The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-15

bate is not proving StIOiiS sieeie'N
in the senate. and the attendance IN
the galleries today was small.
The tariff bill was taken up with lit
tie delay for morning business.
Mr.. Allison, in charge of the bill,
asked for an agreement that the daily
sessions of the senate begin at IL a. m
on Wednesday next.
Mr.. Vest, Of Missouri, preferred TO
have the agreement conditioned on an
understanding for daily adjournments
al p.
Mr.. Allison stated that there would
be no difficulty about that, and the
agreement for early sessions was af-
fected.
Mr.. Allen (Seb.), then reverted to the
colloquy last Saturday in when he heid
that it was the right and duty OF the
government TO take legal SteDS 10 dis
solve the sugar trust. he argued that
injunction, quo Warlanto and otner
legal process could be invoked by led
eral courts against a state corporation,
engaged in Interstate or international
trade, was undoubted. If Havemeyer
and his associates went to New Jer-
sey to procure a charter, as mere
shield to improper proceedings, the act
was fraudulent. the charter void and
the federal courts had jurisdiction over
the subject Why. therefore, should the
senate waste time and maggie over the
sugar schedule and the sugar trust
wnen the courts offered d real remedy
for d.ssolving this gigantic monopoly?
Mr. Allen next spoke in taVCr u dvtO-
eating the Hawaiian treaty. The sena-
u .he sugar investigation in
which he took part disclosed IN. :
ID emeyer and Claus .S9reckles had
an agreement by which Spreckles con-
trolled the TERRITORY west Or tne sis
souri, river. while the territory east Of
the Missouri river was subject 10 The
forays'- Of the American Sugar trust.
His vote, and he believed the votes Of
the Populist senators. would be cast
10 cancel the hawaiian treaty as a
means Of developing the beet sugar in
dustry of this country.
FOR THE TRUSTS.
Mr.. Pettigrew Is. d.. followed in
support of his amendment providing
that articles made BIZ trusts be on the
free lis.. He said that it was a seri-
Gus question how the present govern
ment ny the trusts and for the trusts"
could be thrown off. There were trusts
in cereal. sugar. OIL glass. steel, chem
icals, crockery. and all other great
ing up the rule of monopoly. No tariff
bill woEiu be successful, he said. with
out some defense Of the people against
the trusts. AS a orotectionist he Of
fered this amendment, believing shat
with il the tariff bill could be defended
against assaults. He contended that
the amendment would not seriously di-
minish revenues as the bill was not
framed TO get revenue from trust ar
\ being N
effect turned over TO the trusts.
Mr.. Pettigrew gave the details of
the organization of the many extensive
trusts beginning with the sugar trust
whose annual profits he put at $4,000
600. He was glad that he had sup
ported in the last campaign a man who
had the courage to aVoW opposition to
the trusts. He charged that the trusts
in the last campaign all opposed Mr.
Bryan's election and that many Of them
closed down some of their factories TO
influence their workmen. He named IL
trusts and said they were capitalized
at 1892, 100000. and bonded at s43. eco. 900
while representing an actual invest
ment of enly s171.00O,000
MODERN PIRATES"
He spoke of the trusts as modern
pirates" The assertion that if the anti
trust amendment prevailed the reve-
nue. designed TO be provided by the
tariff bill would collanse, he said. was
absurd. and he submitted figures to
show that the proposed duties on ar
ticles controlled by these II trusts.
based on present importations, would
be but sS.0O0.000. If some remedy
against trusts was not adopted then the
extreme remedy of government owner
ship would loom up as a practical
custom. While that, said he, is social
ism. yet socialism is preferable TO des-
potism.
The senate then voted on the pend
ing amendment by Mr.. Lindsay to
strike out the distinction as TO the
Dutch standard. in the first paragraph
of the sugar schedule. and placing all
sugars on an equality at l cent per
pound and 3-100 cent additional for
every degree above 75.
1t was defeated-yeas, %; nays, 30
Mr.. McEnery (Dem., Vt.) voted with
the Republicans in the negative and
Messrs. Mantle and Pettigrew (Silver
Republicans) with the Democrats in
the affirmative.
Mr.. Mills moved a uniform duty of
40 per cent ad valorem on sugar. Re
jected without division.
Mr.. Hoar of Massachusetts offered
his amendment for the appointment by
the president of a committee of five
mem DerS TO investigate into the subject
of sugar production and the best means
of supplying the American market at
the least cost.
Mr.. Hoar urged that his proposed
commission would command the best
talent of the country in presenting to
the senate the fullest information con-
corning sugar. Next to the develop
ment of our virgin wheat fields, the
development of the sugar beet would
be the greatest boon to agriculture. The
trainers of the tariff bill were honor
abel men and although it had been
suggested in the press that somebody
had been bribing senators, those state
ments, said Mr.. Hoar. were received by
serious people throughout the country
with absolute contempt"
The amendment was referred to the
finance committee.
TILLMAN ANSWERS HOAR.
Mr.. Tillman then answered Mr.. Hoar.
He said he had the deepest respect for
the integrity of the senator from Mas
sachusetts. But perhaps he had become
callous in his long service, as was in
Dictated by the statement that the best
people OF both parties treat with con-
tempt the statements that there was
irregularfty in making the sugar SEIZED
ule. On the contrary. the people
wanted an investigation; they wanted
| the honor of the senate indicated or
the men who slandered it punished
For that reason Mr.. Tillman said he
had contemplated an amendment tC
Mr.. Hoar's proposition so that the
+ committee would not only inquire int
| the mere machinery of sugar making