Birmingham state herald., 1897-07-07
NOW FOR TIE GRAND HNALE.
Vote on the Tariff Bill to Be Had
 Today.
BATES MAKES A SET SPEECH
Declaring the Bill, as Framed, "A Tariff For Robbery 0nly," Instead of For Revenue
 interesting Debate on Sugar Bounty

Washington, July 6.-The final vote on the tariff bill will be tal1s Il in the sena te before adjournmeDt tomorrow, definite agreement ass nted to by all parties hav- ing been reached at the closs of the sSs-. sion today. The agreement was as fol- lows:
 That the debate on the .ariff bill shall proceed under the five-ninu0s rule after D. m. tomorrow, and f,he final vote on the bill shall be taken before final ad-- journment tomorrow"
 Mr. Allison did not ask that the hour for the voc be set, bling content with the positive agreement that it should be some time tomorrow. The limitation of the speeches after 1 D. m. to five min utes will bring the debate within narrow limits.
 |, was through the efforis of the vice. president that the agreem= nt was affected and 1t lead to a general exchange Of con gratulations among senators.
 MT Allen again offered the amendment for Ac. bounty on best sugar. It led to lively ard somewhat personal speeches from the two Nebraska senators, aft9r which the Allen amendment was tabled -57 to She populists and silver repuh- licans being the only ones recorded against the motion to table.
 Early in the day MT. Bacon made personal explanation of his vote yester- day for MT. Mills amendment to impose a tax of per cent. on all manufac, ured products. He had, he said, given his vots without due delfberation. If the im- position of such a tax could be confined-to the sugar trust and other gigantic con- ,cerns existing in open violation of the law + would commend itself to his judg- ment, but as it wuld touch every village and hamlet in the land and lay it's hands on the most humble, h. frankly avowed his regret for the vote cast yesterdaya- MT. Bates, of Tennessee, took the floor and delivered a set SD, ech against she tariff bill He made a general argument against the measure from the standpoint, as he announced, of an advocate of fair trade and fres silver"
 The senator aralyzed the bill in it's bearing on the agricultural industry say ing it was designed to fool he farmer by giving him fictitious protection on his products, while real protection was given to all the articDss consumed by him.
 He criticised the steady extension of the protective policy saying ehe slogan of today was "a tariff for robbery only" instead of tariff for revenue' It ar rayed us against the world, making us an lshmael among nations.
 MT. Pettus, of Alabama, then offered an amendment making 1t unlawful for the importation of any sugar by a trust or combination for the restraint of trade. The penalty is a forfeiture of such sugar imported and the authorities are in structed to prosecute trusts, combina- tions, etc. The senator spoke for some time in favor of the amendments, speak ing of the suffering caused by vast cor pOrations.
 Mr. Chiffon, of Texas, argued that trusts were fostered by the tariff.
 Mir Morgan followed with another speech against trusts. He favored the amendment of his colleague, MT Pettus, but said he would attach to it another and a r-rQ ching nranOSitiOp O thought seizure and confiscation provided for by Mr. Pettus might, as in the case of the sugar trust, enable the trust to put up the price of sugar pending action in the. courts, and he suggested a modidea- tion which would provide for the immedi- ate sale of articles seized. s.
 MT Caffery did not believe that the Pettus amendment would affect the sugar trust. If the trust was stopped from importing sugar, sugar would be import, ed on other accounts and brought by. the 2 trust into the New York market.
 Mr. Pettus said he did not expect with his amendment to destroy the trust. It would only build a fence across one of it's roads.
 The vote was then taken on the Pettus amendment and 1t was lost-26 to 33. Messrs. Teller and Hetfeld voted with the democrats in favor of the amendment and Messrs. McEnery and Stewart with. the republicans.
 Mr. Butler, of North Carolina, followed this vote with a few remarks on the fu- tility of those antitrust amendments.
 MT Stewart said he believed now, as he did in 1884, that these antitrust amendments would never be effective ex- cept where they ought not to be effective. That is against labor combinations
 The Chiffon amendment was also lost 2S to 31.
 MT Caffery then offered an amend ment to strike out the differental on refined sugar, which was lost-2S to 34, Messrs Heitfeld and Teller voting aye and Messrs. McEnery and Stewart no.
 Mr Allen brought forward the amend-~ ment previously offered by the finance committee and withdrawn, providing for a bounty of one-quarter of cent pound on beet sugar made from beets grown in the Unit States.
 The debate that followed was both in- teresting and amusing.
 MT. Chandler caused laughter by his Witticisms. l
 MT Allen made long speech in favor of his amendment, during the course of which he became involved in controver- sies with several senators. During the controversy in reply to the question of MT. Allen: "If anything had occurred in the republican caucus to lead to the abandonment of the bounty amend ment?" MT. Allison replied that the com mattee on finance had offered the amend mcnt. but had firmly met with the sta.e-~ ment from the other side of the chamber that the amendment would delay the pas sage of the bill For this reason the amendment was withdrawn.
 In the course of his remarks Mir. Allen branched out into chapter of private procedure which caused considerable stir in the chamber. He said during the debate republican senators had let it be understoo1 that "they would like, to be scared" when this beat sugar amendment was proposed. and the intimation had been conveyed that if some one would get on his feet and threaten that congress would he hsld in session if the amend ment was passed, then other republican, frierds would be able to slide down the \ back stairs. and get out
 And so the senator from Arkans as" fJones) MT. Allen went on, "aross and ex- pressed the utmost astenishment that this proposition should be brought hero Allow nse to say that l think tho senator