The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-15

Washington, June 14.-The tariff debate
is not proving strong attraction in the
Senate and the attendance in the galleries
was small today.
At the outset it was agreed that the
daily sessions of the Senate begin at II a.
M, on Wednesday next and contin4ie
until p. m.
Mr.. Allen of Nebraska then reverted to
the colloquy last Saturday in which he
held that it was the right and duty of the
government to take legal steps to dissolve
the sugar trust. He argued that in
junction quo warranto and other legal
process could be invoked against the
trusts.
He then declared that the rights of the
Federal courts to GUST a state corpora
ton, engaged in interstate or interna-
tional trade was undoubted and asked ::
''Why should the Senate waste time
| and haggle over this sugar schedule and
| the sugar trust, when the courts offered
a real remedy for dissolving this gigantic
| monopolyP''
Mr.. Allen next spoke in favor of abro-
eating the Hawaiian treaty.
| The senator said the sugar investiga-
| ton. in which he took part, disclosed
that Havemeyer, head of the sugar trust,
and Claus Spreckles, king of the sugar
trade of the Hawaiian islands, had an
agreement by which Spreckles controlled
| the territory west of the Missouri river,
while the territory east of the Missouri
was "subject to the forays of the Ameri-
can Sugar Trust His vote, and he be-
| lieved the votes Of the Populists senators
would be cast to cancel the Hawaiian
| treaty as a means of developing the beet
sugar industry of this country
| Mr.. Pettigrew of South Dakota, fol-
lowed in support of his amendment pro-
posing that articles made by trust be
put on the free list. He also asserted
| that q serious question how the present
| government by the trusts and for the
trusts could be thrown off. No tariff
| bill will be successful without
some defense of the people against the
popular condemnation. AS protection
| ist he offered this amendment, believing
| that with it, the tariff bill could be de-
Tended against assaults.
He contended that the amendm ent
would not seriously diminish revenues,
| as the bill was not framed to get revenues
| from trust articles, the American mar
k cts, being in effect, turned over to the
trusts,
Mr.. Pettigrew figured out profits of
S51 ,09S daily by the sugar trust, or over
SIS, ,000,0 600 annually, most of which, he
urged was due to favorable legislation.
While the price of sugar was less under
the present law than it was under the
act of 1890, he contended that it was
higher in 1886 before the trust was formed,
Mr.. Pettigrew then branched off into
the discussion of other trusts, with
which he classed the anthracite coal COM
panies, the Standard Oil company, the
National Linseed Oil company, the Unit
ed States Leather company, and the Unit
ed State Rubber company
Mr.. Pettigrew charged that the trusts
in the last campaign all opposed Mr..
Bryans election and that many of them
closed down some of their factories to
influence their workmen. The II trusts
alluded to by him, he saiu, were capi
talized at $42 100000 and bonded to the
amount of s43, 900, 00O while representing
an actual investment of but $171, 900, 600.
He spoke of the trusts as modern
pirates.
amendment by Mr.. Lindsay to strike
out the distinction as to Dutch standard
in the first paragraph of the sugar sched-
ule, placing all sugars on equality at
one cent per pound and 3-100 cent add1t-
ional for every degree above Is.
The amendment was defeated, yeas 70,
nays 49, Mr.. McEnery, Democrat of
Louisiana, voting with the Republicans
in the negative and Messrs. Mant e and
Pett1grew, Silver Republicans, with the
Democrats in the affirmative.
Mr. Mills moved to strike out paragraph
206 and insert a uniform duty of 40 per
cent ad valorem. Rejected without di-
vision.
Mr.. Hoar of Massachusetts offered his