The record-union., 1894-01-24
SUGAR ON TEE FREE list.
The House Committee of the Whole
So Decides.
REPUBLICANS VOTE WITH DEMO
Gratis AGAINST THE DUTY.
A Resolution Reported Favorably by
the Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations Declaring 1t Unwise and
Time Any Project for the Annex
alton OF the Hawaiian Islands.
Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-The House to-
day determined the abolition of the duty
upon refined sugar passed upon just be-
fore the House adjourned last night. A
way out of the confusion which existed
upon the effect of the amendment adopted
last night was found after two hours
discussion of the parliamentary situation
by submitting the question to the House
as to whether the Warner amendment
placing refined sugar on the free list
should be considered as a substitute for
the Robertson amendment. This was
decided affirmatively and then by an
overwhelming vote, in which the Repub-
licans joined with radical Democrats
against the sugar men and several men,
bers of the Ways and Means Committee,
the substitute was adopted. The Com
mittee of the Whole has abolished the
bounty and placed all sugar, both raw
and refined, upon the free list.
When it came to consider the coal
schedule to-day, however, the committee
Jared much better, and all four amend
ments designed to place duty OF forty to
seventy-fve cents per ton upon coal
were beaten. Debate upon the coal sched
ule developed a great deal of feeling
among Southern members, especially
those from Virginia, West Virginia, Ten
nessee and Alabama, whose States are in
terested in coal and iron ere. The gen
eral impression is that the defeat of the
sugar men and those interested in retain
ing a duty upon coal Will result IN
strengthening tho movement developed
on the Democratic side to recommit the
bill. If the iron men are defeated to-
morrow, and especially ii an income tax
should be placed upon the bill as rider
later in the week, another strong faction
on the Democratic side will be added to
this movement. The Republicans will
all vote for motion TO recommiI, and
with Democrats who do not care to vote
against the bill outright, but who are not
satisfied with it in its present form, they
may be able to muster majority TO send
back to committee. This it is now ad-
mitted on all hands will be the chief dam
ger to the bill. If it could be brought to
direct vote there is no question about it
passing.
SENATE PROCEEDINGS.
WAsHINGToN, Jan. 23.-The Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations reported
favorably the following resolution:
"ReS0tUed, From the facts and papers
laid before the Senate it is unwise and in
expedient under existing conditions to
consider at this time any project for the
annexation of the Hawaiian Islands to
the United States; that the Provisional
Government therein having been duly
recognized, the highest international in
terest requires it shall pursue it's own
line of policy. Foreign Intervention in
the political affairs of these islands would
be regarded as an act uniriendly to the
Government of the United States"
Turpie. who reported the resolution on
behalf of the committee, said he was di-
rected by the committee to ask immedi--
ate consideration, as it was the unanimous
expression of the committee, except the
dissent of Dolph to the first clause.
Turpie further explained the resolution
had no relation to the special lnvestiga-
ton being made by the committee.
Teller objected to its immediate con-
sideration on the ground that it had not
been printed, and Mills gave notice that
when it came up for consideration he
would ask for division of the question.
So the resolution went over under the
rules.
Senator Cullom addressed the Senate
on Frye's Hawaiian resolution of nom
interference. Cullom savagely attacked
the policy of the Administration in the
Hawaiian matter. Abundant testimony
had been furnished to controvert the as
sumed theory of the President and Secre-
tary of State that the revolution was in
cited and fostered by Minister Stevens
and Captain Wiltse; but, in any case,
Cleveland found a Government estab-
lished and in full possession, recognized
by the world. Collum compared Blount's
crafty acts of a spy in Honolulu to the
employment of Major Andre by the Brit
ish Government in the revolutionary
time, and said Blount deserved Andres
fate. The country had reached conclu-
sion that the President and Cabinet, with
all their new-tangled paramounts and
cipher dispatches, are merely tin-clad
actors in stupendous comedy of errors.
At the conclusion of Cullom's remarks
resolution, presented by Dolph, was
adopted requesting the President 30 COM
municate to the Senate any correspond
ence exchanged between the Government
of the United States and the Governments
of Colombia, Venezuela and Hayti since
the proclamation issued by the President
OF the 10Th of March, 1892, levying import
duties on sugar, melasses, coffee, tea,
hides and other products brought from
those countries to the United States.
Chandler replied to a recent speech of
Vest on the operations of the Federal
elections law In 1876.
The Senate adjourned at P. NJ.