The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13
MIR. POSTER AGAINST BILL Opposes Passage of Gu
 ban Measure. DEPEW AND CLAY REPLY Urge Ratification of the Re- clprOcity Treaty. Louisiana Senator Says It VIII Mean Ruin of Sugar Growing
 Interests of the
 United States.
DEPEw AND CLAY REPLY
Louisiana Senator Says It VIII Msan Rn;n of Smear crox,inp

Washington, Dec. 12.-The Senate spent more than i've hours today discussing the Cuban reciprocity bill. Mir. Poster u.a-l led the discussion and occupied the greater part of the day with an argument in question to the measure. He declar- ed that it's passage would greatly injure
 if it did not destroy the sugar growing industry of the United States.
 | Senator Depew on the Republican Bido and Senator Clay (Dem.) supported the l bill as q measure in the interest of both, l countries. Senator Clay said that he ] accepted it as provision for the reduc-
 ton of duties on the part of both corn- | tries.
 Receprocity, Senator Foster said, was
 called by some Republicans the handmafd
 of protection and by some Democrats the
 handmaid of free trade. but In this age
 of commerciaiism. if he might 50 term 1t. he declared reciprocity to be the haud- maid of special interests.
 Trust Behind Treaty. Senator Foster declared that behind the treaty are every power and influence Of the sugar trust. giving as his reasons that the building up of the beet sugar industry of the West means the downpuiling of the sugar trust. that he men in the trust were able to foresee the result of the pas- sage of the treaty upon thee beet industry and threfore have given welcome to the measure. In this connection Senator Foster said the beet is the natural enemy of the refining trust and that the effect of the Cuban bill would be to injure this growing enemy to the trust.
 Cuba Is competent within the life of the treaty" said Mir. Foster, s'to make all the sugar this country needs. It can make sugar cheaper and with the redt1c- ton which is made in this treaty it means
 the slow, but sure death of the beet h. dustry and the certain death of the eaha industry of my State. All developments
 in this country will be checked, We win neyer be able to get capital to invest sn
 beet stikar plants in the West ln faee oe kkhe showing that can ha r0a{i8 ln Gaha
 Cost ox a kEmR Sugar. fr Fairbanks tnauifed sho relative cost | of the production of sugar h cuba and
 both beet and sc4ne aslsaf in thA unified | States. Mr. roster nave tic ccst Of
 lc per pound while he said the cost of lcane sugar production in Louisiana a esti- mated at Sc a pound and Of beet enanr in
 the West at slight Increase over this 1 dgure
 MT. Fairbansxs then asked if the sugar
 industry of Cuba would not In time inan- date the Industry of this country aven without this tariff reduction SIr. Foster
 replied that probably would be the re-
 suit, but that the passage Of this biII would only hasten 1t. Mfr. Foster closed
 his speech with the declaration that the passage of the bill would mean denial to
 the sugar States of the aisterly c0nsidera- tion due from other States and predicted an outbreak of sectionalism not unlika
 that which prevailed in the South in Civil War times.
 Depsw Replies to Foster. I Mir. Depew in response to this perora- tion declared Mir. Posters remarks had | no rightful place in the debate on the bill before the Senate. He said this bill shows no sectionalism nor revival of the
 old feeling between the South and North and he declared that while Louisiana ia
 interested. it Is no more so than Colorado | Arizona. New Mexico, Michigan. Ne- | braslxa. New York and number of
 other States. This, he said, should end discussion of the character indulged in
 by the Senator from Louisiana.
 MT. Depew enumerated the investments in Cuba and said that in every one oe
 these the United States had had a hand.
 The rebellions were fomented here and
 the money raised which kept them alive. | He said that when Spain had been driven | out and the brigands had turned into l farmers the guerillas into workmen and
 the country was reported to be in condi- tion of independence, we invited them to
 call a constitutional convention and form | a republic.
 And now" said the speaker. 'the Senators who have spoken on the other | side have said that whatever we have | owed to Cuba we paid when we made the
 island a self-sustaining nation and that
 if anything is owing 1t is the gratitude Cuba should feel for the assistance given
 by the United States" | Responsible for Cuba. Continuing Mir. Depew endeavored to
 show that we were responsible for the government of Cuba and that the changes
 were such that without this new relation
 proposed between the countries, Cuba people. The Senate did not favor under present [ conditions Cuba as a sovereign State. He also said the dependencies should be thoroughly Americanized before coming in as sovereign States.
 MT. Teller then declared that Cuba was not dependency. He said the fact that treaty with Cuba Is now pending is proof that 1t is an absolute sovereignty
 Mir. Newlands (Nev) replying to Mir. Depew, said the planters of Cuba and the Americans going there would gain control of the island. that Cuba without restricting immigration laws would be refuge of the refuse labor of the world-- not salves but serfs. he declared; laboring for the great syndicates which will con- trol them The only way to Americanize the island, Mir. Newlands said, is to take 1t into the Union as speedily as possible.
 MT. Clay favored the measure. He contended that the sole issue involved is the reduction of the tariff between the governments of Cuba and the United executive session and i've minutes later ad