The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-07-31
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Whoever read the parts Of the speech
OF Senator Caffery, of louisiana when
we quoted on Sunday, delivered in the
Senate last Tuesday. III answer to Cor
mans account Of the way he came 10
be connected with the tax that was placed
upon sugar must have been struck ana
almost amused-if amusement is posi-
BILE in such serious connections-at the
following paragraph;
Mr.. President. as / have said before
there is an influence here which ! feel'
but which | cannot put my finger upon
that has a vast deal more power in re
gard to sugar than the Louisiana sena-
tors. | discover sugar planters IN Mary
land; / discover them In New Jersey,
discover them in Ohio. | think have
made a new discovery. 1t may be That
] have been deceived, Ike French tray
eller said ne was once; in travelling over
the desert of Sahara. and thought ne saw
a beautiful lake before him when he was
half-famished for water 1t turned out TO
be mirage 1t may be that those sugar
planters are Pigments Of my brain, op-
teal decisions. My disturbed fancy may
have led me 10 the fond delusion that
the ranks Of Louisiana planters might
have been thus swelled
Everybody will ask what was the occa-
sion for Gallery suddenly finding that
and in Ohio and in New Jersey? Nobody
ever heard Of any there before. why was
il developed all at once that there
were sugar planters In these
three States when a tax on sugar was 10
be determined on. which very nearly
touched the profits that the Sugar Trust
was to receive in the future? This will
puzzle every one and then they Will be
amused again to read poor Gallery s
further outburst-
"The trust has fastened itself upon our
neck like the old man OF the sea around
Sinbad's. We cannot shake 1t off. II IS
a fellowship that we do not court. II IS
a forced alliance which is not of our
making.
Poor Cafferyl ParsOn German had mar
ried him to a wife that he never courted
and abhors. but so DEITY had he tied
the knot that sin as the wife might CAT
ferry can get decree for neither divorce
nor even separation. The discussion
having now reached the point where it
was reasonable to suppose that every
thing has been brought out that will be
brought out. German has at last allowed
his speech to appear in the Record. We
warned our readers that when it ala
come II would be an entirely different
speech from what he delivered. and our
warming has proved TO be justified. lie
has made it fit the OCCASION as that oc-
cason stood on Saturday, the 18th July.
and not as it stood on Monday. July 23d
when it was delivered. The following en-
tire passage which he never spoke, has
been interpolated:
MIR. President, / would have given
anything in reason for the interest OF
my own people whom | represent If l
could have had free sugar all along the
line. | could not have II without Nloiat
ing the rule that / have made Tor nyseI j;
not to-day, but from the beginning OF
my career, for "a fair revenue duty on all
dutiable articles"
Now the reader will recollect that Sena-
tor Caffery told us about German. Brice
and Smith pulling the wool over his
eyes and persuading him TO believe that
an ad vaiorem tax OF 20 per cent on
raw and 80 per cent. on refined sugar
was what he wanted and that they did
it so effectuany that Gallery actually
went to the committee and proposed that
as the tax that the planters wanted: that
Arithmetician Jones took out his pencil
and paper and demonstrated to Gallery
that mat was not what ne anu the
planters wanted. but what the
Trust wanted; whereupon Caffery with
drew the proposition. and got the com
mittee to adopt a direct duty of one cent
q pound rising 10 l.26 according to grade
with cne-eighth OF cent pound ad-
ditional for refined sugar Now this,
obviously. would give the Government an
immense reyenue-somethinR like so Oro -
900, and in increasing the price OF sugar
only one cent a pound II would hardly
have been known OF by the people The
senator, who. therefore, was only after
feeling sure that "a fair revenue duty"
was imposed on sugar. ought TO have
felt when this tax was agreed on by the
committee with the Louisianian's ap-
probation. that the question was solved
and that peace was at hand.
Did German. Brice and Smith take
this view and act on II? The record Is
defective In evidence at this point. All
that we know certainly is that after that
schedule had been adopted by the com
mittee and had stood for three or four
/ weeks, the Trust told Jones and Jones
| toid Canery that the Trust was not
satisfied with this duty; that German
shout the same time casually meets
j Canery 1t the door Of the Senate and