Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-07-31
M'KINLEY BILL.

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Tt is becoming more evident every
day that there is to be q very sharp
contest in the Senate over the Nc
Kinley tariff bill There are many
features to this bill which do not COM
mend themselves to the Republican
members of the Committee on Finance.
The contest in the committee over the
wool and wooden schedule is q good
illustration of this. While it is under
stood to be fact that the majority of
the Republicans agreed to accept the
Senate bill substantially in the same
form in which it came from the House,
SO far as the wool and WOODEN schedules
are concerned, it is also fact that Mr..
Allison moved very considerable re-
duction and was outvoted. 1t is un-
derstood, moreover to be the intention
of Mr.. Allison to move in the Senate
the amendment which was defeated in
the committee. Should he decide
to do this, this would cause
break in the Republican ranks
upon the subject of which the
opposition would unquestionably take
the greatest possible advantage. The
representatives of the wool growers
are in Washington, very closely watch
ing the actions of the subcommittee
of the Finance Committee. They have
been watching the proceedings of the
subcommittee for the last few days
with q great deal of interest. They
had hoped that the contest over the
wool schedule was ended. They now
fear that the fight is to be reopened IN
the Senate, not only between the Re-
publicans and Democrats, but among
the Republicans themselves, when the
bill shall be reported back from the
Finance Committee. The members of
the subcommittee no longer talk of
reporting the bill in week. There is
now no expectation that it can be re-
ported back to the Senate earlier than
one week from next Monday. The
most moderate estimate for the time
which is likely to be devoted to
the discussion of this bill in the
Senate is one month. Messrs. Nor
rill, Sherman, Jones, and Hiscock are
understood to be in favor of maintain
ing the wool schedule as it is in the
Mckinley bill. Mr.. Allison is said TO
be opposed to this. 1t seems very
| probable that the silver men will be
strong enough to prevent any action
| upon the tariff bill until after a silver
bill shall have been finally disposed of
between the two houses. The silver
men are very much dissatisfied at the
manner in which the rules in the House
were made to work to their disadvan-
tage. They intend to have an oppor-
tunity to offer free-coinage amend
ments in the Senate, and to have full
vote upon them. AS to the wooden
schedule, the two important amend
ments which were recommended by the
| WAYS and Means Committee in the
House bill were defeated by the defec-
ton of few Republicans who united
with the Democrats in opposition
have been, it is reported, adopted by
the Senate committee. One of these
amendments made the rate of duty on
wooden and wolsted goods valued at not
more than 30 cents per pound three times
that imposed on a pound of washed
wool. Another amendment made the
duty on wooden yarn valued at not
more than 80 cents per pound two
and half times the duty imposed ON
unwashed wool of the first class, and
35 per cent. ad valorem. AS it takes
two and half pounds of wool to make
O pound of yarn, this duty was neces-
sary in order to give manufacturers a
fair show with their foreign competi-
tors. Those two amendments were
defeated in the House. But, accord
ing to the statement of Republican
Senator, the Republican members OF
the Finance Committee have agreed to
report those amendments to the bill as
it passed the House. Mr.. Allison is
said to have been the only member OF
the committee who voted against max
ing the change in the bill. He pro
posed an amendment cutting down the
rates on wool to about the same Of
they are under the existing law. His
amendment was defeated.
The committee has passed the fax
hemp, and jute schedule, and has prac
tically agreed to make the rates the
same as in the Senate bill passed G
little over a year ago. For instance
where the Mckinley bill fixed the rates
on tow or flax or hemp at 1926 per ton
the Senate committee has voted tx
make the rate $40 ton, the same al
the existing law; and where the HOUSE
made the rates on hemp $25 per ton
the same as in the existing law, tn,
Senate committee has reduced 1t II
$40 per ton. On brown and bleachet
linen cloths, where the House mad,
the rate so per cent. ad valorem, thu
Senate committee has reduced it to 2!
per cent ad valorem, the same as il
t the existing law; and on shirts and or
ticles of wearing apparel of every de
scription, where the House made tn
! rate 80 per cent. ad valorem when the,
! consist wholly or in part of linen, tn,
{ Senate makes it 40 per cent. ad valo
rem, the same as in the existing law.
, The committee has not yet finall
, passed on the sugar schedule, but Their
| is good reason for stating that tn
, schedule as it passed the House vii
| not be changed. Claus Spreckles wa
here to-day, and he said that he wa
, satisfied with the rates fixed in til
, House bill. Under the circumstances
member of the Committee on Financ
/ stated that he did not see how the CON
mittee would be justified in maxim
: any change. The matter has not final
: " been passed upon, and will come u
again when Mr.. Morrill, is present.
. The metal schedule, as given to til
Democratic members of the commit
l tee, makes the rate on steel raj
: $1l.2O per ton. This certainly looL
as though that would be the rate in th
bill when reported to the Senate.
Russell Harrison.