The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-01
PLEA FOR BOUNTIES.
Senator Manderson Wants
the Government to Pay
Men to Run Sugar
Farms.
JUST LIKE THE M'KINLEY BILL
His Speech on the Sugar Schedule
Today a Rehash of Cam
paign Talk.

WASHINGTON, June /, 1S94-Among the
petitions presented in the Senate this morn
ing was one by Mr. Hoar (Rep. Mass,) en-
dorsed by many meetings of workingmen in
NeS. England. and adopted by the New Eng
land In iustry League, asking the govern
ment to provide farms and factories where
the unemployed may at all times obtain
work and for an amendment of the constltu-
ton so as to affirm the right of every one to
, be employed 1t was referred to the Com
mittee on Rules.
The Vice President laid before the Senate
: Mr.. Hills resolution, offered yesterday, for
I open sessions OF the Select Committee, but at
i the request of MIR. Hill, as only five minutes
Of the morning hour remained it went over
i again till tomorrow. The Same course was
taken with Mr. Dolph's resolution relating
! to the arrest for contempt Of Mr.. Elisha j.
Edwards, a newspaper correspondent.
The House joint resolution in relation to
the acquisition of lands in the Gettysburg
battlefield having been laid before the
Senate, Mr.. Hill tDeni., N.Y. made an ap-
peal for immediate action upon it. General
Sickles sat beside him as he stated the facts
in the case, including the statement that a
trolley railroad company is trying to put
down railroad through the most interest
ing part of the battlefield.
I Mr. Cockreu dem, Mo- objected to i'm
mediate consideration, and the joint resolu-
ton remains on the table for the present.
A resolution was offered by Mr.. Call dem,
Fla, and went over till tomorrow, for the
appointment of select committee of five
Senators to investigate the subject Of the
organized efforts of corporations 10
control elections of State legislators
and members of Congress, and whether cor
lupt means, such as bribery by free trans
portation and the substituting of newspapers
have been resorted to, and whether such
acts are consistent with the preservation OF
the Republic of the United States and the
rights and liberty of the people.
THE TARIFF DEBATE.
At 1910 the Tariff bill was laid before the
Senate, the sugar schedule being the pend
ing question: and Mr.. Manderson rep,
Nebl proceeded to speak upon it,
He drew inetaphorical picture of tariff
reform as a ship which had lately set
ont from port. At distance she
was fair to look upon, but closer inspec-
tion showed the character of the craft.
Her sharp bows and low huh. her
sioping mast, raking aft proclaimed the
dreadful traffic in which she was engaged.
Her destination was the port of free trade.
Her cargo was concealed under her matches.
American interests were there; the very life
of American manufactures was there; the
best interests of the farmer, and
almost the very existence of the
laborers of the country in her hold.
crew. although it seemed composed of
smany men of many minds was constantly
on board for fear that disaster might come
by reason of an uprising in the hold of the
ship In the larders of her
quartermaster was great sup
flag, the one most frequently run to the
peak, was the Union Jack of Great Britain,
rather than the American flag, although she
had sailed from an American port. At
what port she might finally enter, who could
tell? She might be sunk on her voyage and
1t she should go down he was sure that while
the loss would be a great one to the under
writers, it would be most valuable gain to
the country at large. tLaughter).
And SO if he were tempted to make a
speech on the general question of the tariff
bill, he would withhold his voice until it was
known what was to be finally the nature of
the bill.
CONSUMPTION OF SUGAR
Then Mr.. Manderson took up the question
of sugar, and said that the explorations of
that question seemed to be not in the
cane field or in the beet field; not
in the sugar plantation or factory,
but in the Senate Committee room. He gave
the United States consumption of sugar in
1898 as 4, ,296, 900, 600 pounds, of which 3,651,-
600, 600 pounds lad been imported and 645,-
100000 produced at home. The cost of the
imported sugar, at five cents pound,
was about 1882, 100000 = though, of
course he did not mean to be understood
as saying that all that money had
gone abroad, for most of the sugar had
been imported in the raw state He calcu-
lated that the consumption of sugar in 1915
when the sugar bounty under the Mckinley
act was to cease would be 6,3e0, 900, 900
pounds at cost of five cents pound, of
S315, 100000 And the problem was, he
said, whether that vast amount of money
should be kept at home or sent abroad
1kl L.
the people of the tropical and semi-tropical
lands and the people of Europe, who were
producing beet sugar in such enormous
quantities Free sugar, without pro-
lection, either by adequate bounty
or compensating duty mean las surely
as the sun shone in the heavens)
fhe immediate destruction of the beet sugar
industry of this country and the gradual ex-
tinction of the cane sugar product of the
Southern States. This could not be gain
said: and he did not see how any man, look
ing to the interests of the Republic, believing
in its advarcement could strike a
blow, either by the repeal of the
present bounty provision or by the failure
TO enact some fair compromising duty,
at those industries which meant SO much IN
the future of the United States. He cal
culated that in 1903, if the bounty
were continued, the production of beet
sugar in the United States will be
equal to the then enormous need of the
country, probably $500, 100000 pounds. and
he went on to give a highly interesting
statement of beet root cultivation in Ne
yada, California and other Western States,
and of the conversion of the beets into
sugar.
The sugar Trust Investigation.
WASHINGTON, June 1, 1S94.-The Senate
Committee now engaged III examination into
the alleged statements that the sugar trust
interfered in the construction OF the
sugar schedule of the pending tariff
bill, and that various Senators have been
speculating in stocks, have become tired of
their Intellectual efforts to keep their pro-
ceedings secret, and have decided that as
fast as the stenographer can prepare his
copy they will report it to the Senate
and have it printed. Much that
was concealed from the press yesterday,
came to the surface today. and it is apparent
that Chairman Gray, in his capacity as the
sunfolderp of the news unearthed by the
committee, has not as keen appreciation as
the average newspaper man as to what IS
and what Is not news. The statements made
by the Secretary of the Treasury were given
in the dispatches last night.
CYRUS W. FIELD DYING.
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