The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-06-13
A new DEMOCRACY
The Revelation OF Senator
McEnery.
ne IS A PROTECTlONIST
THINKS TARIFF VIEWS NOT A
TEST OF DEMOCRACY.
VEST PUTS HIS STING IN DEEP

The Republicans Sit Silent Under His
Cha Ienge to Defend Their Con-
tribution to the Sugar Trust t.
McEnery Defends Trust.
Washington, June 12-The sugar
schedule was again the subject OF the
Democratic assaults to-day in the Senate.
Practically no progress was made. One
amendment was voted upon and tIat
was defeated. When the Senate ad-
iourned the amendment of Mr.. Lindsay,
of Kentucky, to strike out the different
ial ON refined sugar was still pending.
Mr.. Vest tried early in the day to PROD
tho Republicans into detailed defense
of the schedule but they declined the
challenge. The most sensational feature
of the day was the speech Of Senator
McEnery, of Louisiana, who yesterday
voted with the Republicans for the su-
COR schedule. 1t was his maiden speech
in the Senate. He openly ayowed him.
self a protectionist and as Democrat
justified his position upon the ground tnat
tariff views should not constitute rest
of Democracy. He, moreover, defended
the Sugar Trust whose interests ne ar
gued went hand in hand with the sugar
planters. The Republican Senators
showed much interest IN his remarks.
They crowded about and listened atten-
lively to his two hours speech. Mr.. NC
Emery bitterly denounced the corpora
ton which controlled the new method
for baling cotton. The interests of this
company, he declared, were directly op-
posed to the interests of the cotton plant
ers.
AT 1915 p. m., the consideration OF
the tariff bill was resumed. the pending
amendment being that of Senator Jones
(Ark.), to strike out in line 70, page 63
the words ION all sugars"
Mr.. Vest, Missouri, took the fioor
and called upon the majority to answer
the declarations made by the minority
that the present sugar schedule gave
large increase of protection to the Sugar
Trust. His side, he said, had made the
direct issue. The Sugar Trust was now
making 20 per cent on its enormous wa
tered stock Its officials had admitted IT.
In view of this fact it was due the
minority and the country that
an explanation should be made
nv the other side. But what was the
reply of the majority to the challenge OF
the minority 1t was that leaving out the
countervailing duty of three elgnths OF
a cent there was no increase. But ne
wanted to know was what 1t was IL
that three eighths was included. by
what sort of legerdemain was 1T to De
excluded? he asked. Air. Vest repeated
his statement of Wednesday fhat the
protection on 96 degree sugar was IN
creased by the caucus amendment over
the original Senate amendment hye cents
per hundred pounds. 1t was To cents IN
the schedule adopted yesterday against
"a cents in the present law The sched-
ule he insisted, was utterly IndefenslDle.
The only excuse he had heard advanced
was that of Senator Allison yesterday
that this duty was imposed, not for rev.
enue. but to encourage the beet sugar
industry.
ssOh! Mr.. President" cried Mr.. Vest
in conclusion, 'our exports may be mis-
taken, we may be in the fog ringing out
bells, but / repeat again what | said
the other day there was one set OF men
in this country who were not mistaken.
Our friends in Wall street know what
this schedule means," he said, his voice
rising. ssWithin four hours after this
schedule was reported Sugar stock went
up S6 a share from 118 to 124. Last
night it closed at 1251A Does anybody
believe that Wall street doesn't know
what protection this schedule gives to
the trust? If the protection had been
reduced Wall street would have respond
ed as my hand responds to my BRAIN
The cry in Wall street is: The trust
has got all it wants. Up with the flag
Of protection that puts money in our
pockets"
Mr.. McEnery, Democrat, Louisiana,
who Yesterday voted for the sugar sched-
ule. followed Mr.. Vest. 1t was his maid
en- speech in the Senate and much inter
est was manifested as he began. Several
Republican Senators moved over ana
took seats on the Democratic slde. IN
opening he referred to the denunciation
of the Sugar Trust as corporation
which was crushing the life blood out of
the consumers. But that trust was not
the only organization, he said, which
was meeting with the condemnation Of
the people and helping to reduce them
to beggary and starvation. In the South,
he declared, there was trust that
sought to throttle the people. Beside It
the Sugar Trusts expressions and ex-
actions were insignificant. 1t was the
trust which controlled a new process for
baling cotton.
That company sought to bale and con
troll the cotton of the South. It's in
terests were directly opposed to those
of the cotton planters. The interests of
the sugar producers ON the contrary
went hand in hand with those of the
Sugar Trust. The interests of both were
bound up together. If the differential or
refined sugar was not maintained a
b1ou1 x,,ouJd ha cfruck ot tha nrod,,oo,.e