The Portland daily press., 1897-07-26

AS sequel to Mr.. Aliens personal col
loquy with Mr.. Foraker over alleged
fraud in Ohio at the last election, the Ne
braska Senator presented tables compar-
ing the vote cast for Mckinley, Bryan,
Harrison and Cleveland One column
showed "fraudulent excess, that Of Ohio
being stated at $4,000. In closing Mr..
Allen announced his purpose to withhold
his vote on the question of agreeing to
the report
Mr.. Gallery of Louisiana followed in
criticism of the sugar schedule. He stated
that ships from all parts of the world
We're hurrying in with
CARGOES OF RAW SUGAR,
to avoid the duties of the bill. Already
eigh tmonths' supply had been brought in,
cutting off revenue to the extent and
giving enormous profits to the trusts.
Mr.. Gear questioned these figures, say
ing only four months supply of raw sugar
had been brought in.
Mr.. Burrows, of Michigan, a member
of the finance committee, then took the
floor for one of the few speeches from The
Republican side of the chamber. He said
he had intended to refrain from speaking
but was induced to enter the debate be-
cause of the assaults made upon the
lumber schedule. He gave the vast ex-
two states with an aggregate capital of
$3.50, COO, coo, employing 900, 600 people and
paying $l30, 900, 900 in wages annually. In
his own state SAC, 900, 900 were invested in
lumber, and wages of ST. ZOO, 900 were
paid annually. Referring to the rates.
MIR. Burrows said these ON lumber were
the lowest IF any in the bill, being about
10 to Is per cent ad valorem and only 10
per cent on white pine. The Senator re-
ferred to his visits to the Michigan lum
Der sections where he said mills were idle
and men out of work when the Canadian
mills and the Canadian workmen We're
thriving.
Mr.. Burrows took up the statements of
Mr. Allen that six men owned the stand
ing pine, and OF Mr.. Pettigrew that one
man in Michigan (Mr. Blodgett) owned
the standing pine. He read from census
reports that l,1S6 people owned this class
OF timber and presented estimates show
ing 90 owners of white pine in Michigan.
Instead of being 1.-THE most infamous
schedule" as these Senators had declared,
1t was one of the most meritorious of the
bill. The Senator referred to the personal
criticisms of Mr.. Pettigrew to the effect
that Mr. Blodgett, the owner of pine
lands in Michigan, was the one "who
manipulated the election of Senators in
Michigan Il do not understand the
meaning of this remark, or the inference
to be drawn from it, but if the intimation
is that my election was secured by other
than honorable means, then it is q
ISLANDER ON THE PEOPLE
of my state and on the legislature from
which hold my commission.
AS to the statements that the lumber
schedule would be an advantage to lum-
bermen, Mr.. Burrows said this was so.
1t would be of advantage to the Tuner.
man, the wool raiser, She farmer, and he
believed it would restore to the labor of
the country the uncounted millions from
which it had been robbed by four years
of free trade.
At 1 O'Clock there was a pleasant
diversion for the spectators in the galleries
when the Senate, on MIR. Allison's motion,
in order to inaugurate the Legislative day
of Saturday adjourned until ] 03 D. IN,
The spectators had a glimpse of Parlia-
mentary fiction. Three minutes later the
Senate reconvened,
Mr.. Morgan of Alabama then took the
floor. His purpose, he said, was to adj
dress himself to grave question of law,
practice and policy involved in the
adoption of the pending conference report.
Mr.. Morgan stated that the abandon
ment of the stamp tax on bonds and
stocks was in the interest of the New
York trusts. Immediately that the con-
ference report became known sugar stock
went up with a bound until it was said
$50, 100000 had been made. The meaning
of this, he said. was that the spectators
felt secure that their stock transfers were
to continue without tribute.
And I CHARGE exclaimed Mr.. Nor
gan vehemently, THAT the abandonment
occurred under the command of the sugar
trust"
At 2 4Op. m. Mr.. Stewart of Nevada
took the floor. He said the tariff could
not alleviate the distress of the country
and he urged that the main injustices of
tariff legislation was the inequalities OF
the benefits and burdens it carried. The
time for the final vote was now almost at
hand, and there was an air of eager ex-
pectancy throughout the chamber. The
Senators had come from the cloak rooms
and Hobbies until there was hardly
vacant seat on either side of the chamber.
Mr.. Dingley, the author of the bill, was
present as were also other members of the
ways and means committee and many of
the rank and file of the House filled the
rear seats, making a semi-circle of earnest
faces fronting the presiding officers.
The galleries had filled to OVERLOOKING,
with good representation of ladies' But
few of the foreign representatives were
present, several secretaries of the Japanese
and Spanish legations being the only oc-
cupants of the diplomatic gallery.
At five minutes of O'Clock, Mr.
Stewart was still speaking. He proceeded
leisurely on general tariff and financial
topics, continuing until the hour for the
final vote. Promptly at O'Clock the Vice
President announced that the time for
the final vote had arrived and
DIRECTED THE ROLL CALL
to begin. It proceeded rapidly and with
few Interruptions for pairs.
At 3.05 the result was announced, yeas,
40; nays, 30, as follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Aldrich, Allison, Baker,
Burrows, Carter, Clark, Davis, Deboe,
Elkins, Fairbanks, Foraker, Frye, Gal
linger, Gear, Hale, Hansbrough, Hawley,
Hoar, Jones of Nevada, Lodge, Mcbride,
McEenry, Mcmillan, Mason, Morrill,, Mel
son, Penrose, Perkins, Platt of Connecti-
cut, Platt of New York, Pritchard, Proc
tor, Quay, Sewall, Shoup, Spooner,
Stewart, Thurston, Warren, Wetmore; 40,
Nays-Bacon, Bate, Berry, Caffery,
Chiffon, Clay, Cockerell, Daniel, Falk--
ner. German, Harris, Jones of Arkansas,
Mallory, Martin, Mills, Mitchell.
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