The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-06-01
WASHINGTON.
THE END APPROACHING IN THE
TARIFF DEBATE.

Bribery Casc-Able Debatcoon the Stat
Bank Tax-Rcpcal Sure to Fail.
The Senate has now competed the consid
Grafton Of the metal and wood schedules, fin
ished five of the seven, and Is engaged witt
the critical one and the worst one Of tn
whole bill, that about sugar, and the one OF
which the Republicans have carefully pre-
pared their big fight. They hope to defeat !
and carry free sugar amendment. and cal
culate II they can do this, then the LOuisian'
and California senator's will turn around ant
help kill the whole bill. They are sure O
HIPS MD and probably that Of the POpulis
senator's. But weakness develOpes In theil
own lines; Sherman and one or two other,
believe In a sugar tariff, and the Republican
effort Of the week has been to get them to
agree to u program of opposition. The Dem
through the schedule with backing of 4;
votes, losing no one but Hill. 1t seems to be
agreed on all hands that the final vote OH the
bill win be reached by the 10th. If the sugar
schedule stands another week will furnish
the tobacco and agricultural schedules and
give the rest of the time for the fight over the
income tax. The most important test was
It on the free list, but only himself, Mills and
Irby of South Carolina, sustained the motion.
Hill declared that free raw materials Is a
cardinal doctrine of the Democratic faith, and
that If any raw materials should be placed on
the free list lead ore is one of them. The COM
mittee rate of 81 cents pound instead of
l-2 as ut present, was adopted. Then Hill
congratulated 1.-THE distinguished senator
from Maryland" on leading both sides of the
chamber with great unnaimity. There was q
burst of laughter ut this.
Senator Proctor Of Vermont made a strong
argument Monday, addressing himself chiefly
to the reciprocity matter and our trade with
I, o%l ~ Nnr<b nd South M
lea. He quoted the figures of trade, espec-
tally with Cuba, to show how it had grown
under reciprocity and contended that while
trade with the republics to the south was adj
vantageOus to the United States, owing to
dissimilarity of products, it was not SO with
Canada. Politically, he said, Canada, II not
q menace, was at least q nuisance to the Unit
ed States; and furthermore her products were
the same as our own. Prior to the reciproc-
ity treaty of 1854 we were selling Canada
from two to three times as much as we were
buying from her, and we were steadily gain
ing i'm the proportion. Then they began to
gain in the proportion, and at its abrogation
In 1886 were selling us nearly double what
they bought of us. The ratio then changed
again, and this time in our favor. We soon
sold them as much as we bought, and within
10 years were selling them 30 per cent. more,
and such was the proportion last year. And
he added:
If there are any countries with which we
ought to cultivate freer trade relations they are
he Spanish Republican republics we are alike |
sOated from the great powers OF Europe; we |
like have common interest in the maintenance |
If self-gOvernment upon the American continent
md the exclusion Of foreign political power %d ana
powerful of the American nations, the Unlted
states ought naturally to exercise Rreponder
ng influence in American affairs. Her ability
o do so, however, is to a considerable degree
controlled by the clOseness of her relations ana
he extent Of her intercourse with her sister re-
ubics. The products of most of those countries
1uch that we need and do not produce, or at
east not in sufficient quantities for our neces-
tiles; and in like manner we have much That
hey need and do not produce. It's impossible
'ade 1t is not those who produce the same or
milar things, but those who produce things un'
Ike and gdissimilar who can exchange upon
,ir basis to the common benefit OF both Ihis ,
Ill proposes, however, to discriminate against
III sister republics which SO especially deserve :
lr consideration, and in favor of q British col
lange must come in Canada's political situation t
I'd the sooner it came the better for all parties
hough union with the United States was nat g
al it was question whether Ts was emc oe1
, not believe in discriminating against CANADA n
our tariff legislation to force her to some de- 81
red result. l believe, however, tnat our reia- n
}es VIA; and I against ourselves Theories Mr.
.esident, are grand and high sounding, but the =
ghtest practical experience with Canadian ~
rm products will prove to the most confirmed e.
his case, and the Canadian farmer pays the ii
ty. The theorist cannot BUY morse, OF n
e line without learning it, or find Canadian =,
rmer who win not admit it with sorrow. Sen, u
Drs who seek to combine the free. silver ana cl
lie to make them auxiliary to each other, but .,
NJ they are, and must be under presenC conui v
ns. alItagonistic. They are giving gold-stand ~
England the control OF am nj; u
,taI ism against the commercial power that we
t into her hands. lh
Hale of Maine, got off another speech MOI OF
v AGAINST the free lumber provision. He n
oke. he said, in behalf of the yeomen OF III
w England whose only rellan,e Tor ready I'll
,ney was their woodlots. He stated that II OF
, lumber supply Of Canada were let in, the
rEet for the farmers of New England
mid be DESTROYED and the removal OF the tn
tv on lumber would put 81 200 900 into the CT
nadian treasury, He declared that the bill pr
/ on ii the badge of traffic 1t was bar Va
n and sale in the market. Vest OF Missouri, h tl
,lied by saying that the thousands ana !; ~
,usands of his constituents on the pralIles ~.
70 were selling wheat at thirty cents a WI
,hel and who were getting nothing for w
;r cattle and horses could not be protected:
the nrice of lumber was to be put upon
m.
,ettiyrew of South Dakota, made long
ech Tuesday for protection ana Tree silver
win principles.
me OF the most impressive speeches OF the
sion was that Friday of Blanchard, the TN
v senator from Louisiana on tne e., sus sa err err
stion. He stated the position of the peo- v ,re
of his State under the old system. under En-
Mckinley law and under the proposed in
ednle. He maintained that they had de- tina
I'd incidental protection from revenue PR
v from the foundation of the industry I'M hel
800, and that protection had then Deen h hu
en- from them in order 10 increase . .ne uu Gee
on manufactured Soous any a bee
n given bounty in its stead. They never bel
III nor welcomed the bounty, because tics
!? knew and predicted inst what had taken ma
,e a powerful movement to take it from ma
n. They now asked the restoration OF , nun
moderate revenue duty under whieh tnls eve
trolling industry OF the state hau PROS to I
ID for SO many wears.
-.lcb the new senator from Georgia, spoke A
moth and yerv eloquently Monday in an dyr
r 70 the frequent charge that the South in a
in the saddle and that the sOutherners The
seeking TO DESTROY northern industries sea-
thus recover the losses of the war, or as 1s,
n,lmother Hoar expresses it, to make up tak,
The greatest. posslDliities the
southern development, ne salu, art III tnc dro
zation of the dormant wealth that lies in hav
water pow ers, her virgin timber, her coal the
IRON ne, co..1 1,,;1I;,,,, Of large manufac- writ
i''": : ~ Hence the absurdity of II
" m,eIe co,,th l. seeking 10 DESTROY the
ging that .ne So .''.as.S Of the country of p
iiahui", ~ 2 -. Il, ,,r,;ng this tariff A
the wages VI i"ooi III Cha
I'm Legislation. and
,e senate committee which is investigating tame
,ribery charges and dealings of senator's dro'
the sugar trust made its report on the age
hra,,ob ~ the case Friday. Ii finds the now