The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-04

| WASHINGTON, May 3.-Senator AL
| lison. Chairman of the Republican
Committee which is preparing a tariff
| bill for the Senate had a conference to
day with the Democratic members Of
the Finance Committee and arranged
a programme for getting the bill into
the Senate.
| According to the agreement the bill
! viii be reported to the full committee
tomorrow, if the Republicans find they
desire to hold it no longer and it will
then be passed on TO the Senate as soon
as the Republicans make it manifest
that they have a majority favorable to
its being reported.
| Allison renewed his effort to secure
consent to having the bin reported af-
ter to-morrOW's meeting without condi-
| tons but the Democrats would only
agree not to insist upon holding the
bill in committee for detailed inspection
after the Republicans had shown they
had a clear majority in the committee
favorable to the bill. Allison accepted
these terms.
rms arrangement will throw the re-
! sponsibility of deciding the length Of
time the bill shall be held upon Senator
Jones OF Nevada, who holds the bal
ance OF power. The indications are he
viii not lend himself to any prolonged
consideration of the bill in committee.
He practically said as much to friends.
The Democrats expect the bill will be
held in committee two or three DAYS.
After it is reported the bill viii be al
lowed to lie on the table ten days or
two weeks.
ADDITIONAL TAN ON BEER.
CHICAGO, May "a special to the
Tribune from Washington. says: An
additional tax of 30 cents a barrel on
beer was voted into the Senate tariff
bill last night, by the Republican sub
committee. Whether the item will STAY
until the bill gets into the Senate is
not altogether certain. Senators AL
drloa . sisson and Wolcott prepared for
an aIl-night session, in the hope of get
ting the measure ready to report to the
FINANCE Committee, but along toward
midnight they declared they could not
nope to make report before Tuesday.
Meanwhile, they voted upon the beer
tax. The present rate of 81 barrel
and the additional 80 cents. will bring
the Treasury about 1000. 600 annual
~ on the present rate of consumption
This increase in revenue will not en-
collection. The beer tax is now part
of the bill Lower rates on lumber and
wool are there Also as we'll as a tariff
on hides and a reduction Of the inter-
nal revenue tax on spirits.
The sugar schedule is substantially
| the same as that in the DingIey bill.
so far as results are concerned. but will
make changes in the phraseology and
in ha lot
| and off color sugars.
Judging from the amount of work
ahead of them, last night. the commit.
tee will be lucky if they report the bill
next Tuesday.
The Treasury figures for the month
just ended confirm Chairman Dfngley's
statement, made a few days ago. that
| there is likely to be nearly a years
supply of foreign goods in the country
when the new tariff goes into effect.
While the retroactive clause of the
DingIey bill probably prevented some
of the new contracts, it did not reduce
the amount of goods brought in dur
ing April, as compared with the preced-
ing month. That clause of the bill pro-
vided that the new rates of duty should
apply upon all goods coming in after
April LIST, which had been purchased
prior to that date. This, of course, per-
mitted all goods contracted for, order
ed before April LIST, to come in under
the Wilson law rates, and left it large
ly in the hands of the importers to in
dictate by their own statements whether
goods coming in after April LIST had
been purchased or ordered prior to that
date. Some of the importers have also
chung to the belief that this feature of
the bill would fail to pass the Senate.
especially in view of the recent pubIi-
cations so indicating, While others have
chosen to take the risks upon being re-
Quired to pay the extra duty in case
this feature of the bill should become a
law.
The result of these conditions is that
the total importations of foreign goods
have jumped from $50, 600 900 in Au-
gust, 1896 to SS0,000000 last month.
The notable increase has come from
-dutiable articles which importers
know will soon have TO pay duty. The
importations of this class of goods have
Jumped from $21 100000 in August
1896, to S45,000,000 in April, 1897.
LABOR TROUBLES