Birmingham state herald., 1897-06-16
Morgan Voted with the Repub- % Iicans to Table,.
SUGAR SCHEDULE PASSED
With the Exception of the Provision Relating 10 Hawaii Pettus Cautions Democrats to
 Go Slow on the Lindsey Amendment

a great stride forward today by com pleing the considering of the sugar schedule of the tariff bill except the pro- vision relating to Hawaii. which went over. This schaduie has been the storm oretrtor of the entire bill, and with 1t dis posed of there is a better prospect for speedy action on the bill as a whole. The first paragraph of thil sugar schedule has served to bring ou, all the speeches and test votes, and when f.hfs was passed ear ly today the other paragraphs of tne schedule wera agreed to without fufOner opposition. As agreed, the schedule places on sugar nci- above lo, putcn standard, 1 cent per pound ana 'Vo ol cent for every degr-e above 10, ana on sugars above No. 16, Dutch stah1aru' 1.95 cents per pound. The other provis- ions of the schedule relate to maple su- gar, maple sirup, candy, esc. Oniy oue yea and nay Volle was taken uelIinS uie day on the amendment or MT. Llioshy, of K Ke,rJtueky, to make the rate l.Sc. per round on sugar above No 16, Dutch standard The amendment was delealeu -32 to 35. ,..,...sA5A
 The Pegtigrew amendment relating no trusts Wals then taken up ana dlscusseu at length. It developed cohsioetdote .lSe If- yergency of views on both sides Of the chamber -he two Alabama senators, NeSsrs Morgan and Peittus, joining MT. Hoar, of Massachusetts, in opposition
 MT, Allison fina y tezJed the sense or tha senate by moving to tabls the amend men, which motion prevailed-yeas 35, nays 321two democrats, Messrs. Mofgan and McEnery, voting with the lepuDi- cans to table, and thus turning the scaie against the am-Gdment. Consldera ron of the agricultural schedule was then re- stunned. E.o.
 The butter paragraph was agreed to as reported, During the debate on the su- gar schedule Mr. Caffery's statements showing that the labor cost in the Unlteu StaIres Wlas less than in Germany ana other countries and that Lhe cost of re- fining was less than 30 cents 100 pounds, the senator said controverted MT. Ali sons asseli.ion that lhe cost in the United States was greater thdn In foreign eoun- tries.
 The vots was then taken on MT. Lind says amendment, and it was disagreed 10 as above stated.
 ter the provisions relating to the Hawaiian islands had been passed over, MT Allison moved to inssrt new para graph to be known as paragraph 2061s, of which he had given notice. It is as follows:
 'qThat the duties on molasses, clayed, jaggery and other sugar testing not above 87 degrees by ths poariscope shall be one-tenth of one cent per pound less than those imposed by the preceding par
 
 ag1'aph on corresponding tests of the su- gar.'
 The paragraph was agreed to without objection.
 Paragraph POT, relating to maple sugar and maple sirup, was agreed to as re- ported, as also paragraph POS, relating to saccharine.
 The committee amendments to para graph 209 relating to sugar candy and confectionery, were agreed to as report ed
 This brought the sarhte to the end of the sugar schedule, the Hawaiian pro- vision being the orly one to go over.
 MT. Pettigrew dasirsd to have his amendment relative to trusts voted on as part of the sugar schedule.
 MT Allison asked that it go over and be considered at a later time. I
 MT. PettigTew said he felt like havif.g the issue now unless overruled by the senate.
 Mir. Vest remarked that he had not sup posed there was amy difference among parties on the propriety of this amend ment. It was time to dispose of it now, otherwise the whole sugar debate would be re-opened at a later stage.
 The amendment was read with view to a vote. It covers three printed pages, and in hrief provides that all articles on the dutiable list mentioned in this act shall be admitted free of duty if said article or articles of Nike character of domestic production. are manufactured or their sale controlled or the price affect ed by a trust or combination to increase the cost of said articles to purchasers by preventing competition or otherwise. Mr. Pettigrsw s7b1 that tl1is anti-trust policy had been plank of the rspubli- can party up to the time of the St. Louis convention. when it was lsft out of the platform. Whether it was puipose'y left out in behalf eff the trust woul1 be dis closed by the vote today. he said. An opportunity was now at hand by this amendnasit to check the rule of the trust and to force It to lerssolutfon. .9q
 MT. Hoar. Of Massachusetts. said he expected to do everything in his power to check the evil complained of. But it had no place in a terif bill, he sasd. nd should be dealt with as a sapsrat m as ure. He trusted such measure would be devised. ged his democratic ass 3ciates "to go slow" on this lSird of an amendment, tending. by ill-advised aat.on, to break down all classes of commerce an1 manu-' facture. It was patterned, he said. after the Canadian law. but WIS wholly I1n- suited to our institutions. He svmpa- thized with the aim of the amendment, for we had bscome government by the trusts and by money and the govern merits heels should be put on the neck of this system. But in striking at trusts the mistake should rot be made -of de- stroying the entire manufacturing busi- ness of the country by throwing it into court.
 Mr. Pettus said Iuhis tariff bill was an- other evidence of power Of wealth which was driving the country to communism, and he warned serators that they were plunging along road leading to the com mune.
 MT. Nelson. republican. of Mnnesrt z pointed out what he regarded as radical defects in the Pettigrew arnEndment. al- though he supported ths gerer1l pr:nci- ple of 1t. He said great iEijury mi ght re- suit in cutting off the revenucs of the government. It mi ghlt ais r-ssIlt in placing an entire industry outside of any trnst in danger because son1e small trust was formed in that line
 MT. Caffery- spoke in favor of the amendment.
 Mir. Lindsay, ironically, pointed out that 1t would be serious by this amend ment 10 kill Ithe sugar trust, after the bill took such care in the sugar schedui4 to, foster trusts.
 tMr Allison again, urged that the amendment ought to go over for the time