The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-14
VOTING ON SUGAR.

nlSe dneuuIhenUS to unS sugar scllcu- ule were all adopted in the senate yes terday and the pivotal schedule on which the fate of the tariff measure depended went through without change. On the vital amendment to place all sugars on the free list the democratic line was drawn, Mir. Hill, of New York, voting in favor of it and Mir. Irby, of South Carolina, being paired the same way. But the republicans were unable to hold their own forces intact, Messrs. Manderson and Perkins voting against the amendment, and MT. Quay being paired against it, while Mir Sher- man, who was present, did not vote at all. Only one of the populists, Mir. Peffer, voted for free sugar. Messrs. Kyle and Allen, in the final issue, join ing with the majority of democrats against it. Had all the republicans, with the three populists and the two disaffected democrats, joined hands sugar, raw and refined, would have gone on the free list. On all the other amendments offered by the republic ans the majority against them ranged from three to ten. The adoption of the sugar schedule practically insures the passage of the bill at an early date, although it is intimated that the re- publicans will make a final stand on the sugar schedule when the bill is re- ported and considered in the senate.
 As adopted yesterday the schedule imposes duty of 40 per cent. ad valorem on all sugars, raw and refined, with differential of one-eighth of cent per pound on sugars above 1e Dutch standard, and an additional one- tenth of cent against sugars inn ported from countries paying an eX- port bounty. It continues the Hawai- ian treaty admitting sugars from the Sandwich islands free of duty, and places duty of cents per gallon on molasses testing above 40 degrees by the polariscope. The schedule goes into effect January l, 1895, and the bounty is continued until that date.
 Before the voting began Mir. Aldrich, alluding to the statements made yester- day in regard to the alleged influence of the sugar trust in framing the tariff bill, said that while there was a sugar trust in 1890, it was not the gigantic concern it is now and speculation in its shares was comparatively trivial.
 MT. Vest retorted that in three weeks then the shares went up thirty-five points. There was then, he said, the same lies, the same falsitcations, the same attacks on public men that had characterized the consideration of the pending bill.
 Mir. sherman also insisted that the trust of 1890 was not the trust of to- day.
 Do you know what the capital of the sugar trust of 1890 was?" asked Mir. Brice.
 "I do not" replied Mir. Sherman.
 Ut was S5O,OOO, ,OOO," said Mir. Brice. "The stock of that corporation went up from 63 to 90. The stock advanced S2O, ,OOO 900 by virtue of the action of your committee"
 In the midst of this sensational de- bate the hour of o'clock arrived, and under the agreement, the vote was taken on Mir. Jones' amendment fixing January 1, 1895, as the date on which the repeal of the sugar bounty should go into effect, and it was adopted yeas, 40; nays, 31.
 Mr. Allison offered an amendment to reduce the sugar bounty for the re- mainder of the calendar year to eight tenths of cent per pound and to make the sugar schedule take effect immedi- ately on the passage of the bill. The three populists this time voted with the democrats. There was no break in party lines and it was defeated, 32 to 40.
 The senate then passed to the next paragraph, 1s2]G, fixing the duty on sugar. Mir. Jones offered the "com- promise" amendment, fixing the duty on raw and refined sugar at 40 per cent. ad valorem with a differential of one-eighth of one cent on sugars above 16, Dutch standard and an ad- ditional one-tenth on sugar imported from countries giving an export boun- ty, continuing the Hawaiian treaty in force, and imposing a duty of cents a gallon on molasses.
 Mir. Lodge offered as substitute the amendment originally reported by the senate committee on finance fixing specific duty on sugar beginning with 1 cent per pound on sugar testing so degrees by the polariscopic test and graduating the duty according to fine ness. Lost-2S to 37.
 Mir. Peffer offered an amendment to place all sugar on the free list.
 Mir. Hill voted in favor of free sugar, and announced that he was authorized to say that Mir. Irby, who was absent, would have voted for free sugar had he been present. The amendment was lost by 26 to 37.
 MT. Allison offered an amendment to make the schedule go into effect imme- diately on the passage of the bill. It was lost, 30 to B.
 MT. Pettigrew rep, of South Dakota, offered an amendment to strike out the one-eighth of 1 cent differential given to the refiners. It was lost, 30 to B, MT. Hill and the populists voting in favor of striking out the differential given the sugar trust.
 Mir. Manderson proposed an amend ment to cut the duty down one-hah and the bounty one-half. Lost on