St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-02

on the SweetS-Harris Lectures
the Senate.
WASHINGTON, June IA large horse
rhoe of ros Is rested on the desk of SEN
ltOr Proctor, of Vermont. when the
Ienate met at 10 o'clock this morning,
n honor of that g~enIleman's siXty-third
birthday anniversary.
Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts,, pre-
iented a petition from the New En-
sland Industrial army" asking legisla-
ion which would guarantee work to
he unemployed. 1t was referred to
he committee OH rules.
The bill granting additional lands in
lie Hot Springs reservation TO the
Berry hospital was passed.
1t was within five minutes of 1880
when the morning business was fin
lshed, and Senator Hill, of New York,
made no effort to get up his resolution
to instruct the bribery committee to
throw open its doors to the public. 1t
vent over without prejudice, as did
Senator Dolph's resolution to bring E.
!. Edwards, II of the ~contumaclOuS
witnesses, to the bar of the senate for
eontempt. Senator Hill asked unani-
nous consent to consider a joint resolu-
tion passed by the house yesterday
giving the secretary Of war authority,
under the last sundry civil appropria-
ton act, TO institute condemnation pro-
ceedlngS to secure certain lands neal
the battlefield of Gettysburg. Judge
Dallas, he explained, had just held that
the language of that act was not broad
enough to warrant cond emnation pro-
ceedings.
Senator Corkrell, of Missouri. OBJ
jected, insisting that the resolution
should go first 10 the committee on
military affairs, and it was so referred.
The tariff bill was then laid before the
Senate, and the great battle over
SUGAR SCHEDULE
began. The Mckinley law placed raw
sugars on the free list, imposed % cent
duty on refined sugar and gave a bounty
of two cents to the sugar grower. The
house bill repealed the bounty and
placed all ugars, raw and refined, on
the free list. The first bill reported
from the finance committee of the SEN
ate ave a specific duty of from l cent
to 1865 cent per pound, according to
polariscopic test. The compromise
amendment. which is the one now
before the senate, made the sugar
schedule go into effect Jan. l, 1895, the
rates being 40 per cent ad valorem on all
sugars, raw and refined, one-eighth of
cent additional on sugars above
i6 Dutch standard, with an additional
Dne-tenth of II cent a pound on sugars
from countries paying export bounties.
1t also continued the sugar treaty with
Hawaii.
Mr.. Henderson took the floor as soon
as Mr.. Jones had formally proposed the
compromise amendment. The sugar
schedule, he said, was the interesting
schedule of the bill. 1t contained both
sweetness and light. 1t seemed to per-
wade the whole bill. The bill could not
be touched without laying hands on
sugar. The senate had even departed
from the consideration of the bill to
make explorations in sugar-not in the
cane fields of Nebraska, but in the COM
mittee room. The %sacoharine principle,
as it impregnated all nature, invaded
every feature of this bill. Mr.. Mander-
son then proceeded to argue in
FAVOR OF PROTECTION
for the sugar-growing industry of the
country. The consumption of sugar,
he said. was enormous. Almost $780,
OO0, 600 pounds of raw sugar had been
consumed last year, representing
If grown and refined abroad. a
grand total of s1S2. 600. 900 to be
paid to foreigners. Free sugar would
mean the immediate destruction of
the beet sugar industry, and the
gradual extinction of zane sugar pro.
duction in the Southern states. If
properly protected. he prophesied that
before 1905 the beet sugar production
would have 81 developed in the North,
and cane sugar in the South, that the
United States could supply the entire
consumption of the country. Beet
sugar growing offered an important
industry to the farmers. When devel-
oped to the extent necessary to supply
the home demand, it would afford
crop of Two million acres. Was it any
wonder that the farmers of the West
wanted q OIL inc sugar
bounty?
They were enthusiastic over the pros
pect. 1t was the great boon which they
asked congress to save to them. Every
acre planted in beetS meant twenty
days labor to a man.
No country in the world, Mr.. Man.
derson said, was so well adapted to pro-
duce beet sugar as the United States.
Beet growing ultimately would displace
cane growing. Cane contained 10 pei
cent of sncrose or crystalline sugar
sorghum but 9 per cent, while beets
gave from Is to 10 per Cent of crystal
line sugar.
Mr.. Henderson denied that in foster
ing the growth of beet and cane sugar
any obligation existed to
PROTECT THE REFINERs.
There was no connection, he declared
between the sugar grower and tn,
odiuus sugar trust. He cared nothing
for the one aud everything for tn,
other.
MIR. Henderson gave notice that at tn,
proper time he would offer as a subSti
tute for the sugar schedule the bounty
provision of the Mckinley bill. continu
ing it in force until July 1, 1905. HI
argued at length in support of the con
~stitutionality of bounties, quoting ex.
tensiyely from court decisions, ant
especially the decision of Justice Miller
"lf congress were to give a bounty
Inquired Mr.. Gallery (Dem., La.) ITO
farmer or manufacturer, do you con,
tend that the courts have no right I,
Inquire whether the bounty is given TO
apublic or private use?"
Il do" replied Mr.. Henderson. 18th,
decision OF Mr.. Miller is conclusive q,
that point"
Mr. PETER proceeded at great length
to support a bounty instead of a dut,
on sugar. In the course of his speech,
he drifted into the discussion of tn,
silver question; touched upon his idea
ofthe theory Of government and til,
panacea for the existing ills of the bod,
polite. 1t was 5:45 when Mr.. PefTe
concluded.
Mir. harris. In charge of the tariff bill
then moved that the senate proceed t
the consideration of executive business
Before he made the motion he declare,
with his Wonted emphasis that tn