Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-09
LIGHT is BREAKING.

The Beginning of the End of the Tariff
Conference - Agreement on the Sugar
| Schedule Said to Have Been Practically
Arrived At On Basis Satisfactory to the
| House and Acceptable to the Senate.
| WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.-If any faith at
all can be put in the signs that mani
fest themselves about the capitol, to-
| morrow will witness the beginning of
| the end of the tariff conference. There
| is every indication that the democratic
| members will get closer together to-
| morrow than they have at any time
| yet. This is due to the fact that the
sugar schedule is practically out of the
way. Though every member of the
| conference denies that there has been
| any agreement there seems no longer
| any reason to doubt that they have
agreed as to what they will do
| when the time comes to act.
The house conferees have al
| ways held that there was hidden
| away in the schedule of the senate bill
protection to the trust that greatly
augmented the differential one-eiglIth
that was given them, and they have
| contended that this should be re-
moved. Upon this basis they make
| the demand that the text of the bill
should be changed, and in spirit of
concession the senate, to that eX-
tent, yielded. AS now prepared, the
sugar schedule will provide for the
levying of the following duties: On
| all raw and refined sugars, 40 per cent.
ad valOrem, the same rate as hereto
fore. but with this difference, that
duty will be based. not on the prices
per pound, whatever it may be, nor the
mere pound of the article purchased,
but upon the saccharine strength of
the sugar found in the total amount.
III the sugar is raw the duty will be
collected upon only the pure sugar
that it contains, and when it comes to
the collection of the duty on refined
sugar. instead of the collection before
made upon the value of the refined ar
ticle, it will be based upon the valuo
and amount of pure sugar necessary to
make the refined product.
In this way, it is claimed, there will
be absolutely no hidden protection for
the trust, and that nothing can accrue
to them through the process of refn-
ing. The refiner will be given a diff
ferential duty of one-fifth of cent
pound on refined sugar, and q dis
eliminating duty levied against such
countries as pay an export bounty on
refined sugar equivalent to the amount
of that duty.
1t is figured out by those who advo-
cate this duty that it is not any better
for the trust than the former schedule.
although this is denied in other quar-
tiers. 1t is also said that the house
cOnferees will accept this as solution
of the problem, and that they will
claim it as a victory. 1t is understood
that the senators who have cared for
this interest were consulted, and that
they reluctantly accepted the schedule
as the best that could be had and
agreed that i would not be antar-
onized.
If this schedule is finally determined
upon to-morrow-for there is always
the possibility of a change at the last
mo1nent-it is quite proba BILE that the
remainder of the bill may be speedily
disposed of, and there is hope that
the full conference may be had Mon
day and the report made to the senate
early in the week.
The most of the day was consumed
IN discussion OF the other schedules.
and there is now pretty clear under
standing as to what shall be done with
the rest of the bill.
1t is said tonight that the Louisiana
senators and Messrs. Allen and Kyle,
the latter representing the beet sugar
industry, will not accept the proposed
schedule. If this is true, it is not APP
parent how the democrats expect to
pass the bill. There is no provision in
the schedule for the bounty for 1894, |
and both the Louisiana senators have |
declared that unless this bounty is put |
in the bill they cannot support it.
1t is probable that by tomorrow night |
the situation will have crystalized into |
tangible and that the out |
come will be known with some degree |
of defniteness.