Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-03-09

Seven Copies Taken from the Waye aud
Means Committee AV0m.

BY Associated Press.
Washington, March S.-lhcrc are
many persons who claim to know many
thugs about the senate tprit uill which
are uot truc. Oncrs have been made
to newspapers from acre to SCI tao tariff
schedules, the Impression being croatod
thnt u genuine nrticlo was for sale, a
mcubor Of the committee, WHO has been
constantly engaged IN the consideration
Of the W ilsun bill from the moment that
II reached the senntc, said to,ly ns 10
the current reports MS TO rates aud schcd-
ulcs; There are no rates and there
Is no bill. The ining that ~ supposed
TO be q bin one day is not the hill OF
tomorrow. What has happened Is thisi
There were twcny4sIA copies Of the draft
of bill which the subcommittee had az
that time agreed upon taken into the
caucus, or tAis number only nineteen
were returned TO the custody of the
committee, and are now under lock aud
key. seven Of the copies Of that time
are missing, II can hO snid that the
Pretended schedules which appenr Ia cor
tain newspapers, and which have been
reierred to as having had an important
influence In Wall street, agree word for
word with these seven missing copies
Those copies furnished the basis for
public comment aud private speculation
since the adjournment Of the caucus. The
tuully interested IN the schedules 40 well
rs the newspapers which may have paid
extraordinary prices Tor what they have
boon informed was exclusive and nccu-
rate informaiiJn have been deceived,
that ia all. The schedules contained IN
those missing seven drafts Of tho hill as
u had been tentatively agreed upon be.
fore the caucus met are not tho euhcl-
nlea Of the bill as u ~ today, or as Il N
likely 10 be tomorrow. They are the
drafts of thc bill as It existed before
the radical movement bad been orranized
to force changes in H. They are now
worthless for any purpose Of news or OF
speculation. There are no printed draffs
~ the bill In the form IN which II existed
az the Adjournment OF tue meeting Of yes
to-day There have been no coni,-s pfiut.
ed, aud ~ X not likely ihat any comics
will he printed until after The hill shall
have been submitted 10 the whole Finance
committee
1.-The bin, as It at present exists. has
for its bnsis n printed draft which has
been under consideration for some limo.
~ ~ printed widely aud ntpflcAvcd and
the very many changes that have hnpn
imade have been written In with a pen
Ihnt D. the only copy Of tho bin that
y ~ ,oxlstencc, and i Is safe under lock
ana kcy- No member Of the committee
or Of the subcommittee hns d cory Of n.
ana the pretended publications Of sohed.
nles from It are not the schedules on fa,
pm us Il stood at the time that II was
locked up last night. Whefinr this Il
the BY which will finally 50 TO the whole
committee J cannot say There seems To
DC no prospect Whatever that This drnft
Or nnF other draft will be admitted 10
ihe committee 90 finance tomorrow. Tbe
hiu ~ not completed IL u not pasaible
10 say when Il viii BE-. But Il can be
stated absolutely that no one has printed
or can print the schedules, for thore ara
NJ YET no schedules TO print. The I'M
may be clanged IN NE last hnur before
n shall be submitted TO the whole com.