The evening world., 1894-02-19
|S1|LL another DELAY.
The Tariff Bill May Not Be Reported
10 The Full Finance Committee
Of the Senate This Week.
PARTY HARMONY not ESTABLISHED.
IA Attempt to Pc Eado Tc-Day to sctt e
tho Sugar Question Attitude Of
Tho Sugar senat5rs.
tSreclal to The Worli)

iSrrcIal to The Worli)
WASH1NGTON, Feb. lS.--The Demo-
cratic members of tine Senate Commute
on Finance lave decided that they will
not be able to report the Tariff bill to
the iuli committee next Tuesday. and
ona OF the members of the suh-Commit-
tee which has had the bin under con-
sideratioa said to-day: II shall he very
well satisfied if the bill is in shape to
he reported by the beginning of next
week"
The committee was very hopeful Just
before adjournment Friday night of be
ing able to fuitl Chairman Noorhees's
promise to get the hill in readiness for
the fun committee this week, but after
putting in "A long days work at the close
of a week given up almost exclusively
to the bill. the members found 1t still
chaotic. and were compelled to admit
to themselves. as they did later to out
side inqulrcrs, that the task they had
set themselves had been Impossible Of
accomplishment. The reason for the
poetponamcut il that the work Of salts
fying democratic senators has been
found very difficult. and the Constru"-
ton of a bill that Is sure to he accepted
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many changes of purpose and alterations
Of the figures at first made,
The democratic member Of the FL
nance Committee will try tomorrow to
settle the question Of laying a tax on
sugar.
The best opinion here is that. notwith-
standing their declared purpose to oppose
the bill! MESS their demands about sugar
are aCceGed to. the Louisiana senator's
and Mr.. White. Of California, instead OF
uniting with the Republicans in an effort
to kill the bin, will appeal their case to
the Senate ami Ugh: it out there. They
can make no alliance with the Republi-
cans upon any terms short of recommit-
ting the bib or killing it outright. 1t
f. assumed that the sugar senators do
not wish to defeat tariff reform alto
gether. however anxious they may be to
get a tax on sugar. Necessity, there
fore, will in some way in the end COM
pei them, to treat with their own party
rather than with the Republicans for
terms, and abide by whatever the Demo
cratic majority in the Senate may i'm
pose so that the reporting of the Will
son bill by the Finance Committee with
sugar free or bearing a duty of only !
ceut "A pound viii not argue that the
sugar senators VIII vote t. defeat the
T DlIl or una the tllhlcb committee mas
arranged to do without the sugar Senn-
tors votes. The committee, To end the
Hnarl, may be willing, as the sugar Sona-
tors are believed to be, to let the fun
DemOCrltic Premiership of the Serate
determine the question on amendment.
The latest card played by the sugar
trust causes much surprise here. That
so prominent II rcyelrla reformer as eX-
Gov. william T.. Russell, of Massachu-
sets. should consent to sign Il petition
asking the Senate to lCgisIate in favor
. OF tho Z FItE hoe n nNrnlE aI GlVHr - a. - : Ilnat
pains the friends of Mr.. Russell. The
refusal of Mayor Matthew. Of Boston.
to sign is the subject of much approving
comment. The trust Is .still ful! of
energy ard grows boastful. 1t affects
to treat lightly the known opposition of
the sub-committee and to believe that
in the open Senate Its case VIII prove as
strong as that of raw sugar and that it
can command the same votes.
The Democratic leaders IN the House,
Through whose instrumentality the in
Watching he proceedings on the Senate
side with keen interest. They believe
that The real pnrp3se Is to antaeonize
StIating that both are not necessary, and
by insisting that OF IN" two the sugar
tax Is tn" better for the emergency.
that such n game .clnnot win. ,TEr
House has expressed itself with emphasis
both as 10 the sugar tan ana the income
tax, rejecting the one and adopting the
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case, A vote now as between those
" taxes would show increased strength
for the income tax, for, since the House
acted, messages have come from both
the East aud West heartily ind0rsing
it and declaring that tn" Democratic
party viii be strengthened by 1t. Nr.
Coombs. Of brooklyn, reports Il strong
sentiment of this kind among his con
st,uicnls. and Mr.. Hynum says, con-
corning the feeling in the Middle States:
Il see it stated in a New York paper
that Il party which proposes to enact an
inCOmC-taX law in time or peace is a
gone goose. The man who wrote that
assertion does not know the temper of
the people. why, even Representative
Coombs, of New York, who is opposed
to the income tax. returned from Brook
iyn actually astonished at the popularity
Of the proposition in that city, The
Democrats will sweep the West like
wild0rc on the inCome-t1X issue
Although reports as II the action OF tho
subcommittee on the cotton and wOOli,n
/ schedules and as to cOul and iron ore
have been more or less definite. every
~thippopaaiky is st.ll in dOub,. The effort
of the sugar men, the coal men, tue iron
ore men and the whiskey trust has been
to snow that an enormous deficit Is GER
tain 10 be created, AMI that the Only safe
policy for Congress To pursue is u lay
taxes for an abundant revenue Tho
size Of this deficit, therefore, aS the FL
nance Committee figures It out, will in
a large measure determine the final shape
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