Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-22
It is Believed That It Will Be a
Desperate One.
FREE SUGAR MEN DETERMINED
They Say They Have tho Voting
Strength to Control.
SOME WILL VEL D

| in the ways and means committee concern
ing the stand which the House Is to take
on the sugar schedule of the tariff bill 1t
Is believed, however, that the struggle be-
tween the Senate and House this
schedule will be desperate. with the possi-
bilities Of a long deadlock between the
houses. The Wilson bill as 1t left the
House contained no sugar schedule, as the
tax on raw and refined sugars had been
struck out and the bounty had been abol-
ished outright. The Senate schedule is.
therefore. the only sugar proposition to go
to conference. and the first issue will be on
rejecting the Senate schedule entirely and
thus returning to the House form Of the
bill, which contained no sugar schedule.
II one or the other side will not yield on
this issue the next step will be to frame a
compromise.
The attitude Of the ways and means COM
| mittee ON the Senate sugar schedule has
not YET peen made clear. Chairman Will
son mas been away for ten days and there
nave been no meetings conferences since
the schedule passed the Senate. 1t Is be-
heVea' however that the committee Is dis
pOsea 10 1s conservative and conciliatory.
ana 10 avoid BY any faAr agreement another
protracted discussion or deadlock But the
committee Is not sure Of having the House
Oehind II In this conciliatOry policy. 1t was
| on sugar that the COMMITTEES Sustained n.
only defeat when the Wilson bill was be-
Iore the House. and this victory Of the free
sIsar radicals may be repeated
Representative Price of Louisiana, who
represents the largest sugar district OF the
STATE. says the Louisiana delegation has
nade no plans, and Is simply waiting on
,he ,he action OF the Senate. He and others Of
the delegation say the outcome depends
largely on the disposition of the Senate To
stand by its amendments Representative
meyer OF Louisiana says the Senate amend
menus menus give to sugar less than the Louisiana
/ dAa
the dispostion would probably be to accept
the senate schedule the best obtainabie
Free Sugar Men Determined.
Inc ree sugar men are very determined
and some Of them say there can be no
compromise short of an absolute surrender
OF the Senate to the House amendments
The House is Overwhelmingly opposed to
either tax or bounty on sugar" said Mr..
Dockery. 1T was so when the bill passed
the feeling 10 stronger for free sugar now
than II was then. There Is the voting
strength. therefore. to non-concur at the
outset IN the Senate sugar amendments
ana TO Keep non-concurring as often as the
conferees report failure to reach an agree
ment. With this Overwhelming sentiment
and voting strength for free sugar. 1t would
the part Of the House To be sure how
ever. the Feeling against another long con-
test. & nd the desire Of members to close up
the work or the session. would operate a
canvass Is the only means Of determining
and none has been made. II the House
votes as 1t thinks. and positively declines to
yield to sugar tax, then the question may
and staying here ali summer. 4S{ss5E than than
yield to the Senate sugar amendments
But as to myself. Il viii not cross that
bridge until / come TO 1t. Sure II is how
ever, that there IL to be u most earnest ef-
fort to have the House stand by its con-
victtons against duty or bounty on sugar"
Il believe in remaining right here at our
desks until the 4th OF next March rather
than surrendering to the Senate sugar
schedule" said Mr.. Warner Of New York
Il think. moreover. that the House is GER
tain to make a resistance which Will compel
the Senate to yield. 1t will be hot weather
in Washington, and protracted struggle
will bring many discomforts. but 1t will not
be half as hot for Congressman here as il
Will be for them in their districts If there is
tax on sugar. Our constituents and our
editors are for free sugar, so that members
can be serving their districts best by re-
manning here until the Senate is forced to
yield"
Mr.. Warner was asked II the Senates
surrender would have to be absolute and
unconditional, or whether the House would
itself yield somewhat for the sake of agree
ment
The normal. natural inherent position of
the House Is for no tax and no bounty on
sugar, he continued 1t will be this or
something substantially like this that the
duty was put on raw sugar 1t might be the
basis OF an agreement. But 1t would have
to be limited to revenue, and not a particle
for protection, except the incidental protec-
tion given by the revenue duty. The SEN
ate schedule gives protection as we'll as
revenue duty to the refiners. The House
will neve- accept anything of that sort. 1t
will have either free sugar or else sugar
that Is at least free of protection to the re-
finers"
Some Will Yield.
Some Of the free sugar leaders in the
FORMER contest In the House are now in
clined to yield their position rather than see
aAother Bng debate. Representative Hatch
Of Missouri Is one Of these. He says: My
Judgment Is that the House ought to en-
phasize Its position on sugar. And yet l
believe any bill which comes out Of the con-
ference. committee will be SO far ahead OF
the Mckinley bill that will be ready to
surrender my views one. two or three
articles In order to secure a bill 1t Is a
bill We want. a bill"
On the other hand Representative Harter
holds that the Mckinley bill Is better than
the Wilson bill with Senate amendments
He says: II do not know what others ex-
pect to do, but / shall not vote for the
tariff bill as 1t comes from the Senate In
less materially altered In conference 1
greatly prefer to see the Mckinley bill
Sand asa republican measure than see the
Senate bill go on the books as a democratic
law