The evening times., 1897-06-08
SUGAR IS S|DE-TRACKED
Senate Agrees to Pass Over That
Schedule Today.
FIGURES WILL BE CHANGED
Majority VIII Ask That Some of the
Amendments Proposed by the Com-
nittee be Disagrt e. To-No Agre :
Iuent on Hawaiian Sugar-Farina-
ceous Products and Live Animals.

The Democrats inthe Senate toda forced
revelation of some OF the things being
done about the sugar schedule, which had
hecn regarded as IN Mysterious by theminority
OF the committee.
statement evoked by Senator Vest
from Senator Allison revealed the fact
that IN several cases the majority has
changed its mind about its former fig
urPs on certain sugars and molassses, that
it VIII have at least one new paragraph
and that the present drift seems TO be
TO raise tie duties
The committee, too, after all the waste of
time, has not been able to agree on the
question OF Hawaiian sugar, indicating that
there is something interesting IN process
OF committee evolution
The preliminary talk about the sugar
schedule came up very early, after some
minor business.
Senator Allison moved that the sugar
schedule be passed over for the day, and
Mr.. Vest immediately wa1tedt0 know why.
Mr.. Vest The Senator from Iowa, as /
understand It. asks that the sugar schedule
be passed over 1t is an open secret that
our friends on the other side, the ma jority
ofth cUIufnittec. have modified this sChed-
ulc. The notifications have not been an
nounced or printed. and Something ought to
be said about when these should be taken
up.
Mr. Alis0n--I viii say to the Senator
from Missouri that there are no open Sc
CIets I know OF, or any other secrets about
this schedule. l therefore could ask that
the schedule be passed over temporarily
in ufder to take up another schedcle.
1vill now announce On behalf of tie ma
juIIty Of thc committee that that majority
proposed the amendments now found IN
The printed hill
Tine majority proposes to modify the
schedule by asking the Senate TO disa gree
To some amendments proposed 10y the con-
nittce. or, if Il is in order, to withdraw
them
The committee proposes also 10 read
after line lSt page Ga, a new paragraph,
which / viii read That the duties on
nclaSScs and other sugars, testing by the
polariscOpc not over 81 degrees, shall be
one-tenth OF one per cent less than those
imposed by the preceding paragraph ="
Dls illEnI lie kflOWu as Sttiloa -bO-
Il will say that the committee has not
yet prepared the provision relating TO the
question of sugar imported from the Ha-
waiian Islands | suggest that, ifit is con-
veniCnt, that this schedule be passed over
today, and that today we gOon with other
schedules / hope that will be salts
factory.
Mr. EeSt-That is satisfactory.
The schedule on live animals was taken
up. The reading clerk made a fine dis
tinction in his reading between swine
ana pigs which put the Senate and gal
lerIes in GOOD humor-
AIr. Jones moved to substitute in five
paragraphs Of this schedule the following:
"AIllive animals not specially provided for
in this act 20 per cent ad vaIorem. :"
The substitute failed on yea and nay
vote
When tie schedule on farinaceous prod
ucts WAS reached senator Jones moved to
substitute 80 per CelJ for barley, etc, In
stead Of 30 cents.
sir. Vest made an argument TO show that
the Republicans We're again trying to fool
the farmers by pret nding to protect them
against wheat. corn, barley, etc, which
are not imported into this country. The
Republicans We're playing mt rely on the
SeuS.bil.tieS Of tile farmers with merely
spectacular duties.