Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-31
Effect of a Failure to Allow It to
the Planters.
LOUISIANA WILL BECOME REPUBLICAN
Important Conference Between Mr..
Carlisle and the Committee.
THE CASE STATED TO HIM

The question of the allowance of the
sugar bounty appropriation which has been
held up by Controller Bowler is farther
reaching than is generally realized. 1t may
be the means of effectually breaking the
solid south by placing the state of Louisi-
ana in the ranks of the republican party
next year.
In the last congressional elections in
Louisiana the intensity of the feeling of
the sugar growers there and the fact that
they were ready TO cast off their old al
liances with the democratic party were
shown by the polling of the heaviest repub.
ican vote that the state has ever known
The planters were told, at that time that
the democratic Congress would look after
their interests in one way or another Be-
fore the Wilson bill was passed they were
assured that it would contain provisions for
their protection that would be amply satis-
factory to them. They We're assured that
they would be paid the bounty for the crop
they had planted while the bounty law re-
mained unrepealed. If these assurances
of the republicans in Louisiana, 1t is gener-
ally believed, would have been much
heavier than it was last year. If the bounty
is withheld the planters of Louisiana will
be inclined to believe that they have no
further hope in the democratic party and
their personal interests will guide them into
the ranks of the republicans where SO
many of them found their way last year.
May Never Get the Bounty.
There is a great deal of probability that
the sugar growers will never receive the
bounty of 100000 which was appropriated
for them by the last Congress. Mr.. Bowler
appears to be determined in the opinion
that he has the right to decide on the con-
stitutiorality of an appropriation. and to
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less the hearing on August results in
convincing him that he is wrong in this
conclusion, there appears to be but one
way for the administration to succeed In
allowing the money appropriated for the
sugar growers. That way would mean the
removal of Mr.. Bowler from the position
of controller and the appointment of some
ore else in his place. 1t is not likely that
this course would be taken by the Secre-
tsi'y, but every one comedies that Congress
mas conferred upon the controller absolute
power to hole up any appropriation, and
from his decision there is 10 appeal and
II he should see fit to hold out for his au-
thority in the matter the only way to con-
troll MIN would be through his removal or
through restriction of his powers by Con-
Sress.
An Important Conference.
One very important conference between
the Louisiana delegation now here and the
Secretary of the Treasury has been held
conference took place with closed doors,
and upon the request of members of the
delegation, which consists of Senators Caf-
ferry and Blanchard, and Representatives
Pilce and Meyer, no representative of the
press and no other outsider was admitted.
AT this conference the Secretary was
shown that the withholding of the sugar
bounty meant the defeat of the democracy
In Louisiana, and he was told that no
power on earth could keep the state from
gong republican next year IL Mr. Bowler
continues to keep the planters from get
ting the bounty that was allowed them
by the last Congress.
Must BE Allowed Before Congress
Meets.
Secretary Carlisle was informed further
that unless the bounty was allowed before
Congress meets, Representative Grosvenor
OF Ohio. a member of the appropriations
committee. proposes to introduce a bill for
the repeal Of the bounty act and to work
ei'ergeticaliy for its passage. The serious
hess of the situation was impressed on Mr.
Carlisle, and it was recalled that the bill
In the last Congress was passed by a ma
Jcrity of but five votes, and that the fail.
ure of the Treasury Department to pay the
bounty would mean disaster to many a man
who had innocentiy loaned money, taking
the bounty certificates as collateral. Such
failure would be received by the planters
of Louisiana as a declaration that they
could not look to the democratic party to
protect their interests, and would forever
throw them into the republican ranks.