The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-02-02

not in gold and therefore did not meet
the present difficulty. In conclusion
Mr.. Wilson expressed the hope that
this bill would become a law
VOTED ON AMENDMENTS.
The bill was then read for amend
ment under the tive-minute rule. The
amendment of Mr.. Hepburn. to author
ize the president to impose by procla
nation a tax of 81 per ton upon vessels
of countries which made or enforced
regulations that prohibited or impeded
the sale of our food products, was lost.
50 to 80.
An amendment offered by Mr.. Hop
kins of Illinois, in the shape of a provis-
ion containing the differential duty
against such countries or their depend
encies as made or permitted unjust dis
elimination against products of the
United States, was opposed by Mr.. Will
son on the ground that it meant retalia-
ton, not reciprocity, and would COM
plicate the bill and render its enactment
into law impossible.
Mr.. Hopkins argued that If the bill
without some such amendment should
become a law it would place us at the
mercy of Germany. The amendment
was lost, so to 1O1.
Mr.. Hit offered an amendment to re-
peal the one-eighth of a cent differen-
tial on refined sugar He declared this
was the differential imposed solely to
benefit the sugar trust.
Mr.. Wilson said that 1t would graf
ify him if this amendment could be
adopted, but he realized that this
81, 4 6 d.
the bill. He therefore asked the
friends of the bill to vote down the
amendment. There was two ways in
which the sugar trust could defeat the
bill. striking off the one-tenth of one
cent duty on sugars from bounty-pay-
ing countries, first by killing it square,
and. second, by loading the bill with
amendments so it could not pass the
senate.
THE gentleman from West Virginia, "
said Mr.. Hit, "once said on this floor,
just before the taking of the famous
and fatal vote, that the sugar trust had
congress by the throat. Does he still
think SOP II am obliged" replied Mr..
Wilson, ito answer in the line of my
previous remarks. and whenever a man
has his hand at my throat and can on
/
shall do So I have reason for hoping
that the bill will pass the senate" The
amendment was lost by SO to 105. a
strict party vote.
Mr.. Dingley offered as an amend
ment an additional section declaring
the repeal of this duty should no. be
held to imply that the United States
surrounded her right under the favored
I aIn l.,
differentials to meet export bounties
given by foreign countries which were
parties to such treaties.
HENDERSONS HIT.
Mr.. Henderson of Iowa delivered the
| speech which aroused the greatest en-
! thusiasm on the republican side. He
tainted the democrats of Louisiana foi
their efforts to secure protection foi
! themselves, while advocating free trade
for the rest of the country and called
/ upon them to take a shield broad
enough to protect the whole country
Come out from among the bandit
with whom you have been acting" sale
he. Il am tired of the cry from those il
Louisiana, who refuse to help them
selves" Mr. Henderson said he would
! vote TO strike out the One-tenth of {
cent discrimination, because it was
blow at the trust
Mr. Robertson of Louisiana replied t
Mr.. Henderson's remarks with mucf
spirit. repudiating the invitation to join
the republicans which would on this oc
casion, as it had on others. deliver
deadly blow at Louisiana.
Mr.. Van Voorhis of New York moved
a substitute for Mr.. Dingley's amend
ment to repeal the duty on sugar, raw
and refined. Lost, 105 to 20.
The committee %ren rose and a vot,
was taken by ayes and noes on Mr.
Dingley's amendment Lost, 112 to 15f
The bill was then passed, 239 to 81
The house then adjourned.