The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-24
A VOTE FOR FREE SUGAR.
The House Also Votes to Abolish the
Payment Of a Bounty.

Voted Down.
Washington, Jan. 23.-After the trans
action of some routine business in the
House, Mr.. Wise, of Virginia, moved that
the New York and New Jersey bridge
bill, together with the veto message, be
referred to the committee on interstate
and foreign commerce, which was done.
A motion was then made that the House
should go into committee of the whole,
but before the question was decided the
House sought to unravel the .tangle in
which it was placed by adjourning yester-
day without completing the consideration
of the sugar schedule.
A special order having been adopted
last Saturday, setting aside to-day for
consideration Of the coal and iron ore
schedules, the House was undecided as to
whether that order should 90 into effect
at once, or whether the sugar schedule
should first be completed.
Mr.. Richardson said he hoped the ques-
tion would be settled by the House before
it went into committee of the whole, for
if not, he as presiding officer of the com
mittee, would feel impelled to rule that
special order of the House would take
precedence over an order of the commit
tee, and therefore he would rule that the
sugar clause would have to go over until
the coal and iron schedules were disposed
Of
SUGAR GIVEN THE RIGHT-oF-wAY.
After a quarter of an hour had been
spent in the discussion, the speaker ruled
that the sugar clause should be given the
right of way
The House then at IL :25 o'clock went
into committee of the whole, and Mr.
Richardson took the chair. But the COM
mittee was as beset with shoals and
quicksands as the House was, and more
than an hour was spent in getting its
bearings. Late yesterday afternoon an
amendment had been offered by Mr..
Robertson, dema of louisiana, pro
viding for a duty of one cent per
pound and upwards on raw sugar. To this
MIR. Warner. of New York, had offered a
substitute, the effect of which was to
place all sugars, raw and refined, on the
free list, while the bounty is abolished.
The House had adjourned without acting
upon Mr.. Robertson's amendment al
though it had adopted Mr. Warmers sub
stitute. The question was as TO the
status of MIR. Robertson's amendment. 1t
took an hour and three-quarters to come
to the conclusion that MIR Warmers sub
stitute had displaced ~thes4 Robertson
amendment. The Warner substitute was
then agreed to, and all sugar was made
free and the bounty abolished.
THE COAL SCHEDULE.
A few minutes after l, the coal sched-
ule was taken up and Mr.. Oates, of Ala
bama, offered an amendment striking
coal from the free list and putting a duty
of 40 cents ton upon it and 20 cents per
ton slack.
Mr.. Wise, of Virginia, offered an amend
ment to this amendment, placing the
duty at 80 cents per ton.
Mr.. McKaig, dem, of Maryland, sub
mitted a substitute providing for the re-
tention of the present law-75 cents per
ton on coal and 30 cents per ton on slack.
Mr.. Hit, rep, OF Illinois, offered the
following amendment to the substitute:
Insert at the end Of paragraph 439. Pro
vided that If any article is imported, the
product OF any country which imposes duty
on said article from the United States then
there shall be levied, collected and paid upon
said imported article the rate of duty exist
ing prior to the passage Of this act.p
Mr.. Wilson, of West Virginia, made the
point of order against Mr.. Hits amend
ment that it was not germane to the subject
under discussion, and also that it was in
the nature of retaliation. TheIpoint was
sustained and Mr.. Hits resolution was
ruled out.
RAYNoR SPEAKS FOR FREE COAL.
Mr.. Raynor, of Maryland, made an
eloquent plea for free coal. He SAID he
had position antagonistic to his state,
which wanted protective tariff on coal
But heI was not a democrat in every
thing else and. a republican on COAL and
he would not see duty put on coal and
not on other articles in which he was not
interested. Said he: Il have followed
the members Of the ways and means com
mittee far beyond the outposts, and |
shall never desert them now when the
poisoned arrows are flying from the very
citadel of protection" Democratic APP
plausel.
Mr.. Wise, of Virginia, spoke in favor of
his amendment putting tax of 80 cents
per ton on coal. The Secretary of the
Treasury was compelled to issue bonds
for the support of the government when
the committee on ways and means was
putting coal on the free list. This YVES to
be compensated for by internal revenue
taxation, to which he was opposed We
had paid SS00000 into the Canadian trea-
sury in the last year ou coal we sent
there, yet it was proposed by this bill to
allow Canadian coal to come in free.
Mr.. Clarke, dem, of Alabama, was in
favor Of free coal.
TUCKER FAvoRs DUTY.
MIR. Tucker, dem, of Virginia, said he
had no personal interest in the coal mines
of Virginia, but as a representative Of the
state, he advocated the amendment, sub
stituting the coal schedule of the McKin-
ley law for the corresponding provision of
the Wilson bill, and he asserted that
putting coal on the free list would not
cheaper the product to those people who
live west Of the Alleghanies and east of
the Rockies
Messrs Oates, Wheeler and Turpin, of
Alabama, wanted a tariff duty upon coal.
In the further course of the debate Mr..
Turpin offered an amendment TO the sub
stitute, providing that the tax Of rs cents
per ton should be decreased 1215 cents
year and cease altogether after the sixth
year.
A vote was then taken on the amend
ment offered by Mr.. Wise, raising the
tariff to 80 cents, and it was defeated by a
viva voce vote. The vote was then taken
on the amendment offered by Mr. Turpin,
and 1t was lost-ayes 2; nays 172.
MK1ELEY's SCHEDULE REJECTED.
The substitute offered by Mr.. McRaig,
TO insert the provisions OF the Mckinley
law in place of the clause in the Wilson
bill, was defeated yeas 81; nays 146.
The following democrats voted with the
republicans on this proposition Messrs.
Anderson, Of West Virginia, Reilly, Of
Pennsylvania, Pendleton of West Vir-
glnia. Sibley, Of Pennsylvania Wise of