The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-06-12
ON SUGAR SCHEDULE
AnOth'r Day Of III, Senats's Time
Consumed in Sweet D.bate.
CAFFERY TAKES THE FLOOR
Tho Committee Amendment Fix
Ing a Fraction OF a Charge Car
ried-A Question of Party In
Jected In the Proceedings.

- ~" "'H'NN ih'i'Nu''' an
resolution reciting the status of affairs
relating to the Union Pacific railroad.
declaring il the sense of the senate thar
the treasurer should tail. s,,ns ~ na,
or ,ho I,a,,, -, -. -. - -
,.,,,.,,, - 80 " .''''' ~ 'ne s'N
Wv" " "Pciate the i"au' vi
W auopl foreclosure proceedings IN
court, The resolution went over.
The tariff bill was then taken up and
consideration of the supar schedule re-
sumed Jopss ~ ArLa,,g,,, h,.,a,, ,ha
iiso,,ss,..,, b., ,,,et..s. - -, -,
,,,,,.,s., us w '''e u' ."'
s.a'on,eht vi sugar expert showing
'he price OF each grade and the rate of
TAXATION under the Wilson act and un-
der the proposed schedule.
Turpie, In behalf OF the minority Of
the finance committee, gave notice of
new amendment To be offered as an ,ad-
dltionai paragraph to the internal reve-
nue. provisions, placing tax of per
cent. on estates of descendants when
their inheritance amounts To $1,000 or
more. and Is not for the benefit Of a re-
ligious, charitable. educational or like
institution. the tax 10 be enforced for
five years from Jan. |. 1898. The ques-
ton reverted to the committee amend
ment, striking out | and Sol 900 and
substituting I and o5-l00.
vote was about 10 be taken when
Canery took the fioor and read a news
paper account of the growth and de-
velopment of the sugar trust. He made
long speech bitterly hostile Ia the
sugar trust thus preventing an imme-
date vote. The extracts read by Caf-
iery We're very long and gave In detail
the profits OF the trust by years. its alb
sorption OF lesser sugar establishments
ana the internal business affairs Of the
organization. Caffery then took up the
question as to the amount of raw sugar
required to make a pound of refined
sugar. He asserted that reliable ex-
pert claimed that the government fig
ures and estimates were furnished by
trust officials and were partisan, Caf-
fiery went on To say that counter
railing duty of 3S-l00 on German gran
ulated sugar was ample protection to
the American reiiners. The latter held
the cane sugar industry in the hollow
! OF their hand. and had complete con-
/ troll Of the American market! with the
| German sugars Kept out, and In his
| judgment. the differental of 3s-Ig0 on
| German sugar was ample against them.
! Returning to the general features of
the schedule the senator said this bill
/ proposed to give more To the sugar
! trust than the Wilson bill and that
gave too much.
THE sugar trust" said he. lis the
only gigantic trust i'm the world which
rests entirely on legislation for its SUP
port. BY legislation II controls the
| cane sugar product of the world. and
| whenever is thrusts its head into he
legislative hall there was always n
malodor arising from its efforts to get
legislation in It's own behalf. and n IL
appears from a reasonable showing II
that what the trust asks is too much n
should be refused"
Platt of Connecticut aroused caffery
to another Indignant protest against
the repeated intimatIons thrown nut h,,
the other side that n. wanted nro,ec-
tion for the sugar producer "your
positjon" said plat sis free trade for
| the refiner and nrntactinn fnr tbe nro.
ducer''
~ have stated and I reneat asaip +"
replied cafferv his voice ,isIng uniii /,
fairly rang tbroph Tho chamber that
sugar Is the ideal article for a demo.
! cratic tariff for revenue only IL n wera
for nro,ection / should M, ad,.ocat ~
| IL" rontinuiny ba tainted H. ,anrh
| iicaps AFTER ,be,r ,xnarjn,,n, vi,h ,h.
suyar hn,,n,y nndsr ,ha W.E,,,a,, law ,ne
for going hack To- sugar for a revenue
nroduciny dutv "And then said ha
they have Tho audari,v ,n ,brny, a,
o,r faces tho insidious doctr,ne ~ nrn.
tection" He re,udiated win a mas.
sionate Jisplay of feeling Tho snyges.
lion thot hp had ar,,, n,,r,n,,.i In,er
est in q hig sugar concern in his STAT
which bore his name ue had nrver hs
said owned n single share nr tba, com
many ana w.s oniy In /, v,,.v sm,i,
wav a sugar nlantar
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a. adv,ntagrous tn tha TINS, az m,
n,onosed schedule when ho nt,,t q,
ron, ,ear M Iowa he and the Iowa sfn.
a,or ,yers dr.. ,vn in,n a sbaru oxgIany,
sbout tho way nrosnaritv Jagged h.
hind i,s rredictions
Gear declared that prosperlty woul,