The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-05-26
Democratic Senator'S From
The Cane Producing State
In Senate That Free Trade
Is Absurd.
THEY WOULD PUNISH
OFFICERS OF TRUST
Southerners Would Have the
Big Magnates Imprisoned,
But at the Same Time They
Seek Protection.

Seek Protection.
Washington, D. c., May 26.-Repub-
hcan senators yesterday we're RECALLED
by the spectacle of two of their demo
cratic colleagues espousing the cause
OF protection. Senators Foster and
McEnery of Louisiana made speeches
on the sugar schedule, advocating a
high tariff on all grades. The senate
did not approach vote on sugar.
The Louisiana senators pleaded out
right for protection. Mr.. McEnery es-
pecially calling upon democrats to
abandon what he termed the absurd
theories of free trade"
The lumber schedule was Temporal
ily put aside in order to permit the
committee on finance to make chang
es In II.
EARLY In the day Senator Beverage
addressed the senate at some length
In support OF his contention that Presi-
dent Taft previous to and after his
nomination had been q consistent adj
vocate of a downward revision Of the
tariff.
He followed the maiden effort of his
democratic colleague, Mr.. Shively.
who undertook to prove that II the
tariff bill now before the senate
should become a law the rates over
not constitute the tariff that would go
into effect, but that under the maxi
mum and minimum provision the
country would find itself operating
under the maximum rate. which is 25
per cent higher than the minimum.
cummins Income Tax Plan Ready.
Senator. Cummins said last night he
would offer his income tax amend
ment just as soon as consideration Of
schedules had been concluded. He
will revise his amendment to meet the
wishes Of number of republicans.
Asking that the same consideration
be accorded sugar in the tariff bill
as Is given other industries, Senator
Foster spoke at length in favor of sus-
tanning the duties on raw and refined
sugar as passed by the house and
recommended by the committee on fl
nance.
IF the revenue provided in this bill
from the importation of sugar." said
Mr.. Foster, rs necessary for the hon.
est and economical administration of
the government, then it should not be
disturbed
A duty, he pointed out. has been i'm
Nv
party since the foundation of the gov
eminent. and, except in the Walker
act. differential duty had been i'm
posed upon the different grades of SUI
gar.
The products of the field and forest
Mr.. Foster declared, have arisen In
price Is or 80 per cent, while the price
Of sugar has remained stationary.
The margin of price between refin-
ed and raw sugar under the Dingley
bill Is much less than under any pre-
ceding BILL" he said.
This fact, he contended, completely
meets the contention of the senator
from Georgia. Mr.. Clay, that the pre-
sent duty increases the margin of
profit for the sugar corporation be-
tween raw and refined sugar.
Replying to Senator Smith of Mich
lgan, Mr. Foster said the Germans
charge their own people more for sug-
ar than anybody else. In the United
States. he insisted, sugar is sold
cheaper than in any other country on
the face OF the earth except England.
Mr.. Foster charged that complaints
about the price of sugar emanate
from literary bureaus which have
been organized in every village and
town In the country.
Petitions start in Wall Street?
Every senator" he added, as he
held aloft bundle Of yellow petitions,
has received these circulars. They
come from all sections of the country
and are doubtless signed by people in
the villages and towns indicated on
them. but they come to senators in
The same kind OF envelopes. postmark-
I'd Wall street. New York.
Mr.. Tillman interrupted to say that
sugar ought to yield \ revenue where.
upon Mr.. Foster laughingly said he
did not wish that offensive word PRO
lection to be used in connection with
he revenue. Under the Dingley act
he sugar production had increased In
salue from $4.072. 900 to $43, 4so, 900 in
ZEN years. he said. In reply to Ques-
lion by Mr.. Tillman the Louisiana
senator declared his belief that If the
iuty should be taken off sugar the