The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-13

MeEnery Oa), who yesterday voted
with the Republicans for the sugar
! schedule. 1t was his maiden speech
| in the senate. He openly avowed him
self protectionist, and, as a Demo-
crat, justified his position upon the
| ground that tariff views should not
| constitute a test of Democracy. He,
| moreover, defended the sugar trust.
whose interests, he argued, went hand
in hand with the sugar planters. The
Republican senators showed much in
terest in his remarks. They crowded
about and listened attentively to his
| two hours speech. Mr.. McEnery Bit
terly denounced the corporation which
controlled the new method for baling
cotton. The interests of this company,
he declared, were directly opposed by
the interests Of the cotton planters.
Mr.. Lindsay (Ky) and Mr.. Caffery were
the other senators who addressed the
senate at length today.
At 1915 the consideration Of the tar
if bill was resumed, the pending
| amendment being that of Senator Jones
(Ark) to strike out in line 20, page So,
the words ION all sugars" Mr.. Vest
(Mo) took the floor and called upon the
majority to answer the declarations
made by the minority that the present
sugar schedule gave a large increase
of protection to the sugar trust. His
side, he said, had made the direct issue.
The sugar trust was now making 20
per cent on its enormous watered stock.
Its officials had admitted it.
In view of this fact it was due the
minority and the country that an ex-
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maze by the other side. But what was
the reply of the majority to the chal-
lenge of the minority? 1t was that leav-
Ing out the countervailing duty of three
elghthS Of q cent, there was no increase.
But what he wanted to know was what
1t was, if that three-eighths was in
| cluded. Mr.. Vest repeated his state
ment of Wednesday, that the protection
on SO degree sugar was increased by
| the caucus amendment over the origi-
| nal senate amendment Of cents per
hundred pounds. 1t was &c cents in
| the schedule adopted yesterday, against
81 cents in the present law. He went
| into an elaborate calculation, using,
he said, Mr.. Aldrichs figures as a basis
and challenged the majority to dis
prove his calculations. These figures"
said he passionately, should be ad-
| mitted or disproved. that senators may
take their responsibility here"
"Oh Mr.. President" cried Mr.. Vest
in conclusion, our experts may be
mistaken, we may be in the fog ring
ing cur bells, but I repeat again what
l said the other day, that there was
one set of men in this country who
were not mistaken. Our friends in
Wall street know what this schedule
means" he said, his voice rising, with
in four hours after this schedule was
| reported, sugar stock went up Sc a
share, from 1lS to 124. Last night it
closed at 125. Does anybody believe
| that Wall street does not know what
protection this schedule gives to the
| trust? If the protection had been re-
duced, Wall street would have respond
ed as my hand responds to my brain
| The cry in Wall street is: The trust
has got all it wants. Up with the flag
of protection that puts money in our
| pockets
Mr. >McEnery followed Mr.. Vest In
| opening, he referred to the denuncia-
| ton OF the sugar trust as q corporation
which was crushing the life blood out
| of the consumer. But the trust was
not the only organization, he said,
which was meeting with the condemna-
! ton of the people and helping to reduce
| them to beggary and starvation. In
| the South, he declared, there was q
! trust that sought to throttle the peo-