The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-09

Republicans on the Beet Sugar Bounty.
Washington, July 6.-The final vote
on the tariff bill will be taken in the
senate before adjournment tomorrow,
a efini agreement, assented to by
all parties, having been reached at the
close Of the debate today. The agree
ment is as follows: That debate on
the tariff bill shall proceed under the
FIVE minute rule after / O'Clock p. m.
tomorrow, and the final vote on the
bill shall be taken before adjournment
tomorrow
Early in the day Senator Bacon made
a personal explanation Of his vote yes
terday on Senator Mills amendment to
impose a tax Of 5 per cent. on all man
ufactured products. He had, he said,
given the amendment his vote without
due elaboration.
Senator Pettus, of Alabama, then Of
Tered an amendment declaring unlaW-
full the Importation of sugar by any
trust or combination operating in re-
straint of trade for the purpose Of ad-
vancing the price of sugar. The amend
ment also provides for the forfeiture of
sugar so imported and directs the at
tDTHty St1tIdI ~ cIlIOTcc CHe Forfeit
ure and to prosecute trusts, combina-
lions, etc.
Senator Morgan followed with an
other speech against trusts. He fav-
Ored the amendment Of his colleague,
Senator Pettus. but said he would at
tach to it another and more far-reach-
ing proposition. He thought seizure
and cOnfiscation provided for by Sena-
tor Pettus' amendment might, as in the
carn re thn ~ ~ tr,,ct - IL tho tr,,ct
to put up the price Of & pending
action in the courts and he suggested
a modification which would provide for
the immediate sale Of articles seized.
Senator Pettus said he did not expect
with his amendment to destroy the
trust. 1t would only build a fence
across one Of it's roads.
The vote was then taken on the Pet
tus amendment and it was lost-26
to 80.
Senator Butler, Of North Carolina,
followed this vote with a few remarks
on the futility Of these antitrust
amendments.
Senator Caffery then offered an
amendment to strike out all the differ
entail on refined sugar, which was lost
-29 to "a.
Senator Allen brought forward the
amendment previously offered by the
finance committee and withdrawn,
providing for a bounty of Il cent a
pound on beet sugar made from beets
grown in the United States.
In the course of his remarks, Sena-
tor Allen branched into a chapter Of
private procedure, which OCCasiOned
considerable stir in the chamber. He
said that during the debate republican
senators had let it be understood that
they would like to be scared" when
this beet sugar amendment was pro-
posed and that the intimation had been
conveyed that if some one would get
on his feet and threaten that Ongress
would be held in session if the amend
ment was passed, then u republican
friends would be able to slide down
the back stairs and get out" And so
the Senator from Arkansas" DOnes),
Senator Allen went on, "arose and ex-
pressed the utmost establishment hat
thisp proposition should be brought here.
Allow me to say that / think the sena-
tor was speaking in a "Pickwickian
sense for it was we'll known for weeks
that such an WOuld be
brought here
Senator Jones entered the chamber
at this point and interrupted to say
that if there was any such intimatiOn
as Senator Allen had referred to, it
never came to him DOnes). He was
amazed when the amendment was
brought in.
Senator Allen accepted the statement
and said he withdrew the remark that
Senator Jones had spoken in a Pick
wickian sense. 1T was the simple,
naked truth and it is true yet declared
Senator Jones.
Senator Allison then moved, as a
means of testing the sense of the sem
ate, that the Allen amendment, pro-
viding a sugar bounty, be laid on the
table, and the motion prevailed-yeas,
81, nays s. Republicans and democrats
voted its table, while the negative vote
was cast by Senator's, Allen, Butler,
Harris, of Kentucky; Heitfeld, Kyle,
Pettigrew, Teller and Mantle, pOpulists
and silver republicans.
After agreeing to vote on the bill
tomorrow, the senate at 6:1O o'clock p.
m, adjourned.
Weldon Notes.