St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-28
SUGAR THE BONE.
1t Will Be the Principal Point OF
Contention in Con ference.

1t Will Be the Principal Point OF
| Contention in Conference.
| w ASHINGToN. July GA messenger
| from the executive mansion reached the
house of representatives half an hour
after the senate had voted TO send the
tariff bill back TO conference with note
for Representative McMillin. the rank
| ing house conferee in the absence of
Mr.. Wilson, asking him to cali at the
White house. This, folio wing the con-
ference between the president and
| Speaker Crisp earlier in the day, was
/ taken co indicate the solicitude the
/ president felt on tile outcome OF the
| second conference. Mr.. McMiilin de-
ciined to talk of his call on the presi-
| dent. Messrs. MeMiIlin and Turner are
! the only house conferees in town, bur
1 Speaker Crisp has WORD that Montgom-
cry will arrive tonight and Chairman
| Wilson will be here tomorrow. The
| Democratic conferees will Eold an in.
Formal meeting tomorrow, and Senator
| Jones SAID late today that the full con.
ference would probably be called to-
getber Monday. The general impression
! about the senate is that the conference
now agreed on will be as prolonged as
the former one. Other senators are of
the opinion that the COMMITTEES either
Will agree on d report WITHIN two or
three DAYS after the Sittings begin or
Will in that time decide to report an
other disagreement. The preponderanee
OF opinion. however, is that there will
not be another report of disagreement.
LII fact, the Democratic conferees assert
that another disagreement means tile
defeat of the bill.
I he indications all point to the prcb-
aoillty that the sugar schedule again
Will be the principal point OF contea
tlon, and that but for the differences GU
this point an agreement will be reached
after very brief sitting. The Demo-
cratic members of the conference went
through the bill very carefully during
their former sitting and agreed on a
vast majority Of the items in it, So that
they Will Hot need to consider these
points again very July. 1t is probable,
however, that the Republican members
OF the cominittee will ask for an explain
atlon FOR the many charges, and their
acflon. OF course, would have the effect
OF delaying the conference report.
Senator Blanchard has an entirely
new sugar proposition 10 submit 10 the
conferences. but il is not regarded as
likely Or adoption. In outlining his
proposition, Senator Blanchard said
that. IN his opinion, the best way out
OF the complication would be to con-
tlnue the bounty, diminishing at the rate
ohe-eighth OF cent each year and to add
TO the bounty tnree-eighths of cent
duty on raw sugars and fiYe-eighths Of
refined sugars. This" he said, would
hot Increase the price of sugar TO the con-
sumner and would yield to the treasury
Sl2,30O,O00 to S15,000.000 year revenue,
enough TO pay the bounty from the
start, with an ever-inel easing surplus
each year as the bounty dminishes in
amount. The diiferential on refined
sugars would be une-fourth of
a cent. the same as proposed
III the Wilson bill as re-
ported from the ways aud means COM
Inittee and only halt as much as under
the existing Mckinley law, II would
alSo," he added, return the one-tenth
discrimination duty against sugars i'm
ported from countries paying an ex-
port bounty"