The Saint Paul globe., 1897-06-08

WASHINGTON, June 1.-The senate
today disposed of the lumber para
graph, which has been more stubborn
ly contested than any feature of the
bill thus far, by defeating the motion
of Senator Vest to place white pine on
the free list, yeas 20; nays 3S. The
contest was mainly significant in
breaking party lines, which have been
maintained with few exceptions during
the early stages Of the debate. The
debate preceding the vote was at times
very breezy, owing to the break of po-
litical lines. A general discussion of
the future programme on the bill oc-
CURED before the senate adjourned 1t
led to a statement by Mr.. Allison, in
charge Of the bill, that the committee
probably would submit amendments to
the sugar schedule. For this reason
he announced that the sugar schedule
would be passed over tomorrow, and
the tobacco schedule taken up.
The consideration Of the tariff bill
was resumed soon after the session
opened, and the discussion proceeded on
the paragraph placing a duty of 81
per 1000 feet on lumber. Mr.. Allen
Pop., Neb) moved to substitute the
provisions of the Wilson bill, which
placed lumber on the free list Idr.
Caffery Oa.) opposed the duty on white
pine and incidentally criticised the po-
sition of Mr.. Bacon (Ga.), who, he
said, favored a protective duty. This
the senator from Georgia denied.
Mr.. Caffery announced his opposition
to all protective duties, but favored
Of l,,41 fOY>
nue. purposes. He said the supply of
pine in this country was inexhaustible
and repudiated the "reputed" repre-
sentatives of lumber interests of his
state who went before the ways and
means committee and asked duty Of
50. He could not, he said, find single
basis for this duty on lumber so far
as the Southern timber interests were
concerned.
THE platform I stand on interpos-
ed Mr.. Bacon, 1.-The orthodoxy Of which
the senator from Louisiana may not
subscribe to (Mr.' Caffery supported the
Indianapolis ticket warrants my posi-
ton. The Chicago platform said: We
| favor a tariff for revenue, with duties
so adjusted as to operate equally
throughout the country and not to dis
| criminate as to class or section 1t is
| that plank in the platform upon which
I stand,' said Mr.. Bacon.
Mr. Caffery said there might be a
| discrepancy between the Chicago and
Indianapolis platforms, but the essence
! Of Democracy was opposed to a tariff
on raw materials, because such a tar
! iff necessarily required compensatory
duties on manufactured articles. "If
one wrong is conceded he asked,
shall we multiply it? Can error be
SO corrected? That may be the logic
of your Democracy. It is not of mine"
MY position said Mr.. Bacon, "is
| that if duties are to be levied on manu-
factured articles for revenue purposes
they should be levied also on raw ma
terials-that no favors should be
shown"
Senator Hoar improved the oppor-
tunity offered to humorously goad
Senators Bacon and Caffery by inti-
mating that their revenue ideas be-
came decidedly protective when home
interests were affected-sugar for
! Louisiana, and lumber for Georgia.
Mr. Caffery with some display Of
temper announced that there was not
an iota of protection in his makeup
Il favor duty on sugar." said he
emphatically, because the duty goes
into the treasury Of the United States
You favor protection ON articles which
enables manufacturers Of those articles
to put the equivalent of the duty in
their own pockets
Mr. Bacon and Mr.. Caffery had
sharp exchange and seemed about to
subside when Senator Hoar again
made some rather sarcastic references
to Mr. Caffery's inconsistency, de-
scribing him as a free trader who cried
always sugar. sugar, sugar." and
who, when the Wilson bill was before
the senate. was SO doubtful Of what
that bill would be for sugar that he
voted aye on the sugar schedule and
mo" on the final passage of the bill,
| and then changed to yea"
Mr. Bacon protested at being termed
free trader. He favored a duty on
all raw materials. "All raw materials
that compete with the products of
Georgia." remarked Mr. Hoar amid
framing of a tariff bill to the free
trade senators who are conducting the
debate, on the other SIDE" said he,
"after it's passage, we would discover
that every industry in their respective
states had been amply protected.
Naughter.) Morally there is a great
deal of human nature In Democrats" !"
The merriment was SO great that the
chair was compelled to suppress it.
Mr.. Bacon sought to turn the alEu-
ment against Mr.. Hoar by asking his
position as to a duty on hides, but
the Massachusetts senator, after ex-
planning his ideas on this subject, neat
ly avoided committing himself by as
serting that in such a bill as the pres
ent he would yield-his individual con-
victions if he could not persuade his
colleagues that he was right.
After Mr.. Caffery had made the
statement that he had no apologies to
make for his vote on the Wilson bill.
the debate became desultory. Mr.. AL
len (Neb.) touched briefly on the SUBJ
ject Of duty on hides, and then in
weighed against the lumber duties in
the bill which, he said, would be par
ticularly oppressive to the people of
Nebraska, who were the victims Of the
lumber trust. He declared that so per
cent of the lumber cut from Maine to
Minnesota was cut by men of foreign
birth and a great portion by men who
are not citizens of the United States.
] Mr.. SDooner CWis.( protested against