The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-06-08
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Grave and Digniied Senate Kill
ing Time in Discussing the
Tariff Bill.
The Sugar Schedule Talked Over
by Several Senators but No
Action Taken.

WASHINGTON, June Hill made nc
effort in the senate today to get up biz
resolution to instruct the bribery com
nittee to throw open its doors to the
public. 1t went over without prejudice
Dolph'a resolution to bring Il. u. Ed.
wards, n Of the contumacious wit.
nesses, to the bar OF the senate for con.
tempt took the same course.
Hill asked unanimous consent to con.
slider the joint resolutions passed by the
house yesterday giving the secretary OF
war authority under the last sundry
civil appropriation act, to institute con.
domination proceedings to secure lands
near the Gettysburg battle field. Judge
Dallas, he explained, had held that the
language OF the act was not broad
enough to warrant condemnation pro
ceedings. Cockrill insisted that the
resolution 60 to the committee on mill
tary affairs, and it was 80 referred.
When the tariff bill was laid before
the senate the battle over the sugar
schedule began. The Mckinley law
placed raw sugar on the free list, i'm
posed a ~ cent duty on refined sugar
and gave a bounty Of two cents to sugar
growers. The house bill repealed the
bounty and placed all sugars on the free
list. The fret bill reported from the
finance committee in the senate gave a
specific duty of one cent to 1885 cents
per pound according to the polariscopic
test, the compromise" amendment
made the sugar schedule 60 into effect
Jan. lst, 1895, the rates being 40 per
cent al valOrem on all sugars raw and
refined, the eighth Of one cent adj
ditlonal on sugars above 1G
Dutch standard, with an additional
one tenth of one cent per pound
on sugar from countries paying export
bouniIes. 1t also continues the sugar
treaty with Hawaii. Henderson took
the floor. THE sugar schedule" he said
seemed to pervade the whole bill. The
bill could not be touched without laying
a hand on sugar. Almost five billion
pounds of raw sugar had been con
sumed last year, representing, il grown
and refined abroad, a grand total OF
Sl82, 600 to be paid foreigners. Free
sugar would mean the immediate destruc
ton OF the beet sugar industry and the
gradual extinction of tho cane sugar
production in the southern states. II
properly protected, he prophesiod that
before 1895 the beet sugar production
would have so developed in the north
and tho cane sugar in the south that tho
United States could supply the full con
sumption OF the country. Beet sugar
growing, when developed to the extent
necessary to supply home demands.
would afford a crop Of 100000 acres.
Was it any wonder the farmers of the
west want a continuation of
the sugar bounty? They were
enthusiastic over the prospect. 1t was
a great boon which they asked congress
to give them. No country in the world
was 30 we'll adapted to the product OF
sugar as the United States. Beet grow
ing ultimately would displace cane
growing. Henderson denied that in
fostering the growth of beet and cane
sugar any obligation existed to protect
rcfiners. There was 40 connection, he
declared, between the sugar growers and
the OdiOus sugar trust.