The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-08-27
A GRAND GATHERING.
Continued from Second Page,

Now what is that bill? I am sorry tt
this arrangement was made it was
understood that it would force chang,
IN the schedule, and it was expected thai
THIS they would do in the conference
committee. but the conference having
disagreed, or rather having never met
and the House having crafty rushed
| to the passage of the Senate bill, the
lncongruity remains of free aIconol used
IN manufacture which, nevertheless,
was allowed for as if it were mixed,
and the result is that today the chem
lcal schedule has larger protection than
even protectionists would think OF
demanding. Nor is this all of the
trouble. 1t is very doubtful if any
regulation can possibly he framed which
| Will not result in a tremendous loss OF
| Internal revenue at a time when the
country is demanding it the most. and
1t is grave question whether it Will
an extent that it will render the collec-
ton of internal revenue upon liquors
almost impossible.
In the House of Representatives the
| business interests of the country seemed
to US Republic to require that we
should be even magnanimous to our
enemies that I'VE should not permit mere
party incompetency to prevent us from
rectifying this disaster, Notwithstanding
the way in which the bill was passed.
Unfortunately it reached the Senate
too late for quorum to act, and the
prObab ility4 now is that the country will
be afflicted with this disaster which is
one OF the results OF the careless. hasty
and incompetent way in which the
bill was passed. / have not permitted
myself to comment upon the scandalous
SfnTlQS ha cy al loI
connected with the passage Of the tax
upon sugar. But it is due to the
country that the aspects of it which
are suita BILE for comment should be
carefully and fairly dealt with. After
the bill of the Senate had been jumped
after by the House, the Democratic
partizans attic mted what I denounced
at the time as a transparent endeavor
to shift from themselves the terrible
responsibility which they had just taken
on themselves The Republican party
in the bill of 1890, had gwen this country
FREE SUGAR.
If there is a necessity in life, that
is one, and we had freed it entirely
from the tax gatherer. AS there existed
certain Industries in the Democratic
state of Louisiana and, as we hoped that
Ill 10 SICdb SbdbCS VI OdlllOIuld, N0-
braaska and K.anass the great industry
of sugar producing might be carried
.on, to such an extent as to- furnish the
entire country with all the sugar it
needed for it's consumption, we deter.
mined not only on the instincts of justice
towards Louisiana, bit feeling that it
could be a paying Investment to. this
country to secure, as France mas done,
the production of beet sugar, we de-
termined to bestow bounty upon the
production OF sugar upon al. our of
those States, and such other states
as it might prove to be profitable in.
The result in Louisiana has been
tremendous increase Of sugar produc-
ton, and there was every prospect that
in other states the beet sugar industry
would take wide proportions and furnish
not only sugar for the country but also
occupation and profit for farmers who
would produce the raw material. The
House of Representatives saw fit not only
to abolish this bounty, but also took off
every duty connected with sugar.
When the bill arrived in the Senate,
it was discovered that this country was
engaged in the task of passing bill
which would diminish the revnues
seventy-flve millions of dollars. 1t
then became necessary, in the opinion of
alls intelligent people, to-put tax upon
buA0i IL Ualo pill wa W w pOIHlSbCl III.
1hereupon tax was proposed upon
sugar of forty per cent. with different
ialsof one-eighth for the sugar refners,'
and still another differential to protect
them against the. export sugar of coun-
tries which paid an export premium
This was the bill which passed the
Houset. Anticipating, in fact Knowing,
/. that such action would be unpopular
in every possible way, they endeavo red
to release themselves from the burden
of the vote which they had just given
and therefore they availed themselves
of the extraordinary power which re-
sided in the House and, by course of
ACTION ENTIRELY UNPRECECE-
DENIED,
they provided that bill might be intro
dnced into the House giving free sugar,
which bill could not be amended, should
not be debated over half an hour, and
might then be passed, and accordingly
this was done. Of course this as pure
farce. Everybody knew it, no matter
how they voted upon the subject.
every body understood that it was simply
a campaign document, which was going
through the House. And why was it so?
Had they intended to say, IF your
Republican senator's choose to vote for
that, it will become law. Now, while
the Republican senators were opposed to
the tax upon sugar, just as they were
opposed to all the rest of the bill, and
while they had no interest in the differ
enetial for the benefit of the sugar
refiners, nevertheless they were not for
frede sugar without bounty. They
believed that it was just TO the state Of
Louisiana, they believed that it was
Just to the interests in California.
in Nebraska and in Kansas, that the
promised bounty for ten years should
be given to them, as the law had
already provided Men had spent
millions Of dollars for the purpose of
establishing an Industry into which
Congress had invited them by promis-
ing that for ten years an annual bounty
proportionate to their production. You
will see at once that the spectacle of
a Democratic assembly denouncing
protection, and denouncing trusts, and
then giving protection to the trust, was
a position which could be defended
by nobody. The Republican party which
believes in protection, could, if it saw
fit, defend even protection to trust,
because the only way in which the trust
could be overcome in this country on
the plane OF cheapness would be by