Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-06-09
THE FEDERAL LEGISLATURE.
Tariff SectionalIsm Alleged by Republican
Senators-The 4. r. A.

WASHINGTON, June s.-SENATE.-
The resolution offered yesterday by Mr..
Hoar in reference to relinquishing the
claims cf the United STATES against tho
estate of Leland Stanford of California,
was laid before the Senate and Mr.. Hoar
modified II so as to simply instruct the
judiciary Committee to inquire and report
as soon as may be whether IL is ex-
pedent that the claim be forthwith re-
lnquished and put at rest.
Mr. Allen PopulisD, Of Nebraska,
moved to lay the resolution on the table,
and that m4ion was agreed to-yeas "a;
nays, 19-as follows: Yeas-Messrs. Allen,
Berry, Blackburn, Cockrell. Coke. Daniel,
Faulkner, George Harris, Hunton. Jar
Wis Jones of Arkansas, Kyle. McIaurin,
Martin. Mills, Mitchell Of Wisconsin, Muir
ply, Pasco, PETER. Smith. Turpie, Vest,
and Whites.
Nays-Messrs. Allison. Carey, Chandler.
Culom. Davis. Dixon Dolph. Dubois. Fry,
Hawley. Higgins. Hoar Mcmillan, Per-
kins. Platt, Shoup, Teller, Voorhees,, and
Washburn-l9.
The tariff bill was then taken up, and
Mr. CullOm delivered a prepared speech
against the bill when Mr.. Cullom closed
Mr.. Washburn asked that further debate
on the agricultural schedule should be
under the fve-minute rule There was
no objection. and II was ~ ordered. Mr..
Harris gave notice that he would at II
convenient time ask to have the same rule
applied TO the succeeding three sections
of the bill, down to the wool schedule.
The Senate then came to the practical
question OF voting on the bill by para
graphs. the committee amendments as TO
buckwheat, corn or maize, cornmeal, oatS.
rice. rice-nour wheat wheat-four, and
oatmeal; barley and barley malt, and
maccaroni, vermicelli. and similar pre-
parations being agreed 10.
RICE.
Paragraph l93 was as to rice. The bill
as II passed the House and as il was re-
ported from the Finance Committee made
the duty on cleaned rice ] l-2 cents a
pound; on uncleaned rice. / cent; on rice
flour and rice-meai, Ia of cent pound,
and on paddy, 81 Of a cent a pound.
MIR. Allison made an argument against
these duties as being too high. He adj
mitted that they were lower than the
rates In the Mckinley act but still as
compared with the other articles in the
agricultural schedule. the rates were
nearly double. A suggestive question put
by Mr.. Hale brought from Mr.. Allison
the statement that the high duties on
rice in the Mckinley act had been put in
at the request of southern senators. And
yet, he added, the two senator's from
Louisiana have steadfastly voted against
any amendment TO the agricultural
schedule that would give increased pro-
lection to the products of northern farms.
But when the two products Of sugar ana
rice are reached-products OF Southern
States-we find exorbitant duties sus-
tained by them and by all the senators
on the other side.
Mr. Hale also made some bitter COM
ments upon "the mendicants" from Lou
isiana and other Southern States, who
haS voted to put lumber on the free list,
while sugar had to be highly protected
a product that was surrounded by an
atmosphere OF contamination and cor
ruption.'
Mir. Manderson pointed out the sugges-
tive comparison (although comparisons,
he said, were not only odious but odorn-
erous) of an S3-per-cent. duty. on rice,
20 per cent. on barley, and nothing on
wheat.
Mr.. blanchard resented Mr.. Haie's re-
mark as TO southern senators oeihs
"mendicants" for high rates OF duty on
rice and sugar. The duty on rlce' ne
said, had been. under the law OF ns1,
90 o5 ner 100 pounds: under the Mckinley
as IL pdSntu thc itoNS'f -
Mr.. Dolph (Oregon) moved to apply 10
rec the same provision as was appieu
TO wheat. oats, etc, admitting IL iree
of duty from countries that do not mn
pose an import duty on rice from 'he
United states. He argued that II such
rule was good for wheat. II was also
good for rice and sugar.
MFR Hale regarded Mr.. Dolph's amend
ment as bringing the Senate face to face
$50 that no senator could wriggie out OF
il or squirm out of III, with the d,nerence
betweer, the treatment OF northern m
dnstry nurely agricultural and Of south
ern Industry purely agricultural he
challenged Democratic senator's to ex-
plain why there should be such DIS
elimination.
yeas, Herer); nays, a.
ALLEGED SECTIONAlIsM.
Mr.. Hale read the names OF the Demo
cratic senators who voted no on the
Dolph amendment and the names OF the
same senators who had voted aye on ex-
actiy the same provision in the para
graph as TO buckwheat. oats. etc. Wunln
twenty-four hours, he said. the senator's
had turned tail" and voted the other
way The people Of the North, ne satd
would take account Of that matter. 6ena-
tors on the other side we're renewing tne
old story o1 thirty-dve years aec. ano
were driving the northern people 70 =
point beyond which no more couid %