The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-08
TARIFF FIGURES IN TYPE.
Voorhees, Bill Sent to the Govern
ment Printing Office.


Bonded Period to Be Extended to
Five Years.
Washington, March Senator Voor-
bees statement on the floor of the Senate
this afternoon that he assumed that the
tariff bill would be laid before the full
mem ership of the finance committee be-
fore many hours, was borne
out by the subsequent action of
the senator, when, about 5 O'Clock,
he issued notices for meeting
of the full committee for tomorrow morn
inc at Ii O'Clock and sent it to the resi-
dence of the republican senators by rid
ing page 1t is also worthy of note, in
connection with this matter, that a lead
inc ueunbe of the committee made the
assertion that this action of the
chairman was not the result
of A conference with those who had had
the construction of the bill in charge, and
might lead to another postponement.
TIE Committeeman AT WORK.
The democratic members of the COM
mittee repaired to the committee rooms
AS soon as the skirmish over the Bland
bin was ended, and applied themselves to
the consideration of the bill with re
doubled energy. Senator Voorhees, left
at 3 O'Clock, but Senators Vest
ZONES. Mcpherson and Harris remained
and ordered their dinner sent TO the COM
mittee room, it being their intention to
remain IN session tonight so long as
rignt become necessary to complete The
biII and send it to the printing Office. At
the same time orders were sent to
the government printing Office to have
a force of men on hand ready to take the
COPY as soon as it was sent, and have the
bill printed in time to lay before the COM
nittee at II O'Clock tomorrow morning
Ltd nj ha la a
STAGES of the bill, the committee renewed
their attack upon the disputed schedules.
SURPRISES IN STORE.
One of the members, who was seen for
a moment, intimated that the bill would
he thought, when it reached the public
be found to contain some very great sur
prises Heavy cuts have been made in
many of the schedules of the Wilson bill,
and if the policy OF the committee is
carried out as indicated, the net amount
of revenue yielded by the Senate bill
will be less, based upon present
importation, and emitting the duty
on sugar, than that figured upon by
the committee on ways and means in the
House 1t is understood that this after
noon some attention was given to the
metal schedule in the belief, that iron ore
having been given a duty, this schedule
would have TO be modified but it is said
that this was abandoned, the committee
finding that had they given duty OF c en-
so much as 50 cents a ton a revision of the
metal schedule would net be necessary.
THE SUGAR SCHEDULE.
After the committee had taken dinner,
the only open question before them was
the sugar schedule, and this was
promptly disposed of, so that the commit
tee adjourned at As O'Clock, at which
time the bill was sent to the printer The
duty given to sugar was only
agreed upon after an animated
discussion and the rate appears
1t is duty, said member of the COM
mittee, at which the producer and con
sumer will have less cause to conf lain
than the refncr. IL is understood that a
rate of l cent a pound is liked on raw
sugar testing 20 degrees by the
pOlarizscope and graded up by degrees,
so that refined sugar will have a duty of
fraction less than one quarter of a cent
a pound. Whether this will satisfy the
sugar senators the committee prefers not
to know.
THE TAX ON WHISKY.
Whisky, it can also be said, IN response
to the recommendations of Secretary
Carlisle, will not have the tax raised be-
yOnd the figure fixed by the House, but
the fight for the extension of the bonded
period appears to have been won, and
that period viii be fixed at five instead of
three years.
Lead ore, as previously stated in these
dispatches, has been restored to the du-
liable list, as provided in the Wilson bill,
and lead products will be given a duty of
% per cent ad valorem.
Lumber, for which Senators Morgan
and Pugh, of Alabema, made fight, and
in which they were assisted by Senator
Villas, of Wisconsin, appears to have been
unfortunate for it is said that it still re-
mains on the free list.
Coal is put at 10 cents a ton, although
as the committee was almost completing
It's work, the proposition was made to
give coal so cents, and the final print of
the bill may show that this was done
Iron ore loses its equal footing with
iron and coal, and mnst be content with
30 cents ton.
When the bill is laid before the full
committee tomorrow at IL o'clock, 1t will
pc, as Senator Voorhees, put it, given to
the whole world" through the agency of
the press, just as it was done in the
House committee
NOT SUBMITTED TO THE CONSERVATIVES
The completed bill was not submitted
TO the Sc allied conservatives, " and q
member Of the committee said tonight
JuaU the committee did not know whether
those senators would support the bill or
not
II was common rumor about the CAPT
Iol to-day that the conservative" demo-
Gratlc sena tors would make an attempt to
ueteat the bill unless the committee came
TO their terms, and the fact that the COM
hittee failed, not only in submitting the
Dill TO them, but in not granting the
maximum of concessions, is taken as a
declaration to these gentlemen that if
they want more they must go to the Sen
ate for it.
no effort was made in the committee to
eliminate the income tax and that re
mains part of the bill. Many changes
nave been made from specific to al valo-
rem duties, the latter being substituted
Wherever possible. At the suggestion of
secretary Carlisle some changes have been
maze IN the administrative sections, all
OF which are gone over carefully by the
assistant secretary of the treasury. In
volume the bill remains about as it came
from the House