■ienate —Mr. Sawyer, trim the post
office committee. reported back the
senate bill to establish a limited postal
and telegraph service. Mr. Ingalls
introduced a bill to establish a depart
ment of communication, and said
it was prepared by and introduced at the
request of the Wage Workers' alliance.
The tariff bill was taken up, the pend
ing question, McPherson's amendment,
offered yesterday to reduce the duty on
acetic acids, was rejected by a party vote.
Mr. McPherson then offered an amend
ment reducing the duty on borac acid
from five to three-and-a-half cents, which
was rejected, 25 to 39. Mr. Jones (Ark.)
addressed the senate in opposition to the
bill, which, he said, was a declaration on
the part of the republican party that the
war tariff was never to be reduced.
Coining to the question of bounty on
sugar, Jones asked why not protect the
wheat grower by a bounty as well as the
sugar grower? The proposition to
take the duty off raw sugar and
pay a bounty on American grown sugar
simply meant “sugar free for refiners,
sugar free for the sugar trust; siurar tax
ed for all who consume it for food.” Mr.
Aldrich pleaded that the republicans per
mit of no more delay on the tariff bill.
He believed the democrats were simply
seeking to cart the action of a long session
on the republicans. Mr. Hiscock
repelled the general charge that the
republican success at the last election
was the result of the influence of
manufacturers or monopolists and asserted
•in the state of New York whgrever demo
cratic majorities were rolled up, steps of
the whiskey interest could be marked.
