The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-06-05
THE SUGAR SCHEDULE
To he Voted OIL in tho Senate To.day-TiiC
Debate Yesterday.

To he Voted OIL in tho Senate To.uay-Thc
Debate Yesterday.
WASHINGTON, D. c., juno 4.-Thir-
teen senators. six Democrats and seven
Republicans, wcto in tho chamber to-
day when tho senate entered upon the
tcnth woek OF tho tariff debate. Senator
Hoar suggested the absence Of quorum
and twenty minutes were spent waiting
tho presence OF tho forty-threo senators
necessary to proceed with busincgs. 4
resolution providing for tho payment OF
the expenses OF tho bribery and other
investigating committees out OF the
contingen. fund was adopted. AT 1850
the tariff bill was taken up, tho sugar
schedule being pending.
Senator Vest took tho floor and made
short explanation CONCERNING the con-
trovertcd point in last Saturdays de-
bata as 10 tho existence Of tho sugar
trust in 1890. sonators Aldsich and
Sherman had contendod tina. the
present trust was not in existence and
that its stock was not listed on tho New
York stock board. Senator Vest pro-
duced somc authorities 10 show that
S.926,000 shares OF the atock OF the
sugar refining company wero sold in
the market in New York in 1890, which,
ut 500 por share, represented over
SS00,000.000. Hc had as much right TO
insinuGte that the sugar trust dictated
the sugar schedule in tho Mckinley
bill as senators oh tho other side to i'm
pugn the action OF tho majority in tho
present Congress.
Senator allison followed Mr.. Vost In
opposition to tho schedule. Senator
Jones dcfondod It and Senator Teller
followed in defense OF the sugar bounty.
ME. ALLrgoS's poI%T.
Mr.. Allison (Rep., Iowa. followed Mr..
Vest with au elaborate speech on the
sugar schedule. 1t was, ho said, by iRr
the most important provision Of tho
bill. I. afforded one.th!rd Of tho rove.
nue produced by the bill.
Mr.. Allison declared thnt according
to numerous authorities sugar could be
refined cheaper hero than in Germany
and Homo other European couutries.
Tho schedule practically would prohibit
the importation Of refined sugars. 1t
was not n achedule ior protection, but
ior prohibition.
Mr.. Jones (Dem., Ark. followed with
detailed explanation OF tho sugar
schedule. He denied that tho McKin.
ley bill had given the people one ounce
OF ffcc sugar. BY imposing duty Of
six.tenths OF n cont OH refined sugar it
had taxed tho people SO, 900, ,O00. all OF
which went into the pockets OF tho re.
tiucrs. besides $l5,0D,000 had been
paid out OF tho treasury in the form Of
sugar bounties, go that the total sugar
tax on tho people OF the United States
amounted to S3S,0G0.0O0 OF which not
ono dollar Ind gone into tho federal
treasury. The duty which 1t was pro-
posed TO impose by this bill, he said,
would cost the people about S60.000,O0Q
OF which $3G,000.O00 would go into tho
treasury, S000O,000 to tho planters in
the form OF protection, and $4,000, 900 10
the redners. The refacrs would got but
one-tour;h OF what they got under the
present law.
Mr.. Hoar (Rep., Maas.) said he did
not believe his constituents would un-
derstand the complicated mathematics
OF the sugar schedule, but they would
understand that the party which had
promised chem FREQ raw material. free
coal, iron orc, load orc, FREQ sugar, etc.
had betrayed Now England by striking
down their industries in order to build
up those OF tho soulh.
TO VOTE TODAY.
Mr.. Platt rep, Conn., who followed
Mr.. Aldrich, donouucod In bitter and
caus.c words tho surrender OF the Dem.
ocratic majority to tho sugar trust.
Mr.. Plat concluded at $3.50 and then