariff Act OF 1890. The
resolution was adopted.
On motion of Villas, the bill providing
for one additional Circuit Judge each for
the Seventh, Eighth and Ninth judicial
Districts passed.
The tariff debate was resumed, the
pending question being Peffer's amend
ment to restore 90 per cent. of the duty on
raw woods.
Sherman made vigorous speech
against free wool. The question of free
wool, Mr.. Sherman said, vitality affected
the people OF Ohio. He reiterated
what he had said in previous speech,
that free wool was the eliminating
atrocity of this bill. He appealed to the
Democrats to put aside politics and with
hold this destructive blow to this great
industry. The sheep raisers' and the
a greater or less extent to every State and
Territory. 1t was certain, he said, that
the United States could not compete in
the production of wool with Australia.
Argentine Republic and other countries
where sheep raising was the principal in
dustry. Unless some Government aid
was given the farmers of the United
States, they must abandon the field.
Dubois of Idaho followed Sherman in
opposition to placing wool on the free
list as disastrous to the great sheep rais-
ing industry of his section. Although
the bill was not yet law, he said. it was
not possible to-day to sell a pound of
wool in Idaho, except at discount from
the nominal market price, equal to the
present rate Of duty on raw wool. The
fleeces had been growing under the sys-
tenn of protection and were now to be
sacrificed under the system of free trade.
If the bill carried out logically the de-
mand of the Democratic platform tor free
raw materials, he would not ask Demo-
cratic Senate TO make an exception of
wool, but in passing partially protective
duties on coal, iron ore, ETC., under the
sham excuse of revenue, he denounced
the discrimination against the American
farmer. The wool industry of Idaho had
under the Mckinley law.
From 1890 to 1898 the flocks doubled The
threat of free wool fell on 500. 900 sheep,
worth 81, ,0O0, 900 and including an annual
clip of 5000, ZOO pounds. The decline in
the value of sheep and clips since free
wool was proclaimed almost equaled the
value of the tiocks before the threat was
made.
Dubois then drifted into the discussion
of the silver lead mining industry of the
Rocky Mountain section, which had
fallen under the blight since the passage
of the bill repeating the purchasing
clause of the Sherman Act and the threat
of free lead ores in the new tariff bill.
He described at length the industrial con-
dition in the West, with mines closed and
thousands out OF employment, and con-
trasted these conditions with those eX-
isting under the Mckinley law.
In the course of his remarks he re-
ferred to the political capital made
out of the Homestead strike in the cam
paign of 1892 and presented alongside of
it the picture of strikes, lockouts and
bloodshed everywhere to-day, quoting,
as he said, at random from newspapers
OF the past two months.
In conclusion he reiterated his appeal
to the Republican side to allow the bill
to be promptly disposed of. Bad as the
existing conditions, the present uncer-
tainty and doubt should be set at rest.
When Dubois finished Stewart of Ne
vada took the floor and made an argument
against free wool.
Hansbrough of Dakota followed in the
same strain, and spoke at some length.
While tavoring the principle of protee-
ton, and desiring that the policy be per-
petuated, he was opposed to the protect
i've tariff bill now before the Senate. He
opposed it on account OF its discrimina-
tions, its sectional inequalities and it's
false pretenses. 1t discrlminates against
the people of the West in placing wool on
the free list, and 1t favors the people of
other sections in giving rice duty of 80
per cent. 1t levies duty of more than
80 per cent. upon sugars, and places
wheat, flour and many other products
of the farm on the free list. While
claiming to be in the interest of the ex-
tension of our markets for agricultural
products, it strikes down the reciprocity
clause of the Mckinley Act, thereby
narrowing the American farmers in for
eign markets by billion OF dollars.
He declared that the wool-raisers west
of the Mississippi River would be obliged
to go out of the business for the simple
reason that while the cost of producing
wool was from to 80 cents per pound,
the cost in Australia was from 3 to cents
per pound, and that in addition to this,
while the freight rates from Rocky
Mountain points to Boston and Phila-
delphia were from u to 3 cents per
pound, the carrying charges from Aus
tralia were less than l cent per pound.
He was confident that hereafter if this
bill passed sheep would be raised in the
West only for mutton.
Referring TO the grain schedule, he said
that the duty which Canada had been
paying In order to sell barley in our mar
ket was tax upon the Canadian farmer,
and that the money went into our treas
ury as contribution from him and that
1t was not tax upon the consumer of
barley IN this country. The inequality