St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-06
ITS FATE DECIDED
Path Of the Tariff Bill Mads
Clear by the
VOTE ON THE SUGAR SCHEDULE
The Compromise Amendment
Goes Through the Senate.
THE REPUBLICAN, SUBSTITUTES
Defeated by Majorities Rang
ing From Three to Ten.
VOTE ON THE SUGAR SCHEDULE
THE REPUBLICAN, SUBSTITUTES
STORY OF THE DAYS STRUGGLE.

"AShlNdIoS, june 0.-lne. comprn-
mise amendment to the sugar schedule
was adopted in the senate today, and
the pivotal schedule, ON which the fate
OF the tariff measure depended, went
through without change. On the vital
amendment to place ali sugars on the
free list the Democratic line was
drawn. Mr.. Hill On. " voting in favor
of it. and Mr.. Irby IS. c. being paired
the same way. But the Republicans
we're unable to hold their own forces.
Messrs. Henderson and Perkins voting
against the amendment, ami Mr.. Quay
being paired against it, while Mr.. Sher-
man, who was present. did not vote at
all. Only one OF the Populists-Mr.
Pe!fer-voted for free sugar. Messrs.
Kyle and Allen, in the final issue, join
ing with the majority of Democrats
against it. Had all the Republicans,
with the three Populists and the two
disatfected Democrats. Joined hands.
sugar, raw and refined. 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. Ths
adoption of the sugar schedule practi-
cally insures the passage of the bill at
an early Gate, although it is intimated
that the Republicans will make a final
stand on
THE SUGAR SCHEDULE
when the bill is reported and considered
In the senate.
AS adopted today, the schedule im<
nOSpS ditv IF mar oopf u
on all sugars, raw and refined, with a
differentiaI of one-eighth of cent per
pound on sugars above sixteen Dutch
standard, and an additional one tenth Of
a cent against sugars i'm ported from
countries paying an export bounty. 1t
continues the Hawaiian treaty, admit.
ting sugars from the Sandwich islands
free If duty, and places duty of two
cefiG per gallon Gu moiasses testing
abtRe forty degrees by the polariscope.
The schedule goes into effect Jan. /,
1885, and the bounty is continued until
that date
The house New York and New Jersey
bridge bill passed the senate today with
amendments which will probably be &C.
cepted by the house. On motion of Sem
ator Power, of Montana, bill author.
iZing the Missouri River Power company
to throw dam across the Missouri river
was passed. On motion of Senator
Quay, bill authorizing the construc-
ton of a bridge across the AionongaheIa
river, in Homestead. Pa, was passed. :
The tariff bill was laid before the sen.
ate and the sugar schedule again taken
Hal
eued the debate with
A GENERAL ASSAULT
OH the sugar schedule, and all argument
in favor OF continuing the bounty pro.
vision of the Mckinley law.
Speaking on the sugar schedule of the
tariff bill. Senator Chandler expressed
his belief that senators had speculated
in shares of the sugar trust while the
tariff question was pending. He said no
vote should be taken until the investiga-
ting committee had probed the whole
subject of undue influence.
Mr.. Aldrich, alluding to statements
made in the senate yesterday regarding
the alleged influence of the sugar trust
in the framing of the Mckinley bill,
said that while there was 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 then the
shares went up IS points.
There were them" he said, "the
same lies. the same falsihcations, the
same attacks on public men as have
characterized the consideration of the
pending BILL"
Mr.. Sherman also insisted that the
trust of 1890 was not the trust of today.
''Do you know what the capital of the
sugar trust of 1890 wasp asked MI,
Brice.
II do not" replied Mr.. Sherman.
ut was $50.OO0.0O0," said Mr.. Brice.
1.-THE stock of that corporation went no
from GS to 95. The stock advanced
sao.O0o.0O0 in virtue of the action Of
your committee"
Between what periods did this fluc-
tuatIon occur?" asked Mr.. Aldricn.
Between May and October" replied
Mr.. Brice empha,ically, adding, as he
turned OH his heel, latter The repre-
sentat'ves of the sugar trust had made
their agreement with those who con-
trolled the bili.';
Mr.. Aldrich protested that he did not
what the senator from Ohio
meant by an agreement existing be.
tween the
SUGAR TRUST
and those in power in 1890. but he did
know that the sugar trust had dictated
the sugar schedule in-the present bill.
"Who dictated the 50 per cent protec-
ton In theMeKinley bill?" inquired Mr..
Vest. passonately.
mo one."
"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
retnerS."
In the midst of this interesting and
rather sensational discussion. in which
and recrimination passed,
he hour of O'Clock arrived, and. under
he agreem ent, the vote was taken on
Mr.. Jones' amendment fixing Jan. 1,
1895. as the date OIL which the repeal of
he sugar bounty should go into effect
Mr.. Allison offered an amendment to
educe the sugar bounty for The re-
nainder of the calendar year to eight
enths of q cent per pound, and to make
he sugar schedule take effect inme-
liately on the passage of the pill.
The three POpulists this time voted
With the De mocrats. There was