The times., 1897-07-20
THE SUBMISSIVE HOUSE
Continued from FIRST Page.

iiC 5u6IR SAiN eAN'A -
which nearly every member was inter
| ested, Mr. DIngley explained that by the
| arrangements as repoftefby the conference
committee, about $3,0o0,o0o increase
| OF revenoe would be realized, as the in
crease had been placed on raw sugars at
/ the poiut where revenue would be re-
/ ceiye1, and at the same time the beet
I sugar industry will receive substantial
| benefit. lie insisted that the amount OF
/ the differential duty remains in reality
4 just the sstrTie as in the bill which passed
4 the House
i As Mr Dinglcy proceeded the members
! of The House gathered around him. II
/ was an interesting scene, with Mr.. Ding.
lev in the role OF schoolnlaster, drilling
his pupils in lessons on tariff. Some OF
the listeners perched themselves on desks,
others sat IN chairs, but the majority
crowded in the ttisles.
Mr.. DiREley regretted the rejection OF
/ The retroactive CLAUSE by the Senate,
which. II 1t lad been allowed to remain,
would have saved S25, 10000 to the
f United States Treasury A reference Ia
the elimination of the stamp tax brought
question from Mr. Todd OF Michigan
! ts TO whether or not the Republicans con-
fesseG that they had abandoned the idea
of taxing the stock gamblers OF Wall
street
Mr.. Cooper OF Wisconsin and Mr.. John
son of Indiana were not apt pupils They
4 could not see through the cobweb explana-
! tion of Mr.. DinEley, concerning the net
I result Of the change iii the sugar schedule.
] The framer OF the tariff bill became very
patient. Rapidly ne calculated the duty
on the different qualities of sugar, until
he arrived at a conclusion, at least, satis-
factorily TO himself
The duty ON raw sugars of 100 0degrees
purity is raised from LIS tas proposed
/ originally by the Housel, TO 50 1-2,"
| said Mr.. Dineley, and the duty on re-
/ fined sugar is raised from ST 1-2, as
proposed by the House, to 80, thus
/ giving the same ufferential of twelve
I and half hundre'ths between raw and
refined sugar as was originally proposed
by the House"
Mr.. johnson OF Indiana wanted to know
ir tins increase to 1.95 would not increase
the profits Of the Sugar Trust on the an
| ticipatory imPortations OF raw sugars
! Mr.. Dingley gave an explanation which
! seemed to satisfy Mr.. Johnson, and then
after another Of his lightning calculations,
affirmed that the refiner OF sugar under
! the present Wilson bill had a differential
of p l-2 cents per hundred pounds, as
| against 2 12 cents proposed by the House
and finally adopted by the conferees
The question was asked how much tho
sugar trust is protected by the conference
duty. and Mr. Dingley answered just about
half OF that under the Wilson bill"
Questions flew thick and fast, and the
| entire Democratic side of the chamber be
came deserted, except for one member,
! Nicholas c. Cox OF Tennessee. who asked
| that order he restored He believed the
! members should be compelled to take their
seats
Speaker Reed thought so, too, and he
began to WELD his gaveI. with the result
that the crowd began to thin out and oc-
| oupy seats, all very near to Mr. DingIey,
| however.
As TO the question of the revenue to lie
| raised by the bill, Mr.. Dingley rointed ont
the difficulty resulting from tile large an
t1cipatory importations.
The bill next year, he calculated, would
raise s225,00o 600 81 {, 900, 900 more than
the present law. Over $40 900 GOO had
been lost in this years revenues h : the i'm
things, the duty on which was raised in the
hill, so that be calculated that the bill
this year would raise SI85 900. GOO.
Sir. Dinglev declared that there was no
doubt that the revenue produced by the
bill would not only be ample TO meet the
expenditures Of the Government, but allow
Republican Administration to begin agaf n
to pay off the principal Of the public de bit
| which a1 .1,-.
niinistraticn
! Following Mi. DinEley, Gen Wheeler Of
Alabama secured the floor. He iumpad
fHst frcm the Lad effects of the talif bnI
to q deHEncia tian of the Republican uart,,
IN general, and severely upbIaided the
q riff Till mana gers for the sugar Sc chetiul,.
and for not allowing the minority a chance
10 sec the bill before this morning.
Representative Swanson of Virginia de-
iiyered an excellent address on tho sugs
schedule. He agreed with Senator Vest
that it could properly he termed the Cape
iIatteras OF debate. This Infamous pro-
vision proposes 10 raise one-fou1tIl the en-
tire revenue duty on the sugar + con assumption
of the entire people He proroset to show
what the sugar dGty amounted to, an d had
read by the clerk some rema rks of Mr..
Payne at the time of the passage of the
Wilson bill.
what Mr. Payne is thate' inquired a
member.
THE present member of the ways ard
Means Committee" answered Mr.. Swan
son. ''At that time he opposed the SUGAR
schedule OF the Wilson BILL" said Mr.
Swanson. "Fe opposed it because the "a
per cent duty means tax Of 81 on every
man in the Tinted States. Now, under
the present proposed tariff the duty i.
double, and the tax must necessarily hI
doubled to So, yet Mr.. Payne is favorinG
| it. The tax of 40 per cent may have
been for the benefit Of few, but an
so per cent tax is still greater henefit. =
The speaker declared that the propo-
sition Of the conference committee in
stead of creating competition destroyed
competition There was a great deal
Of talk about making the Senate sur
render, but when the bill was reported
it was seen that nothing much had been
surrendered after ALL Let us see what
this great surrender is,'' exclaimed Mr.
Swanson. az he proceeded to show that
the Senate gave up seven and half cents
as against the House giving up four cents.
Mr.. Ball Of Texas quoted from President
McKiniey's inaugural address, ''that econ
omy was demanded at all times, espea-
tally now when the depressed condition
Of business, and distress among the
psopie, rendered them least able to bear
their burdens
He asserted there was money enough in
the Treasury, available for that purpose,
to meet the difference, under existing