The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-24
abolished the bounty and placed all
sugar, both raw and refined, upon the

dOOlSGeQ the bounty ana placeQ all
sugar, both raw and refined, upon the
free list
When it came to consider the coal
schedule, today. however, the commit
tee Jared much better and all four
amendments designed to place duty
of 40c. to 75c. per ton upon coal were
beaten.
The debate upon the coal schedule
developed great deal Of feeling
among the southern members, es-
pecially those from Virginia, West
Virginia, Tennessee and Alabama,
whose states are interested either in
coal or iron ore.
The general impression is the defeat
OF the sugar men and those interested
in retaining the duty upon coal will
result in strengthening the movement
developed on the Democratic side to
recommit the bill. If the iron men
are defeated tomorrow, and especially
II the 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 the
motion to recommit, and with the
Democrats who do not care to vote
against the bill outright, but who are
not satisfied with it in it's present
form, they may be able to muster
majority to send it back to the COM
mittee. This is now admitted on all
hands to be the chief danger of the
bill. If it could be brought to a direct
vote there is no question about it pass
ing.
When the House To-Day resumed con-
Sideration of the sugar schedule of the
tariff bill, the pending amendment was
Robertson's, imposing duty on raw
sugar and increasing the duty on re-
fined, as amended by Warner, placing
both raw and refined on the free list.
The confusion entailed by these two
incongruous amendments had first to
be Strengthened out.
Dingley claimed that the Warner
amendment was utterly inconsistent
with Robertson's amendment and
should be considered as a substitute.
Robertson took issue with him, main
tanning the effect of Warmers amend
ment was simply to place refined SUI
gar on the free list, leaving so much
of his amendment as imposed a duty
on sugar below 16, Dutch standard, I'M
affected.
A vote finally taken ON Warmers
amendment as a substitute, was car
ried, 161 to 49,
The effect of this is to place all raw
and refined sugars on the free list. the
great mass of Democrats and practic-
ally all Republicans voted for the pro-
position Only a handful of Democrats,
including Wilson and several other
Democrats of the Ways and Means
Committee voted against
The coal schedule was then taken up.
The first amendment, by Oates of
Alabama, is as follows: To strike out
of the free list coal, etc, and insert
coal and bituminous shale forty cents
per ton of twenty-eight bushels, eighty
pounds to the bushel, coal slack or
culls, such as will pass through a half
inch screen, twenty cents per ton Of
twenty-eight bushels.
Wise, of Virginia, followed with an
amendment striking out forty cents
and inserting fifty.
McKaig of Maryland, offered sub
stitute providing for duty of seventy
five cents per ton on bituminous coal;
thirty cents. ca coal slack or Gull, strik-
ing bituminous coal from the list.
Hit offered an amendment substitute
as follows, to insert at the end Of the
coal paragraph
provided. any article on the free
list. imported product of any country
which imposes a duty on said article
exported from the United States, then
shall be levied, collected and paid up
on the same imported articles the rate
of duty existing prior to the passage
of this act"
Wilson made a point of order that
Hits reciprocity amendment was not
germane and therefore not in order
It was a proposition for a general re-
ciprocity on the whole tariff bill, or
rather retaliating upon themselves for
the follies of other people. The chair
sustained the point of order and Hit
modified the amendment so as to re-
strict it to articles on the free list.
McKaig OemocraO, of Maryland,
opposed and Raynor Democrat, of
Maryland, favored placing coal on the
free list.
Tucker OemocraD, of Virginia, adj
vocated a duty of 40 cents.
Oates and Washington Oemocrats)
advocated a duty.
Wheeler Oemocrat), of Alabama,
criticised the free trade character of
the bill, but said he would vote for it.
daughter on Republican side)
Turpin OemocraD, of Alabama, said
his state did not expect to have coal
and iron put on the free list.
Hicks and Dalzell (Republicans), of
Pennsylvania, antagonized free coal as
destructive of a gigantic industry in
Pennsylvania.
The amendment fixing the duty at so
cents was lost without division.
The amendment to reduce the duty
121s cents a year until wiped out was
defeated.
The proposition to restore the pres
ent duty of rs cents was lost.
Oates amendment fixing the duty at
40 cents was supported by all the Re-
pubicans and many Democra IS, but
was defeated-S1 to 49,
The iron schedule was taken I'D.
Oates offered an amendment taking
iron ore from the free list and fixing a
duty of 40 cents a ton
Hendrix Democrat, of New York.
spoke against free iron ore. as did
Haughan and Blair RepubIicans).
At $50 recess was taken until s
O'Clock.
The night session was devoted to set
speeches. The speakers were Tate.
|Democrat, of Georgia; Hall, Demo-
craD, of Minneapolis; Wilson, Repub-
lican), of Ohio; Bartheldt, Republican,.
Iof Missouri; Patterson, DemocraO, of
Tennessee; Baker, Republican,, of
New Hampshire; Taylor, Democrat.
Of Indiana; Beethoven, Democrat.
of Pennsylvania.
The speech of Beethoven created
the sensation of. the evening. He an
nounced himself a follower of Samuel
j. Randall on the tariff question. He
opposed the Wilson bill on the ground
that, instead of being a. revenue meas
ure in accordance with the Democratic
platform it created deficiency and
was, in fact, shifting the burden of
taxation
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