The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-17

TARIFF CONFERENCE
Republican Members In
vited to a Meeting This
Afternoon.
PROBABLE ACTION OF HOUSE MEMBERS
Ease With Which Deadlocks
Occur = The Sugar
Schedule.
PROBABLE ACTION OF HOUSE MEMBERS


WASHINGTON, July n, 1s94-An incident
of yesterdays tariff conference is cited today
to illustrate the Q ase with which dead
locks occur in the conference committee
room The committee had under considera-
ton the paragraph relating to gunny bags.
cles which the Senate, upon the request of
the Populists, struck off When vote was
taken on the paragraph yesterday it resulted
in tie Usually these tie votes are divided
squarely between the conferees of the two
houses In this case the boundary lines were
obliterated. Senators Voorhees, and Vest and
Representatives Mon tgomery and Wilson
voting to retain the duty while Senators
Harris and Jones and Representatives Tur-
ner and McMillin held out for the Senate
amendment. The paragraph was then laid
aside to he considered later.
1T AFFECTED GERMANY.
Upon one point in the sugar schedule the
conferees will doubtless agree. The discus
sions indicate such a conclusion, but final
action will not be taken until an agreement
is reached regarding the entire schedule.
While the bill was under discussion in the
Senate an amendment was inserted in the
sugar schedule at the suggestion of Secretary
Carlisle, placing a discriminating duty of
one tenth of cent a pound on sugars from
all countries paying an export bounty on the
refined article. The discrimination really
affects Germany alone, which is the only
country that has enacted such law. The
conferees have been informed that this duty
is proving a source OF no little embarrass-
ment to the State Department. and it is for
this reason that the elimination OF the tax is
confidently expected.
HOUSE GIVES WAY TO SENATE.
As the sessions of the conference continue
the indications increase that the House, in
order to reach speedy adjournment, will
concede almost everything that the Senate
contends for. If these surface indications
correctly represent the sentiment of the
House democrats, and a report written on
the lines of the Senate bill be submit
ted to it, it is believed that the
House will after q short debate,
agree to it. If, on the other
hand, the House conferees secure a
report which makes material reductions in
the textile chemical, metal and other i'm
poruant schedules. from the rate fixed in the
Senate bill, the Republican members of that
body insist that the debate upon those
features may be protracted 81 for several
weeks. This leaves the situation involved in
a good deal of obscurity, and until report
shall be made by the committee it is diff
ficult to tell what its fate may be or how
long it may be debated particularly in the
Senate.
REPUBLICAN MEMBERS UNITED.
This morning at eleven o'clock Senator
Voorhees, issued notice to each Republican
member of the Conference Committee in
forming him that there would be a meeting
of the full Conference COMMITTEES on the
tariff bill at two o'clock this afternoon.
These communications were sent by special
messengers and dalivered into the hands Of
Senators Sherman, Allison and Aldrich
personally.