The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-07
.DlNGLBY -ALDRICH Bill.
Senate Fight Shy Of Sugar
Quay's Free List" Idea
The White Pine Villainy.

WASf1lNATIOIS, une Il loSi--lue sugar
| schedule will not be taken up in the Sen
ate today. The Republican Senators
will hold d caucus tomorrow at ten
O'clock
In the Senate today Mr.. Quay (Pa.) pre-
sented several proposed amendments to
the tariff bill. One of them proposes to
strike out the duty on tea and substitute
a duty of 10 per cent. ad valorem on all
articles proposed by the bill to be placed
OH tlfe free aist. these duties TO continue
until July |, 1901. after which the artI-
cles shall be exempt from duty. Another
amendment proposes a provision to the
paragraph fixing duty on iron ore SO
that all iron ore from foreign mines
owned by American citizens and imported
for their own use and not for sale shall
be exempt from duty.
The consideration off the tariff bill was
resumed soon after the session opened
and the discussion proceeded on the par
agraph placing a duty of 50 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.
The Senator spoke in particular against
restoring white pine to the dutiable list.
| urging that the rates were designed to be
prohibitory against Canadian pine. There
was nothing. he said, in the CLAP trap
argument Of American high wages. as
the wages of lumber men in Canada
We're on the whole higher than in the
United States. This was simply an at
tempt to pay back to the lumber syn
dicate the advance which it had possibly
made less than year ago
Larceny, he said was larceny, no mat
ter, under. what name 1t was disguished,
and any law that permitted one class of
people to take from another class it's
honest earnings, was in the eyes of every
honest man. nothing short of absolute
ferred to the various interested elements
clamoring like jackals for the benefits to
be conferred by this bill.
storing the duty on White Pine. He had
been appealed to by the lumber interests
of his own State to support the duty, but
ne could not do it when it laid such
heavy tribute on the agricultural people
of the western States. Mr.. Berry ex-
pressed his astonishment that any Demo-
cratic Senator would support this re-
storation of duty on lumber
Mr.. Bacon (Ga.) who is supporting the
lumber duty, reminded Mr.. Berry that his
lBacon's) support was due to the fact
that the duty was revenue rather than
protective rate.
Mr.. Berry responded with vehement
arraignment of the BILL framed he said,
IN the interest n, Of every trust and n comb,
the bill that it gave large increase of
| duty to the Sugar Trust and to every
| other combination of capital, this satis-
| fed him that the measure was framed
| distinctly Oh the lines of protection and
not of revenue.
Mr. Caffery G.al opposed the duty on
position of Mr. Bacon (Ga.), Who he said,
| favored a protective duty. This the Sen
or from i Gieorga dsneH d ~ Mr Gary
| duties. He favored the imposition Of
pure revenue duties. He said
pudiated the .treputed' representa-
| OF lumber interests of his State who went
before the Ways and q Means Gommittee
said, find a single basis for this duty on
lumber so far as the Southern timber in
terests were concerned Either this duty
| ton or it could not be justified at ALL He
could not understand how Mr.. Bacon
couIa defend sa tian the duty as revenue duty
| Mr.. Bacon, ssthe orthodoxy of which the
/ Senator from Louisiana may not subscribe
to (Mr. Caffery supported the indianapolis
| gold ticket) warrants my position. The
/ Chicago platform said: We favor g
tariff for revenue with duties SO adjusted
as to operate equally throughout the
or section 1t Is that plank in the plat
| form upon which I stand, said Mr.
4 Bacon
Mr.. Caffery said there might be dis
| crepancy between the Chicago and Indi-
| annapolis platforms, but the essence OF
/ Democracy was opposed to tariff on raw
material because such tariff necessar-
| lily required compensa tory duties on man
i ufactured articles. IF one wrong is con
| ceded," he asked, .'shall we multiply it
| Can an eror be SO corrected? That may
! be the logic of your Democracy. 1t is not
1 of mine.'
my position said Mr. Bacon :. is bhat
| if duties are to be levied on manufacturer
4 articles for revenue purposes they should
be levied also on raw materials, that ne
| favors should be shown