The morning call., 1894-06-06
SPECULATION NOT RIGHT.
Sensational Debate in Regard tC
the Trust.
STATESMEN SEVERELY SCORED
During the Tariff Debate elimination
and Recrimination FuriOusIy
Prevailed.

WASHINGTON, June 5.-The compro-
mise amendments TO the sugar schedule
were all adopted in the Senate to-day, 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 Re-
publicaDs were unable 10 hold their own
forces in the act. Manderson and Perkins
voted against the amendment ana Quay
was paired against it. while Sherman, who
was present, did not vote at all. Only one
of the Populists. PETER. voted for free
sugar. Kyle and Allen in the final issue
Joined with the majority of Democrats
against it. Had all the Republicans and
Populiss and the two disaffected Demo-
Gratis joined hands sugar, raw and refined.
would have gone on the free list. On all
the other amendments offered by Republi-
cans the majority against them ranged
from three 10 ten.
The adoption of the sugar schedule
practically insures the passage of the bill
at an early date. although it it intimated
that the Republicans will make final
stand on the sugar schedule when 1t is
reported and considered in the Senate.
As adopted to-day the schedule imposes a
duty of 40 per cent ad valOrem on all
sugars, raw and refined, with differentlal
of une-eighth of a cent per pound on sugars
above 16 Dutch standard and additional
one-tenth of a cent against sugar Imported
| from countries paving an export bounty.
| 1t continues the Hawaiian treaty admit
| ting sugars from the Sandwich Islands
| free of duty and places a duty OF cents
per gallon on molasses testing above 4C
degrees by the polariscope. The schedule
goes into effect January l, 1895, and the
bounty is continued until that date.
The sugar schedule of the tariff bill wa:
again taken up. Higgins of Delaware
opened the debate with an argument il
favor of continuing the present bounty
| V oti.g on the sugar schedule begaI
| promptly at l P. NJ. The first vote was Ol
Jones' amendment fixing the date whel
the sugar schedule should go into etfee
and the sugar bounty be terminated a
January 1. 1895. This was adopted By
vote of ayes 40. noes 81.
Hill did not vote. PETER voted with tn
Republicans, and Allen and Kyle with th
Democrats.
Manderson next proposed an amendmen
decreasing the bounty 1-10 cent, to exis
until the time fixed by the Mckinley Law
for expiration. This was defeated-aye
"a. noes 37-Allen and Kyle voting aye
Brice and Villas withdrew their votes
being paired with Wolcott and Mitchell o
Oregon. MandersOn's amendment pro
yiding for the retention of the bOuDt
provision in the Mckinley law was dc
feated-ayes 80, noes 40. Hill. Allen an
Kyle voted no. PETER voted with the Re-
publcans. Manderson's third amenGmeD
was defeaIed-ayes 81, noes &c. Allen an
Kyle voted no.
Allen offered an amendment to add a
the end of the paragraph prOviso, ths
the bounty be eight-tenths of one cent 70
sugar produced in the United States i
1894. This was defeated-ayes 80, noes II
Before voting on the sugar schedule be
gan there was a sensational debate in re
gard to the sugar trust, In which Chandler
Aldrich and Sherman on the Republica
side, end Vest and Brice on the Demo
cratic, took part. The Democrats claim e
that the same fluctuations in sugar stOc
occurred before the Mckinley act passe
as now, and that the trust dictated the
per cent protection given by the bill.
Chandler expressed his belief that Sens
tors should not have speculated in share
of the sugar trust while the tariff questiO
was pending. He said 40 votes should hav
been taken until the investigation con
mittee had probed the whole subject c
undue influence.
Aldrich, alluding to the statements mad
in the Senate yesterday regarding the
legged influence of the sugar trust In fran
ing the Mckinley bill, said while ther
was a sugar trust in 1890 it was not I'll
gigantic concern it is now. and speculatin
in its shares was comparatively trivial.
Vest retorted that In three weeks sugs
shares went up thirty-6ve points. ether
were then" he said. "the same lies, tn
same falsifications. the same attacks o
public men as have characterized the col
: slderation of the pending BILL"
Senator Sherman also insisted that ii
trust Of 1890 was not the trust of to-day.
, do you know what the capital of ii
, ,usar trust in 1890 was ?" asked Brica.
81 do not" replied Sherman.
ut was $50, 200. co.," said Brice. "Tf
, stock of that corporation went up from
to %. The stock advanced S20,000.0O0
| virtue OF tue ACT Ol yOssI cOululiLtcc.
, Between what periods did this fuctu
ton occur ?" asked Aldrich
Between May and October" replie
Brice. emphatically adding, "after the re-
resentatives OF the trust had made the
agreement with those who controlled 81
bill"
AIdrich protested that he did not unde
stand what the Senator from Ohio meal
[ by an agreement existing between Il
sugar trust and those In power in 1890, bu
he did know that the sugar trust had di
tated the sugar schedule in the presel
bill.
''Who dictated the 90 cent protection
the Mckinley bill?" inquired Vest, pa
. sionately.
mo sugar trust" said Vest. "and VI
;, yourself admitted It in the Record. "
said you could not resist the arguments
tha Philadelphia sugar refners."
liz the midst of this sen sational debsi
n in which elimination and recrimiDatit
4 prevailed, the hour Of l o'clock arrive
r ] and under the agreement the vote W
taken on Jones' amendment fixing Janua