The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-13

Washington, April 12.-An effort was
made in the senate today by Mr.. Nor
gan to displace the present unfinished
business, the Spooner shipping bill, by
the substitution in its stead of the Nj
caragua canal bill.
While Mr.. Morgan's motion failed, Is
70 80, the Philippines measure had a
narrow escape from being displaced by
the Alaskan civil code bill on motion
Of Mr. Carter, the motion being de-
feated on a roll call, % to "A.
The feature of the days proceedings
was an exhaustive discussion of the
Quay case by Mr.. Burrows Of Michi-
gan.
Mr.. Jones 1Ark.) chairman Of the
Democratic national committee, opened
the session with sharp retort to a
charge made against him in the house
yesterday by Mr. Deliver Qa). He
read the Record quotation from
the speech of Mr.. Dolliver, delivered in
the house yesterday on the Porto Ri
can bill:
L accuse the chairman of the Dem
ocratic national committee of being in
the same conspiracy, If you will permit
me to speak. l hold in my hand a pro-
posed amendment offered by Senator
Jones Of Arkansas TO the bill now be-
coming law, TO give the proceeds Of
the Porto Rican customs to the people
OF Porto Rico, an amendment, which,
il it had been passed, would have given
to the American Sugar Refining COM
pany s., SOC, GOO, which they have already
paid in cash into the treasury Of the
United States on sugar imports from
Porto Rico"
Jones' Reply to Dolliver.
"As a rule. I pay no attention to as
PERSONS Of this character" said Mr..
Jones, but it may be possible that
some honest man may have been mis-
led or might hisjudge what has been
done by me.
when the Porto Rican bill was pre-
scented in the senate, I offered an
amendment proposing TO refund the du-
ties that had been collected from the
people of Porto Rico to the people who
had paid the duties. I did that from
the conviction that the government of
the United States had no right TO levy
any tariff duties upon products coming
from Porto Rico. and If we had no such
right it was common honesty that we
should give the money back to the
people from whom we had taken it.
4 had never looked to see who had
paid these revenues nor where this
money would go. am not in the conf
dence of the sugar trust. They have
not come to me to complain of that
duty. by which they paid S1,S00,000 I
did not know that such was the fact.
Men who are more familiar with the
doings of the sugar trust off course
they had paid a million and a half Of
this money into the treasury Of the
United States. I knew nothing of it.
What 1 understood the facts to be,
were that protests were made when
these duties were levied and that the
case was pending in the supreme court
of the United States and I believe
that when the supreme court
decides this question it will decide the
money shall be paid back TO the men
who paid it.
Give Devil His Dues.
81 believe in doing justice, no matter
who is involved. believe in giving the
devil his dues and if we have no right
under the laws TO levy this tax and the
sugar trust has paid a part of it and
the money is due to them, it ought to
be refunded.
81 have no fear Of being misjudged
by any member Of this body. I don't
believe any motive OF this kind has
ever been attributed to me by man
who has q sense of justice and a desire
to be fair and just to his fellow men"
Mr. Burrows (Mich.) then addressed
the senate on the resolution relative TO
seating NJ S. Quay as a senator from
Pennsylvania.
Mr. Burrows said that as a member
OF the committee on privileges and cleo
tions called upon two years ago to
consider the case of Henry w. Corbett
as a senator by the governor
of Oregon, he was forced TO the con-
clusion that the power of appointment
in that case was not lodged with the
executive and a majority of the COM
mittee so reported The senate sustain
ed that report by a vote of 80 TO 49,
Since that time 1 have seen nothing to
cause me to reverse my judgment; fur
Their examination has served rather to
and confirm it. The ma
terial facts in this case are the same
as they were in that
PRESIDENTS the Same.
"The constitution is the same. The
preCeQenLS are the same. Inc only
is in the name of the party
seeking admission to the senate. Then
il was ex-senator Corbett, now it is
ex-senator Quay. A change of parties
certainly ought not to produce a change
Of convictions"
Mr.. Burrows carefully reviewed the
Quay case from its ineipieney and stat
ed the question at issue. After review
ing at great length the precedents Mr..
Burrows cited the roll call on the Cor
bett case, showing that Mr.. Penrose
(Pa-) voted against Corbett and Mr..
Quay himself was paired against him.
In conclusion ne said:
And let me say to senators that no
sooner shall you have esta blished the
doctrine contended for by the minority
than there Will be a popular uprising
in this country which no power can
resist or suppress to take from state
and governors all power to
appoint senators and lodge it with the
people"
The unfinished business. the Spooner
bill, being before the senate, Mr. Nor
gan moved to proceed TO the consider
alton of the Nicaragua canal bill,
which would have displaced the Spoon