Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-02-27
TARIFF CHANGES
Recommended by Senate
Committee on Finance.
SENATOR VESTS REMARKS
Call Forth Vigorous Replies From
Senator Brice and Others.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-The mem bers Of
the senate committee on finance gave out
bills containing their recommendations,
but they wene handed cut with such in
functions OF secrecy that most of the SEN
ators who received them returned them
before leaving the caucus room. and some
OF them did 80 without noting the
changes carefully.
IL was observed that the committee had
left iron ore lum Der and wool on the free
list; that IL had placed lead ore and all
lead products on the free list: that duty
OF 80 cents per ton had been placed on
coal, and that the sugar duty was fixed
at SOlOOths OF cent a pound on sugar
reaching 80 per cent by the polariscopio
test, and increasing this duty l-lOOths Of
a cent for each degree above until IL il
brought up to 1 cent a pound for abso-
lutely pure sugar-that reaching 100 de-
arees by the polariscope test.
A Days Talk on the Tariff.
The Democrats of the senate spent al
most the entire day In caucus discus
sing the tariff bill.
The senate finance committee, which
was called to consider the bill prepared
by the subcommittee, was adjourned
eoOh dlbtf duh bho btulp-
cratic senators in the city who were not
confined to their homes by illness were
in the marble room, where the caucus
was held for an hour and half before
the senate met, and at / o'clock, after
brief session, agained entered the caucus
aud remained until $50 p. IN.
Senator voorhees, briefly explained the
manner In which the bill had been pre-
pared, while Senator Vest explained the
bill at some length. A number of the
changes and the reason why they were
made were given.
Senator Vest severely criticised Senator
Brice for stating in IA New York World
interview that the bill was prepared by
three brigadier generals who were ideal
lists. and that northern and southern
Democrats had been ignored.
As Viewed by southerners.
Senator Brice replied vigorously, de.
claring that the statement was true. He
also took occasion 10 criticise some OF the
sectional features of the bill, and pointed
out that certain kinds OF iron, which was
practically raw material to the manu-.
facturers, were taxed. Senator Brice made
quite an extended speech, and his re-
marks were largely sustained by Senators
Others from the south.
Speeches were also made by Senators
German, Jones. White OF Louisiana, CAT
frey. Morgan. Faulkner, Gray, Martin and
Others during the afternoon. Senator White
spoke at considerable length on the sugar
schedule, and made an urgent appeal for
an increase OF the duty on sugar over the
figure agreed upon by the Democratic
membe Of the finance committee.
Senator Caffrey spoke In very much the
same strain, IA did also Senator Martin,
who reminded the caucus of the party
pledge for a tariff bill for revenue. He
contended that free list was wrong i'm
principle, and said that revenue tariff
policy demanded that all importations
should be treated alike.
Strife Continues.
The bitterness of feeling in the house
over the seigniorage question came out
plainly in the debate yesterday, especially
In the speech of Lafe Pence, who men.
toned by name the western Repu blicans
who professed friendship for silver, but at
dictation were dodging the vote on this
bill, and called them a gang OF hypo-
critics" and other disagreeable names.
He also accused The Tom" of the
Republican side (Mr. Reed and THE
Tom" of the Democratic side(Mr. Tracey
of beating the tom-toms which frightened
the weak. kneed friends of silver
Later on Fithian of Illinois attack ed
Patterson of Tennessee, who had an
nounced that he was in favor Of the
coinage of the seigniorage In the first
section of the bill, but opposed to the
rest of it, and who intimated plainly that
that was the position Of Secretary Carlisle,
to whom, he said, he had been talking by
reading the New York press report of
speech made by Representative Patterson
In New York on Saturday to the effect
that the seigniorage bill was a mistake
and that the men supporting it were con-
trolled by 'old fogy notions" Of finance.
Patterson replied that Republican news
papers had not correctly reported him.