The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-09
The Proceedings.

Washington, June S.-When the agri-
cultural schedule was taken up in the
senate today Senators Jones (Ark).
and Vest, CAIo.), made strong efforts to
have the duty on cattle, barley, wheat
and other products reduced on the
ground that the high duties on them
were unnecessary and merely intended
to hoodwink the farmers, but they
failed each time and the committee
rates were adopted. McEnery, Rawlins
and Tillman, Democrats, voted against
their party on most of these motions.
Senator Bacon, (Ga.), offered an
amendment placing duty of 20 per
cent ad valorem on raw cotton and it
was taken up and discussed.
Mr.. Chiffon (Tex), opposed the pro-
posed duty, saying it would do no good
Egyptian cotton did not compare with
cotton grown in this country.
McLaurin, IS. c., took issue with
Mr.. Chiffon. and said Egyptian cotton
competed with certain cotton grown in
South Carolina.
The paragraph relative to live ami
mails was taken up and agreed to as
reported, that on hogs being amended
to swine"
On barley, Mr. Jones CArk.), moved
to substitute 40 per cent ad valorem
for the rate in the bill, 80 cents per
bushel
I'VE now enter upon a series of enor-
nous increases in behalf of the farm
err" said Mr.. Vest, ironically. and
without violating the rules of the par
liamentary procedure, l will say 1t is
a fraud, sham and a pretense."
He declared that the idea of protect
ing the farmer on barley. wheat, oats.
etc, when millions of bushels of these
products were being exported, was
palpable effort to deceive the agricul-
tural classes. 1t was designed 10 cajole
the farmers by absolutely spectacular
duties"
OLD AND STALE.
1T was an old stale subterfuge, he
asserted, and the Republican party was
trying TO play on the ignorance of the
farmers by saying: My dear bucolic
friend, we, your friends. will undertake
TO deceive you as we did in 1890, in or
der to each your votes"
Mr.. Gear (iep. la, interposed the
statement that the debate was on the
barley paragraph, and on barley the
imports from Canada, where there was
cheap labor and cheaper lands, were
over l1,009,0C0 the year prior to the
Mckinley act. and these fell to 3,000,-
0O0 after that act. Mr.. Gear said the
farmers of his state supported this in
creased duty on barley and the grand
master of the state grange was one of
its chief advocates.
Mr.. Vest turned his attention to the
general features of the tariff debate.
reverting TO the course of some of his
Democratic associates in supporting
revenue tariff rates. There was a time
once when he. too. was ignorant
enough and foolish enough to support
the idea of revenue duties with incl
entail protection. But ne was soon dis
abused of that idea, as he had found
that ii turned the congress of the
that of monkeys. who, while pursuing
their deliberations were suddenly
thrown in the cage.
Mr.. Vest declared 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 the Wilson bill.
Mr.. Mantle. (Montana) answered
briefly that the barley duties would be
highly beneficial TO the barley raisers
of Montana, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
The vote was then taken on Mr.
Jones amendment and it was disagreed
toll to "a.
Three Democrats, McEnery, Rawlins
and Tillman and three Populists, Allen.
Butler and Heitfeld voted with the
Republicans in the negative.
torHlal amendments TO reduce the
rates on barley, malt, buckwheat. corn
or maize, and cornmeal, offered by Mr..
West, were defeated, and the original
paragraphs adopted. On each of the
votes on these amendments some DEM
ocrats voted with the Republicans
which led Mr.. Vest 10 remark:
THE vote upon this side of the cham
Der seems to be getting smaller and
smaller
Lonesome and right" added Mr.
Bate.
RAW COTTON.
Mr. Bacon (Dem., Ga.), offered an
to be known as paragraph
225lz, 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 a
violation of the principle of the Demo-