Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-07-12
THE TARIFF BILL.
Progress Being Made by
the Oonferees.
IT is SUGAR, COAL and IRON
That Causes the GREATEST
Contention.
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The House Members Think Thcy Are
Entitled to Some Concessions on
the Wooden Schedule. but the
Senators Grant Nothing.


" o'ngton. July i1.-Members OF tho
> " % mittee from the house and
.Ne today when the conference
oh ~ ao fore o'clock. that pro-
greA >."<,Wa made. All agreed
that NV ", sect where the VIII
son and hs radically differ.
the confere, still very wide apart
IT was stated oy one II the house con-
ferees that whore sugar, coal and iron
differences are adjusted there will be
little difficulty in reaching an agres-
ment on other matters The house con-
ferecs feel that they are entitled to
some radical concessions and the SEN
ators do not seem disposed TO yield
The latter say that 1t was with the
utmost difficulty that they prepared
bill which would command sufficient
votes to pass the senate and that
many changes would perhaps mean
danger to the final adoption of the
measure.
Today more than heretofore. tho
house members have run against the
tenaelty Of the senate for a senate bill
and the adjournment Indicated that the
stubbornness en- 10th sides was keenly
felt The insistance of the senate Is
not alone ON the three large uues-
lions, sugar coal and iron, but today
differences have been developed IN
other lines. The confurees Of the two
houses almost deadlocked on the metal,
cotton and wooden schedules. 'rhe
changes In the elassihcatlons Of the
wool and cotton schedule Is one OF
the contentious and one which cannot
be easily settled. The senators say
they represent the Views OF their party
associates ON these questions ana are
not disposed to cunct de anything. The
house members are tenacious for the
house bin on woolens and claim that
tnis schedule was one of the most inn
portant as well as most satisfactory
In the Wilson bill and that they can
not accept the increase.
The subject Of specific and ad val
oren rates may not cause much
trouble. as the measures of both houses
agree that such differences Will not
be worth serious disagreements II the
committee can get together ON other
and more important matters. These
changes from ad valorem to specific
duties. the house conferees find are
not so numerous as they supposed,
and are largely In the chemical sched-
ule. 1t is understood that for this rea-
son there are few Disbursements over
the first schedule and that many Of
the less important schedules can now
be arranged. Some members OF the
conference We're discouraged when the
meeting adjourned last night, and paid
that Il might be two weeks before
they would get through. Efforts are
being made to reach an agreement
ON all points, so that no article or
articles shall be reported separately,
with the statement that upon these
subjects the oonferees disagree and
IL
sideratlon. The men who are more
especially interested in the keystone
articles OF the agreement are afraid
that such a report will be made The
conferecs also feel that a bill which
the eight Democrats can agree upon
is more liable 10 immediate adoption
than il disputed points are left for
future consideration.