The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-16
SUGGESTIONS BY THE TARIFF
SUBCOMMITUTEE.
PERKINS TALKED ON FRUIT.
SCHEDULES OF THE DINGLEY BILL
TO Low TO SATISFY CALL
FORNIA.
KANSAS POPULIsTs IN EVIDENCE.
Rate of Two Dollars Per Ton on
Gypsum Asked by the SunfiOwer
State.

WASHINGTON, April 15.-The Re
publican subcommittee Of the senate
committee on finance held an all-day
session at the capitol today to afford
an opportunity to other senators to
Among the senators who called and had
conferences with the committee We're:
Messrs. Quay, Sewell. Elkins, yelling
ton, Perkins, Shoup, Pritchard, Baker
and Harris, of Kansas. Senator Platt
On. W, also spent some time with the
committee, but he appeared to be a
listener rather than a participant in
the proceedings.
Senator Quay had only a brief con-
ference and devoted himself especially
to the rates on carpets and mating,
upon which he urged a rate of duty
which would insure protection to the
industries of this country against the
products of China and Japan.
Senator Perkins was given an ex-
tended hearing on the fruit schedule.
He presented the committee with
samples Of both California and foreign
currants and raisins, and asked for an
increase of the rate on "Zante" cur
rants, bringing it up to two and a half
cents per pound. He also suggested a
duty of a cent a pound on oranges and
lemons, instead Of three-quarters Of a
cent, as fixed by the Dingley bill 1t
was suggested to him by some of the
members of the committee that the
fruit schedule had already been at
tackled because of rates said to be high.
but the California senator contended
for thorough protection.
Mr.. Perkins suggested a substitute
schedule on beet sugar, providing for
a duty Of one cent a pound on sugar
testing 20 by the polariscope and in
creasing to one and a half cents for
the 80 per cent test. The committee
promised to give this matter due at
tention, but gave no further indication
of the probable result of its delibera-
tiOns.
A more favorable reception was given
to suggestion for a drawback duty
on imported tin cans in which fruits
and salmon are exported. This sugges-
ton appeared to meet with favor.
Senator SewelPs suggestions per-
tanned to almost the entire list of New
Jersey manufacturers and he filed briefs
bearing upon all of them. He suggested
notifications of the chemical schedule.
He also presented request of the silk
manufacturers for a uniform so per
cent ad valorem duty and of the pot
terry makers for a compound duty on
pottery products.
Senators Baker and Harris asked for
a duty of 81 per ton on gypsum and for
decrease of the duty proposed OH
Mexican cattle. They represented that
there were immense beds of gypsum in
the West, sufficient to supply the wants
Of the entire country. With reference to
cattle importations they represented
that the cattle were needed to consume
the grass crop Of the West, and that
1t was more economical to move the
cattle than the grass.
Senators Elkins and Wellington both
appeared in support of the Dingley rate
on coal, which there is an effort max
ing to have reduced. During the day
a number Of the Republican senators
from the intermountain states met to
agree upon plan of cooperation They
reached no definite conclusion, except
to stand together in their demands on
wool, hides, cattle, lead ore and other
Rocky mountain prOdIIctq