The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-02
BoUNTIEs ARE LEGAL.
Manderson's Efforts in Behalf {
Beet Growers.

bect NEOWeTSs
Washington, June Hill made no effort
in the Senate today to get his resolution
to instruct the bribery committee to throw
open the doors TO the public 1t went
over without prejudice.
Mr.. Dolph's resolution to bring E. G..
Edwards, one of the contumacious wit
nesses, to the bar of the Senate for con-
tempt took the same course
Mr.: Hill asked unanimous consent to
CONSIDER con the joint resolution, passed by
the House yesterday, giving the secretary
CT war authority under the last sundry
civil appropriation act to institute con-
demnatlon proceedings to secure the lands
near Gettysburg battlefield. Judge Dallis,
ne explained, had held that the language
OF the act was not broad enough to war
rant condemning proceedings.
Mr. Cockrell insisted that the resolution
go 10 the committee of military affairs.
The Tariff Bill.
When the tariff bill was laid before
the Senate the battle over the sugar
schedule began. The Mckinley law placed
raw sugar on the free list and imposed
oae-nait cent duty on refined sugar and
gave bounty OF two cents to sugar grow
ers; The House bill repealed the bounty
and PLACED all sugar ON the free list. Tie
Ilr ist DIN reported from the finance COM
mlttee OF the Senate gave a specific duty
OF one cent to 1.2S5 per pound ACCORDING
TO the polariscopic test.
Inc compromise amendment the one
schedule go into effect January l, 1895.
the rates being 40 per cent. adj yalorem
on all sugars, raw and refined, one-eightf
% % d cent additional on all sugars above
10, Dutch standard, with an additional
one-tenth of one cent per pound on sugar
from countries paying export bounties
l also continued the sugar treaty with
Hawaii.
Henderson and Sugar
s,i Mr.; Henderson took the floor. The
schedule ha
wade the whole bill. The bill could not be
touched without laying hands on sugar
Almost i've billion pounds of raw sugar
mac na9 q 2ee esn consumed last year. represent
total OF $lS2, 600 to be paid to foreign
erS Free sugar would mean the innme-
dlate destruction of the beet sugar indus
try and the gradual extinction of the cane
sugar production of the southern states
II properly protected, he prophesied. that
before 1895 the beet sugar production
would tn have SO developed in the north and
the the cane 4s sugar in the south that the
United States could supply the full con-
sumption of the country Beet sugar
growing, when developed to the extent
would afford crop of 100000 acres. Was
1t any wonder that the farmers of the
west wanted the continuation of the
sugar bounty? They were enthusiastic
which they asked Congress to save to
them. No country in the world was so
well adapted to produce beet sugar as
the United States. Beet growing ulti-
mately would displace cane growing
Henderson denied that in fostering the
growth OF beet and cane sugar any obi
cation existed to protect the refiners
There was no connection, he declared
between the sugar growers and the odious
sugar trust
All Bounties Are Lawful.
Mr.. Henderson gave notice that, at the
proper time, he would offer a substitute
for the sugar schedule, the bounty pro-
vision of the Mckinley bill, continuing
length in support of the constitutionality
of bounties, quoting extensively from
court decisions, and especially the deci-
sion of Justice Miller.
If Congress were to give a bounty' -
enquired Mr.. Caffery, OF Louisiana, ito
a farmer or manufacturer, do you con-
tend that the courts have no rights to
inquire whether the bounty is given for
a public or private purpose"
Il do" replied Mr.. Henderson. 1.-THE
decision of Mr.. Miller is conclusive on
that point"
Mr.. PETER then proceeded at great
length in support of a bounty instead of
a duty on sugar
In the course Of his speech, he drifted
into the discussion of the silver question:
touched upon his ideas of the theory of
government, and the panacea for the ex-
listing ills oil the body polite
1t was 5:45 when Mr.. PETER concluded
Harris Is Impatient.
Mr.. Harris then moved that the Senate
proceed to the considerat ton of executive
business. Before he made the motion he
declared the country was impatient over
the slow progress made on this bill, and
business interests everywhere suffered the
utterly ineXcusable delay. He gave no.
tice that after Monday he would compel
the Senate to endure longer hours until
the bill was disposed of.
The Senate, at sos adjourned.