The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-01

about sugar, and expected to have a duty
/ placed upon that article; and if not
/ duty, at least bounty. In defending the
/ Mckinley bill, he said il had some demer-
/ its-one of them the bounty on sugar, to
/ which he was opposed at the time.
THE FALLING OFF IN REVENUE.
In response to the charge that the Nc
| Kinley bill did not supply sufficient reve-
nue., he said it was the fear of a change
of the tariff law that caused the revenue
to fall off. Had President Harrison been
| reelected the revenues would not have
/ fallen off, for there would have been no
! fear of change in the present tariff law.
/ If when congress met the tariff bill had
been taken up and discussed as a financial
| question there would have been trouble
on the republican side of the chamber
Had an impartial committee Of
/ both houses gone over it, the bill
would have been passed in
thirty days But it was not that kind of
/ discussion, nor the proper sort of a bill
that was wanted. What was wanted
was dogma similar to that found in the
/ confederate constitution. He believed in
a surplus always instead of a deficiency.
A surplus, in public as in private life,
was always a blessing.
THE DUTY ON sUGER.
ldhiuR up Sonic OF the lbeIlS III bu6 Dill
in detail, Mr.. Sherman showed that those
in which the south was interested had
good rates of duty, while those in the
north had low duties, or were on the free
list. Sugar, for instance, was taxed at
40 per cent, and rice at so per cent,
while wool, in which hundreds Of thou
sands of people earned their living
throughout the north and west, was free.
! He would demand that this discrim-
ination be wiped out. The south
ern duties were not for rev
enue, but for protection. AS
such he believed in them, but he wanted
the same rule applied TO the northern
products.
Mr. Sherman argued against putting
wool on the free list, and declared his be-
lief and hope that the finance committee
would have strength enough and will
enough to give to the farmer fair rate
of duty on his raw products.
THE INCOME TAN.
Then he attacked the income tax de-
clared that it had never been proposed ex-
ceptas war tax that there was no neces-
sity for such a tax and that if there was,
1t should be left to the states; it was an
act Of agrarianism and injustice The
idea of taxing the profits of savings banks
and building corporations was enough
he said, to make his blood
boil. In conclusion, he appealed
to the democratic side Of
the Senate not to force upon the country
a measure that would reduce wages; and
he expressed the hope that the result of
the whole matter would be measure that
would result in the glory, strength and
power of this grand country.
Mr., Sherman spoke for over three
hours, and when he took his seat he was
applauded by the galleries and congratu-
lated by some of the republican senators.
IL. ~, DO,
advocated the Senate amendments to the
tariff bill as being wiser than the too VIC
lent changes proposed in the House bill.
DoLPH DEFENDS THE CORRESPONDENTS.
Mr.. Dolph, rep, of Oregon made a long
speech on the subject of the efforts to
punish the two newspaper correspond
ents, Messrs. Edwards and Shriver for
refusing to answer certain questions
asked by the Gray select committee, in
vestigating the alleged efforts of the
sugar trust to influence senators improp-
erly. He did not believe it wise, he said,
to proceed with the consideration of
the question of duties on sugar
until after the Senate was informed
by the select committee whether
there was any foundation for the charge,
and he gave notice that before taking his
seat he would make motion to postpone
the consideration of the sugar schedule
port He was gratifed at an opportunity
in which to discuss in open session the
question of the powers and duties of the
Senate to deal with recalcitrant wit
nesses, If the Senate was not to
do what duty commanded, it had better
abdicate at once and appoint a commits
sion to go to the newspaper room and
negotiate with the newspaper correspon-
dents as to the dividing line between the
authority of the Senate and heaCthOritV
of the press. He denied that he or the
Senate had any hostility to the press, or
any desire to deprive it of any of its
privileges
DoLPH MAKES HARRIS TIRED.
After Mr.. Dolph hsd been speaking
over two hours he was asked by Mr..
Harris, with an air of WEAKNESS and dis
gust, whether he had taken contract to
speak all the evening on a subject
wholly foreign to the bill under consider
alton.
Mr.. Dolph said that he would not at
tempt to answer such a question. He
was responsible for the relevancy of his
remarks, and he had given notice of a
motion which he proposed to make.
Mr.. Dolph ceased speaking few min
utes before O'Clock, when he was asked
by Mr. Harris whether he made the mo-
ton he had promised to make, to post
pone action on the sugar schedule until
report from the select investigating COM
mittee. He had forgotten it, and was
about to make it when, after a whisper
from Mr. Hill, he said he would defer
making it till tomorrow, lest the motion
might preclude other senator's who de-
sired to discuss the matter.
The Senate then, after a short execlI-
tive session, adjourned at Cos o'clock till
tomorrow at 10 O'Clock.