The Saint Paul globe., 1897-06-09
The Georgia Senator Able to
Carry His Point.
Twenty Per Cent Tax
Only Nineteen Votes Against
the Proposed Change.

WASHINGTON, June 78.-By the de-
cisive vote of AZ to 10 the senate today
adopted an amendment to the tariff
bill placing raw cotton, the great prod
Uct of the South, on the dutiabIe list
at 20 per cent ad yalorem It is the
first time In the history of tariff Iegis-
latlon that a duty on cotton has been
incorporated in bill. The amendment
was proposed by Mr.. Bacon Dem, Ga1
on his individual responsibility and
without the approval of the finance
committee, which thus far has been
requisite to the success of every amend
| ment except minor one which went
through by default
The consideration of the tariff bill
was promptly resumed today, and MI
Allison Qo) requested that the sugar
schedule be passed. Mr.. Vest remark
ed that It was an open secret that the
majority had made notifications in the
sugar schedule, and it was important
| that some understanding be had as
! to when the notifications would be
presented, and When the schedule would
be taken UP. This led to a definite
statement from Mr.. Allison. There
were no open secrets that he knew of
and he would now announce that the
schedule by asking the senate to dis
agree to the committee amendments
to the house bill, OF, if in order, to with
draw those amendments and insert
others which he named Under the
circumstances. he askes eSat the con-
s1deration Of the sugar ssf@~3lle be tenn
porarily passed over ana taken up to-
morrow.
Mr.. Vest said this would be satisfac-
tory He wanted the consideration OF
the sugar schedule TO proceed tomors-
row, as it was the most troublesome.
most scandalous and most irritating in
the whole BILL" and it ought to be got
out of the way.
Schedule G. relating to agricultural
products ana royis:ons, was then TAX n
up. Mr.. Jones (Ark.) moved to strike
out the first five para graphs, relating
| to live animals, cattle. hogs, horses,
mules and sheep, and substitute a
| provision covering all live animals at
to to BsF s. cent aa SsioFsm, Rejected. q
On barley GIr. Jones (Ark) moved
! to substitute 10 per cent ad valorem for
the rate in the bill, 80 cents per bushel
I'VE now enter upon a series ef
enormous increases in behalf of the
farmer, said Mr.. Vest, ironically, "and
without violating the rules of par
liamentary procedure, l will say it IS
a fraud, a sham ard a pretense"
Mr. Gear (Rep., Io) inteTposed the
statement that the debate was on the
barley paragraph. and on barley the
imports from Canada. where there were
cheap labor and cheaper lands, were
over 100000 bushels the year prior to
the Mckinley act, and these fell to
100000 bushels after that Mr.. Gear
said the farmers of his state support
ed this increased duty on barley ard
the grand master OF the state grange
was one of its chief advocates.
Mr.. Vest turned his attention to
general features of the tariff debate
reverting to the course of some of his
/ Democratic associates in supporting
revenue tariff rates. There was time
once when he, too, was ignorant enough
and foolish enough to support the idea
of revenue duties with the incidental
protection. But he was soon diSabusej
of that idea, as he had found that it
turned the congress of the United
States into a convention like that Of
! monkeys. who while pursuing their
deliberations, were suddenly thrown
| into wild scramble when nuts were
thrown into the cage. Mr. Vest de-
clareG that he would give up his seat
in the senate rather than vote against
free lumber free salt, or free wool
the three great achievements of tn"
| Wilson bill.
Mr.. Mantle (Mont.) answered briefly
:
beneficial TO the barley aiSeTS of Mon
tana Minnesota and Wisconsin. The
vote was then taken on Mr.. Jones
amendment, and it was disagreed To-
1874 Three Democrats, McEnery,
! RawIins and Tillman, and three Popa-
| lists, Allen, Butler and Heitfeld, voted
with the Republicans in the negative
Formal amendmen:s to reduce the
rates on barley malt buckwheat, corn
or maize and cornmeal, offered by Mr.
Vest, were defeated and the original
paragraph adopted. One each of the
votes on these amendments some
Democrats voted with the Republicans,
which led Mr.. Vest to remark:
"The vote on this side of the cham
Der seems to be getting smaller and
smaller"
Lonesome and right added Mr..
Bate
Mr. Bacon Dem.. Cal offered an sin-
dividual amendment to be known IS
para graph 225h placing a duty OF 20
per cent ad valorem on raw cotton.
Mr. Bacon said the omission Of this
article from the dutiable list was 1
violation of the principle of the Dem
ocratic platform, that tariff taxation
shall be SO imposed as to discriminate
against no section. Tariff as whole.
fell like a dead weight on heeproducsts
of cotton, raising the prices of all ar-f
ticles essential to his use and yet on
his article of production, raw cotton.
he was left in the lurch."
Mr. Chiffon Oem., Tex said the
amendment would not raise the price
of cotton According to the Georgis,
senator Bacon) there would be no di-
minution of the importation of Egyp-
tian cotton, so that the only effect
s,o.,id be to give additional revenue
on cotton without taking away the
competition from foreign cotton.
Nv, sol 41,o o., ,1 av,f Ill
receive Republican support, because
it was calculated to cause dissension
in the Democratic party He claimed
that the addition of 90 per cont pro
vided would simply add that amount
to the fir SHE'D product He took issue
with Mr. Bacon on the contention tha.