The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-06-01
FALL BROKEN UP.n
The Tariff Bill Tore Up Till Its Friends Cannot
@"@u Recognize 1t.

WASHINGTON, May 28%.-[Special to Salt
Lske Tribune-Copyright, 1888, by the Cali
fornia Associated Press.]-Mr. Mills, of
Texas, was exceedingly xroth last night.
He woke up yesterday morning to fad that
the great Mills bill had been so slaughtered
by amendments at Saturday nights caucus
that it was scarcely recognizable. That
caucus showed up the condition of tie Dem
ocratic party. Instead Of harmonious and
united action about which so much has
been said, the amendments offered and
insisted upon demonstrated beyond a doubt
that at no time could the Mills bill have
been passed as it stood. All so-called cam
vases of the House which Mills and his
compatriots of the Ways and Means Com
mittee are alleged to have made and which
It was claimed showed a majority in favor
Of the bill, appear now In the light of mere
surmises, and very poor surmises at that. As
Vance, a Protection Democrat from Con-
necticut said, the Mills bill would pass, but
when it zane out of the fire no one who had
had q hand in its forming would be able 10
recognize it. But Mills is not the only
member of the Ways and Means Committee
who is mad. Each and every member of the
Committee is UP in rms at the rough way
in which the caucus handled the work about
which they had taken so much pains, and
this, too, when the caucus was enabled to
get through less than one half of the pro-
posed amendments, and when all the i'm
portant amendments about which there was
reason to expect q serious difference of
opinion were passed over till the next meet
ing. Cotton, wool and salt were not touched
upon, as the friends of the bill were afraid
Of the caucus which failed 10 display any
mercy for their pet measure. An injunction
Of secrecy wss placed On the members, but
1t did not prevent many from talking.
None of the amendments proposed by the
California members of the House to the
Mills tariff bill were reached at the caucus.
When the caucus reassembles tonight the
question will be brought up.
Saturday night the following articles were
taken from the free list and restored to the
existing rates of duty: glue, gelatine and all
similar preparations, fish glue, or isinglass,
liquorice juice, nitrate Of soda, boneblack,
wavy %dropblack and bone char, hatters furs
not on the skin, plaster Of Paris, when
ground or calcined, plate glass of sizes larger
than twenty-four by sixty inches was re.
stored to the present rate of duty; marble in
the rough was made dutiable, at forty.fve
cents per cubic foot, it was on the free list
of the bill and now pays a duty Of sixtv.6 five
cents. Liquorice paste or the rolls was
raised from four cents, as in the bill, TO five
cents per pound.
It was also resolved to fix the duty on
slabs or billets of steel at $17.5O per ton, the
existing rate, instead of at $11 per ton as
fixed by the bill. $780,.
On motion of Mr.. Fords, Of Michigan,
German lookinZ-glass> plates were addedto
the free list. Nj. Raynor succeeded in hav-
ing window glass and bottles restored to the
existing duties. Encaustic tiles not glazed
or enamelled were reduced in duty from
thirty to twenty per cent, and jute bags for
grain were placed on the free list.