Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-08


quay presented seVeral poioseu
amendments 10 'he .Arii piii' OAe VI
them proposes 10 strihe OUT Tie uuss oi'
tea ana SUBSTITUTE a outy Oh ~ pei
cent. ad vaiorem on all articles pro-
posed by the Dill 10 De placed on tne
iree hst' unose duties 20 commune ua.i'
June !. 1871, AFTER which the articies
shall be exempt from duty.
Another amendment proposeu pro-
viso to the paragraph, nxlng the outy
on IRON ore SO tnat all iroh ore lroih
foreign mines owned oy american CIT
liens and imported Tor their own use
and not Tor sale shali De exempt iroin
duty.
The consideration OF the tarin Dill
was resumed soon after the SESSION
opened and the discussion proceeded on
the paragraph placing duty OF " per
1000 feet on lumber.
Allen, Pop, Neb., moved to SUBSTITUTE
the provisions OF the wilson piii wnich
placed lumber on the free list. me
senator spoke in particular against re-
storing white pine to the duitaDle list,
urging that the rates were designed TO
be prohibitory against Canadian pine.
Quite lively time occurred IN the
Senate. today, when Hoar OF Massa-
chusetts, referred to the peculiarities OF
the way some Democrats acted on the
tariff. Caffery's idea OF tarih, he said.
was sugar, sugar and nothing else
He added that Caffery was so anxious
for protective duty on sugar when the
Wilson bill was being considered That
when the vote was taken he hrst cast
his vote against the Dill as protest,
and before the completion OF the call
changed to yes.
There was nothing he said in the
"clap-trap argument" of eAmerican
high wages, as the wages OF lumber
men in Canada were on the whole
higher than in the United States. This
was simply an attempt to pay back to
the lumber syndicate the advance which
it had possibly made, less than year
ago. Larceny, he said was larceny,
no matter under what name 1T was dis
guised and any law that permitted one
class of people to take from another
class it's honest earnings, was in the
eyes of every honest man nothing short
of absolute larceny-legalized larceny.
Allen referred to the various interested
elements, clamoring like 1ackalS for the
benefits to be conferred by this bill.
Berry. Ark, spoke against restoring
the duty on white pine. Berry ex-
pressed his establishment that any
Democratic Senate would support this
restoration of duty on lumber Bacon,
Ga, who is supporting the lumber duty,
reminded Berry that his (Bacon's) sup
port was due to the fact that the duty
was a revenue rather than a protec-
tive rate. Berry responded with vehe-
ment arraignment of the bilf framed,
he said, in the interest of every trust
and combination in the county. When
he saw in the bill that it gave large in
crease of duty to sugar trusts and to
every other combination of capital this
satisfied him that the measure was
framed distinctly on the lines of pro-
lection and not of revenue.
Caffery, La, opposed the duty on
white pine and incidentally criticized
the position of Bacon, Ca. who. he
said, favored a protective duty. This
the senator from Georgia denied. He
could not understand how Bacon could
defend the duty as a revenue duty.
'The platform l stand on inter-
posed Bacon" Is the orthodoxy of
which the senator from Louisiana, may
not s,1h4crihe to-