The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-29
PATCHING UP THE TARIFF
ALDRICH PRESENTS a NEW RECI-
PROCITY SCHEME

He Proposes to Give the President
That Fail to Meet Us Half Way
The Danger in the Plan Made Plain
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2S.-Follo wing is the
text of the reciprocity amendment to the
tariff bill, in the form Of a new section, pro-
posed to-day by Senator Aldrich from the
committee on finance:
SECTION .. That the exemptlons from duty
of sugar, molasses coffee, tea and hides
provided for in this act made with a view to
secure reciprocal trade with countries
producing these articles, and for this pur-
pose, and after July /, 1891, whenever,
and so often as the President shall be salts
fled that the government of any country
producing and exporting sugars molasses, cof-
fee, tea and hides, raw and uneured. or any Of
such articles, imposes duties or other exactions
upon agricultural or other production Of the
y nlted States. which in view of the introduc-
tion Of such sugar, molasses. coffee, tea and
hides into the United States he may deem to
be reciprocaly unequal and unjust;
it shall be his duty to suspend by proclamation
TO that effect the provisions of this act relating
to the free introduction of such sugar, molasses,
coffee, tea and hides, the production of such
country, to such time as he shall deem just, AID
in such case and during such suspension du-
ties shall be levied, collected and paid upon
sugar noiasses, Coffee tea and hides. the product
OF or exported from such designat d country,
as follows, namely: All sugars not above No.
13 standard in color shall pay duty on their
polariscopic tests as follows. namely: All
sugars not above No. 18 Dutch standard in
color, all tank bottoms, syrups of corn Juice
or beet juice meada, concentrated meIada
and concentrated molasseS. testing by the
pOlarscope, not above 75', 7-l0 of / cent per
pound; and for every additional degree or frac.
tiOn of a degree shown by the polariscopic test,
two-hundredth part Of a cent per pound
additional All sugars above No. 10 Dutch
by the Dutch standard of color
and pay duJy as follows: All
sugar above No. 13 and not above No IA,
Dutch standard Of yellow, iss cents per pound;
all sugar above No. 10 and not above No. 20,
Dutch standard OF color, 15s cents per pound;
all sugar above No. %, Dutch
molasses testing above 56o, cents per gallon
Sugar DRAWINGS and sugar sweeplngs shall be
subject to duty either as molassas or sugar, as
the case may be, according to the polariacopic
cents per pound. Hides. raw, incurred
CORA goatsklns, raw, without wool,
iinmanufactured; asses skius, raw or unmanu-
factured, and skins, except sheep skins, with
wool on, l1 cents per pound
GENERALLY APPROVED.
The amendments have the approval of all
the finance committee republicans except
Senator Morrill,, who is opposed to the
whole proposition as contrary to a high
protective tariff. They are also said to be
approved by President Harrison, although
differing totally from Secretary Blains's
amendment, as proposed by Senator Hale
which made all the trouble. They are said
to be satisfactory to Secretary Blaine
They are certainly not satisfactory to him
if his friends are to be believed. They are
quoting him as saying that the enormous
powers contained in the amendments ought
not to be conferred on any one man.
CHANCES FOR SPECULATION.
1t is to be assumed, he is quoted as say
| ing, that the President of the United States
| will always be a man of strict integrity,
but the President must have agents aud
must trust them, and the mere information
that the President proposed to reimpose
duties on sugar, for example, would enable
a dishonest officer to make millions in the
home aud foreign markets, but whatever
Secretary Blaine's opinion may be he is
expected by President Harrison and the
| finance committee to keep the peace. His
pacific telegram to the Mckinley conveu-
tion indicates TO them that his speech to-
morrow will be of an harmonious" charac-
ter, and that any fighting he may do for or
against this amendment will be done under
cover. Senator Aldrich thinks he will
have a majority for these amend
ments. They may be adopted by
the Senate, but will hardly be by the House.
Speaker Reed is waiting for the sugar
amendment, and so are the republican
members OF the ways and means commit
tee, with anything but harmony in their
eyes 1t seems as though the real reciproc-
My fight was Just beginning.