The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-19


scented since the bill emerged from the re-
ceSses or the ways and means committee.
When the announcement of an agreement
was first made to-day the indications were
that the Senate had surrendered every
thing in the sugar schedule to the House.
No one not in possession of all the facts
could see how ii could be otherwise when
it was known that the House differential of
one eighth Of cent had been accepted and
the Senate provision for throwing off one
tenth of cent on low grade sugars re-
ceded from.
You will discover" said Senator Aldrich,
IN discussing the matter among his col
leagues, that the Senate saves something
after all, and that it Is not complete sur
render on our part"
The wording of the paragraph which fol-
lows shows that he was right:
sugars not above No. is Dutch standard
IN IN, colors. tank bottoms, syrpps OF cane
crete and concentrated molasses testing by
the polariscope not above 70 degrees, 5000
Of l cent per pound. and for every addi-
tonal degree shown by the pOlariscopic test
3l2-lO0 OF l cent per pound additional, and
fractions of degree in proportion, and on
sugars above No 16 Dutch standard in
color and on all Sugar which has gone
through a process of refining, 125-1000 of
cent per pound additional
1t will be observed that the modification
Of the sugar schedule still leaves the rate
on pure sugar testing 100 degrees at lbs
cents per pound, which was the Senate rate.
The dinerential refined sugar is, how
ever, one-eighth of a cent per pound, while
the Senate differential was one-ffth. The
House also secured the elimination of the
one-tenth of a cent reduction allowed on
jaggary and other low grade sugars test
ing below 81 degrees by the polariscope.
1t is claimed that the increase on the higher
grades of sugar which will result from the
increase of the polariscope graduation al
loWance Will add materially to the protec
ton to the beet sugar Industry. The re-
timers necessarily receive incidental benefit.
1t is estimated that the changes in the
sugar schedule will raise about 81 00O, 900 adj
ditiOnal revenue. Following are among the
if11r,n rfa faf Oh "a ma i'm nt hap
schedules
Hides-15 per cent ad valorem, in place
of the 20 per cent. fixed by the Senate. The
House Representatives made a strong fight
to have hides restored to the free list, but
they were compelled to submit to the I'M
yielding demand of the Senate.
Wool Gas heretofore sent out)-First class,
IL cents per pound; second class, II cents
per pound; third class, cents on that be-
low Il cents per pound in value and cents
on that above II cents in value. These
rates on third-class wool were the result
of an agreement between the wool growers
aud the carpet manufacturers.
=, LeaA Ore-1h cents per pound; pig lead.
"a coats the Senate rates.
Iron Ore-Same as fixed by the Senate.
Coal-Bituminous, 81 cents per ton.
vrs11e4s 6 per the pogg SENATE on rate
also understood that the action of the Sen
ate in striking out the internal revenue pro-
VISIONS on TOBACCO, leaving the eXlstlls Jaw
in force, was accepted by the House con-
ferees.
Cyanide of Potassium-121a per cent This
is the Senate rate the House rate being 20
per cent The reduction was demanded by
the gold miners of the West, cyanide being
largely used in the reduction OF aurlterous
ores
Boracic Acids cents per pound, the Sen
ate rate. The Senate rate on borax was
also sustained, as was that on soda ash, the
rate being IS of a cent pei. pound.
The Senate rates on all fruits are re-
tanned including l cent per pound on or
anges lemons lines, etc. On Walnuts the
House rate of cents per pound was re-
stored, the Senate having lowered this rate
to 212 cents.
White pine lumber was restored to the
House classification and the House rate or
81 per thousand feet, instead OF the senate
rate of ST.
The reciprocity clause has been. trans
formed into modification of both the SEN
ate and House schedules-that is, the num-
Der of articles which can be used as bases
for reciprocity agreements has Deen IN
creased but the Presidents discretion as to
rates and the ratification of treaties by the
Senate, which was the main feature or the
Senate provision, has been rejected.
House was in the restoration to the dutia-
bic list of burlaps, jute and Jute pagglhg,
cotton bagging, gunny sacks, floor mating
and cotton ties which the Senate placed on
the free list. While restored to the dutia-
bles list, however, the rates are lower than
they have ever been on this class OF artl-
cles.
Another victory of the House was in the
elimination of the Senate stamp tax on
bonds and stocks 1t was decided that the
machinery of collection was TOO cunper-
some.
Raw cotton is restored to the free list,
as originally fixed by the House. The Sen
ate, with the aid of some OF the Demo-
cratic senators, made cotton dutiable at ~
per cent
Representative Dingley expresses the
opinion that the bill will be law and that
Congress will have adjourned week from
to-day The conferees are generally con-
graduating themselves on the result, of
their work and the expedition with Which
it has been accomplished. The Mchlnley
bill was in conference two weeks and after
a six weeks struggle in conference the
conferees on the Wilson bill were compelled
to abandon all efforts at adjustment. Mr..
Dngley who was one of the cOnfereeS on
the Mckinley bill, said that the problems
which the present conferees had to solve
were both more numerous ana more lmpof-
tant than those which confronted the con-
ferees in 1890. Yet the present contereeS,
by working night and day, sometimes as
high as fourteen hours a day, mad COM
pleted their task in less time than the con-
ferees on the Mckinley bill required. Mr..
Dingley. appeared pleased with the result
dividual conferees had displayed in their
deliberations. While there may have been
occasional flashes of irritation, ne sald,
there had been no manifestation of acri-
The Democratic conferees are by no
means pleased with the transfer Of such
items as cotton bagging, burlaps, floor
mating, etc, from the Tree TO the dutaple
list, and express the hope tonight that
they may be able to reverse the conference
committee on these articles. Ihey cla ,If
to have the pledges of the Repubncans VINO
assisted in making these articles free and
in reducing white pine that they will as
sist in forcing their restoration to the free
list even to the extent of opposing the re-
port The Republicans, however, profess
to feel easy over the fate of the. report.
and say that the worst they fear is delay
occasioned by long debate.
o. - L, C~OcIxar naad
SAN MATEO, Cal, July. T.-Colonel
Croker vice president of the Southern Pa
ciic Railway Company died at his home
here tonight.
Charles f. Croker, the California rail-
road magnate, was a son of the late Charles
Croker whose connection with the grand
triumph of American enterprise ana con-
structive skill, the Central Pacific Railroad,
made his name famous the world over.
Charles f. Crocker was born in Sacrament
to, Cal, on Dec. 26, 1854 His ancestors
were OF old New England stock, Daniel
Crocker having resided in Boston as early
as 1860 and others of the name were found
in several parts of Massachusetts. In 1868
Josiah Crocker married daughter OF Gov
ernor Hinckly. He was a soldier IN the
Nara ganSett war in Rhode Island and died
in 1898. Some of his descendants went to
Albany n. Y, about the middle of the last
century and eventually settled near Troy,
in that State There Charles Croker the
his early youth, but subsequently removed
to Marshall county, Indiana. In the spring
of 1850 he made the long and tedious journey
across the plains to California, arriving IN
SACRAMENTO in August OF that year having
made the trip from the Missouri river in
one hundred days. Nineteen years after
wards he made the same journey in one of
his own palace cars in as many hours. In