Show UIFfiETH CONGRESS The Senate on Tin and the Sugar Bounty OMNIBUS BILL IN THE HOUSE Large Land Grant for an A ricultural College In Dakota State Officers Offi-cers to be Elected SENATE WASHINGTON January 17 Among the bills reported from the committees and placed on the calendar were the following Granting the right of way tor a railroad across Fort Pima military reservation in Arizona granting the Big Horn Southern Railroad a right of way across a part of the Crow Indian reservation in Montana The Senate then resumed consideration considera-tion of the tariff bill the pending question ques-tion being the amendments to the tinplate tin-plate paragraph The discussion was continued by Allison and Vest The arguments were carried on at great length on behalf of the Republicans the argument being made that there was an abundance of tin in Dakota and other parts of the country and the increased duty on tin plate would develop the tin mines and a remunerative tin plate industry On behalf of the Democrats they argued that the proposed increase in the duty on tin plate was for the purpose of establishing a nonexistent industry a dangerous exceptional legislation legis-lation carrying protection to an extreme ex-treme never before CONTEMPLATED BY JUDICIOUS MINDS Sherman argued in favor of the amendment not so much as a matter o protection of tin as of iron and eteri plate indnstry Of the 283000 tons 01 tin plate annually imported fully 275 000 tons consisted of iron and steel the remaining eight tons only being tin Allison said the present duty was about 33 per cent the proposed duty about 70 per cent The debate was further continued by Platt Saulsbnry Plumb Gorman Aldrich Mitchell and Call Finally the amendment was adoptedyeas 25 nays 18Brown voting vot-ing aye It fixes the duty on tin plates taggers iron and steel when valued at 3c per pound or lees or thinner than No 10 and not thinner than No 20 wire gauge at Ic per pound on thinner plates ll10o13 lOc and 1410c per pound and on corrugated or crimped plates 12lOc per pound all other iron or steel sheets plates and hoop excepting tin plates when galvanized or coated with zinc spelter or other metal c per pound additional After January 1st 1889 tin plates Me per pound additional THE SUGAR BOUNTY The amendment proposing a bounty onsugar made from beets sorghum or sugarcane grown in the United States was then taken up Vest declared emphatically his op position to all such bounties which he I considered the most objectionable form I of protection The idea of government going into partnership with any individual I in-dividual or set of individuals in order to give them peculiar advantages at the expense of a large body of people was a relic of absolute tyranny and utterly opposed to all free popular goven vents Alliau in reply to a question by Eustis as ling why a bounty was proposed pro-posed said the object was to induce the production of sugar in this country from beets from sorghum and from sugarcane Eustis asked Allison to state whether the proposed bounty of 1 cent per I pound on sugar produced in this country was not in direct contradiction contradic-tion to the ground taken by the fence committee for a large SEDUCTION OF THE IMPOST DUTIES tbs ground now being ascertained to limit the sugar capacity of the United Sates Allison did not consider the amendment amend-ment as in any sense a change on the part of the committee The sugar produced pro-duced from cane grown in the United States had not kept pace with the increase in-crease of the production Eustis asked whether when the substitute sub-stitute was reported a majority of the finance committee was not as well informed in-formed as to the sugar producing quantity of the United States as it was when it reduced the bounty on sugar Allison said he did not know exactly what the Senator from Louisiana meant but by inquiry he Allison had not KNOWN QUITE AS MUCH on the 5th of October when the bill was reported as he knew when he offered the amendment and he even confessed to having received some invaluable in-valuable information from a witness wko had been before that committee within the list few days Gibson asked Allison whether the committee had not heard of the increase of 25 per cent in the sugar cane area in Louisiana in the last three or four years and of the increase of nearly 100 per cent by cane by improved methods Allison replied that the committee had some testimony in that line but the committee also learned that there was no diffusion plant in Louisiana except that erected by the government of the United States and even with that diffusion the success as applied to sugar cane Spreckles had disclosed to the committee very conclusively that he could BEAT THAT PRODUCTION FROM BEETS It should be borne in mind that the increase in-crease in the importation and consumption consump-tion of sugar was so great that 150000 000 pounds of sugar would be required to supply the annual increase of consumption con-sumption The State of Louisiana could not supply the sugar to meet that increase to say nothing of the 3000 000 000 pounds of sugar now imported Vest Dinted at the new light which had broken in upon the finance committee com-mittee and at the political exigency which had led to reporting the amendment amend-ment Allison denied that he in his judgment judg-ment or that the committee on this matter