The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-10
SMITH ASSAILS PLAN
WILL FIGHT TO LAST AGAINST
 CUBAN RECIPROCITY.
Michigan Member Says the Ways and Means Committees scheme is in the Interest of the
 Sugar Trust

l Washington, April 9.-The feature of tn | second days debate in the House on tn l Cuban reciprocity bill was an tmpasslon
 ed speech in opposition to the measnr wr | publican. Senators Spooner and Quarle | of wisconsin and Deliver of Iowa an' | group ol saicnigan oeet sugar manure turers In the gallery were in ms auoienc I and he was liberally applauded by m Republican supporters as he assailed tn | Republican leaders who were advocatini | the bill, boldly charging them with beini false to the Republican doctrine or pro | tection.
 He announced that he was willing t vote to overrue the chair in order to sup port an amendment to take the dineren l tial off refined sugar.
 Mir Morris of Minnesota, another Re publican. who made . strong speeci against the bill. also made similar an nouncement.
 The other speakers were MT. Ball (Dem Tex3 and. Mir. Sparkman .Dsm:. Fiais ss Mondell (wyo.). who advocated it's pas The Democratic and Republican oppo. nents of the measure are trying 70 go' together on the proposition to take the differential off refined sugar. The inol' cations are that the debate will be pro tracted. The demand for time to speak is great and there is now no expectatioh that general debate VIII De compieteo un' til next week.
 MT. Morris cited the evidence of wit nesses before the committee whom ne oe. scribed as .disinterested' to snow thai the cost of producing sugar m Cupa nao been exaggerated; that instead or pefnf 2 cents per pound it was 1-2 cents and that therefore at the present price in Havana. 1.8l, the Cubans would reeve a profit 0.31 cent per pound He iurtner argued that there was no moral obiiGaton upon the United States to make the pro. posed concession. If necessary. he was willing to relieve Cuba by the reoate plan: which, he declared was % the only s.h mesmoe ehnee for whom it was intended.
 He read the report of the ways ana Means Committe against the proposition for free sugar from Porto Rico wn!cn entire benefit of the removal of the duty. He asked why the sugar trust was advo. eating this reduction if 1t did not expect to be benefited and in support or the reduction he quoted from letter written bv Speaker Henderson to one of his con. stituents in which the Speaker said that the trust was here in the person of its ablsst managers"
 We are not here,' said Mr. Morris, "to make laws for the benefit of soldiers of fortune who go to Cuba instead or staying at home, and of such buccaneers as Mir. Havemeyer. the head of the su' gar trust. But, gentlemen" he added. turning to his Republican colleagues, If you are determined to do this thing. if you insist upon giving the sugar trust a present of two and a half millions. let
 us give the sugar trust a dose of its cwn medicine. Let us force the trust to drink of the cup which it comments to others. Let Ills take the diferentis1 off refined sugar. under which the trust has grown strong and powerful.
 He called on the Democrats to stand with the Republicans and Init the sugar trust and hit 1t hard" The Democrats cried out that they would join with the Republicans and appiauded vigorously
 MT Mondell (wyo0 said that as friend of the beet sugar industry who desired to put off the day of annexation he said he would support the pending bill" ,, IT.
 Mir Ball Crex) opposed the bill. He contended that it would afford no relief to Cuba. The bill was Republican measure and being such he was ready to assume the responsibility of taking his stand with the Democrats of Louis jana in opposition to 1t rather than with the Republicans of Pennsylvania Tn fa- yor of it. He denied that the bill was in line with Democratic doctrine because 1t was admitted that it would not result in reducing the price of sugar to the American consumer. Its sole oenehciary' he argued, would be the sugar trust
 He called attention to the section or the bill which required that Cuba snould agree perpetually to protect the Cnited States to the extent of 20 per cent or her tariff as against other countries and de. cIared that that section alone made It absolutely indefensible from Democratic standpoint. ,.
 At 5:10 D. m. the House adjourned.