The Daily Texarkanian., 1894-03-07
MORE TARIFF TROUBLES.
A Fruitless Effort to Please Individ-
uals and Adjust Local
Grievances.

Grievances.
The Wilson tariffbill has been the
subject of earnest consultation
among Senators of the sub-commit,
tee, since the opening of the weeks
session, on Monday. The work Of
the committee, ON yesterday,
brought the bill up to stage OF
completeness heretofore unattained
but there yet remains the danger OF
its being thrown out of balance by
some one simple article That ar
ticle, according to public opinion,
at Washington, is most likely to
prove the sugar schedule, as it was
generally understood that if def
mite agreement could be reached on
this article it would then be possible
to agree upon every thing else and
that the bill could be reported with
out delay
1t is understood that by mutual
concessions and frequent consulta-
tions the demands made by those
Democratic Senators who opposed
the bill in the form in which it was
first presented have been met
and tentatively agreed upon, but
even these agreements are subject
to the approval of the treasury de-
partment and the needs of the gov
ernment in the matter of reve-
nue.,
Secretary Carlisle was with the
committee the greater portion of
the day yesterday, and met with
them again later in the evening
to discuss and compare changes
But while all of these concessions
have been made and the members
of the finance committe and the
obiecting Senators have found a
middle ground, there yet remains
the matter of sugar, and the diff
culties surrounding an agreement
upon this are the greatest that the
tariff makers had to contend with
The Louisiana Senators have one
plan which does not meet with fa-
vor by the refners. The plan of
the refners is Objectionable to the
Louisiana Senator's A suggestion
has been made that an advalorum
tax be laid, and the refners say
this would afford them no protec-
ton Some Senators, looking to-
ward concession, have said that
if an advalorum rate is not just to
re6ners a differential be made in
their favor. This is stubbornly re-
sisted by those who claim that an
ad valorum rate would afford them
a just protection, as the higher
price of the refined sugar would
necessitate greater tax when i'm
ported than the raw sugars. 1t also
appears that the proposition for an
increased tax on whiskey is mixed
up with the proposed duty on SUI
gar If the latter is agreed to, the
necessity for an increased whiskey
tax disappears. For this reason
those who have been insisting upon
increases in the whiskey tax are not
favorable to a sugar tax.
One of the Senators who was
openly opposed to the Wilson bill
as it was amended by the Senate
subcommittee and who wrs active
in the caucus, said yesterday, the
outcome was a matter of consider
able doubt "Had the bill made
equal reductions" he said, and
had no attempt been made to give
some special interests an advantage
we could not complain. But when
it was proposed to protect the
Louisiana sugar men, we could not
sit still and see the interests in our
states suffer This led to the eau
Gus and it was there shown how un-
Just it would be to make the bill
protective in one locality alone 1t
may be that the concessions which
have been made will be agreed to
and that the treasury department
will find them satisfactory, and yet
one little thing may result in undo
ing all that has been done and the
Wilson bill reported very much in
the form it came over.