Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-11
55th CONGRESS.
After Long Weeks the Senate
Reaches Sugar Schedule.
Expected Sensations Fail to Material
ize and Debate Is Tame.


the tariff bill was taken up as
soon as the routine business was out
of the way. Tilman, S. c., took the
floor on the pending amendment of
Cannon, Utah., providing an export
bounty on agricultural products. He
said the tariff debate had disclosed a
nebulous condition in the minds of
senators. The Republican senators sat
quietly. apparently controlled by the
caucus. refusing to discuss the iniqui
ties of the bin and unanimously voting
for the exactions in behalf of trusts
and monopolies. ION the other hand"
proceeded Tillman, 'the Democrats are
in period of transition. They don't
know where THERE at.
Tillman went on to show that diver
sifed industries gave diversified means
of labor. AS to the farmers the need
was not for more farmers, but for n
| tariff which no longer would rob the
farmers We. have Referring to any
bill not giving adequate relief to farm
ers, Tillman exclaimed: Il am prepared
| to throw some rocks that will stagger
some of you men,
Tillman. when he referred at one
point to the Chicago platform, declara-
ton on the tariff. it brought Vest to
his feet in explanation. He voted in
the Chicago convention amid great up
roar and confusion. said Vest. for the
long, and in part nebulous platform.
| He never knew, until it had come out
here, that the word only" had been
| left out of the declaration for tariff
| for revenue
If / had known it" proceeded Vest,
Il would have risen in my place and
moved to insert it, for it is the creed
of the Democratic party. And / be-
| lieve a majority of that convention did
| not know of the omission as all our at
tention was concentrated on the money
issue"
Proceeding Tilrhan turred to his
| Democratic associates and said they
now had chance, with the votes of
| few Republican senators mot lost to
all sense Of shame and decency to give
some measures of relief to the farmers.
Great God, such Democracy" ex-
| claimed Tillman, with dramatic en-
phasis.
He arraigned the Republican sena-
| tors for the inequalities of their legis-
lation and for keeping Cuba under the
| heel of Weyler.''
Allen, Neb., briefly spoke in favor of
an export bounty. The vote was then
taken on the Cannon amendment, pro-
viding an export bounty for agricul-
tural products and it was defeated:
Yeas, 10; nays. So
The affirmative vote was given by
Allen. Butler, Stewart, Harris, Kan.
Heitfeld. Populists; Cannon, Mantle.
Pettigrew, Silver Republicans; Roach
and Tillman, Democrats.
The sugar schedule was then taken
up by consent. Pettigrew, S. d.. gave
notice he would offer his amendment
to admit free of duty goods made by
trusts, in connection with the schedule.
The original amendments of the Senate
committee were withdrawn by Allison
without objection. The House provi-
sions We're then taken up.
In connection with the first para
graph of the schedule (2O6). Allison
asked that the proviso relating to the
Hawaiian Island go over. He said in
this connection that the action of the
Senate committee relative to the Ha-
waiian proposition was not due to any
purpose to exclude Hawaiian sugar.
The committee had never considered
the question and had let it go over for
future action. Allison. in behalf of
the committee, then moved an amend
ment striking out l S75-1000 and insert
ing l 95-100 as the duty on refined su-
CARS.
Jones, Ark. was recognized for a
speech on the general features of the
sugar schedule.
Early in his remarks Jones referred
to the unfairness of Aldich's statement
on the sugar schedule in speaking of
the difference between German sugar
and the raw sugar coming into this
country. The comparison was not a
fair one, Jones commended, as the Ger
man sugars could not be compared to
the Americans. When figuring on the
amount that should go to the refiners,
the American article, raw and refined
must be considered rather than the
German. With great emphasis Jones
declared that he proposed to see that |
there was some contention before Ger |
man granulated was taken as the basis
for finding the differential due to the
refiner.
Jones insisted that the grades of SUI
gar compared by Aldrich in his speech |
did not compare. He produced some |
which he obtained from the |
New York custom house including Ger
man and English standard sugars and
which are termed .sHavemeyer sugar"
ANY one can see at glance" said he,
holding them up in the view of the
Senate, that there is no sort of COM
parison between them"
Jones declared that the required price
Of the refined sugar upon which Aldrich
based his calculations of 2.3O cents was
too low. 1t should have been 2.66, he
said. Still, taking Aldrich's figures,
Jones calculated margin of from .43
to .53 of a cent per pound to the re-
liners. He announced that this schedule.
which it was claimed gave less profit
TO the refners than the House sched-
lle, would give far greater profit than
The House schedule.
When he was at work on the present |
.ariff law. Jones said, he was over
whelmed with assertions that the su-
gar refining industry in this country
Continued on rage ~