The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-07-24
HOUSE ACTS PROMPTLY.
Conference Report on the Tariff Bill
Adopted, 1876 to II8.
Five Democrats Voted for It-Chairman
DngIey Says 1t VIII Raise Ample Reve-
nue-Last Years Exports Exceeded
All Observation-Disclosures Notes.

WASHINGTON, July 2O.-The confer
ence report on the tariff bill was adopt
ed by the house shortly after midnight
by n vote of 1S5 to 115. and at noon to-
day the report will so to the senate
for action there. This eclipses all
previous records. The result was ac-
complished after 12 hours of continu-
GUS debate.
Opposition Was Divided.
The democrats, with five exceptions,
voted against the report. The excep-
tions were Slayden, of Texas; Brous-
sard. of Louisiana; Meyer, of Louis
lana; Davey, of Louisiana, and Kie-
berg, of Texas. The populists and sill
verites did not vote solidly. Messrs.
Shafroth, of Colorado, and Newlands,
of Nevada, silverites, abstained from
voting. Mr.. Hartman, silverite, Mon
tana, did not vote. Tie populists who
voted against the report were as fol-
lows: Baker, Barlow, Botlxin, Fowler,
Jett, Lewis, Marshall. Martin, Peters,
Simpson, Strowd and Vincent. Four
did not vote-Howard, Kelley, Stark
and Sutherland. The other populists
were absent. An analysis of the vote
shows that $50 republicans and five
democrats voted for the report and 1O6
democrats and IL populiSts against it.
Says 1t VIII Raise Sufficient Revenue.
As to the question of revenue to be
raised by the bill, Mr.. Dingley point
ed out the difficulty resulting from the
large anticipatory importations. The
bill next year, he calculated, would
raise $225, 900, 900, $T5, 900, 900 more than
the present law. Over $40, ZOO, 900 had
been lost in this years revenues by the
importations of wool and sugar and
other things, the duty on which was
raised in the bill, so that he calculated
that the bill this year would raise
S1s5, 900, 600. Mr.. Dingley declared
that there was no doubt that the rev.
enue produced by the bill would be
ample to meet the expenditures of the
government.
Broke All Previous Records.
WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE monthly
statement of the exports and imports
of the United States, issued yesterday
by the bureau of statistics, makes the
remarkable showing that neverbefore
in the history of the country have the
exports of merchandise, which includes
practically all the exports except gold
and silver, reached SO high figure as
during the fiscal year ended June 80,
1897 nor has the excess of ex-
ports over imports ever been so
large. The only time these fig
ures were approached was in 1892,
when the United States was making
heavy shipments of grain to feed
Europe's suffering from a series of de-
ficient harvests. The statement for
1897, with comparisons, is as follows:
Exports of domestic merchandise, ST.
O32, ,99S, TS0; increase over 1896, about
S17O, 600. 900. Total exports of domestic
and foreign merchandise, 81, 051 1897 ,091,
as compared with SSS2, ,6O6, 93s for 1895.
The total imports of merchandise dur
ing the fiscal year just closed amount
ed to S764, sra, ,905, of which 1881 ,9S2, sos
was free of duty. The total imports
were about SIS, $50, 600 less than last
year, and the excess of exports over
imports for the year was $2S7. .613, 1856.
This is an excess of about S1S5, 900, 900
over last year and an excess of about
S23, 600, O00 over any previous year.
Uncle Sam Has IIawaips Trade.
WASHINGTON, July 20.-Hawaiian
commerce during the last ten years is
the subject of circular just issued by
the department of agriculture. The
paper was prepared by f. ii. Hitch
cock, chief of the division foreign
markets, under the direction of Sec
retary Wilson. The con plrison of
statistics shows that the United
States controls 80 per cent. of the en-
tire trade of the islands. The total
value of exports and imports of Hawaii
for 1896 was S21 ,57s, s82, of which about
two-thirds, 5,515, $50, was the value
of goods exported. The average of eX-
ports of the ten years, 1ss7-1s96, was
S1l. .052, 141, and of imports, SIS, 422, 459,
leaving an average balance of $685.
6Sl in favor of exports.
May Cause International Troubles.
WASHINGTON, July 21.-The possibil-
ity of serious international complica-
tions between the United States and
Great Britain as the result of the re-
cent gold discoveries in Alaska has be-
come apparent to the state department.
Senator Davis, of the senate foreign
relations committee, has been request
ed to secure the immediate ratification
of treaty for determining the bound
ary line between Canada and Alaska
in order to lessen the probable diff
Guilty.
Indian Territory Judges.
WASHINGTON, July 21.-The appoint
ment of the two Indian territory
Judges, TO succeed ex-Congressman
Springer and Kilgore, is expected this
week. Judge Joseph Gill, of Colby,
Kan, will be one of the men named,
and the other will be Townsend, of
Colorado, which, with Clayton and
Thompson, of Illinois, completes the
list.
POwderly Gets n Good Place.
WASHINGTON. July 19.-The president
has sent to the senate the nomination
of Terence V. Powderly, the noted la
Dor leader of Pennsylvania, to be COM
missioner-general of immigration.