The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-01
HEARINGS ON THE TARIFF.
The Senate Committee to Sit only
Ten Days More.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.-Senator Allison,
chairman of the subcommittee on finance
having in charge the preparation of the
tariff bill, gives notice, in accordance, with
the understanding reached at last nights
conference that parties wishing hearing
before the committee must make their APP
pearance within ten days. Hearings by
the committee began May 26, 1888, and
have been continued almost every day
since. Several hundred interested parties
have been heard, including many delega-
tlons of workingmen, and information, the
senator says, has been sought from every
possible source.
WITH OPEN DOORS.
The hearings have been conducted prac-
tically with open DOORS though in order to
prevent crowdlng to contribute to physical
comfort, admission has usually been limited
to members Of the Senate and House of
both parties and to delegations which pre-
sented themselves to be hearl.
The evidence has been geographically
reported and printed from day to day for
the information of any who cared to exam
Inc it. The next ton days is expected to be
n busy time, since, in addition to the hear.
ings, the suo COMMITTEES has to complete its
elaborate report on the bill.
EVERYBODY STILL SUSPICIOUS.
So general is the suspicion that the repub-
can senators do not mean what they say
about their tariff bill that those of them
who we're in the senate chamber to-day
were kept busy denying that they really in
tended to abandon their tariff bill as soon
AS they brought 1t into the senate I'VE
shall pass our bill, said Senator Allison,
sternly suppressing his customary smile,
''if we stay here until December"
All the others said the same thing.
Chairman Quay said it sadly,
as he has said everything since the
Presidents retaliation message appeared.
He cannot forgive his colleagues for not
taking his advice hanging up the fisheries
treaty and the tariff bill, and adjourning a
month ago.
Senators Ingalls, and Plumb were glad
they were not at the caucus last night, and
they had very little to say about it TODAY,
except that they understood a tariff bill
was TO be passed this session. They could
not very well explain to their constituents
their presence at a caucus which deter
mined on "A 30 per cont. cut in the sugar
duties, and defeated "A motion made by Sen
aJor Manderson of Nebraska, to cut the
lumber duties 80 per cent
ONLY A BLIND.
The fact that this lumber cut is to be put
back into the bill by general agreement aft
er the Maine election, would make posi-
ble explanation to the Kansas sorghum
growers, but could hardly be given just
yet, even by the frank authors Of tae
Some follow like Phelps" and the "Trv
the fatn letters. Senator Sherman and the
| CaIiforni ans, who would have been con
tent to bave the wool and wooden
rates left just as they are, arc
| delighted with the advaace of one cent
| pound they were able to get for the finer
| grades Of wool. The democrats are almost
| as pleased. They will DO able to show the
wooden manufacturers all the benefits of
their sort of protection. The democrats
will not try to detain the bill by discussion
in the finance committee, but they will
insist that it and the Mills bill, which will
have to be reported with it, shall be fully
and thoroughly debated. The discussion
will be a lively one.