The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-06-17
DISCUSS SUGAR TRUSTS
DEMOCRATIC SENATOR'S OPEN THE
Walls OF THEIR WRATH.
In Their Allegiance to the Agree
ment of the Caucus.

Washington, June 1.-THE tariff bill
was taken up in the senate as soon as
the routine business was out of the |
way. Senator Tillman took the floor
on the pending amendment OF Senator
Cannon, providing an export bounty on
agricultural products. He said the tar
in debate had disclosed a nebulous
condition in the minds of the senators.
The republicans sat quietly, apparent-
ly controlled by the caucus. refusing
to discuss the iniquities of the bill and
unanimously voting for exactions in
behalf of trusts and monopoles. ION
the other hand" proceeded Senator
Tillman, "the democrats are in a perl
cd of transition. They do not know
where they are at. The older and
more experienced proclaim their allie
glance to the old time-honored doc
| trines. We had an impassioned speech
yesterday by Senator Mills on behalf
of Walker tariff principles, brought
| forward at this late day as democratic
doctrine. Secession. nullifcation ana
other issues which have passed out of
the minds of men might as well be
brought here. Tariff is merely a ques-
ton of policy as to how the govern
ment will raise revenue. 1t Is to the
best interests of the American people
that articles consumed by our people
should be produced by our people. II
| that is republican doctrine. well and
good. If 1t is not democratic doc
trine, 1t ought to be. AS to farmers
| the need is not for more farmers, but
for tariff which no longer would rob
| the farmers we have" Senator Till
man vehemently pledged his word to
his colleagues that they would not de-
| ceive the farmers, and that nine mil
lion followers of the plow will settle
with you at the ballot box" He de-
clared the south had been treated as
an Ishmaelite since the war, and the
farmers generally had been bled to
| I'm ole nd
After some running debate. a vote
was taken on the Cannon amendment,
providing an export bounty for agri-
cultural products, and resulted yeas
10, nays So. Affirmative vote-Allen,
Butler. Stewart Harris (kansas), Heit-
field, Cannon, Mantle. Pettigrew Roach
and Tillman. This closed considera-
ton of the cereal paragraph. and the
agricultural schedule and sugar sched-
The Sugar Schedule.
Senator Pettigrew gave notice that
he would offer his amendment to ad-
NIT free of duty goods made by trusts
in connection with the schedule. SEN
ator Allison asked that the proviso
relating to the Hawaiian islands go
over. He said the action of the SEN
ate committee relative to the Hawai-
ian proposition was due to purpose
TO exclude Hawaiian sugar. The com
mittee had never considered the ques-
llOil, anu Ildu let II 30 ONtl lOi luttie
consideration
Senator Allison, in behalf of the com
, mittee, then moved an amendment
! striking out S75-1000 and inserting 90
100 as the duty on refined sugars.
Senator Jones of Arkansas was rec
: ognized for a speech on the general
i features of the sugar schedule.
Senator Jones declared that he pro-
posed to see that there was some con-
d. tention before German granulated was
taken as the basis for finding the diff
= erential duty to the refiner. Senator
:, Jones insisted that the grades of sugar
y compared by Senator Aldrich in his
{ speech did not compare.
: Senator Jones STAGED the price o
a refined sugar upon which Senator Aid
5 rich based his calculations of 2.3O cents
y was too low. 1t should have been 266
: he said. Still taking Senator Aid
3 rich's figures. Senator Jones calculated
e a margin of from .43 to- .55 cents pc
II pound to the refiners He announced
le that this schedule was claimed to af
lie ford less profit than the house sched
W ule He had looked conscientiously int
sr the question without prejudice, and h.
became satisfied that a clear differen
ID tial of one-eighth of cent was right
le Under that differential the companies
e. profits had increased. How could tn
I'd other side now justify further in
rs crease of the dfferential? He shoul
he propose, he said, duty of one cent pc
IS pound on sugars testing 70 degrees
dredths on each degree above that, an
a differential of one-eighth on refined
Y. II will not propose this in any car
tious spirit" said he. but because
n believe 1t is sufficient, and that tn
people are entitled to know exactl
n what it is proposed to give the refir
in ers."
ut Vest on the Sugar Trust.
% Senator Vest followed Senator Jone
of in criticism of the general features {
at the sugar schedule. 1t had alway
We been. he said. the Cape Hatteras of II
ut tariff debate. 1t involved the who
n question of the existence of the Cigar
he tic sugar trust, which had absorbe
" refinery after refinery. until 1t was 81
on preme and all powerful in the field. I'll
he LeXow investigation had disclosed II
o. enormous profits of this trust. 1t shoy
o. ed, he said, a capital of SIS. 900 900 con
its mon stock and H5.00O.000 preferred, q
ha aggregate of $150000. 900, with prof
AZ of ~ per cent on its common stoC
and per cent on the preferred stoc
1t was an open. bold. admitted trust.
- Gallery ON Sugnr Scandals.
". Senator Caffery followed. The o
fight between the producers of raw s
iS gar and the refiner, which in tt
J.. country was the trust, was, he sal
~ ~ again on. He spoke of the scandal
nv, M 1894 over the sugar schedule, produc
G he by the rapacity of the sugar trust.
~ ~ was to be repeated now. There we
ay, consumed in this country four bill
M pounds of sugar annually. If the trt
ne was to receive half a cent a pour
III III as this schedule proposed, that wot
'ah mean $40, ,000, 900 to the trust He
ill than yas The ironeIlant cause vyhi
~ - brought this great corporation
nis Washington to look after its interes
az They not only control the price,
not statamant made nv him he ca
IL would show that under all of the tal
ho' acts the profits of the sugar trust W
very large. The trust never lost.
MI. 1t wanted was sufficient tariff to k'
out the foreign producer, and then 1t
Or the American consumer at its mer
to be fieeced at will. The trust ]
ma ma said they would be ruined by any
No ferential under one-eighth of a C
u, a,t per pound. and yet they had thri
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