The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-06-18
WOOL AND SUGAR
Tariff Bill to Be Defeated By
. Sugar.
HE WAS FOUND TO BE A WOMAN
Havemeyer Admits that He Was Run
ming the Senate for the
Sugar Kings.
voting on the Wool Schedule.

Voting on the Wool Schedule.
WASHINGTON, June 15.-When the
tariff bill was taken up in the senate
today Dolph resumed his speech against
free wool. He began with sarcastic
reference to the impatience manifested
by Harris, the democratic manager,
because the lill was not pushed through
with Indecent haste'; recalled the re-
sentiment shown by the Tennessee sena-
tor, when others displayed impatience
notably the federal election bill and the
bill to repeal the purchasing clause of
the Sherman act. On the latter occa-
sion when he (Dolph) remarked that he
was tired of the prolonged contest.
Harris curtly told him to sit dow
Dolph's observations about silver
brought Stewart to his feet with free
silver argument. Carey declared that if
Brice and Palmer had been half as
Industrious in their demand for wool
as the two Louisiana senators in their
fight for duty on sugar, the wool in
dustry would have been saved; had Kyle
and Allen made manly fight for duty
on wool, it would have been retained.
eff we vote for duty, is not that all
we can do?" asked Kyle.
''If you would refuse to vote for the
other provisions of the bill" said Carey,
''you could force abandonment of free
wool.'
Il hn nf<,- S,ka
sponded Kyle. "He will find, when the
final vote is taken, that we do not hold
the balance of power"
KYLE DEFINES HIS POSITION.
Kyle then defined his position on the
subject of free wool. He said he had
taken little part in the discussion of the
tariff bill, but since it had been charged
that the members of the populist party
in the senate were siding with the
democrats on this question, at the ex-
pense of the people of the states, he
would make a statement. He receg.
nized the Importance of the wool
industry. In his own state there were
100000 sheep. From the Mississippi
to the Rockies, sheepraising was vast
industry, and it would be great in
justice to strike it down. But he was
not prepared to cay that free wool would
destroy the industry. Speaking. fol
himself, alone, he was not afraid o.
placing wool on the free list. The ad.
vantage that would accrue to the farme,
from the reduction of the price O.
clothing would more than compensate
for any reduction in prices of wool that
might follow the free listing of thai
product. He believed that wool coul6
be raised on the broad prairies and
mountains of the West as cheaply as in
any other place. The opinions of the
republicans to the contrary notwith.
standing, the states of the North bwest
advocated free, wool.
FIRST VOTE ON THE WOOL SCHEDULE.
PETER offered these notifications tc
his proposed amendment for dutv on
raw wool:
Where the Mckinley law levies duty
on first-class wool of IL cents, he pro.
posed a duty of cents; where the Nc
Kinley rate was II cents on second class
wool, he proposed to change it to cents
wool of the third class worth 13 cents OF
less is to pay 15 per cent duty ad val.
orem, and wool worth over 13 cents is tc
pay 20 per cent, bearing in place of the
Mckinley bill 3S per cent, so per cent
duty.
discussion followed, in which Nor.
rill, Cullom, Vest, Sherman and AldricL
took part. Teller offered as substitute
for Peffer's amendment the Mckinley
classification and rates. 1t was defeated
by strict party vote, 90 to 80. Allen,
Kyle and PETER voted with the demo.
Gratis against it, and Stewart in favor,
Power of Montana offered another sub.
stitute, which was defeated by the same