Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-08-09
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Democrats Who Are Ready to Vote for
the Senate Tariff Bill.

Democrats Who Are Ready to Vote for
the Senate Tariff Bill.
Copyright 1883. by hs California associated Ere5s.i
| WASHINGTON, August Sth.-Senator Beck
said tonight there would not be any delay
in reporting the Senate tariff bill to the
Senate from the full committee. The Re-
! publican members of the committee had
i assured him to-day, be said, that the bill
! would be laid before the full committee
not later than next Saturday week. Ii
! would undoubtedly be reported to the
/ Senate the same day, because all the Re-
publican members of the committee were
/ fully conversant with its provisions, and
! the Democrats had decided to wait until
| the measure was up in the Senate before
! discussing it. The Democratic Senators
would then insist upon having the bill con-
| sidered paragraph by paragraph, and sec
ton by section. OF the six regular
members of the committee, four
Allison, Aldrich, Hiscock and Jones
were members of the special Tariff Com
mittee. Sherman had been called into the
| council and Morrill, was away. There
! would therefore be no delay upon the part
of the Republicans in reporting the bill, and
| it would surely be up in the Senate by the
Monday following. There were four Demo-
| cratic Senators, Mr.. Beck said, who would
vote with the Republicans on a number OF
the clauses of the Senate bill, because that
bill made more liberal provisions for the
industries of their constituents. These
were German and Wilson of Maryland,
and Mcpherson and Bloggett of New Jer-
| sey. While these gentlemen were satisfied
with the Mills bill, on the whole, they
were opposed to some of its provisions
! The Senate bill, for instance, will place
mother er-of-pearl ON the free list, while the
/ Mills bill provided a duty of thirty per
I cent. The duly on pearl-buttons would be
allowed 10 remain as at present. with
! duty of twenty per cent. This would be
| OF decided advantage TO American manu-
/ facturers.
! Again, the Senate bill will leave the duty
| on plate-glass as at present, if it does not
! slightly increase it. This would command
! the votes of number of Democrats, not
| only in the House, but in the Senate also
! The Democrats of the House had decided,
! Mr.. Beck said, 10 discuss the Senate bill at
length when it comes over from the Senate
| They will take it up section by section, Just
| as they had done with the Mills bill, and
| when the bill clashed with the House
measure they would offer as an amend
ment the clause of the Mills bill on that
article. There was no doubt that the dis
cussion in the House would take at least
| six weeks, as TO follow out this programme
| would necessitate great deal of argument.
This Congress, am convinced said Mr.
( Beck, will break the record, and be the
| longest ever known"
THE LUMBER SCHEDULE.
! Senator Mitchell. when asked by your
correspondent how he regarded the con-
templated reduction of the dutv on lum-
ber in the Senate tariff bill by the FL
! nance Committee, said Il am opposed TO
it. do not know lust what effect it will
| have in the Eastern States, but it would
| seriously affect the lumber interests on the
Pacific cusst. Across the border in Canada
| the timber districts are leased at ex-
csedingly low sums, and if the duty on
lumber was lowered the dealers there
wouid ship their lumber over to our
markets and be able to undersell our own
lumbermen, and after they succeeded in
| virtually destroying the business here
they would shove up prices and control
| the sale of lumber" The Pacific slope dele
gates, he said, are all opposed to any re-
duction on lumber.