The evening world., 1894-08-27
A LAW AT MIDNIGHT.
No Chance Of a Veto of the
New Tariff Bill
Goods in Bond Under Mckinley
Law to Come In Free.
Carlisle Telegraphs Instructions to
Various Customs Officefs.
fBy Associated Press.l


WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-THE Tariff
BILL which has been in the custody of
the Treasury Department since shortly
after It was sent to the President, was
returned to the White House this morn
Ing.
1t is stated authoritatively that q veto
Is out OF the question.
The bill will become a law at ~
o'clock tonight. Secretary Carlisle this
afternoon sent the following telegram
to Customs officials at all ports of the
United States:
"Vessels with cargo not discharged ror
entered for consumption may be made
vessel warehouses temporarily for such
goods as shall be entered to-day In
bond"
The Secretary sent also the follow
ing telegram to Collectors at New York,
San Francisco. Boston, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, New Orleans, Chicago and
Port Townsend, Wash:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE
wAs hTSGT5 Aug. 81. 1894.
Collector Of Customs: You are instructed as
follows concerning the collection OF duties under
the recent revenue legislation OF Congress:
l. All articles heretofore subject to duty, but
made flee By the provisions Of the new act.
may be withdrawn from warehouse on and after
Aug. g. 1894, without the payment Of duty
2. All manufactured articles specially or gen
orally provided for In schedule X, which are
composed wholly Of materials other than wool or
han wool or oil woreS IS M. Ons OF
chief value. will be admitted on and after Aug.
". 1894. at the rate of duty prescribed in the
new act; all other manufactured articles, spe-
chcally OF generally provided for in said sched-
ules. will continue. until Jan l. 1895. to pay
the rates OF duty imposed thereon by the act en-
titled IAN act reduce the revenue equalize
duties on imports, and for other purposes" APP
proved Oct. !, 1890.
3. Coffee and tea and hides and skins, raw or
'lncnred whether dry. sailed or picked, win be
admitted free of duty on and after the 2sth day
OF August 1894. and Treasury circular 49, 1251Ol.
dated March a. 1892, issued In accordance with
the proclamation of the President Of the United
collection OF duties upon certain articles being
the products Of, or exported FROM Venezuela, Co.
'om ss.n and Hay is heTsSg TsYGs'd s.or.,r,
1t is learned that as to all questions
of error in punctuation, Secretary Car
Isle will make no decisions or give any
instructions to collectors until after act
ual cases have come before him on APP
peal from the decisions of the Board of
General Appraisers.
AS to whether diamonds. seeds and
certain other articles are. by the terms
Of the hill. on the dutiable or the free
any instructions hold them to be dutia-
BILE In order TO protect themselves, and
importers must 30 to law II they con-
The scarcity Of Senators in the Sen
ate Chamber to-day was more than
compensated for by the immense crowds
of visitors in the galleries.
Mr.. Cockrell Dem.. MOI moved that
the Senate proceed to the consideration
of executive business. The motion was
carried. and at 1910 the galleries were
cleared of the expectant but disappoint..
ed throngs, the doors were closed, and
the remainder of the days business was
transacted in secret session.
In the House the galleries were also
crowded with visiting members OF the
NJ Holman Dem, Ind. the old
watchdog of the Treasury" created
some amusement by asking unanimous
pay to J. =. Cobb & Co., of Aurora, Ind,
s.. 400, the value OF some barges taken
possession OF by the Government during
the war. Il was ne iirst time he had
bill fCi years, he said. but the House
was not indulgent and Mr.. Marsh CRep
Ill., objected.
Some discussion occurred at the Cap
itol to-day as to whether the President
could veto the Tariff bill after the ad-
journment of the House to-day, this being
the last of the ten days allowed by the
Constitution for the President to consider
the bill.
The discussion was speculative rather
than practical, for all the members UNI
uefStool MT. CleNelanu ndu ITO lnttntlOn
whatever OF vetoing the bill
1t was the unanimous opinion OF the
leading members of the Judiciary Com
mittee, the Speaker, Mr.. Catchings and
others that the President could veto the
bill any time before midnight tonight,
when 1t would become law without
his signature by expiration of the con-
stitutional period of ten days allowed
him to consider the bill
They all agreed that Congress could
not by adjournment in any way abridge
the time allowed the President to con-
slider bill.
II the Tariff bill were vetoed after the
adjournment of the House to-day IT
could he returned to the House to-mor-
row. This has been frequently done
with bills where Congress adjourned
over from Thursday until Monday, thus
depriving the President of the oppor-
tunity to return the bill 10 the House
at the end of ten days.
In such cases In the veto message the
President states that he vetoed the bill
before the expiration OF the ten days.