The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-06
They Adopt the Compromise Amend
ment, Fixing the Duties on Sugar,
by a Vote of 81 to 90.
HILL AND PETER VOTE NAY
The Senate Rejects a Free Sugar
Proposition by 81 to 26.
Hill and PETER Again Vote Against
Their Party Observation-Disclosures
Insults Prominent Wool Men.

WASHINGTON, June 5.-The compromise
amendments to the sugar schedule were all
adopted in the Senate to-day, and the piv-
otal schedule on which the fate of the tariff
measure depends. went through without
change. On the vital amendment-to place
all sugars on the free list-the Democratic
line was drawn. Mr.. Hill voting in favor of
1t and Mr.. Irby paired the same way. But
the Republicans were unable to hold their
own forces intact. Messrs. Henderson and
Perkins voting against the amendment,
and Mr.. Quay being paired against it,
while Mr.. Sherman, who was present, did
not vote at all. Only one of the Populists.
Mr.. PETER, voted for free sugar, Messrs.
Kyle and Allen. in the final issue, joining
with the majority of Democrats against it.
Had all the Republicans, with the three
Populists and the two disaffected Demo
Gratis. joined hands, sugar, raw and re-
fined, would have gone on the free list. On
all the other amendments offered by the
Republicans the majority against them
ranged from three to ten. The adoption Of
the sugar schedule practically insures the
passage of the bill at an early date. al
though it is intimated that the Republicans
will make a final stand on the sugar sched-
ule when the bill is reported and considered
in the Senate.
AS adopted, to-day. the schedule imposes
a duty of 40 per cent. ad valorem on all
sugars, raw and refined. with a d%ifferential
of one-eighth of a cent per pound on sugars
above No. 16. Dutch standard, and an addi-
tional one-tenth Of a cent against sugar i'm
ported from countries paying an export
bounty 1t continues the Hawaiian treaty
admitting sugars from the Sandwich ISL
ands free of duty. and places a duty of 2
cents per gallon on molasses testing above
forty degrees by the polariscope. The
schedule goes into effect Jan. i, 1895. and
the bounty is continued until that date.
A SPIRITED DEBATE.
There was a sharp debate when the
sugar schedule was taken up this morning.
Mr. Aidrich. abiding to a statement made
in the Senate yesterday regarding the al
legged influence of the Sugar Trust in the
framing of the Mckinley bill, said that,
while there was a Sugar Trust in 1890, it
was not the gigantic concern it is now and
speculation in its shares was comparatively
trivial.
Mr.. Vest retorted that in three weeks
the shares went up thirty-five points.
There were then he said, 1.-The same lies.
the same falsifications. the same attacks
on public men as have characterized the
Mt. Sherman o. a lse R insiatess t I1sl the trust
OF 1880 was not the trust Of to-day.
Sugar Trust of 1880 was?" asked Mr.. Brice.
II do" replied Mr.. Sherman.
stock of that corporation Went up from 6 :
to IS. The stock advanced s2O,OO0.OO by
virtue of the action Of your committee"
ton occur" asked Mr.. Aidrich.
Between May and October" replied Mr..
BriS e. emphatieally adding. as he turned
the Sugar Trust had made their agreement
with those who controlled the BILL"
understand what the Senator from Ohio
meant by an agreement existing between
the Sugar Trust and those in power in 1890,
but he did know that the Sugar Trust had
bill.
who dictated the protection in the Nc
Kinley bill?' inquired Mr.. Vest. passion
SE onnsi4 1a9N9at
The Sugar Trust" said Mr.. Vest. land
you yourself admitted it. In the record you
said you could not resist the arguments of
the Philadelphia sugar refiners.."
THE DATE FIXED.
In the midst of this interesting and rather
sensational debate, in which elimination
and recrimination passed, the hour of /
o'clock arrived and, under the agreement,
the vote was taken on the Jones amendment
fixing JAM. /. 1895, as the date on which
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sugar bounty should go into effect. The
vote resulted-yeas 40. nays 81. Mr.. Hill did
not vote and Mr.. PETER voted with the Re
publicans. Allen and Kyle voted with the
| Democrats.
Brice and Villas withdrew their votes,
being paired with Wolcott and Mitchell of
Oregon.
The next vote was on the amendment Of
fered by Senator Henderson, of Nebraska,
providing for the retention of the bounty
provision of the Mckinley law. 1t was lost
yeas 80, nays 40. Hill voted no, as did
also Allen and Kyle. PETER voted with the
Republicans.
Mr.. Henderson proposed an amendment
decreasing ecr the county, our one o1ad of a cent an'
Kinley law for total expiration. This was
also defeated-yeas "a, nays 81. Allen and
Gratis, voted with the Republicans on this
amendment. Hill did not vote.
Mr.. Henderson then offered an amend
ment applying the bounty TO beet and sor-
ghum sugar only. Defeated-31 to 3S. Aller
and Kyle voted no.
Mr.. Henderson offered another amend.
beet sugar, and after 1895 reducing IL to
cent per pound. This was also defeated
yeas "a, nays 81. Allen and Kyle voted yea
Mr.. Allen offered an amendment to add
at the end OF the paragraph a proviso thai
the bounty shall be eight,tenths Of one
cent for sugar produced in the United
States in 1894. This was also defeated
yeas 81. nays 40.
Mr.. Allison offered an amendment to re
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the calendar year to eight-tenths of a cen
per pound and to make the sugar schedule
take effect Immediately on the passage o.
the bill. The three Populists this time voteS
with the Democrats. There was no breal
In party lines and ii was defeated-S2 TO 40
The Senate then passed to the next par
agraph, No. 1927. fixing the duty or
sugar. Mr.. Jones offered the compromise
amendment fixing the duty on raw and re-
fined sugar at 40 per cent ad valorem
with q differentiai of one-eighth of on
cent on sugars above 16 Dutch standard
and an additional one-tenth on sugar i'm
ported from countries giving an expor'
bounty, continuing the Hawaiian treaty In
force. and imposing a duty OF 2 cents q
gallon on molasses.
Mr.. Lodge offered as a substitute the
amendment originally reported by ths
Senate committee on finance fixing q
specific duty on sugar. beginning with
cant per pound on sugar testing eighty de
grees by the polariscopic test and gradu
ating the duty accordingly to finenness
JosI-2S to 81. Messrs. PETER. Allen and
Kyle voting with the Democrats.
THE DECISIVE VOTES.
NJ. PETER offered an amendment to place
all sugars on the free list.
Mr.. Hill. Democrat. New York. asked 4
this would precipitate the direct question
as to whether sugar should go on the fires
list or not, and being informed that 4
! would. said he hoped a record-making vot'
would be had upon it.
Mr.. Hill voted in favor Of free sugar ant
announced that he was authorized TO sa,
that Mr.. Irby, who was absent, would
have voted for free sugar had he beer
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