The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-04-17
BARTLETT ON RECIPROCITY.
HE OBJECTS TO THE ARTICLE OF
FERED ny REPUBLICANS.


VIII Not Afford Relief to Cuba or
Reduce Price of Sugar to Ameri-
can COnsumer-Such Reciprocity
the Democrats Denounced i'm Their
Platform of 1S02-NeVertheless Mr..
Bartlett and other Democrats Vot-
ed with Republicans to Bring the
Bill to Vote on Friday.
Washington. April 16.-Representa-
tive Bartlett to-day. in one of the
strongest speeches that have been
made on either side of the debate, OPP
posed the Payne bill for Cuban reci-
procity. Judge Bartlett contended that
the bill was not democratic in any
sense and pointed to the fact that 1t
originated in Republican caucus and
that all the power of a Republican
President and Speaker were used to get
it before the House. Judge Bartlett
referred to the report Of the Chairman
of the Ways and Means Committee in
which it is stated that the bill is now
no deviation from the Republican doc
trine of a protective tariff.
Referring to the practicability of the
measure, Judge Bartlett argued that
it would not afford relief TO Cuba to
reduce the price of sugar to the Amer
lean consumer. 1t was Republican
sham reciprocity a, delusion and a
cheat he said. such reciprocity as
the Democrats in the Fifty-first Con-
gress had solidly opposed and had de-
nounced in their platform of 1892. This
bill, said Judge Bartlett, if passed,
would extend the Dingley tariff to the
people of Cuba. He claimed that the
sugar trust would reap all the benefits
of the proposed 20 per cent. reduction,
and said he would never be caught vot-
ing with the Republicans, or to bene-
fit trusts.
Judge Bartlett's speech commanded
marked attention and his attacks on
the Republicans were frequently APP
plauded.
A Victory for Reciprocity.
Washington, April 16.-As presaging
the passage of the Cuban reciprocity
bill the friends of that measure won
a substantial victory in the House to-
day by carrying a motion to close the
general debate on Friday at 8 o'clock.
The vote was 1853 to 1923. Thirty-three
Republicans voted against the motion,
but this detection was offset by 50
Democrats who voted with the great
body of the Republicans for it. The
strength of the Republican opposition
to the bill, judged by this vote. has
decreased six since the vote was taken
on the motion to go into committee OF
the whole to consider the bill when the
vote stood 167 to so.
among the Democrats who voted for
the motion were Messrs. Adamson of
Georgia, Bankhead of Alabama, Bart
q ~ GT a "a n m
Brantley of Georgia, Burnett of Ala
bama, Gambler of Mississippi, Clayton
of Alabama, Elliott of South Carolina,
Fox of Mississippi. Griggs of Georgia.
Henry of Mississippi Howard of GeQr-
gia, johnson of South Carolina Kluttz
of North Carolina, Lever of South Car
olina, McI4ain of Mississippi, Pou of
North Carolina, Scarborough of South
Carolina, Spight of Mississippi, Tay-
lor of Alabama, Thompson of Alabama,
Underwood of Alabama, Wiley of Ala
bama, Williams of Mississippi.
The debate to-day was featureless.
The speakers were:
Messrs. Roberts of Massachusetts
Patterson of Tennessee and Cochran OF
Missouri for the bill and Bartlett OF
Georgia, Corliss of Michigan, Borus-
sard of Louisiana. Bell of Colorado anC
H. c. Smith Of Michigan against it.
Would Ruin Cane Industry.
Mr.. Broussard of Louisiana made ar
| impassioned speech against the bill
which, he maintained, would ruin the
cane sugar industry of Louisiana and
transfer it to Cuba. Mr.. Broussard Is
a sugar planter and said that this year
in view of this prospective legislation
he had thrown his cane seed away and
planted his fields in rice. He told OF
the dismantlement of costly sugar fac
tories in his state with a. view to TAX
ing the machinery to Cuba