The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-06-22
LAST EDITION
HOUSE IS UGLY.
Ways and Means Committee
Disposed to Be Conciliatory.
But the House Is Hardly Likely to
Consent to Sugar Schedules.

WASHINGTON, June 22.-No agreement
has IS yet been reached in the ways and
means committee concerning the stand
which the House is to take on the
sugar schedule OF the tariff bill. 1t
IL believed, however, that the strug-
gle between the Senate and the House
on this schedule will be desperate with
= possibility of q long deadlock between
the houses. The Wilson bill, as 1t
left the house, contained no sugar
schedule, a. the tax on raw and
refined sugars had been struck ont and
the bounty had been abolished outright.
The Senate schedule is, therefore, the only
sugar proposition to go TO confer
ence, and the first issue will be
on rejecting the Senate schedule entirely
and thus returning to the House the form
Of the bill which contained no sugar
schedule. II one or the other side will
not yield on this issue, the next step Will
be TO frame a compromise.
1t Is believed that the ways and means
committee is disposed TO be conservative
and conciliatory, and TO avoid,
by any. fair agreement, another
the committee Is not sure OF hav-
ing the house behind 1t in this
conciliatory policy. Ii was on sugar that
the committee sustained its only defeat
when the Wilson bill was before the
House, and this victory of tho free sugar
Iaocals may DC ueleateu. nepreSeh'a-
tive Price, OF Louisiana, who repre-
,ents the largest sugar district OF
The State, says the Louisiana delegation,
has made no plans and Is simply waiting
on the action OF the Senate. He and 9TH
ers of the Democratic delegation say the
outcome depends largely on the DISPOSE
tion OF the Senate to stand by its amend
ments.
Representative Meyer Of Louisiana says
that the Senate amendments give to sugar
less than the Louisiana delegation con-
tended for in the house, yet the disposition
would probably be to accept the Senate
schedule as the best obtainable.
The free sugar men are very determined,
and some of them say there can be no
compromise short of an absolute surrender
Of the Senate TO the House amendments.
"The House Is overw helmingly opposed
to either tax or bounty on sugar" said
Mr.. Dockery. at was so when the bill
passed the House, and 1t is so now"
With this overw helming sentiment and
voting strength for free sugar ii would
seem to assure a very determined stand on
the part of the House.
"If the House votes as u thinks,
and positively declines to yield to a
sugar tax, then the question may be
presented as TO our taking off our coats
than yield to the Senate sugar amend
ments. But Us to myself j will not cross
that bridge Until come to it. Sure 1t is,
however. that there is TO be most earnest
effort To have the House stand by its con-
victions against duty or bounty on
II believe in remaining right here at
our desks until the fourth OF next March
rather than surrender to the Senate sugar
schedule" said MIR. Warner of New York.
ST think, moreover, that the House is
certain to make resistance which will
compel the Senate to yield
Mr.. Warner was asked IL the Senate's
surrender would have to be absolute and
unconditional or whether the House would
itself yield somewhat for the sake OF agree
ment.
The normal, national, inherent posi-
t,on OF the House is for no tax and no
Bounty on Sugar." he continued.
sit will be this, or something substan-