New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-08-09

% tho Sugar Trust ont of the pending tariff bill
~ no had 10 keep Congress mere until March T.
1885, to do IT, Yet on Friday last and again TO-
day he abjectly gave his consent to COM
promise on sugar. which not only rauties inc
Senates surrender" 10 the Sugar Trust. Du'
actually increases the profit given to the great
refining monopoly frcm TO ~ cents a hundred
weight over the terms Of the Jones-Gorman sur
render" Having solemnly pledged himself to his
great and good friend" in tie White House TO
redeem the Democratic promise" (made to the
Nova Scotia syndicate presumably of a free mar
ket for Canadian coal In Newly DIRK and New
Enpland Mr. Wilson by to-days "comprOmse'
breaks that compa7t to both ear ana nope p'
excluding the lutkless Nova Scotia syndicate
from the American market for 1--WE years longer
which may mean indefinitely. To both the House
and the President. however. who sent MIN 10
battle against the Senates tainted sugar schtd"!e
and against Mr.. Germans protective uu'S Oh
coal, the valiant chairman of the ways an"
Means Committee returns with the pi'Iu' "'
complishment Of having Knocked the 4O-cent du'y
off iron ore-the friendless product 40 iar as
foreign competition Il concerned, OF one vi '"o
Southern States and Northern New-fork
COMPLETE TRIUMPH FOR THE SENATE.
II the House and the President can accept Mt
Wilson'S achievements in conference as either a
triumph of Democratic "prnciples' or vino'-
cation OF Mr. Cleve,ands mandate of July =
or persuade the public to accept them IN"
era of the bunco steerer and the lim-iiam man
in American politics may be Justly said to be now
established On the other hand the sihpleS'
glance at the conditions of the compromise
announced to have been reached TO-DAY compaIeu
with the terms demanded all along ny the
Senate managers will show that IN the unequa!
warfare in conference the Senatorial 'conseIva-
tives have completely trumphed over the iiou'e
and the President.
The sugar schedule Wnlch Is unue' $50"
to be the same that telegraphed TO The Trlb.
Friday .last LAYS duty OF ~ per cr r
on all raw sugars and of 40 per cent on 'he
value of the raw sugar used In making each
pound of refined sugar admitted TO me A'heii.
can market A diferental duty OF 10 OF a cehl
a pound is also imposed on the refined with
compensatory duty equivalent TO the bouht! pau
abroad. BY the Jones-tiorman schedule ma ~
per cent ad valorem duty was lald on Doth raw
and refined sugars. with a diff arentiaI o. : Oh
a cent a pound on refined and comLehsatory
duty Of ITO OF cent. Leaving out OF account
the compensatory duty in the two schedules
the Senate bilis protection the refiner has been
calculated to be 32l2 cents or the aundred wels',.
OF this l2le cents come from th9 ~ OF a cent
mound specific duty. and 20 cents from the con
cealed duty Of 40 per cent ad valoren; on ens
difference Of cost between the raw ana renheu
importations. BY the proposed conference schc o
ule the specific protection is raised rom -,
10 20 cents on the hundred weight While IL Is
estimated. by even Administration ekpeE,s, wa.
me concealed ad valorem duty under tne new S
ditional on the hundred weight -.
THE New-York Times an ADMINISTRATIVE on'
antitrust organ, has figured out editorialiE Inr
concealed differential protection In the NV
schedule to be from 22ie TO % cents on .he
hundred weight making a total pr0ht for lhe
Trust Of from 421s to 40 cents hundred VIZ VIZ
without taking into account at all the coip.",
sstory duty on bounty-paid sugars But even
at 40 cents a hundred as the real dlfereh'lh' 1'
refined sugars. the new schedule indorseu oA VI
Wilson and approved. presumably. by the res
dent and the Cabinet carries a protection 10 zoe
Trust ~ cents greater on the hundreu pounus
than that granted originally TO the rehnlhg
mononolv by the sugar planters of the Sell
ate against whose ''peridies" MI wilson under
took a month ago his devastating crusade
HOW ABOUT THE PRESIDENTS PROMISE3s
BY securing tho retention of the 40 cents Ton
duty on coal. Mr.. German achieves substantial
victory over the President. which cannot be ex-
planned away by any amount OF CUCKOO IN
eenuitv. Free coa' sas the paramount prin-
ciple OF reform insisted on In the PRESIDENT
letter 10 Mr.. Wilson. and his failure 20 reu,r"
This great democratic promise to his New
England friends Of the Nova Scotia syndicat"
must be accepted a direct reputation d! me
two Houses of Congress Of the authority Of thu
Inspired Pontiff in the White House w NAT Is
TO become Of the inerrancy OF Mr.; CieVeiahd
leadership II his Interpretation OF the principles
~ tariff reform is 10 be denied and rejected by
tho marty In Congress? There is apparently ma
terial in the proposed conference report FOR
ieremiade from MI. Villas. the oratoricaI lhuroe'
of the United States Senate.
The concession Of free iron ore 10 the
House conferrees was simply a sop thrown GOWN S
nv the Senate managers 10 the beaten ana ur-
snondent defenders of Democratic princples'
Neither the President nor the House mas ever
haen greatly interested in removing the duty on
iron ore and Mr.. Cleveland neglected ehtiTeIy
70 cav in the Wilson letter that iron ore was
product In which the capitalists ana raiiIpau
corporations were chiefly interested In the sen
ota Nv Pueh has been the only Democrat who
has stood out aggressively for duty on iron ore
which is an important product In Northern Aia-
af M a
nation In the Senate TO keep iron ore on IN"
dutjabe list at all hazards. and when II came
to the point Of sacrificing something the uuty on
iron ore was naturally selected as the least
likely to involve by its excelsior the defea ol 'he
Hill Mr. Pugh has threatened several times 70
oppose any conference report "lic his rn,sagn
Mr. Morgan will now vote 10 reject the work 81
the conferrees is far from certain. Mt Murphy
viii, doubtless also object 10 the Abandonment
~ The iron ore duty because Of IT'S effect or the
mines Of Northern New-YOrk Buf Mr. Murphy
has many causes for complaint against the pend
ing measure and II he concudes 70 hsh' Il
oneniy from this on 1t will probably be OF quite
different grounds.
THE BILLS CHANCES IN THE sENAI'-.
II the agreement now thought fairly in sight
on the whole bill is successfully accomplished
the agreeing report will have first TO run 'he
eantlet Of the Republican conferrees ~ - not
likely in the present condition OF feeling IN the
Senate to be kept long in the full committee 30
many dangers threaten any report from the dis
affected element on the Democratic side OF the
Senate that the Republicans will Doubtless con-
tnue their policy OF allowing the fate Of the
bill to be settled by the two factions among the
majority Whether the Cuckoo" Senators VIII
accept the report with It's snub to the frcs.urn'
on coal whether the Alabama Senators VIII sup
mort a measure which puts iron ore on Inc Hes
lie, whether Messrs. Caffery and blanchard, OF
louisiana will vote for report when refuses
them the half-earned bounty OF this year sugar
cron whether Mr. Murphy and MI I'M VIII
carry out their recent threats 10 sheVe thc "hoIe
measure by helping through motl9n iol III
definite postponement-all these puz%nne p uer
tons can only be settled by ALLOWING IN report
to be submitted to the chances OF parliamentary