The sun., 1897-06-09

iority that the protective principle had obtained.
exceeding even the Overwhelming one OF yostcr-
day on the question OF n duty on pine lumber,
when the vote was 30 to 20. Tho vote to-day
took the character o. a complete rout OF tho
Democrats: and for tho rest OF the day the lead.
crs were quiet. The rico paragraph i22al was
under discussion when the adjournment took
Wien the bill was taken up at noon Mr..
Vest remarked that y wa, an open, secret
sugar schedule. and said that common fairness
required those notifications 10 be stSted. and
that some agreement should be made as 10 when
that most important schedule would be taken MP.
MT. Allison replied that there were no open
schedule. lie announced on behalf Of the ma
1ority that II proposed TO modify the amendment
reported by the Finance Committee. and he
would either withdraw that amendment or ask
on line 80. page 90. TO substitute for the words
andths, the words IN met 4. vc ono hundrcdths,
so AS 10 leave the duty. on sugar which has
ninety live one.hundrcdths OF a cent per pound.
Hc also proposed 10 insert new paragraph,
2o6i0, providing that the duties on moiasses.
clayed, and on other sugars testing not above 81
degrees by polariscope, should be one-tenth Of a
cent per pound less than those imposed on the
preceding paragraphs on the corresponding test
Mr. Allison added that the Finance Committee
had not yet prepared paragraRh In relation I. d 10
He asked 1t to be understood that the sugar sec
tion would be taken up Tomorrow morning.
At the su:gestion Of scveral Senators the TO.
hacco schedule went over for the present, and
Mr.. Jones OF Arkansas moved to strike out par
agraphs 2l5 ,cattle,. PIG tswineh 2lT 'horses
and Inules,. and 2ls tsheep,. and to substitute
cent; ad yslorcm on nal all live animals not special
ly provided for. The amendment was defeated
Mr.. Vest. in discussing the paragraphs putting
duties on breadstufis and farinaceous sub
Mr.. Joncs's 8 motion TO reduce the duty on bar.
ley TO so per cent. ad valorem was defeated.
yeas, Il; nays. 81. The Democrats who voted
Louisiana. Mitchell Of Wisconsin. Rawiins OF
Utah and Tillman Of South Carolina; the l'opn;
OF Idaho. and Jones and Stewart OF Nevada.
Mr.. Vest moved to make the tax on buck.
bushcl. The vote was--yeas, IL; nays, %.
corn or maize and cornmeal with like results.
to'tca. This was opposed bitterly by Mr.. Vest
Mr.. MGLaurin OF South Carolina supported it:
and Mr.. Bacon replied 10 Mr.. Vest. Mr.. Berry of
Arkansas asked him whether the proposed tax
would increase the price OF cotton in the United
States. MT. Bacon replied that 1t would have
little or no effcct the general class OF cotton,
might have on the particular kind of cotton
that is imported into the United States
to Mir Bacon. but Mr Bacon deciinet To Weld.
and told the Senator from Louisiana that he
would have enough 10 do 10 answer the QCcs.
tions put to him yesterday by the senator from
Massachusetts ,Ar. Hoar, on the sugar question.
Laughter
Mr.. Bacon said that he put his amendment on
two propos'tions-drst, that duty OF 20 per
cent. was not a protective duty and, second. that
there was nothing in the nature OF cotton or in
cality where II Is produced. that makes IL an i'm
proper article for revenue duty.
Mr. Gray asked Mr.. Bacon whether he was in
favor of a tariff for revenue. lam" Mr.. Bacon
replied. but am not in favor OF tariff for
revenue only. l am not one OF those who object
TO a tariff because OF the fact that somebody
may get u beuetit from it
:" Then yon do not think Mr.. Gray persisted,
that tariff for revenue only only Is a general
Democratic doctrine r.
' do not" Mr.. Bacon replied.
Mr.. Canery OF Louisiana, on rising 10 oppose
the amendment. was asked by Nr. Bacon to
declined absolutely TO be interrupted by the
Senator from Georgia. He went on to say that
he favored duty on sugar not because he came
from sugar-producing State. but because OF
the revcnuep producing qualities o. such duty.
But he opposed duty on cotton because II
would yield but little revenue and would do no
good whatever to the cotton growers OF the
country.
The debate lasted for nearly three hours.
When 1t closed. the vote was taken on Mr.. Ba-
cons amendment to put duty OF 90 per cent.
on raw cotton. IL was supported by the Repub-
lican senators without an exception; by five
Democratic Senators-Bacon, Clay. McEnery
Allen. Heitfeld. and Stewart. The amend.
! ment was adopted by a vote of-yeas 40; nays
49,
Paragraphs 226 tmacaroni. 221 tonts). and
2:s 'oa'meali were agreed to without question.
sion, and without action on 1t the Senate at
$40, adjourned.