The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-14

POUNDlNGTHE TRUST
Allen and Pettigrew Assall
Tariff Favoritism to
the Sugar Barons.
FREE LIST TO DOWN MONOPOLY
Caucus Tonight to Consider New
Retroactive "Protection"
Provisions.
FREE LIST TO DOWN MONOPOLY

WASHINGTON, June Ia, 1S97.-The
tariff debate is not proving strong at
traction in the Senate and the attendance
in the galleries was small today. The
tariff bill was taken up with little delay
for morning business, and Mr.. Allison in
charge of the bill asked for an agreement
that the daily sessions of the Senate
begin at IL A. NJ, on and after Wednes-
day next.
Mr.. Vest (do) preferred to have the
agreement conditioned on an understand
ing for daily adjournments at p. M
Mr. Allison stated that there would be no
difficulty about that and his agreement
for early sessions was effected.
Mr.. Allen (Neb.) then reverted to the
colloquy last Saturday, in which he held
that it was the right and duty of the
government to take legal steps to dis
solve the Sugar Trust. He argued that
injunction, quo warranto and other legal
process could be invoked against the
Trust.
He declared that the rights of the
Federal Courts to GUST a State corpora
tion, engaged in interstate or interna-
tional trade, was uadoubted If Have
meyer and his associates went to New
Jersey to procure a charter as a mere
shield to improper proceedings and not
to conduct business in that State, the
act was fraudulent. the charter void, and
the Federal Courts had jurisdiction over
the subject. Why, therefore, should the
Senate waste time and haggle over the
sugar schedule and the sugar trust, when
the Courts offe1ed real remedy for dis
solving this gigantic monopoly Mr.. AL
len next spoke in favor of abrogating the
Hawaiian treaty.
The Senator said the sugar investiga-
tion, in which he took part, disclosed that
Havemeyer, head of the Sugar Trust, and
Claus Spreckels, king of the sugar trade
of the Hawaiian Islands, had an agree
ment by which Spreckels controlled the
territory west of the Missouri River,
while the territory east of the Missouri
was subject TO the forays'' of the
American Sugar Trust. His vote, and,
he believed, the votes of the Populist
Senators, would be cast to cancel the
Hawaiian treaty as means of develop
ing the best sugar industry of this coun-
try.
Mr.. Pettigrew iSouth Dakota) followed
In support of his amendment proposing
that articles made by trust be put on
the free list. He asserted that 1t was
serious question how the present gov
ernment by the trusts and for
the trusts could be thrown off
There were trusts in coal, sugar, oil,
glass, steel, chemicals. crockery, and all
other great staples sitting competition
and setting up the rule of the monopoly
No tariff bill would be successful, he
said without defense sof the people
against the trusts, and such bill would
meet with popular condemnation AS
protectionist,. he. offered this amend
bill could be defended against assaults
He contended that the amendment would
not seriously diminish revenues as the
bill was not framed to get revenue from
trust articles, the American markets be-
ing, ip effect, turned over to the trusts.
Mr.. Pettigrew gave the details of the
organization of the many extensive trusts
beginning with the sugar trust.
The Senator figured out profits of s51,-
0s8 daily by the sugar trust or over s15,-
900, 900 annually. most of which, he urged,
was due to favorable legislation. While
the price Of sugar was less under the
present law than it was under the act
Of 1890. he continued, it was higher than
it was in 1856, before the trust was form
ed.
Mr.. Pettigrew then branched off into
s.Anthracite Coal Trust came in for
the evidence before the Lexow Commit
tee, he said. that the prce of coal had
been increased 81 a ton in 1896, and as
the V: consumers @ s40 ooo, COO He AV was $ glad. .
he said that he had supported in the last
campaign man who had the courage to
avow his opposition to trusts.
The Republican Senators will hold a
caucus at the capitol at eight O'Clock to-
night to consider Senator Spooner's propo-
sition to modify the tariff bill SO as to
protect the Government against the large
fmpOrtatfonS under the present law