The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-15


ule. On the contrary, the people want
ed an investigation; they wanted the
honor Of the senate vindicated or the
men who slandered it punished For
that reason, Mr.. Tillman said, he had
contemplated an amendment to Mr.
Hoar's proposition SO that the COM
mission would not only inquire into
the mere machinery Of sugar making
but also whether the sugar trust has
used undue means to control legislation,
and to get at the root of how it is, and
why it is, that the American senate
can't touch sugar without getting con-
taminated."
Mr. Hoar was again on his feet and,
turning to the South Carolina senator,
said there were some men who seemed
to think that down beneath the body
OF the people there was Il great mass
of seething people eager for extremes
He knew, through and through, the
character, purpose and opinions of the
men who got their living from their
farms and factories of Massachusetts
They are" he proceeded impress
sively, simple, sincere, honest, liberty
loving. God-fearing men. They think
no evil, and the appeal to vile passions
falls on deaf ears with them
The men who make up the farms
and the factories were the same the
country over, he said. and I hold
he concluded, that to the great body
Of these people, these charges are not
only preposterous, but Infamous
Mr.. Tillman again made reply. While
he claimed no special mission, he had
come from the people, from the farm
and to the senate more recently than
the Massachusetts, senator. He knew,
he said, that the only thing infam-
Gus in this transaction, in the view of
the people, was the refusal to investi-
gate, and this effort to hide behind the
senatorial toga." If the senate per-
sisted in this, then it was disgraced
before the people. Public charges had
been made that bribery was abroad in
connection with this subject, land IN
less you investigate. you stand con-
victed," asserted the senator.
The senate then came back to the
bill and Mr.. Lindsay moved to strike
out 1 95-100 and insert l $40 cents as
the rate on sugar. He argued that the
rate of the bill was too high and gave
exceptional advantage to the refiners.
This drew from Mr.. Allison an ami
mated defense of the paragraph Mr..
Lindsay asked Mr.. Allison how it was.
if the refiners received so little benefit.
that Sugar Stock had advanced from
TO lO points, standing Saturday at
126.
Mr.. Allison replied that he was not
to be drawn into the issue. He said
the serious question was to provide
such duties as would keep the refining
of sugars in this country instead of
sending it abroad
Mr.. Allen asked if it was not possible
to frame sugar schedule which
would not confer some benefits to the
Sugar Trust.
Was it wise, Mr. Allison answered.
to turn over the business of sugar re-
lining to other countries? If not, then
dlfferentlal must be allowed our re-
tn
cone abroad. 1t was plain to him that
unless duty was placed on sugar as
on iron or chicOry on anything else
then senators might fold their arms on
the protection principle. as no one
could tell how soon foreign capital and
labor would do the refining now done
IN this country.
Mr. Caffery again criticised the
Sugar Trust, pointeing out that i,
needed no protection according TO it's
own admissions. Everywhere, he said.
was felt the baleful influence of the
trust 1t invades the senate, and
Wherever it goes, he said, it blasts, and
shrivels. and burns. 1t ought to be nut
out OF the domain Of legislation, he as
serted.
/ The bill was laid aside without a.
vote on the pending Lindsay amend
ment, and at $40, the senate held an
executive session, adjourning soon
after.
Mr.. Allison incorporated in his speech
very interesting table giving the
hrst detailed explanation from the Re
publican side Of the new sugar sched-
ule. In commenting upon it he said:
L nave the absolute calculations here,
and when it is said there is a protec-
ton, or differential lying in this scale
running from IS to 100 degrees, I reply
that that differential is, not to be seen. -
Mr.. Allison then presented a table
showing the differential on the law of
1894, the house bill and the proposed
senate schedule, from sugars of rs de-
gfees up to refined sugar The main
rates are shown as follows:
10 Degrees-Dinerential, 1894 Sc %; house
1882; senate 80
So DegreeS-Differentia 1894 2S4S: house
1875; senate, PASS.
SO Degrees-Differential 1894, 1892; house.
12.33; senate, 1888.
100 Degrees-Differential, 1894, 21S2; house,
l2.o0 senate, 1000.
When Mr.. Allison was asked why his
figures differed from those Of Mr.. AL
drich, who made the original state
rlent, he answered that his (Allison's)
scale was based upon the price of SUI
gars in bond in New York, while Mr..
Aldrichs statement was based on the
price Of sugar in the Philippine islands
and Egypt
Upon these tables I have demon
strated. at least to my own satisfac-
tion." he added, that the rate as it
is proposed here, is d less rate of duty
than that in the existing law In a
good many cases I agree that it is only
a fraction less, but in every case. ex-
cept two, it is less"