The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-05
MORE DELAYON The TARIFF.
Republicans Trying TO Put 1t Back
Another Week.


sibility that the tariff bill will not be re-
ported for another week There is an
old time custom which the republicanss
are demanding be continued They want
the bill, after 1t is completed laid before
the republican members of the committee
for examination and scrutiny. Senator
Voorhees, has taken the stand tnat the
bill is to be submitted as soon as com
pleted. He says he will not yield to the
importunate republicans, but the republi-
cans say he will,
The New York senators will wage q
bitter war on the income tax and take to
extreme measures to defeat it. Senator
Hill served notice on the committee that
he intended to fight it yesterday. After
hearing him, Senator Voorhees, said: Go
before the Senate and make a speech
against it if you feel you must, but let
the matter end there"
AN oMINoUs WARNING.
"That is not the way fight, ," answered
Senator Hill, and with these ominous
words left the room.
Senator Hill says the income tax was
proposed for revenue, and with tax on
sugar, the income feature is unnecessary
The combination between the New
York and Louisiana senators means an at
tempt to protect sugar and strike down
the income tax. Senator Cahrey said as
much yesterday when he said to the
MORNING News correspondent: THE
party is not pledged to the income tax,
but it is to raise revenue, and the proper
source is from sugar"
COTTON MACHINERY TO COME IN FREE.
Yesterday cotton machinery was for
mally put on the free list Senator
George, of Mississippi, held out and
fought for this point with as much avidity
as Senators White and Caffery are fight
in for sugar. A senator said TO the MORN
ING News correspondent this evening:
II have been talking with some of the
finance committee, and they assured me
that it was decided yesterday to put cot
ton mill machinery on the non-dutiable
list"
PLANS OF THE DEMOCRATS.
BY the Southern Associated Press.
Washington, March 4.-Unless the
plans of the democratic members of the
Senate finance 20 all awry the tariff bill
will be laid before the full committee
Tuesday morning at 10 O'Clock. After con
ferring together the greater part of to-
day, the democrats believe they
have come as near solving the
situation as possible and the inten-
tion tonight is to take the final vote
tomorrow afternoon. although Senator
Jones wanted the whole question dis
posed Of at yesterdays meeting. The
disputed schedules have been so largely
discussed, and so many tentative PROPOSE
tions considered, that it only remains to
decide finally which of these shall be in
corporatcd in the bill
THE OPEN SCHEDULES.
Although the committee understands
pretty thoroughly what it will do, the
open schedules are sugar, whisky, coal
iron ore, lead ore, lumber, cotton fabrics,
leather, tobacco and silks.
den ocratic member of the finance,
discussing the situation in committee and
the prospect in the Senate, tonight talked
to a reporter frankly, admitting the facts
which other senator's have professed not
to see. I'VE have our head in the lions
| mouth" =" said this senator, ''and will be
compelled to make the best bargain we
can to get it out whole and uninjured.
We are .he victims Of the wrath of
democrats ghO are about as good demo
Gratis on the tariff question as is Senator
| Morrill,, the former chairman OF the com
mittee. The Democratic party can never
a ord to not pass tariff bill this con
grcss. To do so would be TO utterly de-
mOralize the party and we could
bill must be passed in some
shape or other and in order 10
accomplish this we must make concessions
that are unpaiatablo The na GRITTY in
Senate is very small, only three. We
h@yc a democrats, IS republicans and B
populists. Two democrats Totes against
the bill would defeat it, and the commit
as we went TO report IL. and as we
should do were we not thus handi-
capped, three Senator's would vote
against it, These three senator's are
Messrs. Cafery and White Of Louisiana,
and Smith of New jersey True, Mr..
White will leave the Senate for the
supreme court long before the vote is
taken, but his successor viii be equally
as vigorous against the bill unless sugar
is taken care of, as Mr.. White
demands. OF Senators. Brice, German,
Hill and Murphy, we do not entertain
such fears; they are working hard for
concessions, but would hardly vote against
the bill when it came to the test. These
are the conditions that confront the com
mittoe, and they are conditions that must
be met successfully, for, as have said, we
cannot afford to wait 10 invite the certain
disaster that would quickly follow the
defeat of the tariff bill in the Senate. For
that reason we must report bill that win
| bring TO il .he support Of the entire
party"
SEVEN PROPOSITIONS.
This same senator stated that seven
| different propositions had been submitted
to the committee. IT, latest advocated by
one of the sugar senators, being an al
yaiorem duty Of 40 per cent. on all sugar
up TO No. rs Dutch standard and 81 per
! cent. above. This, the committee abso-
lutely refused TO consider, and proved, as
! is alleged 10 the senator masing the
argument, that il was all 10 the benefit Of
the trust. The senator said that the
| committee sorrOwfully confessed to itself
| that it must give almost as much as the
| sugar men demanded. He believed that
/ this schedule would be fixed on tho
| graduated scale, and he was
| afraid the committee would have
| to yield ] cent a pound on
all sugar up TO 80 degrees by the polar
ascopic test. and l-l0O of cent additional
on each degree between 50 and So Be-
! yond that there was still a dispute, the
| sugar men demanding 4-lO0 for each de-
! gree, and the committee loath TO consent
! to even 2-lO0.
| CONCESSIONS TO THE LAST.
To Senators Smith and Hill represent
| ing the industries Of the eastern and New
/ Englend states, many concessions have