had been controlled by any political exigency SHIB5IAN ADVOCATED THE AMENDMENT and said there was a strong feeling in the country against a direct bounty for the protection of anything and yet such bounties as to salt fish and other matters had been reported by the most eminent men in his part of the country He btlievtd in ten years sugar enough could be produced in this country to supply the domestic marker He under un-der tood that onesixth of the entire weight of beets could be converted into sugar Was it not therefore a desirable desir-able thing to encourage the beet sugar Industry in the United States It was a bounty for beet sugar that was paid in France and Germany that stimulated the great product in those countries Gibson admitted the stimulatingef fect of a bounty in Germany and France but agreed thit a more powerful power-ful stimulant had been the 4 cents per pound imposed upon imported sugar Sherman said he wished to see THIS EXPERIMENT TRIED not in the interest of any party of any section or State but in the interest of the whole country Eustis asked the Republicans what had become of the argument on thit side of the substitute that was formed on the theory to use Hiscocks expression that it was the duty of government gov-ernment regardless of its needs or of the condition of taxpayers to develop by protective legislation every American Ameri-can industry whether it was heavy headed in its fancy or still in its wants He wanted to know if the Republican majority proposed to kick ttie sugar interest in Louisiana out of the household house-hold and let it come to the kitchen FOB CBUMBS OF BREAD Allison s id Louisiana had grown strong and vigorous under the tariff trust and had stood in with it and abided by it for sugar and sugar alone but when a proposition was made that would reduce the price of sugar 1 cent per pound the Senator from Louisiana answered it by a denunciation of the whole system He Allison declared it would be better for the people to pay for the whole sugar crop of Louisiana and dump it into the gulf than to keep up tue present duty on sugar The tax took 28000000 out of the pockets 01 the people In order that the sugar producers pro-ducers of Louisiana might receive 1 cent per pound on an innnitisimally small proportion of the sugar they produced After some further discussion and without reaching a vote the Senate went into executive session and soon adjourned HOUSE WASHINGTON January 17After the ransaotlon of unimportant business the House resumed consideration o f the Territorial bills McDonald of Minnesota thought that all the Territories referred to in the omnibus bill were ready for admission ad-mission Adams of Illinois characterized the omnibus bill as a transparent subterfuge subter-fuge Under it the people of the Territories Ter-ritories would not obtain a single substantial sub-stantial advantage which they would not obtain if it were not passed while the defeat of the Senate bill would have the practical effect of continuing for one year the outrage on the people of Dakota Grosvenor of Ohio said the ooject of the omnibus bill was to delay tne admission ad-mission of Dakota Admit Dakota under the Senate bill then consider the claims of the other Territories Symes of Colorado and Springer of Illinois had a little tilt over the latters alleged intention to move the previous question on the omnibus bill On motion of Gifford of Dakota the amendment was adopted granting 120 000 acres for the support of AN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE in the State of Dakota The Senate bill granted ninety sections of land An amendment was adopted providing that lands sold for common school purposes pur-poses shall not be sold for less than 510 per acre The salary of the district judge was reduced from 5 000 to 3 500 The 9th of April 1889 was fixed as the date for an election to be held to decide the question of the acceptance of the boundaries and name of the new State On motion of Gifford the amendmnt was agreed to providing that at this election State officers be elected and also two manbers of Congress The reading of the Senate bill having been completed Springer moved to strike out all after the enacting clause and substitute THE OMNIBUS BILL Burrows of Michigan raised a point of order against the substitute The Speaker sustained the point of order and ruled the substitute out Springer then moved to strike out the enacting clause and insert House bill 8466 and insert certain amendments amend-ments The speaker ruled this not in order All the gentlemen had a right to do was to offer a substitute for House bill 8466Mr Springer thereupon offered as a substitute House bill 8466 which was then received Springer asked unanimous consent for the previous substitute offered by him one providing for the division of Dakota to be considered in its stead Speaker pro tern Cox submitted the request re-quest and there being no objection the subsequent question aroae as to whether this consent had been granted but no record of the transaction appeared in the official notes Much confusion ensued en-sued but finally consent was given McDonald of Minnesota then offered his substitute for Springers motion j his substitute embodies the principal features of the omnibus bill except that it provides for the immediate admission of South Dakota Pending its reading the House adjourned |