Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-06-19
DISCUSS SUGAR TRUSTS
DEMOCRATIC SENATOR'S OPEN THE
Walls OF THEIR WRATH.
Several Republican Senator's WAIVER
in Their Allegiance to the Agree
ment of the Caucus.

ment of the Caucus.
+ Washington, June 1.-THE tariff bill
was taken up in the senate as soon as
the routine business was out of the
way. Senator Tillman took the floor
on the pending amendment of Senator
Cannon, providing an export bounty on
agricultural products. He said the tar
if debate had disclosed a nebulous
condition in the minds of the senator's
The republicans sat quietly, apparent"
! " controlled by the caucus, refusing
to discuss the iniquities of the bill ana
unanimously voting for eXactions IN
behalf of trusts and monopolies. ON
the other hand" proceeded Senator
Tillman, the democrats are in perl
Cd of transition. They do not know
where they are at The older and
more experienced proclaim their allie
glance to the old time-honored doc
trines. We had an imprisoned speech
yesterday by Senator Mills on behalt
of Walker tariff principles, brouSn MT
forward at this late day as democratic
doctrine. Secession, notification and
other issues which have passed out OF
/ the minds of men might as we'll be
brought here. Tariff is merely ques-
ton of policy as to how the govern
ment will raise revenue. 1t is to the
best interests of the American people
/ that articles consumed by our people
should be produced by our people. II
that is republican doctrine, well and
good. If it is not democratic doc
trine it ought to be. AS to farmers,
the need is not for more farmers, but
for a tariff which no longer would rob
the farmers we have" Senator Till
man vehemently pledged his word to
his colleagues that they would not de-
ceve the farmers, and that nine MIL
lion followers of the pillow Will settle
with you at the ballot box" He de-
clared the south had been treated as
an Ishmaelite since the war, and the
+ farmers generally had been bled to
benefit New England.
After some running debate, a vote
was taken on the Cannon amendment
providing an export bounty for agrl-
cultural products, and resulted yeas
10, nays SO. Affirmative vote-Allen,
Butler. Stewart, Harris (Kansas), Heit-
field, Cannon, Mantle, Pettigrew Roach
and Tillman. This closed cOnsldera-
ton of the cereal paragraph, and the
agricultural schedule and sugar sched-
The sugar Schedule.
Senator Pettigrew gave notice that
he would offer his amendment to adj
NIT free of duty goods made by trusts
Z
ator Allison asked that the proviso
relating TO the Hawaiian islands go
over. He said the action of the SEN
ate committee relative to the Hawai-
ian proposition was due to purpose
to exclude Hawaiian sugar. The COM
mittee had never considered the ques-
ton, and had let it go ever for future
consideration.
Senator Allison, in behalf of the com
mittee, then moved an amendment
striking out S75-100O and inserting 90
100 as the duty on refined sugars.
Senator Jones of Arkansas was rec
/ Ognized for a speech on the general
/ features of the sugar schedule.
Senator Jones declared that he pro-
j posed to see that there was some con-
tention before German graduated was
taken as the basis for finding the dlt-
erential duty to the refner. Senator
Jones insisted that the grades of sugar
compared by Senator Aldrich in his
speech did not compare.
Senator Jones stated the price of
refined sugar upon which Senator Aid
/ rich based his calculations of 2.30 cents
was too low 1t should have been 2.66,
he said. Still, taking Senator Aid
/ rich's figures, Senator Jones calculated
a margin of from .43 to So cents per
pound to the retiners He announced
/ that this schedule was claimed to af-
ford less profit than the house sched-
ule. He had looked conscentiOusly into
the question without prejudice, and he
became satisfied that a clear differen-
! tiaI of one-eightn of a cent was right.
Under that differential the companies
profits had increased. How could the
other side now justify a further in
/ crease of the differential? He should
propose, he said, duty of one cent per
pound on sugars testing 70 degrees,
with an increase of three One-hun-
dredths on each degree above that, and
a differential of one-eighth on refined.
II will not propose this in any cap
tious spirit" said he, but because I
believe it is sufficient, and that the
people are entitled to know exactly
what it is proposed to give the refin-
ers."
Vest on the Sugar Trust.
Senator Vest followed Senator Jones
in riticiernn 81 the cn1 ara1 fen tlrnS If