The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-07-26
CAFFERY ON SUGAR.
On the Whole 1t Was a Quiet Day
i'm the Senate.

WASHINGTON, July 25.-In the morning q
hour in the Senate the conference report
on the legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill was agreed to.
Allen presented a resolution directing
the Attornev-G General to transmit full
copies of all correspondence (telegraphic
and otherwise) between the Department
Of Justice and the railroads centering In
Chicago from June 1 to the present time.
He asked immediate consideration, but
Platt objected and it went over.
Coke secured the passage By unanimous
consent of bill granting to the Arkansas,
Texas and Mexican Railway Company
the right of way through Indian Territory.
At1:05 Caffery resumed his speech of
Yesterday as to the justice of the duty on
sugar. He plunged Immediately into the
discussion of the com plicated methods of
refining sugar in Louisiana. which sugar
went into competition with the sugars re-
fined by the trusts. He contended that
the bounty provisions@of the Mckinley
law prevented the extensive refining Of
sugar by the producer. He maintained
that fair ad valorem rate of 45 per cent
would furnish sufficient protection both
to producer and refner, and predicted that
the Louisiana cane-grower, with the new
facilities coming into use, would 10 a dec
ade be able to hold his own against the
sugar-producers # the world.
Louisiana, he said, was Democratic
State, and did not desire to stand in the
way of tariff reform. but he insisted that
in marching to the goal of tariff reform
his party should not trample the form of
his PROSTATE State. He would not foul
his own nest Ii the tariff-reform meas
ure as prepared infringed upon his own
ideas of what it should be, he would vote
for it, unless il struck down his own State.
DO you want a protective duty on
sugar ?" asked Stewart
II do not" replied Caffery. II want
the duty on sugar laid purely for revenue
purposes. The question presented is
whether great industry built up under a
revenue tariff shall be stricken down by a
change of theory"
In concluding he said that while the
position taken by the Louisiana Demo-
Gratis may somewhat ALLEVIATE them from
their Democratic colleagues. the fire of
Democracy still burned in their breasts,
but if tariff reform was pushed too far he
said they would be compelled to vote
against the measure. He also entered an
emphatic protest against the provision in
the sugar schedule continuing in force
the Hawaiian treaty admitting sugar from
those islands free, which, he said, gave the
sugar trust Sc, 100000 annually.
Hill said that from the first he had
recognized the necessity for compromise.
and had voted for many amendments made
that did not reflect his personal opinion in
order to ge. bill that would command
forty-three votes. He believed in duty on
coal and iron for purely revenue pur-
poses, with such incidental protection as
followed. He applied the same doctrine
to sugar that he did to coal and iron.
Forty per cent on sugar he thought fair
revenue duly. He was in favor of the one
eighth differential on refined sugar.
Quay gave notice of three amendments
be should offer to the pending motion.
Fist, to amend Villas motion that the
Senate recede from the one-eighth differ
ential in the sugar schedule so as to recede
from the whole of the sugar schedule; the
second, to add to Gray's motion that the
Senate insist on all its amendments, that it
recede from the sugar, and the third, to
add 10 Gray's motion another motion, VIZ. /:
that it recede from the differential In favor
of the refiners.
At 2:33 the Senate went Into executive
session and an hour later adjourned.