St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-10
WHAT VOORHEES, PROPOSES
PROBABLE CHANCES M THE WILSON
Thrift BILL
To BE MADE BY THE SENATE.

The Finance Committee VIII Re-
port in Favor of a Duty on
Sugar, Iron and Coal-WOoi
Men Have Resieged the Capt.
tol in Force, and Have Not Yet
Given Up the Fight. NJ
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-Members of
| the house who have been most active In
tariff legislation have learned with
definiteness as to the purpose of Senator
voorhees, and the committee on finance
ON the Wilson bill. They say that Mr..
voorhees, intends to report the bill back
| to the senate OH next Thursday. The
| few days intervening will, of course,
give no time for recOnstructing the bill.
nor is there any purpose on the part OF
Mr. Voorhees, to accomplish any such
reconstruction. On the contrary, he
has stated positively that the bill will
be reported back in the senate in sub
stantlally the form it passed the house.
There will be the exception, however,
that sugar. iron and coal will be put
back on the dutiable list. The other
| changes will be comparatively i'm
material. The purpose of Mr.. Voorhees,,
as thus made known to friends of the
bill, puts an end to the reports that q
plan was on foot to construct an antirelY
new bill.
THE WOOL MEN,
who are still about the capital in force,
have not by any means given up the
fight, Notwithstanding very little en-
enlargement at the hands of the senate
committee. They are organizing their
forces against the free wool schedule,
and have some hopes of being able to
secure change in the bill after it is re-
ported to the senate, if not before. They
have found the Populist members of the
senate much more inclined to favor
them than they were at first led to be-
lieve would be the case, and are of the
opinion that if they can get some sup
port from the Democrats they can force
at least slight change in their interest.
Many Democratic senators say that it
will be contrary to all recent declara-
lions of the Democratic party to pro-
vide any protection whatever for wool.
Senator Faulkner, discussing the sub
Ject this morning, said: II don't see
how we can do it. We have talked so
much for free wool, and wool is so
important an item of cost in clothing,
that it would be inconsistent for us to
change the bill at this stage" He did
not believe the omission of duty on
wool would have the effect of losing any
votes on the bill.
" ASHINGToN, Feb. 9-The Demo-
cratic subcommittee engaged in shaping
the tariff bill continued its work from
early morning until late tonight. While
there IS great deal yet to be done, the
subcommittee has progressed so far
that Senaaor Voorhees, said today to
representative of the Associated Press
that he was hopeful the bill might be
completed by the latter part of next
week.
In providing the necessary revenues,
the committee is endeavoring to touch
as few of the interests as possible in
making the changes.
All the definite reports still hover
ABOUT the duty Oh sugar, coal and iron
ore, and the tax OIL whisky, and the
income tax. If the income tax is left i'm
the bill it will not be so necessary to put
duties on these imports, and the mem
DerS OF the subcommittee, including
Senator voorhees,. are without excep-
ton favorable to the income tax, but
there is some difference of opinion as 10
the expedlency Of coupling it with the
tariff bill. One of the leading members
of the committee, in reply to question,
said today that all income tax would be
voted by the present congress, Ibut
added that it was not as yet decided
upon whether the tax would be included
III the tariff bill, as reported to the SEN
ate, or in separate bill. The
preponderance of opinion about the
senate, however, seemed favorable to
the retention of the tax in the tariff bill.
The whisky tax is one of the impor-
tant questions not yet decided, aud
efforts are making to secure an extern
sion of the bonded period as we'll as an
increase in tax. With respect to sugar,
Senators Vest and Mills advocate duty
OF about cent. Senator Jones is against
any duty whatever on sugar unless made
necessary by the requirements of the
treasury. This question, like the whisky
tax. still remains an open one about
which there is much speculation.