New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-13
SUGAR BLOCKS THEIR WAY.
SENATE TARIFF REvISERS MAKING
LITTLE PROGRESS.
LOUISIANA SENATORS DEMAND PROTECTION FOE
THEIR STATES GREAT INDUsrRY-THE
FIGHT AGAINST FREE SILVER
LEAD ORE.
FIR TKrEGnApn TO TIE rrIBrxE.l

Washington. Feb. 12.--It Is evident that the
Senate subcommittee now engaged In remodel
ling the Wilson bill Is beginning TO appreciate
the difficulties OF revising the House schedules
to please all the Democratic interests In the
Senate. and there IL no longer any confident talk
about reporting the new bill to the Finance Com
mittec this week and getting II into the Senate
next week. It is doubtful indeed. II the sub
committee has succeeded 90 far In revising any
schedule OF the bill TO It's own satisfaction The
sugar duty Is OF course the one on which all
other changes TO be made must hinge. and the
sugar rates are far from settled. Senator White,
Of Louisiana, was again before the sub-comniit'
tee to-day to insist upon raw sugar duty bign
enough TO afford adequate protection 10 Louisi'
ana's planting interests and unless this con.
sideration is shown by the subcommittee, both
Mr.. White and Mr.. Caffery declare that they
ready to vote against the Wilson bill.
The prospect is that similar protests and decla-
rations will be made by other Democratic Sena-
tors interested in coal and iron ores, and that
harmony will be secured only after much frtc-
ton and delay. The latest talk indicates that
effort will be made TO restore lead ores to the
dutiable list. well as sugar iron ores and COAL
The duty on lead ore in the Wison bill Is Is per
cent. which Is practically nothing on such
cheap product, and lead ore mixed Win Slvor
where silver Is the product Of most value comes
in free. In addition there is provision that II
export duty Is placed on sver-lcad ore BY
Mexico in order to secure its smelling on the
other side Of the Mexican border. correspond
ing import duty shall be placed by this country
on the product Of the smelling mills. The FL
nance Committee Of the Senate. II is said now.
will probably put duty Of a cent pound on
lead ore and strike out the two provisions with
relation to slver-ead ore. Mr. Dubois has been
the prime mover in the fight for the duty on the
Senate side. The question IL intimately ass0c1-
ated with the silver mining interests. and It 10
understood that there is general feeling on the
part OF silver men in favor OF the duty.
The argument presented by Mr.. Dubois which
has been seized on By the sIlI er men Is that
the Sherman law was repealed upon the argu-
rent that there was an overproducton OF
silver, and thereby half the silver mines were
closed down. The rest OF the silver mines are
struggling along assisted by the lead product
TO keep up the output to such point OF value
as to enable the mines to be worked The propo-
stion to admit silver-lead ore free OF duty, IL Is
urged, Is an additional blow To the silver pro-
ducers. because IL offers n premium 10 the
amount Of the value OF the lead included In the
ore on all importations Of silver from Mexico.
Thus, In addition to allowing the silver to come
Of silver 1t is urged further that the placing OF
lead ore on the free list was solely in the inter-
est of few smelters along the border. ana that
the protective duty on the lead products Is pre-
served in the Wilson BILL that the free lead
ere Is in the interest Of the Lead Trust.