The herald., 1894-05-15
THE SENATORS KILLING TIME,
Seventh Week of Tariff Debate
Begun.
Several Lively Passages at-Arms by
Way Of DEPRESSION.
4 Numbsr of Amend rnents to the Cherai-
cal Schedule Adoptsd-A Coiored
Coxeyite Creates = scsns
In the House.

WASHINGTON, May 14.---The seventh
week OF the tariff debate in the senate
began today. Bills to pension the widow
OF Resr-Admiral MscNesl Fairfax at
500 q mouth, and increase the pension
OF the widow of Major-Geuersl Double
day to 500. were placed on the cslen
dar. and under agreement an honr was
devoted to consideration OF bills on the
calendar, after which the tariff bill was
taken up.
Aldrich's motion to make the duty on
aluminium s:x-tenths, instead OF four
tenths of cent ad valorem, was dis
cussed. Butler said speeches were being
made merely to kill time, to which
Chandler responded: BETTER kill time
than industries" The amendment was
tabled-2S to IL.
Aldrich then moved to substitute
5-l0ths for Aloha. The amendment
WAS tabled.
Plat said that despite the fact that for
years this chamber had rung with Dem
ocratic dsnunciations OF the sugar trust.
the Democrats, excepting one, had
agreed, so he understood, i'll caucus, and
had yeted tos e prehihisiye aaty CO re-
fined sugar. Surely the Democratic
tariff reformers must be hard driven
when they were fereed to swallow the
words and opinions of years.
Platt's observation on thesugar trust
ruffled some OF the Democrats and he
was soon engaged in controversy.
1.-THE duty provided in this BILL" said
Harris, interrupting the Connecticut
senator, lis reduction on refined sugar
in the Mckinley bill from Il to Is OF l
cent per pound"
This bill makes no such deduction"
retorted Platt, decisivsly.
"Then all the sugar experts in this
country are wide OF the mark" said
Harris.
"Oh." said Mr.. Plat. "thers is not a
spsculator, stock jobber or a man in
the sugar trust In New York, or a SEN
ator on this floor who demands this
sugar schedule VINO does not understand
what il means for the trust. This
schedule gives duty of at least three
eighths of cent, sometimes huctua.ipg
"a high as one-half of q cent"
Allison said the ad vslorsm provision
in the bill, in view of the great differ.
ence between the value OF raw and re-.
fined sugar, certainly would afford a
protection of three tenths of cent be-
fore the differentisl OF one eighth of q
cent was reached.
Vest called attention to the fact that
the Mckinley law gave tho raw ma
terial free to refners, and then gave the
latter protective duty of one-half OF q
cent per pound.
Allison insisted, however, that the
great difference in the price Of raw and
refined sugar gave the refner the bene
fit OF at least three eighths of a cent
under 40 per cent ad vslorem duty be"
fore the one-eighth was imp sed at all.
The discussion of the sugar schedule
WAS adroitiy diverted by Vest into de-
bate about American wages. Finally
Gallinger got the floor and proceeded to
read for the benefit OF his political adj
versaries the editorial opinions of some
of the great Democratic dailiee, de-
nounciag the surrender OF Democratic
principles made in the Jones amend
mente.
At the conclusion of Gallinger'a re-
marks the Jones amendment fixing the
duty on aluminium at 3 of q cent was
agreed to without division, as Was the
next Jones amendment fixing the duty
on carbonate OF ammonia at 20 per
cent, muriste of ammonia at 10 per
cent and sulphate of ammonia at 20 per
cent.
The next finance committee amend
ment, fixing the duty on bone char.
suitable for decolorizing sugar, at 20 per
cent was also agreed to.
Jones offered an amendment to place
duty of one cent per pound on crude
borax, and changing the duty on refined
borax from 20 per cent to two cente.
The amendment was agreed to.
Jones offered an amendment to trans-
fer refined copper from the free list to
the dutiable list at 10 per cent ad val
orem. This WAS also agreed to.
1t was then 10 minutes OF 6 O'Clock,
and Allison suggested an executive SEES
sion, while Jones suggested that the
senate sit an hour longer tonight. Har-
ris, who had charge of the bill, arose,
and with cutting sarcaBpn, rejected both
suggestions.
"In view Of the fact" said he, with
the trip-hanmer deliberation so charac
teristic of him, "thas the senate hal
only consumed one hour in the discus
sion of this article. on which the eyes O
Republicans arc fixed with such intens,
interest, the article of chalk, thini
the United States senate should take {
rest, and l meve the senate adjourn"
Accordingly, at 300, the senate ad'
| jourDed.