The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-15

ing the nay-On Mr. Lindsay amendment
was rejected-26 to %. Mr.. McEnery voted
with the Republicans in the negative, and
Senators Pettigrew and Mantle with the
Democrats in the affirmative,
At the opening OF the session to-day II
was agreed that hereafter the Senate would
convene at II a. m. Mr. Allen was the first
speaker. He 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 lie
argued that injunction, quo warranto and
otheF 5egai processes coulu De invoked by
the federal courts against state corpora
ton engaged in Interstate or international
trade was undoubted. If Havemeyer and
his associates went to New Jersey TO pro-
cure caaTter as a mere shield 10 improper
proceedings the act was fraudulent, the
charter void and the federal courts had
jurisdiction over the subject. Why, there
fore should the Senate waste time and hag
gle over the sugar schedule and the Sugar
trust when the courts offered d real remedy
Tor dissolying this gigantic monopoly. Mr..
Allen next spoke in favor Of abrogatlng the
Hawaiian treaty The senator said the
disclosed that Havemeyer and Claus
Spreckles had an agreement by which
Spreckles controlled the territory west of
the Missouri river, while the territory cast
OF the Missouri was subject TO the 1orays
of the Sugar Trust" His vote and he be-
heved the votes of the Popuist senators.
would be cast to cancel the Hawaiian treaty
as a means Of developing the beet-sugar
industry OF this country.
PETTIGREW CUNNING FOR TRUSTS.
amendment proposing that articles made by
a trust be put on the free list. He asserted
that it was a serious question how the
present government by the trusts and for
the trusts could be thrown off. There
were trusts in coal, sugar, oil, glass, steel,
chemicals crockery and all other great
staples sitting competition and setting up
the rule of the monopoly. No tariff bill
would be successful, he said, without some
defense of the people against the trusts,
and such a bill would meet with popular
condemnation AS a protectionist he
offered this amendment, believing that with
it the tariff bill could be defended against
assaults. He contended that the amend
ment would not seriously diminish reve-
nues, as the bill was not framed TO get
revenue from trust articles. the American
trusts. MIR. Pettigrew gave the details of
tae VI sduI4dtlon Oh the many extensive
trusts, beginning with the Sugar Trust,
whose annual profits he \put SIS, 100000.
Mr.: Pettigrew said he was glad that he
mad supported in the last campaign man
who had the courage to avow his opposition
TO trusts He 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. He named eleven trusts
90 and bonded at $43, 600, 600, while represent
ing an actual investment of only Sill Co.,
COO. He spoke of the trusts as modern
pirates The assertion that If the anti
trust amendment prevailed the revenue de-
signed TO De provided by the tariff bill
would collapse he said was absurd and
submitted figures to show that the pro-
posed duties on articles controlled by these
eleven trusts, based on present importa-
tons, would be but IS, 900 COO If some rem
edy against trusts not adopted then
the extreme remedy of government owner
snip would loom up as practical question.
While that, he said, is socialism, yet social
Ism is preferable to despotism.
The Senate then voted on the pending
amendment by Mr.. Lindsay to strike out
the distinction as to Dutch standard in the
first paragraph of the sugar schedule and
placing all sugars on an equality at l cent
per pound and 3-lO0 cents additional for
every degree above Is. 1t was defeated
yeas 20; nays, 29-Mr. McEnery dem.
louisiana voting with the Republicans in
the negative and Messrs. Mantle and Petit
grew (silyer Republicans with the Demo
Gratis in the affirmative.
Mr.. Mills moved a uniform duty of 40 per
cent. advalorem on sugar Rejected with
out division.
A SUGAR COMMISSION.
Mr.. Hoar offered his amendment for the
appointment by the president of a commits
sion of five members to investigate into the
subject of sugar production and the best
means of supplying the American market at
the least cost. Mr.. Hoar urged that his pro-
posed commission would command the best
talent of the country in presenting to the
Senate the fullest information concerning
sugar. Next to the development of our vir-
gin wheat fields the development of the
sugar beet would be the greatest boon to
agriculture. The trainers OF the tariff bills
were honorable men and although it had
been suggested in the press that somebody
had been bribing senators, these state
NTious people throughout the country with
absolute contempt. The amendment was
referred to the finance committee.
Mr.. Tilman then answered Mr. Hoar. He
said he had the deepest respect for the in
(Iegrlty of the senator from Massachusetts.
But perhaps he had become calous in his
long service was indicated by the state
ment yhat the best people of both parties
treated with contempt the statements that
there was irregularity in making the sugar
schedule. On the contrary, the people
wanted an Investigations they wanted the
honor of the Senate indicated or the men
who Slandered IL punished. For that reason
Mr.. Tfllman said. he had contemplated
that the commission would not only inquire
into the mere machinery of sugar making,
but also whether the Sugar Trust had used
undue means to control legislation, and to
get at the root of how il is, and why it
Is that the American Senate can't touch
sugar without getting contaminated"
Mr.. Hoar was again on his feet and turn
ing to the South Carolina senator, said
there were some men who seemed to think
that down beneath the body of the people
there was great mass of seething people
eager for extremes He knew through and
through the character and purposes and
opinions of the men who get their living
from the farms and factories of Massachu-
sets. They are he proceeded impressive
~, "a simple, sincere, honest liberty-lov-
ing, God-fearing men They think no evil,
ears with them" The men who make up
the farms and the factories were the same
the country over he said. And hold, he
concluded that to the great body of these
people, these charges are not only prepos-
ferrous but infamous.
TILLMAN TALKS BACK.
Mr. Tillman again made reply. While he
claimed no special mission he had come
from the farm and from the people and
to the Senate more recently than the Mas
sachusetts senator. He knew, he said,
that the only thing nfamods in this trans
action, in the view of the people, the
refusal to investigate and this effort to
hide behind the senatorial toga." If the
Senate persisted in this. then it was dis
graced before the people. Public charges
had been made that bribery was abroad
in connection with this subject. And UNI
less you investigate you stand convicted"
asserted the senator
The Senate then came back to the BILL
and Mr.. Lindsay moved TO strike out i
95-100 cents and insert Il $40 cents as the
rate on sugar. He argued that the rate
OF the bill was too high and gave eXcep-
drew from Mr.. Allison an animated defense
of the paragraph The Senate paragraph
differed from the original House provision
he said, in only one particular, namely,
the Substitution of 'l95' for 1876, which
difference amounted to only 712 cents per
hundred pounds. He asserted that the as
cending scale of 3-lG0 cent on each degree
above 10 was not an excessive benefit to
the refiner. The senator submitted tables