River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22
HAD VOTES TO SPARE.
Conference Report on the Tariff
Bill Passes the House.
Adopted by a Vote of 1s5 ia I1s-The
Act Expected to Yield n Revenue
of s225, o0,OOo-Cbanges In
the Schedules.

ence report on the tariff bill was adopt
ed by the house shortly after midnight
by a vote of ISIS to lis and at oon to-
day the report will go to the senate tor
action there. This eclipses all previous
records. The result was accomplished
after 10 hours of continuous debate.
But two speeches were made by the re-
publicans. one hy Mr.. Dingley in open
ing the debate and one by Mr.. Payne. of
New York, in closing il. The democrats
were thus forced to put forth speaker
after speaker, but their bombardment
CO the republican position was unan-
swered.
Every rap. hiican In the house who
was pre- ent voted tor the report. The
democrats. with five exceptions. voted
against the report. The exceptions
were Slayden (Tex.), Broussard Ua),
Meye r (La.), Davey (La.). Kleberg
(Tex.) The populists and silverites did
not vote solidly. Mr.. Shafroth (Col.)
and Mr.. Newlands (Nev.). silverites. alb
stained from voting. Mr.. Hartman
(silverite, Month did not vote. The pop
ulists who voted against the report
were as follows: Baker, Barlow. Bot
kin, Fowler, Jett, Lewis, Marshall, Mar
tin, Peters, Simpson, Strowd and Vim
cent. Four did not vote: Howard,
Kelly, Stark and Switzerland. The
other populists were absent. An an
alysis of the vote shows that $50 repub-
licans and five democrats voted for the
report and LOG democrats and ~ popu-
lists against it.
Expected TO Raise 1929. OO0.OOO
AS TO the question of revenue to be
raised by the bill. MIR. Dingley. in his
speech, pointed out the difficulty re-
sulting from the large anticipatory i'm
portations. The bill next year. he cal
culated, would raise s225,00O, 900, $751;
OOO.0 900 more than the present law. Over
$4,000, 900 had been lost in this years
revenues by the importations of wool
and sugar and other things, tie duty on
which was raised in the bill. so that he
calculated that the bill this year would
raise S1s5. 100000.
Main Points I'm the Report.
Washington, July 2O.-The tariff bill
was pushed through the conference
stage Monday after two hours discus
sion before the full conference com
mittee-democrats and republicans
held in the senate finance committee
room Monday morning. AT the outset
the democratic conferees asked until
Tuesday morning 10 go over the report,
saying this course was preferable to
going over it with the republicans. To
test this question. Senator Vest (dem..
MOI moved an adjournment until to-
day, which was defeated by a strict
party vote. The democratic conferees
then offered amendments to the re-
port, but were met with the statement
that ii would merely consume time to
urge amendments, as they would be
rejected. Representative Wheeler
(dem.. Ala.) offered amendments plac-
ing cotton bagging and cotton ties on
the free list; also substitute PROPOSE
tion for rebates on these articles. These
and other amendments were with
drawn, however, as there was no pros
pect of favorable action on them.
Shortly before noon Mr.. Dingley moved
that the report be submitted to the
two houses. This prevailed by party
vote, and the meeting adjourned. There
was little clash during the discussion.
and the democratic members of the con-
ference contented themselves with
protest against the report aud the man
ner of agreeing to it.
The new tariff bill is to become oper-
ative Immediately ii is signed by the
president.
The Sugar Paragraph.
The parn graph in relation to sugar
in full follows:
Sugars not above No rs Dutch stand
erd in color tank bottoms. sirups OF cane
juice. .melada. concentrated melada, con-
crete and concentrated molasses testing
by the polariscope not above rs degrees
ninety-fve one-hundredths per pound and
for every additional degree shown by the
polariscopic test thirty-five one thou
sandths of one cent per pound additional
and fractions of a degree In proportion:
and on sugar above No. 16 Dutch stand
ard in color and on all sugar which has
gone through process of refining one cent
and ninety-ilve hundredths of one cent per
pound: molasses testing above 40 degrees
and net above 56 degrees. three cents per
gallon; testing Sc degrees and above. six
cents per gallon; sugar DRAWINGS and
sugar sweepings shall be subject to duty
as molasses or sugar as the case may be.
according TO polariscopic test. Provided,
that nothing herein contained shall be
so construed as to abrogate or In any man.
ner impair or affect the provisions of the
treaty of commercial reciprocity concluded
between the United States and the king OF
the Hawaiian islands on January 3d. 1876
or the provisions of any act of congress
heretofore passed for the execution OF the
same"
The conference restored the house
rate of 20 per cent. on sugar cane.
Saccharine is made one dollar and fifty
cents per pound and ten cents adj
valorem.
The confectionery paragraph is
changed to read as follows:
Sugar candy and all confectionery not
specially provided for in this act. valued a
is cents GER pound or less, and on sugars
or I'm any way adulterated. four cents per
pound and Is per cent. ad valorem: valued
at more than 10 cents per pound. 80 per
cent ad valorem. The weight and the value
of the immediate coverings. other than
the outer packing case or other coverings.
shall be included in the dutia BILE weight and
the value of the merchandise.
other Schedules.
The statement of the republican con.
ferees made the following explanation
of the effect of the changes agreed upon
by the conferees in the schedules other
than the sugar schedule:
Metals and Manufactures Of-The re-
auctions of duties on some forms OF iron
and steel proposed by the senate are ac-
cepted in part as proposed and several new
paragraphs are introduced not heretofore
specifically provided for.
Cotton ties. which were placed on the
free list by the senate. are restored to the
dutiable list at a reduced DUTY of five
tenths of one cent.
Tin plates are placed at the rate of
duty provided in the bill as 1t passed the
house.
structural iron is reduced one-tenth OF
enc cent
THE senate amendment C270) on pocket
knives which is substantially the same a
the para graph passed by the house. is
agreed to. and compromise rates adopted
on guns.
1.-The house agrees to senate amendment
3l6. increasing the duty on lead ore to IL
cents. and the duty on pig lead (32D is
placed at 2ls cents.
Nickel ore and nickel matte are left
On the free list. as provided by the house.
Wood and Manufactures of Wood
All sawed lumber, except sawed timber ex-
ceeding eight inches square. is left at the
rate of two dollars per thousand. as pro-
vided by the house Planed lumber is also
placed at the house rates.
''Tobocco and Manufactures OF - The
duty on wrapped tobacco Is placed a Sl.S5
per pound. a compromise between the
house rate OF two dollars and the sen
ate rate of sl.75. and the senate reduction
on filler tobacco accepted.
THE several amendments on lead paints
adjust the rates to the increased duty on
lead. The other amendments In the chem