Connecticut western news., 1894-05-10

ates executive session Senator Jones pre-
 sented the amendments to the tariff bill
 which have been considered and agreed to by the Democratic senators known as the compromise committ-'. There are over zoo of them, and 1t makes new bill or a measure greatly differing from the Wilson bill and from the senate bill in any form in which it has been presented.
 The amendments heretofore presented by Senator Vest and reported from the finance committee are indorsed by the compromise committee. s.... ....
 There is a general increase in the bill, and in some schedules the increases are
 very marked.
 Senator Harris announced that, notwith- standing the consideration of the Chinese treaty had not been finished, he would op-
 pose any more executive sessions or the
 passing of any bills during the morning
 hour until after the tariff bill was disposed of. He also said that he would now press
 for sessions Beginning at 10 o'clock in the
 morning in order that more speed might be made.
 The Republican steering committee of
 the senate held conference for the pur- pose of considering the attitude of the Re publican party in the senate on the tariff question, in view of s~e claims made by
 the Democrats that they have assurance
 of the 43 votes necessary to pass the bill. While the members of the committee do not freely discuss the action of the com mittee, 1t Is understood that they decided to notify the Democratic leaders that they had no intention of filibustering against the tariff, and especially would not be in- clined to resort to dilatory tactics If the Democratic party should prove to be sub stantially united upon the tariff bill. The interchange of views developed the | fact, however, that the Republicans think there is much material in the new compro-
 mise bill for legitimate discussion, and | that they will insist upon the right to dis
 cuss the bill as amended upon its merits. The suggestion was made during the con ference that Republican caucus should
 be held, and some of the members of the committee stated later in the day that they considered caucus within the next | two or three days probable. The commit tee was assured of solid Republican vote against the compromise bill.
 | The Amendments.
 The most important changes made in the tariff bill by the amendments introduced | in the senate as the result of the Democrat ic compromise are as follows:
 The new sugar schedule provides that on | and after Jan. l, 1895, there shall be levied, collected and paid on all sugars not above | No. 16 Dutch standard in color, and on all tank bottoms, sirups of cane juice or of beet juice, melada, concentrated melada, | concrete and concentrated molasses, duty | of 40 per centum ad vaiorem, and upon all \ sugars above No. 16 Dutch standard in | color there shall be levied, collected and | paid duty of one-eighth of l cent per | pound in addition to the said duty of 40 per | centum ad valorem: and all sugars, tank bottoms, sirups of cane juice or of beet | juice, melada, concentrated melada, con | crete or concentrated molasses, which are | imported from or are the product of any | country which at the time the same are | exported therefrom pays directly or indi- rectly bounty on the export thereof, shall pay a duty of one-tenth of I per cent | per pound in addition to the forego- | ing rates; provided that nothing herein | contained shall be so construed as to abro- | gate or in any manner impair or affect the | provisions of the treaty of commercial reciprocity concluded between the United | States and the king of the Hawaiian Is- lands on the S0th day of January, 1875, or | the provisions of any net of congress here | tofore passed for the execution of the same;
 that on and after Jan. 1, 1895, there shall
 be levied, collected and paid on molasses \ testing 40 degrees or less by the polariscope
 and containing more than 20 per centum | of moisture, and on molasses testing above | 40 degrees and not above 56 degrees polari-
 scope a duty of 9 cents per gallon; if test ing above 56 degrees polariscope, a duty of
 cents per gallon. -........ | The pig iron paragraph is amended to
 read as follows: Iron in pigs, iron kent
 edge, spiegeleisen, ferro manganese, ferro | silicon, wrought and cast scrap iron and scrap steel, S per ton; but nothing shall
 be deemed scrap iron or scrap steel except
 waste or refuse iron or steel fit only to be
 manufactured; beams, girders, joists, an- | gles, channels, car truck channels, T col
 umns and posts or parts or sections of col
 umns and posts, deck and bulb beams and | building forms, together with all other
 structural shapes of iron or steel, whether
 plain or punched or fitted for use, 6-l0 cent per pound: senate bill, B per cent ad va- | lorem; house bill, 30. The boiler Aplate paragraph is amended | to read as follows: Boiler and other plate
 iron or steel. except saw plates hereinafter | provided for, not thinner an No. 10 wire | gauge, sheared or unshedred, and skelp 1 iron or steel sheared or rolled in grooves,
 valued at 1 cent per pound or less, 5-I0 | cent per pound: valued above cent and
 not above l1S cents, 6-10 cent per pound; |
 ad valorem; valued at over cents per
 pound, 25 per cent ad valorem; provided | that all plate iron or steel thinner than | No. 10 wire gauge shall pay duty as iron | or steel sheets.
 | The paragraphs concerning iron forg- I ings are changed to read,as follows: Forg-
 ings of iron or steel CT forged iron or steel
 combined, of whatever shape or in what
 ever stage of manufacture, not specially
 provided for in this act. 1& cents per
 pound house bill, 25 per cent ad valorem;
 senate bill, 30 per cent ad valorem; and ! the following proviso is added: Provided
 that no forgings of iron or steel or forg- | ings of iron and steel combined. by what
 ever process made shall pay less rate of
 duty than 35 per cent ad valorem.
 | Railway bars made of iron or steel and
 railway bars made in part of steel, rails
 and punched iron or steel flat rails, 7-20
 cent per pound; senate bill, 22x per cent
 ad valorem; house bill, % per cent
 Sheets of iron or steel common or black,
 including all iron or steel commercially
 known as common or black laggers, iron
 or steel, and skelp iron or steel valued at
 cents per pound or less. thinner than No.
 10 and not thinner than No. 20 wire gauge,
 7-l0 cent per pound; thinner than No. 20
 wire gauge and not thinner than No. %
 wire gauge, S-l0 cent per pound; thinner
 than No. 25 wire gauge, 1 1-10 cents per
 pound corrugated or crimped, 1-l0 cents
 per pound; provided that all common or | black sheet iron or sheet steel not thinner
 than No. 10 wire gauge shall pay duty as plate irou or plate steel.
 The oddity of It.
 The woman suffragists apparently