Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-08-27
HOW THE TARIFF WAS FIXED
SENATOR JONES GIVES SOME IN
SIDE HISTORY.
The Sugar, Coal and Iron Ore sche-
duIes--senator HiiI Opposed TO the
Bni From the Beginnins-The DiiI
All That Could be Obtained.

ST. Louis Mo, Aug. ga special dis
patch TO the Republic from Little Rock
says Senator James *. Jones gives q
history OF the recent tariff contest. The
senator. II will be remembered, was a
member OF the subcommittee to which
the Wilson bill was first referred. Sem
ator Jones says in part: 1.-THE bill as
first reported back 10 the committee
may be considered as an expression of
the opinions of our subcommittee un-
modified by the views of our associates
in the senate. While large majority
OF the Democrats in the senate We're
perfectly satisfied with the bill a num-
Der complained of different parts Of it
and In an effort for harmony we pre-
sented another. While there are
changes in the number of schedules, of
Importance too, the second report of
ours provided also for free sugar, free
coal and free iron ore"
The senator relates that how. owing
to the persistent demands Of senator's
representing sugar interests, the mem
bers OF the subcommittee. with great
reluctance and regret submitted a
further change in the bill imposing a
tariff range from $40 of one cent to /
cept per pound on all sugar with no
! additional tax on refined sugar, propos-
ing tax of fifty cents per ton on coal
and making iron ore free. hoping there
] by to secure united Democratic action
A 10. 4.F
] which lasted three days. the senator's
| from louisiana especially White. spoke
! against the Bill. AT the same time sem
/ utors of those states where sugar re-
| hneries were located decided that they
/ could not support the bill without some
| tarlH ON refined sugar IL there was a
] tarin ON the raw The result of this
! protracted and stormy caucus was the
| adoption of a resolution sending the bill
| back TO the committee with lnstpuc-
| tiona to amend 1t so as to meet the ar
[ fculties which had been developed in
| the caucus. I'm obedience to this ac-
I tion which was really equivalent to m
order TO tax sugar. coal and iron ore.
we brought In bill with n tax OF l
/ cent per pound on sugar testing so de-
/ grees by the polarlscupe and II cent
| addition for each degree up to 30 and
! u Tor each degree above 90 and up to
9S and on sugar Prove IS standard in
color and additional tax of is cont per
pound. This. with coal and iron ore
/ AT 40 cents per ton, the bill was rerort-
ed to the senate on March 20. These
changes gave no satisfaction and II be-
! came evident that the bill would be de-
tented n insisted on.
IN this emergency I determined to
see V there was no means OF saving
the Dill Senator Hill one Of the forty
/ -FOUR democrats In the senate. was
| openly hostile to the bill To pass
/ The bill would require forty-throe votes
| hence II was necessary that every one
OF the remaining forty-thrce votes he
secured for the support OF the bill.
| several of these had already opanlv
/ declared that they could not and would
not vote for the bill as reported and
1t was decided to amend It so ns to
secure their support. These modlfca-
tons involved changes Of the sugar
schedule from . specific to an nd val
orem duty, the imposition of an addI-
tlonnl tax OF one-tenth Of one cent
per pound on all sugars imported from
countries paying bounties and the sip-
mr. schedule could not he operative until
January l, 1895: taxes on coal
and iron ore at the rate Of 10 cents
per ton and changed in the textile
ana other schedules Of more or less
Importance"
Before the amended bill was reported
back to the committee Senator Tones
said he consulted with President Cleve-
land, Secretary Carlisle and members
Of the finance committee, explaining
the necessity for making the changes
mentioned. They all agreed as 10 the
advisability Of doing so and a caucus
or Democratic senators decided to sup
port the bill as amended. From May
/, when the amendments were offered,
10 July 3, when the bill finally passed
the senate. the forty-three Democrats
stood together like a stone wall and
redeemed their pledges like men, with
but a single break
There are many things in the sem
ate bill not satisfactory to me-" said
Senator Jones IF I should have had
my own way I would have raised the
revenue needed from whisky, beer and
tobacco, and not from sugar or from
wooden goods, md when imposing a
tax on sugar l would not have i'm
posed any extra tax on refined sugar.
/ resisted all these changes with all
my power as did my colleague on the
subcommittee, Senator Vest and we
made them as small as possible and
at last only accepted such as were
absolutely necessary to the passage of
the bill The bill as passed however.
- departure from Mclfinleyism and
Is a great measure OF tariff reform"
Row Boat Party Drowned.
READING Pa Aug 26-ThA hodIas NJ