Evening journal., 1896-12-11
FOR A NEW TARIFF BILL
Caucus of Republican Ways and
Means Committeeman.
AN EXTRA SESSION TO BE CALLED.


Touching Revenue and TariT, Definitely
settled-Proceedings of Congress-ViE-
orous Speeches In Favor OF Cuba.
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, it is said, Is TO
be the chief feature in the policy of the in
coming administration, and viii endeavor
to perfect the bill so that it may be pre-
sented to the house of the Fifty con-
gress early in the special session which
President Mckinley win summon for re-
vising the tariff laws.
This programme was formally dec ded
uuon by q conference of the Republican
members of the committee held in Gener-
al Grosvenor'F rooms at the Cochrane ho-
tel. 1t gives semioificial confirmation TO
the announcements already published in
these dispatches that the president elect
had concluded to have an extra session
and that the Republican leaders had aban-
doned the Dingley bin, the temporary
measure which was passed by the house i'll
the last session and amended with free
silver substitute by the senate.
All Republican ways and means men ut
tended the conference except Mr.. Steele Of
Indiana, who was detained They were
Messrs. Dingley Of Maine, Payne of New
York, Dalzel of Pennsylvania Hopkins
of Illinois, Grosvenor of Ohio, Russell OF
Connecticut DOlliver of Iowa, johnson OF
North Dakota, Evans of Kentucky anu
Tawney of Minnesota. They decided tha1
Chairman Dingley shall call meeting OF
the full committee for saturday, at Whlch
the usual formality of giving the minority
members an opportunity to vote upon the
urogramme will be enacted. The PROPOSE
tion to be laid before 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 a
few days.
Work TO Begin at Once.
Apart from this official plan the Repub-
licans determined TO take up the framing
of the bill themsolyes-the usual course
pursued by majority party-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 full Republican contin-
gent will work together, although the va
rious members will devote their attention
TO the particular schedules with which
they are most familiar
Messrs Dalzell and Hopkins will give
lnONI OF lutiI lllilt W rAiNl- MI OIN0NtAlbA
will have most to do with wool, Mr. Rus
sell with cotton and machinery, Mr.. Evans
with spirits and wines and Mcssrs Dolli-
yer, Tawney and Hopkins with reciproci-
ty According to the trend of discussion,
the reciprocity policy is to be made an inn
portant feature of the Republican tariff
system, even more important than it was
ia the Harrison administration, il prac-
tical scheme can be devised. Great diff
culties have presented themselves in the
consideration of reciprocity some of which
were made apparent during the inyestiga-
tion of the subject made by a subcommit-
tee last session, not few of which arise
from changed conditions of the govern
ments foreign relations The reciprocity
features of the tariff win be woven into
the original bill. In the last Republican
tariff bill they were mostly after thoughts
The conference was Of two hours dura-
tion, and the participants said that they
had been unanimous upon the policy to be
pursued. "A moderate tariff bill, ~ they
explained, was to be their object. A mod
crate hill 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 German duties, and com
initteemen said that they would not hest
tate TO advance rates beyond the Mckinley
bin in cases where experience had shown
advances to be advisable
Grosvenor represented Mckinley.
General Grosvenor and Mr. Dingley, it
is understood, conveyed the views Of the
president elect upon the programme TO
their colleagues. More than half the two
hours, it was said, was given to discussion
of the difficulties in the path of the Re
nfthlipnn fn al i'm,
one being the possibility of an unfriendly
senate in the next congress. One of the
members said that they recognized a dis
tinct possibility that the next senate might
block tariff legislation, but hoped that the
free silver senators who walked out of the
st. Louis convention would be ready ia
cooperate in re-establishing a protective
tariff.
Saturdays meeting Of the full commit
tee may be postponed until next week i'm
the event that Representative Turner OF
Georgia is unable 60 attend No appoint
ment has been made to fiji the committee
vacancy created by the death of ex-senator
Crisp and with Mr.. Turner, who Is one
of the Democratic leaders, absent the mi
nority might complain that it was not
properly represented Speaker Reed, it is
expected, will designate Mr. Crisp's sue
cessor this week. Mr. Newlands of Nevada
has been discussed by Republican ways
and means men as one qualified TO fiji the
vacancy, whose selection might do some
thing to help the passage of "A tariff bill.
Mr.. Newlands is a representative of the
Independent silver party, so designating
himself in the Congressional directory, hay
ing formerly been "a Republican 1t is
thought by some that if recognition were
given the Independent Silver men by sucl
an appointment it would tend to draw the
support Of several senators belonging tC
that faction
Proceedings of Congress.
MAsHiNGToN, Dec. 1.-THE senate goi
into the regular channel of business, TAX