The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-06-15

of developing the beet sugar industry
of this country.
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 influ-
ence their workmen. He named elev-
en- trusts, and said they were capital
lied at S432, 000, 900 while representing
an actual investment of only Sill, 0OO,-
900. He spoke of the trusts as mod
ern pirates" The assertion that If the
antitrust amendment prevailed the
revenue designed to be provided by the
tariff bill would collapse, he said, was
absurd, and he submitted figures to
show that the proposed duties on arti-
Giles controlled by these eleven trusts
based on present importations, would
be but SS000,000 If some remedy
against trusts was not adopted, then
the extreme remedy of Government
ownership would loom up as practical
question. While that, said he, is So
cialism, yet socialism is preferable to
despotism.
The Senate then voted on the pending
amendment by Lindsay to strike out
the distinction as to the Dutch stan
dard, in the first graph of the SUI
gar schedule and placing all sugars on
an equality a one cent per pound and
3-100 cent additional for every degree
above IS. It was defeated-yeas %,
nays % McEnery Cd of Louisiana
voted with the Republicans in the neg
ative and Messrs. Mantle, Pettigrew
(Sil. Rep) with the Democrats in the
affirmative.
Mills moved a uniform duty of 40
per cent. ad valorem on sugar. Re-
jected without division:
Hoar of Massachusetts, offered an
amendment for the appointment by the
President Of committee of five mem
bers to investigate into the subject of
sugar production and the best means
of supplying the American market at
the least cost
Hoar urged that his proposed COM
mission 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 de-
velopment of the sugar beet would be
the greatest boon to agriculture. The
trainers of the tariff bill were honora-
BILE men, and although it had been sug-
gested in the press that somebody had
been bribing Senators, those state
ments, said Hoar, are received by Sc
rious people throughout the country
with absolute contempt"
The amendment was referred to the
Finance Committee.
Tillman then answered Hoar He
said he had the deepest respect for the
integrity of the Senator from Massa-
chusetts. But perhaps he had become
callous in his long service, as was in
dicated by the statement that the best
people of both parties treat with con-
tempt the statement that there was ir-
regularity in making the sugar sched-
ule. On the contrary, the people wanted
an investigation; they wanted the hon
or of the Senate indicated, or the men
who Slandered it punished For that
reason, Tillman said he had contern-
plated an amendment to Hoar's propo-
sitiOn, so that the committee would not
only inquire into the mere machinery
of sugar making, but also whether the
control legislation and to get at the
root of how it is and why it is that the
American Senate cannot touch sugar
without getting contaminated"
Hoar was again on his feet, and turn
ing to the South Carolina Senator said
there We're some men who seemed to
think that down beneath the body of
the people there was a great mass of
seething people eager for extremes. He
knew, through and through, the char
acter, purposes and opinions of the men
who get their living from their farms
and factories of Massachusetts. "They
are" he proceeded, impressively, Sim
pie, sincere, honest, liberty loving, God
fearing men. They think no evil. and
the appeal to vile passions fall on deaf
ears with Them
The men who make up the farms and
factories were the same the country
over, he said. "And I hold" he con-
tinued, that to the great body of these
people, these charges are not only pre-
posterous but infamous
Tillman again made reply While he
claimed no special mission, he had come
from the farm and from the
people anu 10 the Senate more recently
than the Massachusetts Senator. He
knew, he said, that the only thing in
famous in this transaction in the view
of the people was the refusal to investi-
gate and this effort to hide behind the
Senatorial toga. If the Senate per-
sisted in this, then it was dsgraced be-
fore the people. Public charges had
been made that bribery was abroad in
with this subject and "un-
less you investigate you stand con-
victed" asserted the Senator