The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-01
M'KINLEY'S TARIFF BILL.
THE MEASURE REPORTED TO THE
FULL COMMITTEE.

representatives Of New England's
Leather Interests Indignant at the
sharp Trick Played on Them-The
Democrats Chuckiing IN Their
Sleeves - Some of the Latest
Changes Made.
WASHINGTON, March S1.-Chairman
Mckinley and the other ways and means
republicans, after vacilliating under the
protest Of the republican manufacturers
and Of republican representatives for two
weeks after they had practically completed
their tariff bill, brought it in to-day in the
full committee with all its glaring faults as
bad as ever. Tne two features which at
tracted most attention when the bill was
first made public-the duty Oh hides
and the increased duties on carpet wools--
being in the bill as reported to-day are still
the chief subject of comment. To say that
representatives who have leather interests
in their districts, and particularly those
from Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, are
indignant is to put very mildly.
DISAPPOINTED AND DECEIVED.
They are not only disappointed, but they
feel that they were deceived. They were
that hides had been taken off the dutiable
list, and that they could so inform their
constituents. They did so, and without a
word of warning to them the ways and means
republicans at the last moment Saturday
afternoon, reversed their action and pledged
each other to conceal it from these very
representatives until the bill should be pre-
sented to the full committee to-day. The
fact that the duty is ostensibly a decrease
from ~ cents pound, as it stood in the
bill before, to Is per cent. ad valorem they
treat as unimp9rtant.
BAD BLUNDER.
They say the committeeman made a bad
blunder in putting duty on. We per-
suaded them to correcs it. and they prom
ised us that it should be corrected, aud then
at the eleventh hour in secret session they did
it ali over again. It looks to the New Eng
landers as though the committeeman had
deliberately sacrificed New Elgland inter-
ests to western demands. They realize of
course the probable upturning in politics
which it will occasion in Massachusetts,, if
not in other New England states, involving
their own political prospects, and all this
adds to the intensity with which they pri-
vately denouuce the committeem en- and
publicly denounce their action.
DINGLEY's OPINION.
The only New Highlander who thinks the
bill is a good bill is Gov. Dingley, who is a
member of the committee that helped to
frame it, and he deeply regrets the imposl-
ton of the duty on hides, which he did
everything in his power to prevent He says
that unless soma of the republican commit
teemen can be reconverted it cannot be
changed in committee because the repub-
leans have agreed to stand together, and
he adds that tae strength of the farmers
alliance, which he says secured tho imposi-
tlon of the duty, is SO great that it can
hardly DO changed in the House.
WHERE THE FIGHT WILL BE MADE.
The other New Englanders are with few
exceptions opposed to wasting any more
effort on the republican committeeman, and
will try to beat the tax il the House or in
the Senate. They get some comfort out of
the thought that the Mckinley bill is not
likely TO pass the Senate at all. Mr.. Diugley
says it is a good bill for New England be-
cause it puts all cordags mutuals except
hemp on the free list, and also molasses of
low polarization, and also because it makes
some reductions in the dutiable list, aud at
the same time gives compensatory duties to
the woolen and cotton manufacturers, and
places duties on unprotected" farm
products.
DEMOCRATS DELIGHTED.
The democrats of the committee and
those in the House who know the provisions
of the bill are delighted with it, looking at it
from par6san'sJandpoint but wonder at
the fatuitousness of tue Mckinley coterie
in building such bill. They think it is
quite evident tnat Mr.. Mckinley has sacri-
feed every other consideration to the pros
pect of obtaining the support Of people
whom he hopes will help him to
the presidential nomination in 1892.
Ihey will interpose no obstacle to
the speedy consideration of the bill In the
House and will lose no opportunity to eX-
pose its weak points by contr st. They
will propose a bill. the main feature of
which will be free list, which will contain
every raw material which can possibly be
provided for the tax-burdened manufact-
urers, with such reduction of duty on
manufactured products as well help con-
sumer and manufacturer as well.
TINE ALLOWED THE MINORITY.
The minority of the committee will
be allowed ten days in which to offer
amendments and prepare their views upon
the bill, and such amendments as may be
made before the bill is reported to the
House. The bill, according to Chairman
Mckinley, will effect a reduction of $780,
uOO IN the revenues.
CHANGES IN THE SCHEDULES.
Since the publication in these dispatches
about two weeks ago of an abstract of the
tariff bill some changes have been made in
Iu6 uuClaOlc SecClOnS. L nose IN aQQlGlOn TO
the changes of Importance in the existing
law not specified at that time are indicated
below.
Castor oil is reduced from so to so cents
per gallon; cotton seed oil from % to 10
cents
Schedule C, metals, allows pyrites con-
tanning more than % per cent. Of sulphur
to enter free and prohibits allowance for
moisture. The other important changes in
TINS schedule-railway iron, tin plate and
wire fencing-have already been noted.
Penknives and pocket cutlery tnow so
per cent? show sharp increase from IL
cents to 81 per dozen, aud 80 per cent.
In the wood schedules, timber is cut so
per cent. Sawed white pine boards (S2 per
tnousand) is placed at 81 50, and safe
tuaTd against export duties on logs 3 pro-
Eided 20 equal the excess in that d. ,.
THE RATE ON SUGAR.
"uSAr stands, as already noted, at S5 per
cent. below No 16, and 45 per cent, above
mat number, VIII ch amounts to y so per
CENT. reduction of some grades and more
t-an taat in Others, Molasses above 50 de-
esees Is placed at G5 per cent, with safe
Suard agaiust an export duty. The present
"uIy Is cents per gallon.
NlgarS, cigarettes and cherocts now 50 50
per pound and l5 per cent.), are placsd az
80 a1c - per cent. The ciause fixing the