The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-03
TARIFF AGREEMENT
Everything Looking Well
For Speedy Action, Says
A House Conferree.
MORE REPUBLICAN TALK.
President Cleveland Confers with
Chairman Wilson and Sena-
tor Jones.

WASHINGTON, Aug 3, 1s94-"Every.
thing said one of the House conferrees,
when the recess was taken today, sis look
ing well Both sides are working hard, and
propositions and counterpropoSitions ars
being continually made. There are no diff
/ ferences between the House and Senate cons
ferrees. If the matters in dispute were left
to us, they would be settled in an hour, and
the House bill would be the mea sure agreed
upon.
"But the Senate conferrees are not at lib
erty to consult their individual preferences
They know they must agree upon a report
that will be adopted by the Senate, and that
it is not advisable to change the Senate bill
too radically The principal consideration
is Just how far the Senate will go in the d.
rection of eompromi Sc. Armed with thia
knowledge, the est of the work will be COM
parat lively easy"
COAL, IRON AND SUGAR.
'sTo what have the conferrees devoted
| their time during the sessions of this week."
he was asked
ssTo consideration of the coal, iron ore
| and sugar schedules. The other schedules
are only considered incidentally"
when do you expect to reach an agres-
| ment on these disputed points"
Il can only say in general way, he re-
! piled, '.that we are gradually making prog
| ress. I should not be surprised if general
understanding were reached on coal, iron
ore and sugar by tomorrow evening, or by
| Monday at the latest With these once de-
! ternined we can settle the other schedules
| in forty-eight hours, and be ready to call in
| the Republican members of the conference
not later than Thurs lay of next week
| REPUBLICANS TO TALK.
| If it be true that the Democratic confer
rees may settle their differences by Thurs
! day next it is not likely that a report can bs
made to the Senate before the following
| Monday The Republican conferrees say
| that each of the $40 amendments made
bv the Senate shall be read and dis
cussed before report is made. This
| will not be in pursuance of any plan to
fillbuster or to delay action, but simply that
| the republican 'eonferrees may not only un-
! derstand the changes made but the infiu-
ences which brought about the changes. 1t
| Is not unlikely also from what the repub-
/ lican members of the conference are saying
| this morning, that if any material change Is
mrde in the Senate bill, the republicans IN
| that body will discuss the report for some
days
| The democratic members of the tariff con-
| ference were in session this morning Tor an
| hour and half and then adjourned uatlI
| later in the afternoon, The absolute state
! ment was made that there was no
| likelihood of The conferrees getting to-
gether on all matters in dispute before
| the end of the week 1t is understood that
| an arrangement has been reached on sugar,
and that if it is found to be satisf~~ y to
| the Senators who are caring for une. ming
interests it will be agreed to by the confer
rees
| PRESIDENTIAL CONFERENCES.
President Cleveland had four callers yes
| terday everyone of whom visited him to
! discuss the tariff situation. Three went to
| the White House by invitation, and one, OF
his own accord. The voluntary ..caller was
| Chairman Wilson, who spent some time
| and done can oily he guessed by
| what may follow in the Conferences
| Committee Shortly after Mr.. Wilson took
| his departure, Senator Jones entered, and
| carried with him, it is said, a copy of the
proposed sugar schedule upon which the
conference had agreed to unite if the support
| OF the antagonistic element could be se-
cured 1t is reported that this
| schedule provides for an al valorem duty on
all sugars, raw and refined, but so worded
that there can be no concealed protection IN
! it for the refiners The differential is fixed
| at a rate which has so far been unnamed,
but which is colored to give the refiner the
equivalent of the is now in the Senate bill.
The House conferrees have made the con-
| tention all along that there was IN the
Senate bill too much protection granted to
the trust, and that they would be
willing to accede to some proposition that
| eliminated this element of doubt and
| confined its protection to the absolute
specific rate named in the bill. Whether
| the President endorses this proposed
schedule is not known, nor is it known
whether it will be acceptable to the so-called
sugar Senators.