The herald., 1897-06-15
additional for every degree above rs

4t-WdS QelCd leu, yeas, lOp udy ., S0s
McEnery of Louisiana, Democrat. vot
ed with the Republicans in the negative
and Mantle and Pettigrew. Silver Re
publicans, with the Democrats in tn
4 Affirmative.
$ Mills moved uniform duty of 40 pc
cent ad valorem on sugar. Defeated
without division.
Hoar of Massachusetts, offered hi
amendment for the appointment by tn
president of a committee of five mem
bers to investigate into the subject o
sugar production and the best mean
of supplying the American market a
the least cost.
~ Mr. Hoar urged that his proposed com
mission would command the best talent
of the country in presenting to the SEN
ate the fullest information concerning
sugar. Next to the development OF ouI
virgin wheat fields, the development OF
the sugar beet would be the greatest
boon to agriculture. The trainers of the
tariff bill were honorable men, and al
though it had been suggested in the press
that somebody had been bribing senators
those statements, said Mr.. Hoar, are re-
ceived by serious people throughout the
country with absolute contempt" The
amendment was referred to the finance
committee. Mr.. Tillman then answered
Mr.. Hoar He said he had the deepest
respect for the integrity of the senator
from Massachusetts,, but perhaps he had
become callous in his long service, as was
indicated by the statement that the best
people of both parties treat with con-
tempt the statement that there was
irregularity in making the sugar sched-
ule. On the contrary, the people wanted
an investigation; they wanted the honor
Of the senate vindicated or the men who
slandered it punished. For that reason
Mr.. Tillman said he had contemplated
an amendment to Mr. Hoar's proposition
so that the comnitte would not only
inquire into the mere machinery of
sugar making, but also whether the
sugar trust has used undue means to
control legislation and to get at the root
of how it is and why it is that the Amer
lean senate cannot touch sugar without
getting contaminated"
Mr.. Hoar was again on his feet. Turn
ing to the South Carolinian he said there
were some men who seemed to think
that down beneath the body of the peo-
pie there was a great mass of seething
people eager for extremes. He knew
through and through the character, pur-
poses and opinions of the men who get
their living from their farms and factor
les of Massachusetts,
'They are" he proceeded, impress
sively, Simple, sincere, honest, liberty
loving, God fearing men. They think
no evil and the appeals to vile passions
fall on deaf ears with them"
The men who make up the farms and
factories were the same the country
over, he said. And 1 hold" he con-
tinued, that to the great body of these
people these charges are now only pre-
posterous but Infamous
Mr.. Tillman again made reply. While
he claimed no special mission, he had
come from the farm and from the people
and to the senate more recently than
the Massachusetts senator. He knew,
he said, that the only thing infamous
In this transaction in the view of the
people was the refusal to investigate
and this effort to hide behind the sena-
toral toga." If the senate persisted in
this then it was disgraced before the
people. Public charges had been made
that bribery was abroad in connection
with this subject, land unless you in
vestigate you stand convicted" "asserted
the senator.
The senate then came back to the Bland
amendment. Mr.. Lindsay moved to
strike out 95-100 and insert S-100 cents
as the rate on sugar. He argued that the
rate of the bill was too high, and gave
exceptional advantages to the refiners.
. Mr. Allen asked if it was not possible
10 frame a sugar schedule which would
not confer some benefits to the sugar
trust.
Was it wise, Mr. Allison answered, to
turn over the business of sugar refining
to other countries? If not, then diff
ferental must be allowed our refineries
TO keep the business from being done
abroad. 1t was plain to him that unless
a duty was placed on sugar, as on iron or
or anything else, then senators
might fold their arms on the protection
as no one could tell how soon
foreign capital and labor would do the
refining now done in this country.
Allison incorporated in his speech
very interesting table giving the first
detailed explanation from the Republi-
can side Of the new sugar schedule. In
upon it he said
II have absolute calculations heSe,
and when it is said there is protection
Or differential lying in this scale, run
ming from rs to 100 degrees, reply that
hat differential is not to be seem"
Allison then presented a table showing
the differential on the law of 1894, the
house bill and the proposed senate
schedule, from sugars of rs degrees up
to refined sugar. The main rates as
shown are as follows:
Seventy-five degrees, differential, 1894
56.2; house, 40.S2; senate 62.99.
Eighty-eight degrees, differential, 1894
2S.4S; house, 1885; senate, 24.S5.
Ninety-six degrees, differential, 1894
1882; house, 1888; senate, 1889.
Ore hundred degrees differential, 1894,
21S2; house, 1850; senate, 20.O0,
When Allison was asked why his fig
ures differed from those of Aldrich, who
made the original statement, he an
swered that his (Allison's) scale was
based upon the price of sugars in bond
in New York, while Aldrich's statement
was based on the price of the sugar in
the Philippine islands and Egypt.
upon these tables l have demonstrate
ed, at least to my own satisfaction" he
added, that the rate as it is proposed
has less rate of duty than that in the
existing law.
I'm good many cases I agree that
it is only a fraction less, but in every
case, except two, it is less
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