The San Francisco call., 1896-11-27
Republican Managers Inter.
viewed Cleveland-Learned
He Would Veto It.
So Between the Fourth and Tenth
Of March Mckinley Will Call
Congress.

Dlngley bill and the consequent avoloance
of an extra session of Congress, which
view of the Senator was announced in The
CALL nearly three weeks ago when Mr..
Quay passed through Washington on his
way to Florida. That view is now some
what modified, however. as the Senator
merely says that "if the Dingley bill could
be resurrected from its burial-place in
Senatorial committee and enacted into
law after the necessary changes. that
course would be preferable to an extra
Assem- bly, OF Congress" BUTT is now we'll
understood that the Dingley bill even II
it pass the Senate and be accepthd in its
amended form by the House, cannot Sc
cure the Signature Of the chief executive.
The correspondent of The CALL has ex-
elusive Information of some very import
ant developments which have reached
elimination within the last few days with
the Com mittee on Ways and Means,
whose Republican membership will re-
main IN the Fifty-fifth Congress as 1t was
in the Fifty fourth, and is vested with the
preroaative of the origination of all rev.
enue measures. That committee is now
utterly opposed to the enactment OF the
Dingley bill into a final law, as it was
for revenue purposes.
Republican members of the committee
have not waited for meeting face to face
before deciding upon programme. They
have been in constant communication
since the election. They have reached a
conclusion that If the Dingley measure be
passed in an amended form by the Senate
1T would be put to sleep in the House. But
there is an obstacle even more certain
than the opposition of the House man.
ayers in the way of the enactment of the
Dingley law. The late election brought
Republicans into intimate relations with
the President and that intimacy has led
to q recent performance that is unique IN
the history OF the American administra-
tion. By the exercise of the most delicate
diplomacy the President has been COM
municated with by Republicans of the
House upon the subject OF the Dingley
bill and the information given formally
and positively that the chief executive, to
maintain any show OF consistency and of
devotion TO a great principle which WAS
announced in "halcyon and vociferous"
language would be compelled to veto any
such measure as that which passed the
House last session.
If anything had been lacking to decide
the Republican managers to make no at
tempt TO legislste upon revenue questions
during the coming session the want was
supplied by this explicit declaration which
Mr.. Cleveland has kindly furnished
within the last few days to diplomatic
agent OF his friends, the enemy with
whom he established such cordial rela-
tions during the campaign. Less formal
and more direct has been the communi-
cation between the Republican leaders
and President-elect Mckinley.
free expression OF opinion has been
received within a day or two from that
incompatible exponent of the tariff and
it is in effect that no fragmentary or ILL
considered legislation should be attempted
or permitted, that an extra session should
be called promptly after the 4fh of March,
and the tariff schedules should be thor
oughly revised. The Republican pro-
gramme, therefore, as arranged through
conferences of the leaders, is as follows:
Any attempt TO revive the Dingley bill
will be discouraged by the persons who
were responsible for its creation and its
passage through the House. Ii it should,
by means OF any influence, be placed
again before Senate which once rejected
it, and passed by the connivance OF Dam-
ocrats whose sole purpose would be 10
confuse and disconcert those who are de-
termined upon thorough and intelligent
legislation, the House will pigeonhoIe or
defeat il when il is returned to that BODY
in amended form. If by any unantici-
pated com bination it should pass both
House and Senate, it will be with the
knowledge that it will be vetoed by Presi-
dent Cleveland.
Between the 4th and 10th of March the
then President-McKinley- issue q
| call for an extra session of Congress, to be
| convened for the sole purpose OF enacting
revenue laws and possibly to consider
and act upon the accommodation for the
creation of a commission to confer with
similar commissions of other great com.
mercisl countries upon the question of bl-
metallism. Thirty days will be allowed
from the date of the issue of the procla-
nation for Congress to prepare for the ex-
ira session. and during that time and also
during the closing session of the present
Congress, which will convene a week from
| next Monday, the Committee on Ways
and Means will hold daily sessions, 10 be
devoted to consideration of the new tariff
bin, revising rates. hearing suggestions,
listening to arguments of delegations and
individuals.
1t is not expected that the labor of re-
visal will be great, and it is thought that
a new bill may be almost completed before
the time when Congress shall convene in
extra session and organize for work. Or
ganlzation of the new Congress will be q
very simple affair. Vacancies on com.
mittees will be easily filled, as most oi
them will be in the ranks of the minority
The personnel of the official and clerical
force will remain practically as it is now
constituted. The chief labor of the revisal
OF the tariff, as outlined to THE CALL cor
respondent this evening by member ol
! the Ways and Means Committee, will be
in the transposition OF datiable articles
from ad valore m to specific. The PERM.
cious ''ad valorem" system. which encour-
ages false values and swindlIng of the
Government, will be practically wiped out
of existence. Wool and ium Der will, oil
| course, be replaced on the duaable list.