The San Francisco call., 1897-06-08
FROM TIMBKR 40 SILVER.
Senator'S Engage in III Kinds of Dts


Senator'S Engage I" III Kinds Of Dis
cHssiOns.
WASHINGTON, d. c., June Quite a
lively turn was given the Senate tariff de-
bate this afternoon by Hoar OF Massachu-
setts. Bacon of Georeia had spoken in
favor of duty on Ium Der as according to
Democratic tenets, and Caffery of Louis
lana had opposed it as un- Democratic
Hoar thersupon referred to the pecu-
Iiarities of the way some Democrats acted
on the tariff. Caffery's idea of tariff, he
said. was a duty on sugar, sugar and
nothing else." He added that Caffery was
so anxious for protective duty on sugar
when the Wilson bill was being consid-
cred that wher the vote was taken he first
cast his vote against the House bill as
protest and before the com pletion of the
call changed to yes. Hoar said Bacon
wanted protection and revenue to 90 hand
in hand when it came 10 the duty on
lumber. If The Democratic side could
make a tariff bill it would be found tina:
everything in their own States would be
protected.
Bacon asked Hoar what he would do
about duty on hides.
Hoar said ne would support tariff bill
if 1t contained duty Oh hides which his
colleagues thought proper. He said he
thought duty OF cent pound on hides
was not protection, and from that point
OF view was folly.
Stewart insisted that while there was
duty on the products of leather there
should be protection on hides for the
benefit OF the farmers who were
uhiacf IN Onmnatit,0p
America.
Caffery defended his vote in the Wilson
bill, saying it was a protest against the
action OF his own side in changing the
time when the bounty should be re pealed.
He said while he might have deceived
himself on the tariff, he did not, like
Hoar, deceive others.
Hoar confessed that the duty on hides
was absurd, but only because 1t was not
high enough to do any good.
Allen said Hoars statement that the
proposed duty on hides was only l cent
was not correct. He then continued the
d bate on the lum ber schedule.
When the debate opened Quay of Penn
sylvania presented several amendments 10
the tariff bill. One OF them proposes "a
strike out the duty of tea and substitute a
duty of 10 er cent al valorem on all arti-
cles proposed by the bill to he placed on
the free list, these duties to continue until
July l, 1901, after which the articles shall
be exempt from duty. Another amend-
ment proposes pfoviso to the paragraph
fixing duty on iron ore so that all iron
ore from foreign mines owned by Ameri-
can citizens and imported for their own
use and not for sale shall be exempt from
duty.
The consideration of the tariff bill was
resumed soon after the session opened,
and the discussion proceeded on the para
graph placing duty of 81 per 1000 feet on
lumber.
AL ell moved to substitute the provi-
sions of the Wilson bill, which placed
lumber on the free list The Senator
spoke in particular against restoring
white pine 10 the dutiable list, urging
that the rates were designed to be prohib-
ltory against Canadian pine. There was
nothing, he said, in the ''clap-trap argu-
ment OF American high wages" as the
wa es OF lum bermen in Canada were on
the whole, higher. This was simply an
attempt to pay back to the lumber syndi-
cate the advance which it had possibly
mace less than year ago, and in the eyes
of every honest man was nothing short
OF absolute larceny-legsiized larceny.
Berry OF Arkansas spoke against restor-
ing the duty on white pine, He had been
appealed 10 by The lum Der interests of his
own State TO, support the duly, but he
could not do it when it laid such beavv
tribute on the agricultural people of the
Western States. Berry EXPRESSED his as
Ionishment that any Democratic Senator
would support this restora ton OF duty on
labor.
Bacon of Georgia. who is supporting the
lumber duty, reminded Berry that his
(Bacon's) support was due to the fact that
the duty was revenue rather than pro-
tective rate.
Berry responded with vehement ar
raignment OF the bill, framed, he said, in
The interest of every trust and com bina-
ion IN the country. When he saw that
the bill gave large increase of duty to the
sugar trust and 10 every other com bina-
ZION of capital he felt convinced that the