The record-union., 1897-07-07


m., tomorrow, and that the final vote
on the bill shall be taken before ad-
journment tomorrow.
Allison did not ask that the hour for
the vote be set, being content with the
positive agreement that it should be
some time tomorrow. The limitation
of speeches after 1 p. m, to five min
utes will bring the debate within mar
row limits.
The announcement by the Vice-Presi-
dent that the Agreement was perfected
led to a general exchange of congratu-
lations among Senators.
During the day the antitrust ques-
tion was debated at length, and Pet
tus' amendment on the subject was
defeated-33 to sc.
Allen of Nebraska again offered the
amendment for a quarter cent bounty
on beet sugar. It led to lively and
somewhat personal speeches from the
two Nebraska Senators, after which
the Allen amendment was tabled-55
to 9, the Populists and Silver Republi
cans being the only ones recorded
against the motion to table
Without any preliminary business the
Senate to-day proceeded to the consid
Grafton of the tariff bill.
Bacon made a personal explanation of
his vote yesterday for Mills amendment
TO impose a tax of 8 per cent. on all
manufactured products. He had, he
said, given the amendment his vote
without due deliberation. If the i'm
position of such tax could be con-
fined to the sugar trust and other gi-
in xyin1a
ton of the law it would commend itself
10 his judgment, but as it would touch
every village and hamlet in the land,
laying it's hand upon the most humble,
he frankly avowed his regret for the
vote cast yesterday.
Bate of Tennessee then took the
floor, and delivered a set speech against
the bill. He made a general argument
against the measure from the stand
point, as he announced, of an advo-
cate of fair trade and free silver"
The Senator analyZed the bill in its
bearing on agricultural industry, saying
it was designed to fool the farmer by
giving him fictitious protection on his
products, while real protection was
given to all the articles consumed by
him. He criticised the steady extension
of the protective policy, saying that
this was tariff for robbery" instead
of tariff for revenue" 1t arrayed US
against the world, making the United
States the Ishmael among nations.
Pettus of Alabama then offered his
amendment declaring unlawful the i'm
pOrtatiOn of sugar by any trust or COM
binatiOn operating in restraint of trade
or for the purpose of advancing the
price of sugar. The amendment also
provided for the forfeiture Of sugar so
imported, and directed the Attorney
General to enforce the forfeiture and
TO prosecute trusts, combinations, etc.
The Senator spoke at length in sup
port of the amendment, referring to the
gradual absorption of wealth in the
hands Of vast concerns.
Chiffon of Texas followed with an
arraignment of trusts, arguing that they
were fostered by the tariff He ex-
planned the operation of his antitrust
amendment at length, and argued that
it furnished a feasible method of reach
ing the great trusts engaged in inter-
State commerce.
Morgan spoke against the trusts.
saying he favored the amendment OF
his colleague Pettus), but would at
b. tach to 1t another far reaching propo-
sitiOn. He thought the seizure and
confiscation provided for by Pettus'
amendment might, as in the case of
the sugar trust, enable the trust to put
up the price of sugar pending action in
the courts, and he suggested a modifi-
cation which would provide for the i'm
mediate sale of articles seized
Caffrey did not believe that the Pet
tus amendment would affect the sugar
trust. If the trust was stopped from
importing sugar, the sugar would be
imported on other accounts and be
bought by the trust in the New York
market.
The vote was then taken. Messrs.
Teller and Heitfeld voted with the
Democrats in favor Of the amendment,
and Messrs. McEnery and Stewart
against it,
The Chiffon amendment was also lost
-2S to 81.
Caffrey then offered an amendment to
strike out all the differentiaI on re-
fined sugar, which was lost-2S to 81.
Messrs. HGtfeld and Teller voted aye.
and Messrs. NIcEnery and Stewart no.
After the vote had been announced
" AlllC VI 0dlllOIUld IdlS6U d DY
reading from the record of the debate
on the sugar differential the statement
of present Secretary of State, Mr.. Sher-
man, to the effect that the sugar trst
needed no protection. "I had rather
cut off my right hand,'' said the Sena-
otr from Ohio, than vote a single cent
of bounty to the corporation
Chiffon moved an amendment limit
Ing the drawback on refined sugar to
the amount shown by the polariscope
when the raw sugar is first imported.
Lost.
Allen now brought forward the
amendment for a bounty on beet sugar.
Allen branched into a chapter of pri-
vate procedure, which occasioned con-
siderable stir from the chamber. He
said that during the debate Republi-
can Senators had let it be understood
that they would like to be scared"
when this beet-sugar amendment was
proposed, and that intimations had been
conveyed that someone would get on
his feet and threaten that Congress
would would be held in session if the
amendment was passed Then our
: Republican friends would be able to
slide down the back stairs and get
out"
Thurston Of Nebraska replied briefly