The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-06-12

LegislatinG for the Benefit Of tho
Sugar Trust-All Consumers Con-
tribute to the Enormous Profit ofthe
Sharks.
Special to the Atlanta Const' tuition.
WASHINGTON, June 5.-Thc sugar
schedule has safely run the gauntlet
of the Senate, not finally, so far as
liamentary fiction the Senate did not
today act except as committee of the
whole. Soa,the eutire schedule will
have to be voted on again formally III
the Senate. The result of the votes
taken today, however, practically set
ties the matter. They mean that the
tariff bill as amended by the finance
committee will pass the Senate and go
to the House and to conference.
The riddle of the tariff sphinx was
read today. Senator Hill voted against
his party when he voted at all. His
detection was made up by the votes of
Allen and Kyle, the Nebraska and
South Dakota Populists. PETER voted
steadily with the Republicans.
The talk is revived that an attempt
will 'e made when the bill comes into
the House to induce that body to ac-
cept the Senate amendments and so
prevent the delay and Inevitable
changes that will result from Il con-
ference. This attempt can only sue
ceed by UNANIMOUS consent, and that
will not be accorded. There will be a
conference on tho bill and it is i'm
possible at this time to form anything
like a corr ect idea of what the outcome
of the conference will be. 1t is be-
lieved in we'll informed circles, how
ever, that the bill will be substantially
as it passes the Senate.
The fact is the Senate has had more
to do with the form and substance of
tariff acts than the House for many
years. This was tho case with the
tariff of 1883 and with the Mckinley
law.
There was sharp closing debate
this morning in which elimination
and recrimination wore banded about
as freely between the two sides of the
chamber as they are in the Congress
sional campaign now waging in the
Lexington District.
Chandler declared, in his raspin
tones, that he had not the slightest
doubt that some Senators had been
specializing in sugar certificates Aid
rich taunted tho finance committee
with having given the sugar trust all it
wanted.
Bryce entered the arena and asked
his colleague if he knew how much
Iile sugar GFuSU was SIOCKcu aU III JnC
halcyon days when the Republicans
were we aving about the neck of Ameri-
can trade and commerce the burden
known as the Mckinley law. Sherman
said he did not. Bryce enlightened
him by saying it was $50 900. 600, and
added that the price of sugar cor iii-
Gates rose from May to October, 1890,
the period when the Mckinley bill
was before the senate and in confer
encc, from 65 to 93. That settled that
phase of the discussion, for everybody
knows Bryce is Wall street sharper
| and OF course has such figures at his
| tongues end.
Then Vest rubbed a little pepper in
the raw places of the Republicans by
declaring that the sugar trust had
| dictated the go per cent. protection OF
sugar in the Mckinley bill. For Aid
rich's benefit he pointed out that that
Senator had said in the debate at tho
time that he (Aldrich) could no resist
the arguments of the Philadelphia
sugar refners, and that this admission
was embalmed in the printed pages Of
The Congressional Record OF the Fifty
First Congress. In the midst of these
personalities and pleasantries the
hour for taking the vote arrived and
cut them short.
A great deal Is being said OF the en-
Ormous profit the sugar trust will
realize from tho sugar scheduls as ap-
proved in the Senate today. The date
for the schedules going into effect is
set at January lst next, the date being
fixed upon to enable the sugar planters