The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-05-16
House Will be Forced 10 Accept
the Tariff Measure.
ALL PROTESTS ARE USELESS THE
SPEAKER AND CHAIRMAN DING
LEY ARE SAID TO BE DIS.
GuSTED-IN. PRIVATE CONVEX.
sATIoN, 1T IS SAID THEY HAVE
DECLARED THEY WOULD RArH-
Err HAVE NO BILL AT ALL THAN
THE SENATE MoNsTRosITY.

washington, May 15.-Antagonism be-
tween the House and the Senate over the
tariff Is growing much more RAPIDLY than
mad been anticipated in any quarter. Ar
the same time there is no reason to chance
the opinion that ultimately the Honse
VIII he whipped into the traces and swal-
~" Win iittte or no modification the bill
as linaiiy shaped up in the upper branch.
both the Speaker of the House and the
chairman Of the committee on WAYS and
means are so much worked up over the
radical changes made in the House bill by
the hepuoiican members OF the Senate
ilnapce committee that they have violated
their policy of reticence and given for
puolication their views on what they con
slider the plumbers and the defects of the
senate phi ms it now stands. These au-
.hoiiIea expressions are comparatively
tame whe" measured by the private Mt
terances of the two distinguished lights
OF the House of Representatives.
In confidential conversations in COM
menting on the ruthless manner in which
tnelr measure has been torn to pieces. the
speaker AMI chairman of the ways and
means committee mince no words. 1t is
reported both of them have said thew
would prefer no bill at all to the one be.
Iore the Senate. Doubtless they feel this
way Just now. Three wears ago the
and means committee of the Democratic
House talked in precisely the same strain.
They also had behind them larger pro-
portion or followers than the present
Speaker and chairman had. Yet when
the alternative OF the Senate bill or no
Dill Mt all had actually to be met every
one knew the result
Inc House cannot from the nature of
things maken successful fight against the
l,n E.xl. 81. N ~
must lie made in the Senate to change
the obnoxious schedules. There Is n deal
OF quiet caucussing going on ampug SEN
ators with respect to this matter, and it
seems highly probable material changes
VIII nave to be conceded before the bill
can secure the necessary votes for it's pas-
sage through the Senate. At least two of
the regular Republicans have plainly an
nounced they will not vote for the sugar
schedule as it now stands.
No one appears to be sufficiently in
formed to venture an estimate rs to tho
actual result of the sugar schedule as it
applies to the refined products. Every
one knows 1T is in the interest of the sugar
trust, nut how many millions of benefit
it Will be mo fellow can find ont" lust
now. In the comparative statement, is
sued to-day under the authority of the
senate finance committee, the experts
wisely refrain from making any esti-
mates of the effect OF the proposed 'sched.
ule on the refined pro ducts.
IT. is said the sugar trust peoule them
selves, who fixed up the schedule, have
no approximate idea of what it will be
worth to them, although, of course, they
Know 1T will be q big thing. 1t was
precisely the same case with the German
sugar schedule. 1t ''pahned out'' beyond
the Widest dreams of the sugar mag
Mates and the sugar Senatorswere disap-
pointed that they did not come in for
more OF the spoils. 1t is scarcely probn-
Die that the sugar schedule in the exist
ing bill can go through without modifi-
cation The electric light of public criti-
cism Is too severe for it to withstand.
lt is significant fact that, without ex-
ceptloh, every protection newspaper in
the whole United States has denounced
inns sugar schedule, as also various other
provisions OF the Senate bill. 1t is quite
likely the finance committee will of its
own motion submit notifications in the
sugar and in some other schedules. II
not, it Will be most surprising should
notifications not he made in the Senate.
But, as said, when the measure finally
gets through the Senate it will practi.
cally he in the shape in which 1t must
either be adopted or dropped The Re-
publican party would he in woeful
plight If nothing should come of the
tariff labors in Congress The President
ana House may squirm over the Senate
Ell, but bill of some kind must be had.