The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-27
Especial to The HeraId)

Especial to The HeraId)
Washington, Nov. Ex-senator Ouav
is quoted as favoring the passage of
the Dingley bill to avoid an extra ses-
sion of congress. 1t is observed. how
ever, that the senator says: IF the
Dingley bill could be resurrected from
its burial place and enacted into law
after necessary changes, that course
would be preferable TO an extra ses-
sion.''
But it is well understood that even
if the Dingley bill should pass the
senate and be accepted by the house
in its amended form. it would not re-
ceive the signature of the president.
The Herald correspondent has exclu-
slve information from an authoritative
source of some very important develop
ments which have eliminated within
the last few days. The committee on
ways and means. whose Republican
membership will remain the same in
the Fifty-fifth congress as it is in the
Fifty-fourth. originates all revenue
measures. That committee is utterly
opposed to the enactment of the Ding
ley bill into law, as it was only in
tended as an emergency measure for
revenue purposes. Republican men,
bers of the ways and means commit
tee have not waited for a meeting to
be held here, but have been in COM
munication with each other since the
election. They have concluded that
even if the Dingley bill should pass
f,o
the house, and they have ascertained
positively that President Cleveland
would veto the bill, even if it should
pass both houses. By the exercise of
the most delicate bit of diplomacy they
have learned this from Mr. Cleveland.
They have also communicated with
President-elect Mckinley, and he has
given them free expression of opinion
in effect that no fragmentary or GIL
considered" legislation should be at
tempted or permitted, and that a.,
extra session should be called prompe
" after the 4th of March. and that the
tariff schedules should be thoroughly
revised. The Republican programme,
as arranged by the leaders through
their conferences and correspondence;
is to pigeonhole the bill, should It by
any chance pass the senate and be re-
turned to the house for concurrence
in senate amendments.
Between the 4th ana 10th of March
President Mckinley will call an extra
session to be convened for the sole
purpose Of enacting a tariff bill.
Thirty days after its close. the Fifty
fifth congress viii meet. and during the
interim the ways and means commit
tee Of this (the Fifty-fourth) congress
will hold daily sessions in preparing a
new tariff bill 1t is thought that by
reason of the familiarity of the ways
and means members with the tariff
the work can all be cut and
Tried by the time the next congress
meets in extra session. A member Of
he ways and means committee tonight
to The Herald correspondent
he lines of revision, chief of which
will be 1.-The transfer of dutiabIe
articles from ad valorem to specific
'ates. Wool and lumber viii be re-
stored to the dutiable list, an increased
luty will be put on tin plate. certain
grades of glass and pottery and on a
ew other of the great articles of
American manufacture. Little change
viii be made in the iron and steel
chedules, as they were forced into a
shape before the Wilson
ill could pass the senate.
This informant also gave the assur-
nee that the bill would not be an
xtreme one. He said that Mckinley
himself had encouraged this determin-
-tion, and that while it would be
amply protective" a higher impor--
ance would be given it from revenue
'oint of view.