Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-04-25
TARIFF TRIBULATIONS,
The Mckinley Bill Not Satisfactory to
Senate Republicans.

THE SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE WILL REPORT
A SUBSTITUTE BrIs-PRorEsrs RECEIVED sY
THE WAYS AND MEANS coNMIrrEE-HEARISas
TODAY.
The republicans of the Senate finance COM
mittee are at work on tariff bill to be re-
ported to the Senate as . substitute for the
Mckinley bill. They expect to have all their
work done and to be ready to re-
port very soon after the Mckinley bill
passes the House. The understanding is that
the Mckinley bill is to pass the House prscti-
cally as it is but there is no expectation of it's
becoming law in that form.
The Senate is expected to pass quite differ
ent bill. and the whole matter will be settled in
conference on disagreement between the two
houses.
NO CHANCE FOR PASSAGE OF THE MKINLEY BILL
1t is said that there has never been any ex-
pectation among the party leaders that the
Mckinley bill would become q Law in any ything
like the form il was reported II is understood
that the plan was pretty well settled on from the
hrst, and that with this in view there will be no
serious difficulty in passing the bill through the
House. 1t was not possible for the party lead
ers OF the two houses to agree upon q general
PLAN for tariff revision, which could be put
right through in the form of a bill adopted as
party measure, though there was an attempt
to do this.
There is quite radical difference of views
between the Senate finance committee and Mr..
Mckinley on several points. The ideas of the
ultra protectionists are expressed in the Nc
kinley bill Having passed that through the
House the party will be
IN POSITION TO COMPROMISE
on something a little less radical. and those
who feel that they are hit very hard by that
bill will be in frame of mind to be well
pleased.~ith very small concessions.
They may make number of such conces-
siCns and still pass bill which Will be radical
enough for all practical purposes.
LARGE NUMBER OF PROTESTS
are being received by the ways and means
committee from interests in various parts of
the country, many of which conflict with
each other. Over 500 formal petitions
bearing many hundred signatures have been
received since the bill was reported. Some of
the petitions of protest are very emphatic in
their language. but the committee remain
complacent and content with their work.
TWO PETITIONS
were received today from New York with rela-
tion to the Dingley worsted bill, which was re-
ported unanimously day or two ago. One
received by mail was from the Woolen
Goods Association of New York praying for
the prompt passage OF the Dingley bill. The
other sent by telegraph last night protested
violently against the hasty passage of this
same bill and asked for hearing.
LARGE DELEGATION OF woRsrED IMPORTERS
followed this dispatch of protest and this
morning had long hearing before the
ways and means committee. They con-
tended that the passage of this bill so
hurriedly would do them great injustice, as
they had contracts made already for importa-
tions for fall trade based upon the rate OF duty
assessed on worsteds for the past twenty
four years. If they had to pay higher duty
they would loose on all these contracts. They
asked that this feature Of tariff legislation be
not advanced more rapidly than the general
tariff bill.
delphia and Baltimore had hearing, ssking
for less duties on toys than those proposed in
the Mckinley hill