Omaha daily bee., 1890-09-01
Conference Between Messrs, Aldrich, ALI
sOn, Mckinley and Reed.
The SPEAKER ACCEPTS THE SITUATION.
Release of the Duty Basis OF Re
ciprocity Treaties with the Sugar
Growing Nations of the
World.
WASHINGTON BUREAU THE OMAHA BEE,
5l3 FOURTEENTH STREET,
wAsuINGroN, ID. G., August 81. !

procty treaties with the Sug ar growing ma
tions Of the world will be adOptedby con gress
and the tariff bill will be amended accord
ingly. The republican leaders Of the house
have ex pressed their assent and there will
be no struggle between them and the senate
This decision was reached yesterday at con-
ference between Mr. Aldrich and Mr. Allison
from one side and Mr.. Mckinley and Speaker
Reed from the other. Mckinley accepted
the proposition with great cordialty He
has been q believer in the theory of
reciprocity all his life and when Mr. Blaine
made the proposition to the committee on
ways and means on February 10 last he
argued earnestly in favor OF it's adoption and
voted for ii, but was overruled by his col
leagues on the committee The speaker ac-
cepts the situation with reluctance and very
bad grace, but he is compelled to do so. The
suggestions of Mr. Blaine have been received
with so much favor throughout!the country;
they have been 50 universally applauded by
all classes ofpeople of all shades of political
opinion and have been endorsed so heartily
and spontaneously by the commercial organi-
cations everywhere and by republican
conventions In several of the states and many
congressional districts, by the farmers
alliance, the state grangers and the
knights of LabOr-that even the speaker
with his boundless courage and unterrifcd
nerve, has been compelled to bow his head
march In a procession that is led by the other
man from Maine
The result has not been reached, however,
without some effective work by the presi-
dent. When he returned from Cape May
after his celebrated conference with MIR.
Baine he was very much inclined to send
against ltSSafS the removal eInEres the advising gay
duty without at least inviting
the ugar growing nations to give us some
concessions in favor of our products in re.
turn but there was an earnest protest from
MIR Reed and other persons againstan execu.
tive declaration on this subject The preSi-
dent at once decided that he could accomplish
his purpose better by private influence than
by public argument and has since taken
every opportunity to persuade the members
o! congress that reciprocity is the best policy
and that the republican party cannot go be-
fore the reope with free sugar and nothing
In return. No proposition advanced in this
country for years has received such
universal approval. 1t seems to
have struck the pu bile instantly as sensible,
business-like suggestion, and the number of
letters that members of congress have re-
ceived on the subject will never be known,
but the mails have been burdened with them.
Ihe petition box at the house also has been
tiled almost daily with petitions and memo
rials on the su beet and nearly every board Of
trade and other commercial organizat from
Portland, Me-, to San Francisco has passed
resolutions favoring the policy. 1t took at
once, too, with the farmers alliance and
among the grangers, and these orgaui2-
atious,i which have SO power
full a political influence have
manner
The unanimity of newspapers too has
been something remarkable. ThedemOcratic
organs were misled at first by false reports
sent out from Washington concerning radical
differences of opinion between the president
and his secretary of state on the subject and
predicted the latters resignation from the
cabinet. 1t was also reported that Mr.. Blaine
n n
csms upon his public utterances 10y other
leaders of the party. To encourage and
widen what was supposed to be a division in
the repu bcan ranks thedemocratic organs at
once began to applaud Blaine and shout for
reciprocity and for once the republican or
gans and those of the opposition were in ac-
cord on question of public policy No prop
osition has been so extensively discussed for
years. Newspaper lippin gs on the subject
have been collected by persons here and ten
great scrap books have been filed with them
Nearly every article has been in favor of the
idea and although some Of the democratic pa
pcrs have'tried to hedge and raise doubts as
to the effect of the policy, the great majority
have adhered to their original posi- itiOn and
approve the amen dmentof the tariff bill in the
manner indicated by MIR. Blaine. The pub
lie demand for copies of Mr. Baines rcci-
procty letter has been enormous His com
muncation to con gresS has been printed as a
public docu ument, like all other executive
messages, and the department of state, as
well as the members OF congress, have been
overwhelmed WIN calls lOr H. several
clerks have been kept busy for weeks in an
swering these calls, and it is proba bic that a
hundred thousand copies have been sent out
In response to them.
The senate will take up the sugar schedule
on Tuesday next, and the Aldrichamendment,
which was formulated after IA long and seri-
Gus discussion in the committee of finance
and consultation with the leaders of both par
ties of the house, will be adopted The only
man of the repu blcan side of the senate who
is known to be opposed to it is
Mr.. Evarts and he has only ex-
pressed doubts of the constitutional right
of congress TO delegatoits legislative author
ity in matters concerning the public revenues
to the executive. The Nebraska sen nators
will endeavor to have the proposition
amended so as to provide for bounty to the
producers of bee sugar and for the admission
of beet sugar machinery free of duty, anC
several other amendments are likely to b'
suggested, but the Administrations will b'
added TO the tariff bill very nearly they
h are The democrats will try to amend then
h first so as to include Canada in the reciprOca
negotiations, then so as to make the recipro
city proposition general to all thu
world and on all articles o
merchandise, and third so as to Include
wool among the articles enumerated. Mr.
Mckinley, as has been said, has announced
his Willingness to accept the amendmen
when 1t comes to the house. and other mem
bers OF the committee on ways and mean
concur with him. The speaker, who ha
until now been determined in his opposition
has agreed to do nothing to defeat the meas
ure, although he will not do anything to he'll
il through. There are still several promnen
repu blcans in the house who object to tn
amendment and declare they will do thei
best to defeat it and keep sugar on the fire
list without conditions, but they will com
around before the vote is taken and go wit
the rest of their party,
Mr.. Mendonca, the Brazilian minister
called upon Senator Aldrch last evening L
assure him that there was no truth in the re
ports that his government would resent tn
proposition to restore the tax on coffee, hide
and other articles unless the Brazilian dutie
upon our farm products were removed, III
said and authorized Mr.. AldIich TO make
public anuoun cement TO the effect that Bra
I'll was entirely satisfied with the amend
ment as it stands, and that she would be tn
first country 10 respond with concessions
the United States in return for the removf
OF the duty on sugar He had cabled tn
substance Of the Aldrich amendment to Rio q
Jane iro and had receiveda a very satisfactor
reply. Mr. Mendonca said that his govern
ment would not only remove the duty frol
farm products from the United States, bl
would admit free To its ports all sorts OF agr
cultural implements and machinery, all RAJ
road iron equipments and supplies andwou
y "a Inn 0f M laast In I'll