The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-16
SENATORS DEBATE TRUSTS.
HoAR DENoUNCEs THE PETTIGRBW
AMENDMENT.

nc rs Defeated by n Vote OF rs 70 su-1r.
Lind,Ry's ETort TO Reduce the Tariff ON
Refined sugar shares tho Same Rate-Tho
hawaiian sugar Question Goes Over.
WASHINGTON, June 15.-The Senate to-day.
after nearly Ave hours work on the Tariff bill,
| got away from the sugar schedule and entered
again on tho agricultural schedule, resuming
| at tho paragraphs relating to dairy products.
Two important votes were taken, one on Nr.
| Lindsay's mondment to make the rate on re-
finch sugars l $40 cents per pound instead OF
l 9I-10O, and one on Mr.. Pettigrew's antitrust
amendment. The first was defeated by a major
ity of three, and the second was laid on tho
table by the Same majority.
Tho vote on Mr.. Lindsay's amendment was:
Yeas, 80; nays, 80. Two Populist Senators,
Butler and Heitfeld. and two silver Republicans.
Mantle and Pettigrew. voted aye, and one
Democrat, McEnery, voted no.
In the discussion Of Mr.. Lindsay's amendment
some amusement was caused by Senator White
of California, who road passages from speeches
Of Republican Senators when tho Wilson bill
was pending. In these speeches Democrats were
scored severely for putting a duty on sugar and
tho right of q free breakfast table was demanded
for the American people. q.
The export bounty clause In the sugar para
graph was struck out on the suggestion Of Mr..
Allison that the same thing was provided for In
a subsequent portion Of tho bill section b, and
the proviso as to the Hawaiian treaty was re-
served for future consideration.
At this point Senator Pettigrew of south Da.
kota offered his antitrust amendment and
| started the debate again. The amendment was
criticised unfavorably by three Democratic Sem
ators. Pettus, Chiffon, and Morgan, and was de-
nounced by one Republican Senator, Mr.. Hoar,
as folly and abomination through and
through"
Mr.. Hoar said that he had expected when he
came to Washington, and still expected, to do
all in his power to check and control the evil
at which the amendment was aimed. but he
did not think that a tariff bill was n proper
special bill by itself and should be consid-
class OF questions involved. He pointed out how
three or more people engaged In wool manntac,
lures in Chicago could enter into the prohibited
WOOL placed on the free .sS.m list. nro Thsss
in the widest flight of Imagination that would
put gambling speculation and trusts SO COM ON
Canadians. Englishmen, Germans. Mesopota-
United States and do this prohibited thing. for
the very purpose OF orerthrowing the Tariff law.
Mr.. Faulkner OF West Virginia contested Mr..
H9sr's proposition: aud ~.
Mr.. Pettus OF Alabama, in measured ana I'M
ERsss ;o go a sloWiy % sRRS'a she am no DfmSHta''c s'nA'
Mr.. Nelson OF Minnesota, while favoring tho
principle OF the Pettigrew amendment, found
such radical defects in 1t that he could not give
1t his support. Mr.. Caffery Of Louisiana said that
his entire approval, and that. whatever defects
1t possessed could be remedied easily.
Mr.. Allison said that he had asked Mr.. Petit
grew to let the amendment be passed over for
the present, because he thought that the sugar
schedule was not the proper place for 1t. and
because II should be considered maturely. He
again appealed for q postponemcnt OF the matter.
Mr.. Pettigrew declined to withdraw the
mere technical defects in it they could be rem
edied.
Mr.. Chandler asked Mr.. Morgan whether the
constitutionality of the Sherman act had ever
been denied by any legal authority. Mr.. Nor
stor's argument is" Mr.. Chandler continued.
that there is ample statutory authority TO
punish such offences"
That is my opinion" Mr.. Morgan replied.
Mr.. Allison moved to lay the amendment on
the table, but he yielded temporarily to permit
Mr.. Chiffon Of Texas 10 suggest some objection
that he had to it. The motion was agreed to, and
the antitrust amendment was laid on the table
Yeas. 80; nays, 81. In the vote two DemoGratis
Republicans. Two Populists, Butler and Kyle
and Pettigrew, Silver Republican, voted with
the Democrats.
As soon as the vote was announced Mr.. Petit
grew gave notice that tomorrow he would Offer
an amendment providing, that none Of the in
creased duties on the bill shall apply to any
article or commodity the sale or manufacture
OF which is controlled by trusts in this country.
amendments in the same line. Two paragraphs
on the agricultural schedule were agreed to
and the Senate. after a short executive session.
adjourned till IL o'clock tomorrow.