The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-26

Washington, July 25.-In the morning
hour in the Senate the conference re-
port on the legislative, executive and
judicial bill was agreed to.
Mr.. Allen presented a resolution di-
recting the encouragement to transmit
full copies of all correspondence Gele-
graphic and otherwise) between the de-
partment Of justice and the railroads
centering in Chicago from June l to the
present time. He asked immediate con-
sheraton, but Mr.. Platt objected to it
and it went over.
Mr. Coke secured the passage by
unanimous consent of a. bill granting
TO the Arkansas, Texas and Mexican
Railway company the right of way
through Indian territory.
AT los Mr.. Caffery resumed his speech
commenced yesterday as to the justice
of the duty on sugar.
Mr.. Caffery plunged Immediately into
the discussion of the complicated meth
DDS of refining sugar in Louisiana,
which sugar went into competition with
the sugars refined by the trusts. He
commended that the bounty provision of
the Mckinley law prevented the extern
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He maintained that fair ad valorem
rate Of As per cent. would furnish suf-
ficient protection both to the producer
and the refiner. He predicted that the
Louisiana cane-grower, with the new
facilities coming into use, would. in a
decade, be able TO hold his own against
the sugar producers in the world.
Louisiana, he said, was a 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 on
Ihe form of his prostrate state. He
would not foul his own nest If the
tariff reform measure, as prepared, in
fringed upon his own ideas of what it
would be, he should vote for it; unless
st struck down his own state.
DO you want a protective duty on
sugar?' asked Mr.. Stewart Populist of
.Nevada)
Il don't" replied Mr.. Cafferv. 81
want the duty on sugar laid purely for
revenue purposes. The question pre-
scented is. whether a 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-
Ocrats may somewhat ALLEVIATE them
from their Democratic colleagues, the
fire Of Democracy still burned in their
breasts, but if the 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 Ha-
wTaiian treaty admitting sugar from
those islands free, which he said gave
the sugar trust Sc, 900 annually.
Mr.. Hilton said from the first he had
. recognized the necessity for cornpro-
mise, and had voted for many amend
mentS made that did not reflect his per-
Sonal opinion in order to get a bill that
would command forty-three votes. He
believed in duty on coal and iron. for
purely revenue purposes with such Incl
dental protection as followed.
He applied the same doctrine to sugar
that he did TO coal and iron. Forty per
cent on sugar, he thought, a. fair reve-
nue. duty. He was in favor of the one
eighth differential on refined sugar
Mr.. Quay Republican, Of Pennsylva-
MAJ. gave notice of three amendments
Rle should offer to the pending motion.
First, to amend Mr.. Villas motion,
that the Senate recede from the one
eighth differential in the sugar schedule
50 as to recede from the whole of the
sugar schedule; the second to add Mr.
Gray's motion, that the Senate insist
ON all of its amendments that it re-
cede from the sugar, and the third to
add TO Mr.. Gray's motion, another mo-
ton, viz: That it Tecede from the diff
ferential in favor of the refiners.
At 2:33 the Senate went into executive
session and an hour later adjourned.