Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-07-21
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| IIc is the man who manipulated the
| election of senators in Michigan, as
serted Mr.. Pottigrew. This condition
made the lumber amendment an iin-
portant one to "the Michigan machine
| he said This one lunberman's SlO,-
| 100000 counted against the influence
ard votes of 10000 men of ordinary
means. The conference report ought to
be rejected on this one lumber item.
| 1t was full of tricks, he said.
Commenting on a newspaper clipping
| as to a gathering of lumbermen IN
Burrows room, Pettigrew said it show
ed that the pine amendment would take
over Sc, 900 600 out of the pockets of the
people and put it in the pockets Of this
little group of lumbermen gathered in
| Burrows rCom.'' While the bill was
| full of such tricks, Pettis,rew asserted
IL at the lumber rate WAS one of the
worst and most barefaced tricks of the
| W.lole bill.
The debate was fruitless of result
and the reading of the bill proceeded
until the amendments to the sugar
schedule were reached. Vest said this
was the storm-center of the bill, and
he asked Allison if he approved the
statement made by the House con-
ferees that the House differential and
| the general features of the House
schedule had been preserved.
Allison responded with an eXplana-
tory statement which was interrupted
| by frequent questions. He said the
general effect of this amendment was
as stated by the House conferees. The
Senate had provided los on refined SUI
gars, where the House gave 1875 maxi
ing the Senate differential one-fifth in
stead of one-cighth. The House pro-
vision was now restored and the differ
! entail retained.
1t was beyond question, Vest said,
| that the conference amendment was in
| the interest of the trust There had
| been much beating of drums over the
| House victory and the Speaker of the
| House was pictured as the Ajax of the
House. But in fact the House had suf-
fered defeat. The House conferees had
come out of the engagement not only
| without their arms, but without their
| baggage. And what added to the sting
of defeat was that they did not seem to
know they We're beaten.
| Jones of Arkansas. said he would
hereafter show that the differential be-
tween raw and refined sugar is not
only almost as much in the conference
report as in the Senate schedule, but
that in general there had been an abso-
lutte surrender by the House on vital
points.
White, Cal, presented tables showing
that instead of the House having
gained a victory on the sugar schedule,
the reduction from the Senate differen-
| tial was triilng. They showed also, he
said, that on refined sugar made from
sugar testing less than So degrees, the
amount of protection given to the
trust, instead of being less, is greater
| under the schedule agreed to in con-
ference under either the House bill or
the Senate amendment.
No wonder the market trembled and
brought forth increasing rates on Su-
gar stock remarked White.
The formal reading of the report then
X storing cotton bagging and cotton
ties to the dutiable hist were reached.
there was a sharp protest from Jones.
Butler Tillman and Bacon. THlman
expressed his Indignation at the see
rionalism which had inspired the con-
ference committee. He said 10 South
ern senators that if they would stand
by him they could hold the Senate in
session until next December rather
than submit TO this change
Bacon characterized the restoration
of cotton ties and cotton bagging to the
dutiable list as indefenSible favoritism
Of the North against the South.
Replying to the suggestion of Till
man. Butler said he stood ready TO ioin
| in any movement to hold the Senate in
| session for a week longer, to prevent
the consummation of this iniquity
against the South.
I will tell the senator, called back
Illlman, that ! am negotiating with
the senator from Pennsylvania (Quay)
for the speech by which he stopped
the last tariff debate, and | may be
ready to start on that speech tomorrow
morning.
Teller criticized the conference COM
nIttee for not carrying out the will of
the Senate. 1t was the first time he
said, that committee had surrendered
| the interests of the Senate without
| asking for Instructions. He had rcas-
ference committee, supposed to repre-
Gent the Senate, had gone into the
conference and worked against the Sen
ate amendment on white pine.
Teller declared that the entire report
should he rejected and sent TO a com
nittee representing the Senate and car
| ryinS out it's instructions Referring
| to the bill as whole the senator as
serted it was the meanest tariff eyer
enacted.
| AT o'clock, White suggested an ad-
| Journment but Allison would consent
| To TINS only in case of an agreement to
meet at II o'clock A. NJ, tomorrow.
There We're objections to this. and after
much fruitless sparring. the Senate at
| 5.15 Z. NJ, on motion Of Allison, went
| into executive session and then ad
iournod.