The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-11

the ban of secession, paying billions as a
result of it's attempt to secede. it was still
face to face with the demand of the
leech, crying more. more, more, This
sectns and the agricultural interests al
ways had been at the mercy of tariff bills
which found their Genesis in the benefits
conferred on New England.
Mr.. Tillman, when he referred at one
point to the Chicago platform declaration
on the tariff, brought Mr.. Vest to his feet
in explanation.
He voted in the Chicago convention
amid great uproar and confusion, said
Mr.. Vest, for the long, and in part
nebulous platform. He never knew, until
it had come out here, that the word
'only'' had been LETT out of the declara-
tion for tariff for revenue"
Mr. Allen of Nebraska, briefly spoke
in favor of an export bounty.
The vote was then taken on the Can
non amendment, providing an export
bounty for agricultural products and it
was defeated, yeas, 10; nays, SO.
The affirmative vote was given by
Messrs. Allen, Butler, Stewart, Harris
(Kansas) Heitfield, Populists; Cannon,
Mantle, Pettigrew, Silver Republicans;
Roach and Tillman, Democrats.
The sugar schedule was then taken up
by consent. Mr.. Pettigrew of South Da-
kota, gave notice he would offer his
amendment to admit free of duty goods
made by trusts, in connection with the
schedule.
The original amendments of the Senate
committee were withdrawn by Mr.. Ali
son without objection. The House pro
visions were then taken up. In connec-
tion with the first paragraph of the
schedule (206), Mr.. Allison asked that the
provision relating to the Hawaiian
islands go over. He said in this con-
nection that the action of the Senate COM
mittee relative to the Hawaiian PROPOSE
tion was not due to any purpose to ex-.
clude Hawaiian sugar. The committee
had never considered the question and
had let it go over for future action.
Mr.. Allen, in behalf of the committee
then moved an amendment striking out
S75-1000 and inserting 1 95-100 as the
duty on refined sugar.
Mr.. Jones of Arkansas was recognized
for a speech on the general features of the
sugar schedule.
Early in his remarks Mr. Jones referred
to the unfairness of Mr. Aldrich' S state
of the difference between German sugar
and the raw sugar coming in this
country. The comparison was not a fair
one. Mr.. Jones contended, as the German
sugars could not be compared to the
Americans. When figuring on the amount
that should go to the refpers the Ameri
can articles, raw and refined must be con-
sidered rather than the German. With
great emphasis Mr.. Jones declared that
he proposed to see that there was some
contention before German granulated was
taken as the basis for finding the differ
ential due to the refner.
Mr.. Jones insisted that the grades of
sugar compared by Mr.. Aldrich in his
speech did not compare. He produced
some samples which he obtained from
the New York custom house including
German and English standard sugars and
what he termed the 'Havemeyer sugar"
"Any one can see at a glance" said he,
''holding them up in the view of the Sem
ate, - that there is no sort of comparison
between them -
Mr.. Jones declared that the required
price of the refined sugar upon which Mr..
Aldrich based his calculations of $50
cents was too low. 1t should have been
2.66, he said. Still, taking Mr.. Aldrich's S
figures, Mr.. Jones calculated a margin of
from .43 to .53 of cent per pound to the
refiners. He announced that this sched
ule which it was claimed gave less profit
to the refners than the House schedule,
would give a far greater profit than the
House schedule. When he was at work
on the present tariff law, Mr.. Jones said,
he was overwhelmed with assertions that
the sugar refining. industry in this
COuuuIy NOulO Do- WI OuU. I16 COu-
fessed that he felt there was danger of
this. He had looked conscientiously into
the question, without prejudice and he
became satisfied that clear ditferential
of one-eighth of a cent was right. Under
that. .differential the,companies' profits had
increased. How could the other side now
Justify further increase of the differ
ential. What occasion was there for it?
What excuse was there? He should pro-
pose, he said, duty of one cent per
pound on sugars testing Is degrees, with
an increase of three one-hundredths on
each degree about that, and a ditferential
of one-eighth on refined.
He had no disposition to strike any in
terest by legislation, even trust, al
though he believed that law should be en-
forced and that every unlawful corpora
ton should feel the heavy hand of the
law The ideal duty on sugar, If it could
be, collected without valuations,
was an advalorem duty.
Mr.. Jones read letters from sugar men
criticising the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty
and declaring that its benefits accrued
entirely to the sugar interests of San
Francisco and Hawaii, while taking
millions out of the pockets of the people.
Commenting on these, Mr.. Jones re-
marked that when the rascals fell out
honest men got. their due.
Mr.. Jones read statements from an ex-
pert accountant showing profits of 80 per
cent by one of the sugar companies of the
Pacific coast, which vigorously supported
the abrogation of Hawaiian reciprocity.
1t disclosed the comfortable condition of
a concern which came here and pleaded
the baby act, he said. Mr.. Jones then
entered upon minute explanation of the
technicalities of the sugar trade. He said
that he had information which showed
that the sugar trust had another con-
cealed advantage in the sugar schedule.
1t required 107 pounds of sugar testing 96
degrees by the .polariscope to make hun
dred pounds OF pure refined sugar, and IN
all previous discussions of the sugar
tariff it was presumed that loss of pounds
Should be allowed for in calculating the
duty to the refiner. This Mr.. Jones said
was mistake. He had, information in
the shape of a letter from New York ex-
pert named Farr, who had appeared be
fore the ways and means committee. This
expert said that the refners suffered no
| loss whatever. Mr.. Farr told him the re-
finer made one hundred pounds of refined
curar ont of one hundrad ,,o,pdc of raw