St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-04-18

} from Tennessee or any other demo
crat to name any republican VIII
2 ever made any such statement. H
] said the shoe is on the other foot an
7 that the great sugar trust and tn
, American Tobacco Company are tn
: ones who started the oppositio
against the bill to get rid of payin
any duty from Porto Rico to tn
United States. Representative eros
venor created much laughter by hi
sarcasms. He said, ut was glori
Gus thing to witness the intens
anxiety OF the democratic party ant
the mug-wump press, that the repub
lican party shall not destroy itself.
For 16 years he had passed through
great excitements of the various
tariffs and war measures, but h'
had never seen the democratic party
so sorrowfully jealous that the re
publicans should do themselves NJ
harm. Every telegraph office hat
been ransacked in the United States
to bring its members here to vote fol
what? To keep the republicans from
the odium and curse of an outraged
public sentiment The democrats
had said, "Vote against this bill, or
60 outside of the democratic party"
That was their caucus issue. Nine
tenths of the republicans of the
House and more in the Senate are in
favor of this bill. He said, II hurl in
the teeth of the gentleman from Ten
nessee his statement that bribery is
here" "We believe it is lle." Rep.
resentative Richardson replied that
he did not say that there was any,
thing in the charge. Representative
Grosvenor said at is the same shiny,
slippery statement" Representative
Payne said, at has been stated that
Oxnard with his sugar-beet factories
with only capacity of $1,000 tons
against 100000 tons consumed in
the United States wishes tariff on
sugar. That is true because if raw
sugar was free, the little expense of
refining would knock out every beet
sugar factory in the United States
and every cane-sugar industry in
Louisiana. But Mr.. Havemeyer,
president OF the sugar trust, declared
that there was no reason why sugar
should not be admitted free from
Porto Rico and the Philippines, but
the sugar trust usually pay about
$60,0O0,000 annually as duties on
imported sugars and the republicans
are resolved to take a tariff from the
American Sugar Refining Company
on the duties and not from the
United States treasury. Representa-
tive Dolliver, of Iowa, regretted that
larger national questions should not
be conducted in a better atmosphere,
and with a higher patriotism than
TOUR years ago, an atmosphere Of
acrimony, accusation, and recrimina-
ton. He thought every man had a
right to his own opinion; after argu-
ing the case, he made a very strong
point in reply to the gentleman from
Tennessee, who had been so free with
his iavelins of tons" of the re-
publicans about bribery and trusts.
He accused him of having introduced
into the House a Joint resolution,
"the effect of which is to make an
open present to the American Sugar
Refining Company of $60,O00,0OO
now annually paid by that company
as duties on its imported sugars"
He also accused the chairman of the
democratic national committee of
being in the same conspiracy. Sena-
tor Jones, of Arkansas, proposed
an amendment to give the proceeds
of the present Porto Rican customs
to the people of Porto Rico, which if
it had passed would have given the
American Refining Company 81 $780,
900 which they have already paid in
cash into the United States treasury
on sugar imported from Porto Rico.
He did not accuse him of corruption
but of business stupidity. He felt
goodwill towards those who differed
from him but urged his colleagues to
stand together in the field skirmish
before an enemy.
Representative Payne of New York
said he was willing and anxious to
submit this question to the common
people. II have no fears as to the
result, and the proudest act of my
life has been my connection with this
bill from start to finish" He ex-
planned fully the reason why he
changed his mind on some features of
the bill after fuller consideration of
its effect upon the people, which led
to cowardly insinuations which had
been made during the discussion bv