The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-07-19
SETTLED AT LAST,
Tariff Confsress Finally Make Up
5 Il Their Minds.
THE HOUSE SUGAR SCHEDULE
wiasSy senate cOa1sr,ss Rsssdlng from
Thsir Position = speaker Reeds In
AasAss Nerves ,hs HoNss Members az
Conference and wns = signal Victory.
senator Jones savsss0ms Amendments.
How AErssmsat wa, Brought About

william Shaw Bowen telegraphed the
following to the Pittsburgh Dispatch
about the settlement OF the tariff dlf-
ferences Of the house and senate confer
ees Saturday. II comprises the whole
story in a nutshell; It has been a
great day for the people Bluff, coura-
geous Tom Reed and long-headed. per,
sisteut Chairman Dlngley have won a
great victory. The sugar schedule has
been arranged their way,
The senate eonferees have yielded TO
the rate of one-elghth dlfferential on re-
fined sugar and have receded from the
provision for a discount on Jaggery and
other low-grade sugars. This has ali
along been foreshadowed by the Dis
patch.
1t was impossible for the agents and
friends OF the sugar trust to hold their
ground. Senators became FESTIVE over
the manifest delay. They heard from
the country, Some announced their de.
termination to depart for their homes,
others argued that II would be well to
allow the matter to so to the senate for
vote. The agents OF the trust at
length discovered. however, that they
could not successfully carry out the tao
tics which prevailed four years ago.
The general public has become posted,
When the Wilson bill was hung up"
by the senatorial quartet the country
was not so well informed as at present,
Speaker Reed asserted himself yester-
day powerfully. He was backed by n
constantly increasing body of his fellow
representatives. Four members OF the
ways and means committee. not Of the
committee or conference. informed the
house conferees that they would not ac-
cept any report that was against the
house schedule. The conferees were like
wise informed that II they yielded to the
trust their report would not only be re-
Jected by the house. but new and in
structed committee would be appointed.
There was no need TO so inform Chair
man Dlngley and some others OF the
committee. There was at least one
member who. II was believed. would be
benefited by wholesome admonition.
Yesterday morning the question was
narrowed down to whether or not the
conference committee should report q
disagreement on the sugar schedule and
the senate and house be called on for
instructions.
This was the knell OF the great sugar
trust plot to obtain additional revenue
through friendly legislation. Speaker
Reed informed his friends that no other
alternative was offered. They must take
the houses proposition or go back to
their respective bodies with u Disagree
ment.
a consultation was held yesterday in a
chamber Of the Arlington Hotel Henry
Terrell. the chief lobbyist OF the trust.
was informed that the conferees would
be compelled TO yield.
I've can't hold the senate" Terrell was
informed. "Reed Is making capital by
egging on the members OF the house to
hold out" lfI 81 Ia4aa
The trust has been disappointed sew
eral times during the extra session. II
met its first defeat when Chairman
Dlngley refused to give II ad valorem
rates instead of specific duties, as were
provided In the house bill. The schedule
framed by the senate gave the trust lob
bylsts great satisfaction. The senate,
however dared not carry out such a
concession to the trust and abandoned
the schedule and q substitute Of Senator
Spooner's was adopted instead The
house leaders Immediately decided that
although Spooner's schedule was an i'm
provement on the subcommittee It was
too much to the trusts liking.
Some OF the senate conferees set out
braveiy 10 secure Tor the refining inter-
ests some additional advantages over the
house schedule. Their defeat is virtual
ly complete.
It must not be supposed that the sugar
clique here ia suffering. The great Jump
In Sugar certificates in the stock market
n week ago has filed the pockets OF some
well-known people here.
Senator Jonea, Of Nevada. the hacker
Of the trusts interests In the suh-com-
mttee, gave out week ago TINT the
senate schedule would prevail Others
near 10 the trust did the same. All the
while Speaker Reed was saying in pri-
vate. and members of the house were
saying openly, that the house conferees
would never recede on the main points.
But the tldlngs that the senate con-
ferees would prevail coming from such
a source as Senator Jones and others in
high places. caused the market to boom
and the agents OF the trust reaped
profit
The trust Is favored under tho house
schedule more than II deserves One
eighth Of q cent pound dlfferentlal duty
on refined sugar Is enough to give great
advantages to the trust.
The situation Tonight Is as follows:
1.-THE senate conferees have surrendered
TO the house contention. The schedule
of the latter has been adopted. The
clerical details have not been completed.
The Democratic conferees were Invited
to meet the Republican conferecs this
Afternoon To "a over the bill They ae-
cllned as they also dld nn Invitation TO
meet tomorrow. Monday morning. the
full committee will meet. The delay
which then may arise In reporting the
accepted bill to the senate will depend an
the Democratic members.
The house conferoOs have conceded
some important points In the general
BILL They have insisted on laying a
duty on cotton ties ana bagglng, which
win be bitterly antaEonlzed by the
southern senator's Unless this can be
harmonlzcd, there will be delay In final
action,
Speaker Reed Ii being congratulated
1antfsbt an hts Gttur,ub MI. ILL., 80.