The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-11
SUGARSCHEDULETAKEN UP.
II rs PRACTICALLY TIE SAME As nv,
THE HOUSE BILL.

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THE HOUSE BILL.
Senator Canusn'a Expert Bouuty Amendment
- the AsTicsitsrui schea.ie Defeated. no
Go So-Tinnan sneeru at tho Democratic
CRY Or = 'sTariR Tor Revenue Oniy.n
w~AsHISoroN, June l0.-Tho session of tho
Senate to-day, Like that of yesterday. was Occur
pied In s~peechmstdnR. The Senate met an hour
earlier than usual and the Tariff bill was imme-
diately taken mp. The pending question was on
Senator Capnon's proposition for an export
bounty on wheat. corn. hops, tobacco. and cot
ton. Mr.. Tillman Dem., 8. c. made ono OF his
characteristic speeches in support Of the amend
mont, speaking for over an hour. He said no
was In favor Of encouraging American indus
tries. 90 as to produce everything that could DO
probably produced in tho United States. II
that was Republican doctrine, then he was a Re-
publican. He appealed 10 his Democratic
colleagues to vote for tho Cannon amend.
ment on tho ground that II II was
robbery to tako millions ont of the pock-
cts OF the people for tho benefit Of
tho manufacturers, they could not face their
constituents after voting against restoring to
them q worry small proportion Of tho amount
they havo been robbed o.. 1t was not q question
Of whether that was Democratic policy or not;
because Democrats wcrc not responsible for tho
bill. They had to takc 1t, whether they wished
It or not. And now they had an opportunity by
the pending amendment with the help, no
hoped, OF oil Republicans who had not lost all
sense Of shame and patriotism and decencyl to
put the farmers on some basis Of equality with
tho manufacturers II tho bill wcrc robbery,
then tho proposed amendment would do some
thing toward setting 1t right. II the Democrats
would not do that because 1t was not q tariff
for revenue only" then" he exclaimed. God
help such Democracy. The farmers ask you for
broad and you offer them a stone. They ask you
for an export bounty on their products, and you
offer them a label with the inscription Tariff
for revenue only"
Mr.. Perkins rep. Call declared himself ready
to vote for the amendment IL modified 30 as to
conflne the payment OF export bounties to goods
exported In American vessels built In the United
States. flying the American nag, and document
cd in Custom Houses of the United States, and
he offered an amendment to that effect.
Mr.. Cannon offered to modify his amendment
by letting rs per cent. OF the export bounty go
to the farmers and 25 per cent. to American YES
GELS engaged in transporting those products. Ho
asked Mr.. Perkins to accept that modification.
Mr.. Perkins declined to accept II, and thereupon
Mr.. Cannon withdrew 1t, and said that he would
let the original proposition stand or fall On It's
own merits.
were only ten Senators in favor Of it to fifty
nine against 1t. Two Of the ten Roach and Till
mani were Democrats, Eve fallen. Butler. Har.
MS of Kansas. Heitfeld. and Stewart) were Pop.
ulists, and three Cannon. Mantle. and Petti-
grew were silver Republicans.
cultural schedule Of the bill was laid aside and
the sugar schedule. taken up. The committee
leaving the House proposition in tho bill, with
the change OF tho duty on sugar above No. -
has R%tf Fon ss'n tSroush In a eG proce sse Of ar re s9 n T from
1875 cents a pound TO 1888 cents. The House
paragraph is also modified by emitting that Por-
and the provision as to the Hawaiian treaty.
Referring teE5 , to II, he HSwaiian Proyisi9n: Mr. Mr. AMI
as generally reported. come to any agreement on
the subject. and had not even considered 1t.
That provision was, therefore, regarded as passed
over. and also the provision preceding It, to put
an additional duty on sugars imported from
were riiven1one BY M. Jones Dem; Ark, TO
make the dihercntial between unrefned and
refined sugar one-cighth cent a pound; one by
Mr.. Lindsay Dem, KyA. to place refined and
BY Mr.. Morgan Dem. Alah. putting a tax Of one
cent a pound on sugar the product Of any sugar
from that tax refnneries with capital of less than
100000, and not connected in business with
s. d.. abolishing duties on articles controlled by
Mr.. Jones Of Arkansas said that the figures
would show that the profits to the sugar refncrs
under the present provision were away be-
S SDder the P pinsie she bIl To Snd R Were gone q io no 'H %aS
above what was professed by tho committees OF
both houses as being the margin which they in
tended to give. Under existing law the refncrs
bad a diffsrcntial Of one-eighth OF q cent a pound.
They were prosperlng under 1t. What reason
was there for increasing that margini What
the profits of a business that was already
very prohtablei He did not offer his amend
ment making a differential duty OF one-eighth
cent a pound between raw sugar and refined
sugar. in a captious spirit. He believed. as God
was his judge, that 1t was fair as between re-
fne5s and consumers, and gave to the reiners
Mr.. Vest lDem., Mo- said that the sugar
schedule had always caused vast Irritation
whenever a tariff bin was under consideration.
In 1894 1t had boon the Cape Hatteras of de.
bate, 1t had called out yituperntion, libel, and
ISLANDERS, until the character OF Senators and Of
the Senate at large had become involved. Tho
1t produced SO per cent. of all the refined sugar
used in this country. Its capital stock was
$75.OO0,0 900. and it paid - per cent. on its COM
mon stock and z per cent. on It's preferred stock.
Mr.. White lDem., Cali inquired suggest;vely
as to the effect the caucus action had on the
price of sugar stock in Wall street.
Mr.. Vest replied that the spectators under
stood Immediately and almost intuitively the
effect Of proposed legislation on sugar, and that
the stock had gone up five points in thirty min
utes on the action of the Republican caucus.
Mr.. Gallery Dem, La.) spoke of the Sugar
Trust as a confessed monopoly, and read OK.
tracts from Mr.. Havemeyers testimony before
that the object OF the trust was to control all
sugar In the United States. He said that it's
profits under all tariffs had been enormous.
At the close of his speech the bill went over
and the Senate adjourned.