St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-22


WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-The coming
week will see the conclusion of the
tariff debate in the house. According
to the special order the voting on the
bill and pending amendments Will be-
gin week from tomorrow at noon.
During the past week no amendments
of substantial Importance have been
voted on with any chance of adoption
except that fixing the date upon which
free wool would go into effect, which
was carried by the radical Democrats
with the aid of some Republicans over
the protest of the Democratic members
of the ways and means committee. This
coming week, however, will witness the
fight over the big amendments to be
offered from the Democratic side The
full measu ure of the Democratic opposi-
ton TO the bill will then develop, and
considerable bad blood will doubtless
be manifested. The first fight will come
on the sugar schedule tomorrow. Three
hours have been set apart for the con-
sideration OF the propositions to be Of
fered by the sugar men. Four amend
ments will be offered to the paragraph
placing sugar on the free list if the
present plan is adhered to. The first
will be that of Mr.. McRae, OF Arkansas,
TO abolish the provision relating to the
sugar bounty in the Wilson bill, which
contemplates its gradual reduction a
quarter of cent year for eight years
until it is wiped out. To this Mr. Price.
of Louisiana, will offer an amendment
to substitute III place of a bounty duty
OF l cent per pound on raw sugar. A
substitute for this to retain
THE M'KINLEY BOUNTY
of two cents will be offered by Mr..
Meyer. of Louisiana. and Mr.. Boatner
will offer an amendment to the substi-
tute 10 place one and half cent duty
on sugar. This will exhaust the amend
ments that can be pending. The votes
will be taken i'll the reverse order. The
sugar men will make strong fight on
the ground that sugar is revenue
article, and, in accordance with the die
tates of the Chicago platform, should be
made dutiable to supply the deficit
which it is estimated the customs
schedules of the Wilson bill will cause
They will have the support of all the
Democrats who are opposed to the in
come tax, including MIR. Cochran, Mr..
Wilson and others of the ways and
means committee. While it is generally
admitted that they will probably be able
to muster majority of the Democrats,
the Republicans, who are pledged to the
free sugar features of the Mckinley
law, Will give them no aid. The chances
of the adoption of sugar duty for tie
above reasons are slim. Tuesday has
been set apart for the consideration of
free iron ore schedules. The present
duty on both these articles is rs cents
per ton. The coal men, especially of
Virginia, West Virginia and Alabama,
are at the back of this opposition. and
and have the support pretty generally
of the Democratic representatives from
those states.
THE IRON INTEREST
of the South. Alabama and Tennessee,
and of the Lake Superior district. in
Guiding the vesselinterests of the lakes,
is fighting against free iron ore. Both
are willing to yield a portion OF the
duty, and amendments ranging from 30
to so cents per ton will be offered. Raw
materials are made the backbone of the
Wilson bill, and big effort Will be
made to prevent defeat here. The
Republicans, if they JOIN with the coal
and iron men, as they probably will,
may make the vote close, but today the
Democrats CT the ways and means COM
nittee manifest no alarm. Later in the
week the internal revenue bill, includ-
ing the income tax, will probably be
offered as an amendment to the bilh
probably by Mr.. McMillin, although
this has not been decided upon fully
If it is, this fight will be the feature of
the debate. IT the advocates of the in
come tax are successful, as they claim
confidently they will be, and it is put
OIL the bill as rider, it will cause sew
eral Democrats at least to vote against
the entire measure. Other amendments
relating to the tobacco schedule, lead
ore, etc., and other minor amendments
as the committee may offer will consume
the rest of the week. When the vote
is taken it Is propable that a great num-
Der of amendments will have not re-
ceived consideration. Mr.. Richardson,
the chairman of the committee of the
whole, already has in his possession
seventy -seven amendments.