The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-12-11
THE new TARIFF MEASURE.
To be Evolved by the House Ways and
Means Committee.
IT WILL BIZ A MODERATE TARIFF
Decided Upon at a Meeting Of the Republi-
can Members of the Committee, and to
be Presented at the Extra Session to
be Called by President Mckinley.

WASHINGTON, Dec, 1.-THE ways and
means committee Of the house will begin
work before the holiday recess of congress
upon the tariff bill, which will be the
chief feature of the policy of the incoming
administration. and will endeuvor to per
feot the bill SO that II may be presented to
the house Of the Flfty-hfth congress early
in the special session which President Nc
Kinley will summon for revising the
tariff laws. This program was finally de-
cided upon last night by conference of
the Republican members of the commit
tee, held In General Grosveuor's rooms at
the Oochrane hotel.
All the Republican ways and means
men attended the conference except Mr..
Steele, Of Indiana, who was detained.
They decided that Chairman Dingley shall
call a meeting Of the full committee foI
tomorrow, at which the usual formality
of giving the minority members an oppor-
tunity to vote upon the program will be
enacted. The proposition to be laid be-
fore the committee is that hearings be
given by the full committee, at which all
parties having an interest In the tariff
will be invited to give their views, these
hearings to be commenced within few
days.
Apart from this official plan, the Re-
publicans determined to take up the franz
ing of the bill them mselves-the usual
course pursued by q majority party-soon
after the hearings are under way, and TO
work to that end informally at once.
There will be no subcommittee, given
charge of the measure, but the fulN S,eport
contingent will work together although
the various members will devote their at
tention to the particular schedules with
which they are most familiar. Messrs.
Dalzell and Hopkins will give most of
their time to steel. Grosvenor will have
to do with wool, Russell with cotton and
machinery, Evans with spirits and wines,
and Dolliver, Tawney and Hopkins with
reciprocity.
According to the trend of the discus sion
the reciprocity policy is TO be made an i'm
portant feature of the Republican tariff
system, even more important than it was
in tine Harrison administration, II prao-
tical scheme can be devised Great diff
culties have presented themselves in the
consideration of reciprocity, some Of which
were made apparent during the investiga
tion Of the subject made by a sub-oommit-
tee last session. not few of which arise
from changed conditions Of the govern
ment's foreign relations The reciprocity
features of the tariff will be woven into
the original bill.
The conference was Of two hours dura-
tion and the participants said that they
had been unanimous upon tba policy 60
be pursued "a moderate turiff bill, /" shey
explained, was TO be their object A mod
crate bill is understood to be one whose
average rates will be somewhat lower
than the rates of the Mckinley bill of 1890,
though a considerable average advance
over the Wilson-Gorman duties, and COM
mitteemen said that they would not hesi-
tate 10 advance rates beyond the McKin-
ley bill in cases where experience had
shown advances to be advisable.
No appointment has been made to fill
the vacancy in the committee created by
the death of ex-Speaher Crisp, and with
Mr.. Turner, who is one of the Democratic
leaders, absent the minority might COM
plain that 1t was not properly represented.
Speaker Reed, 1t Is expected, will desig.
nate Mr.. Crisp's successor this week, Mr.
Newlands, of Nevada, has been discussed
us one qualified to fill the vacancy whose
selection might do something TO help the
passage Of tariff bill. Mr.. Newlands Is
a representative of the Independent Silver
ticket, having formerly been Republi-
can. 1t Is thought by some that If reoog-
milton We're given the Independent Silver
men by such an appointment it would
tend to draw the SUPPORT of several sen,
ators belonging TO that faction,o