The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-14
WOOL DAY IN THE SENATE.
sherman, Dubois and Others Speak
Their Pieces,


Their Pieces.
Washington, June 13.-NIr. Perkins,
OF California, in the Senate today
briefly defended the memory of the
late Leland Stanford from the charge
made by Representative Geary, that
he founded the Stanford university out
of a spirit of revenge or resentment.
be ca use he was not elected a trustee
of the University of California. Per
kins said when he was governor Of Cal
If rnia he appointed Stanford a regent
of the university, but at the request Of
the latter the legislature did not con-
finn the nomination. Governor Stone
man, also. would have made Stanford
a regent, but the honor was declined.
The resolution offered by Mr.. Nor
gan was passed, calling on the secre-
tary of the treasury for a statement as
to what amount Of gold coin was re-
ceived by the treasury department
since November l. 1898; how much re-
ceived from the sale of bonds and to
what persons or banking institutions
such bonds were sold; what outstand-
ing obligations had been redeemed in
gold since that date.
Mr.. Hoar offered resolution calling
on the president to inform the Senate
what, if any, representation had been
made TO the government by the repre-
contemplated retaliation on account of
the proposed imposition Of a discrinin-
eting duty on sugar against bounty
giving countries; the facts as to the
probable exclusion of our agricultural
products from Germany or Guatemala,
and any information in his possession
relative to the proposed retaliatory leg
islation by the cortes Of Spain on ac-
count of the abrogation Of the recipro-
city treaty under the tariff act of 1890
The resolution was adopted.
fOn motion of Mr.. Villas, a bill provid-
ing for one additional circuit Judge
each for the Seventh. Eighth and Ninth
judicial districts was passed.
The tariff debate was resumed, the
pending question being PETERS amend
raent to restore 50 per cent. of the duty
on raw goods.
1.-The eliminating Atrocity."
The question of free wool, Mr. Sher-
man said, vitality affected the people
of Ohio. He reiterated what he had
said in a previous speech, that free
wool was the culmina ting atrocity of
this bill. He appealed to the Demo-
Gratis to put aside politics and with
4 hold this destructive blow to this great
Nindustry. The sheepraising and wool
growing industry was common to a
greater or less extent to every state
anS territory. It was certain, he said,
pete in t. production of wool with
australia, ,.le Argentine republic and
other countries where sheep-raising was
the principal industry. Unless some
government aid was given, the farmers
of the United States must abandon the
field.
Dubois Makes n Protest.
Mr.. Dubois followed. He made a
strong protest against placing wool on
ac+1-c +sof
sheep raising industry Of his section.
Although the bill was not yet a law,
he said that it was not possible today
to sell a. pound Of wool in Idaho except
at a discount from the nominal market
price, equal to the present rate of duty
on raw wool. The feeces had been
grown under the system Of protection,
and were now to be sacrificed under
the system of free trade. If the bill
carried out logically, the demand of
the Democratic platform for free raw
materials. he would not ask a Demo-
cratic Senate to make an exception of
wool, but in passing partially protec-
tive duties on coal, iron ore, ETC.. under
the sham excuse Of revenue, he de-
n0unced the discrimination against the
4 American farmer The wool industry
Y Of Idaho had prcspered under the Nc
Kinley tariff. From 1890 to 1893, the
f1ocls doubled. The threat of free
wool fell ON 100000 sheep, worth 81
O00.000 and including an annual clip of
100000 pounds The decline in the
value of sheep and clips since free
wool was proclaimed almost equaled
the value of the fiocks before the
threat was heard.
Mr. Dubois then dTifted into the dis
cussion Of the silver-lead mining indus
try Of the mountain section which had
fallen under the blight since the pas
sage OF the bin repeating the purcnas-
ing clause Of the Sherman act, and the
threat of free lead ores in the new
tariff bill. He described, at length, the
industrial condition OF the west, with
mines closed and thousands out of en-
ployment, and contrasted these condi-
tions with those existing under the
Mckinley law. In the course of his
remarks, he referred to the political
capital made out of the Homestead
strike in the campaign of 1892, and pre-
scented alongside of it the picture Of
strikes. lockouts, riots and bloodshed
esedywhere today, quoting as be said
at random from newspapers for the
past two months.
6 In conclusion, he reiterated his ap-
peal to the Republican side to allow