St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-05

Millions to Refiners.
WASHINGTON. June 4. = Thirteen
senators, six Democrats and seven Re-
publicans, were in the chamber today
when the senate entered upon the tenth
week of the tariff debate. Senator
Hoar suggested the absence of a quo
rum, and twenty minutes were spent
waiting the presence OF the forty-three
senators necessary to proceed with
business. A resolution providing for
the payment of the expenses of the
bribery and other Investigating COM
mittees out of the contingent fund was
adopted.
The tariff bill was taken up. the sugar
schedule being pending. Senator Vest
took the floor, and made short ex-
PLANTATION concerning the controyerted
point in last Saturdays debate as to
the existence of the sugar trust in 1880.
Senators Aldrich and Sherman had
contended that the present trust was
not in existence, and that its stock was
not listed on the New York stock board.
Senator Vest produced some authorities
to show that S,926.000 shares of the
stock of the Sugar Refining company
which sid in the market in New York
in 1880, were at 500 per share, repre-
sented over $500. 100000. He had as
much right to insinuate that the
SUGAR TRUST
dictated the sugar schedule in the Nc
Kinley bill as senators OIL the other side
had to impugn the action of the ma
jority in the present congress.
Mr.. Allison (Rep.. Io.) followed Mr..
Vest with an elaborate speech on the
sugar schedule. 1t was, he said. by far
the most important provision of the bill.
1t afforded one-third of the revenue
produced by the bill.
MIR. Allison declared that according
to numerous authorities sugar could be
refined cheaper here than in Germany
and some other European countries.
The schedule practically would prohibit
the importation of refined sugars. 1t
was not a schedule for protection, but
for prohibition.
Mr.. Jones Dem.) followed with de-
tailed explanation of the sugar sched-
ule. He denied that the Mckinley bill
had given the people one ounce of
free sugar. By imposing duty of six
tenths of cent OH refined sugar, it had
taxed the people s23, 900, 900. all of which
went into the pockets of the retiners.
Besides $l5.OOO,0O0 had to be paid
out of the treasury in the form
of sugar bounties, so that the
total sugar tax on the people
of the United States amounted to S3S,-
100000. of which not one dollar has
gone into the federal treasury. The
duty which it was proposed to impose
by this bill. he said, would cost the
people about s5o.00o.O 900, of which $780,
100000 would go into the tire asury
$4,000. 900 to the planters In the
FORM OF PROTECTION,
and $4,000, 600 to the refinerS. The re-
finers would get but one.fourth of
what they got under the present law.
Mr.. Hoar (Rep.. Mass.) said he did
not believe his constituents would UNI
derstand the complicated mathematics
of the sugar schedule, but they would
understand that the party which prom
ised them free raw material, free coal,
iron ore, lead ore, free sugar, etc.. had
betrayed New England by striking
down their industr les in order to build
up those of the South.
Mr.. Platt (Rep.. Comm, who followed
Mr.. Aldrich, denounced in bitter and
caustic words the surrender of the
Democratic majority to the sugar trust.
Mr.. Plat concluded at $50. and then
after some sparring Mr.. Harris succeed
ed in effecting an arrangement by which
all the amendments to the sugar sched-
ule should be voted OH tomorrow.
In accordance with the notice he
served last Saturday, he stated that un-
less some agreement conld be reached
for facilitating the disposition of the
measure, he would be cop pelled to ask
the senate to sit longer and later. He
asked that unanimous consent be given
| to vote OH all the sugar amendments at
an early hour tomorrow.
much to ask the senate to vote without
debate on all the amendments offered
10 the sugar schedule. He suggested
that vote be taken OH the amendments
to the bounty paragraph at O'clock,
and that then the debate OH the other
amendments be under the ten-minute
rule with the understanding that the
entire schedule be disposed Of tomor-
row. This was finally agreed to, and at
CLIO the senate, on Mr.. Harris motion,
went into executive session, and few
minutes later adjourned.
NECK ARsS ISLAND