Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-11-27
HfHS BI If[f6RlPH.
From All Quarters.
TO REPEAL THE BOUNTY
The Duty on Sugar Will be
Largely Decreased.
N. DJpUY DECLINES TO SEE GsBHoT.
He Refuses Absolutely to
Form a Cabinet.
THE RoBY CLUB GAINS A VICTORY.
Can Have the MITCHELL
COrbett Fight.
THE RoBY CLUB GAINS A VICTORY.
SUGAR DUTY REDUCED.

The Democratic Mem bers of the Way.
| and Means Committee Have Com
pleted Their Draft of the New TariA
Rill-It VIII be Made Public To-day
| -Raw sugars Made Free and the Nc
| Kinley Bounty Repealed.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.-All yesterday and
far into the night the majority members OF
the committee on ways and means labored
on their tariff measure preparatory to sub
hitting it to the republican minority mem
bers and to the general public tomorrow.
The internal revenue features of the bill,
it Is understood, are still held in allegiance,
but the general schedules and the admins
trative sections were agreed upon at late
hour last night after final conference
with Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle.
Prior tc this conference 1t had been prac-
tically decided to place an ad valorem duty
of 25 per cent on sugar. The protests
from the north and northwest against any
increase in the tax on sugar were go forci-
BILE that at the last moment the committee
changed front and decided to lower instead
of increasing the sugar duty. But realiz
ing that this marked divergence from the
action previously indicated as being in con-
temptation would affect stock and values.
the chairman of the committee authorized
the following statement of its action to-
night:
"The democratic members of the COM
mittee or ways end means completed their
tariff bill lset night near midnight, the
last item finally acted upon being the sugar
schedule. 1t being brought to their atten-
ton that spectators, falsely pretending to
have information of their proposed action,
have been seeking to manipulate the stock
market, they deemed it best to depart from
their general plan of refusing information
as to tariff items until their full bill is
made public and at once to publish their
conclusions on this schedule, 50 that all
tic information" The new bill to be pro-
mulgated tomorrow will show the follow
ing changes in the sugar schedule:
The duty on refined sugar is reduced
from ] to cent a pound. Raw sugars re-
main free of tax. The Mckinley bounty is
repealed, progressively, that Is one-eighth
each year, so that at the end of eight years
1t Is to cease entirely.
The two cents sugar bounty on the
higher grades, enacted by the Mckinley
bill, would be reduced by the Wilson bill.
II III enould become law TO IL cents per
pound for the fiscal year 1894 95
and would decrease cents each
year and would cease in the fiscal year
1902 The bounty on the lower grades
would be reduced in like proportion. 40
co1ding to the report of the commissioner
of internal revenue the quantity If cane,
beet and sorghum sugar entitled to claim
bounty which was in process of cultivation
or manufacture on the LIST of July last was
082 867 pounds. The amount of maple
sugar that Is liable to be produced can
scarcely be made the subject of estimate.
Over $62, 500 waa paid out in bounty for
maple sugar in 1892. The number of
maple sugar producers in that year was
$40 The number of licenses increased
this year to 6.095.
The change in the sugar schedule, so far
as 1t can be Learned, ia the only startling
depart ure from The provisions of the pro-
posed bill, as they have from time to time
heen permitted to leak out. Many "t1ial
balances have been struck, in the shape of
preliminary drafts of the bill, each of
which has subae quently been modified out
of all resemblance to its original shape.
Changes and notifications are liable to be
made up to II a. m. tomorrow, when the
perfected draft Ia to be given out, and any
attempted advance publication must neces-
sarily be liable to m1slead in some import
ant particulars.