The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-26
THAT INV TARIFF bill
Will Be All Ready For the Spe-
cial Session.
WOOL AMP SUGAR SCHEDULES.
When the Bill Is Presented For Consid-
Grafton, the Sugar Trust People VIII he
ON Hand to Make Sure OF the Senate.
Personal Gossip OF MT. and Mrs. Cieve-
land.

ON Hand to Make Sure OF the Senate
Personal Gossip of MT. and Mrs. CIeve
land.
WASHINGTON. Feb 26.--[Special. l-Th,
ways and means committee of the house il
not getting along as rapidly with the new
tariff bill as 1t had hoped to do. Blu
there Is no warrant for the statement re
Gently made in the newspapers that 1t will
be June before the bill Is ready to report
to the house. The chairman of the com
mittee, Governor Dingley, told me today
he expected to have the bill ready by the
middle of March, certainly not later than
the Goth of that month. About that time
the new congress will meet If President
Mckinley carries out his present pro
gramme The wool and sugar schedules
remain to be fixed by the Republican mem.
bers of the committee, and these duties arc
always the subject of great deal of pres
sure. So far as the ways and means COM
mittee is concerned, the wool schedule is
much more troublesome than any other
as the sugar people do not worry them
selves about the duty till the bill gets over
to the senate.
The Shrewd Sugar Trust.
1t is safe to say that while the Repub.
lican members of the ways and means COM
mittee are fixing up the sugar schedule
they will not hear "a single word from the
Sugar trust or the other refiners They
will be let severely alone by the represent
atives of the Havemeyer concern. But as
soon as the tariff bill gets through the
house and is ready for consideration by the
senate the trust people will be on hand.
1t is an axiom with them never to waste
time on the house, but to make sure of the
senate. The house is more difficult body
to handle than the senate. 1t Is almost
impossible to arrive at anything like an
understanding with the house, while with
the senate the representatives of the trust
can know almost exactly where they stand
How important matter the sugar duty is
to the trust may be understood from the
fact that their great profits of about &c.
900, 600 year are made up by the differ
ence between the tariff on raw sugar and
that on refined sugar. This amounts I'M
der the present law to one-eighth of cent
a pound, and that little eighth of cent
piles up to the vast sum of $40, 900, 900 in
u single years operations of the trust.
There is small chance that the protection
enjoyed by the trust in this eighth of q
cent pound will be reduced in the new
tariff bill. More likely than anything else
Is that it will DO left just as 1t is. The
sugar growers in this country demand pro- |
lection from the beet sugars of Germany, |
Oh which an export bounty is paid by the |
German government amounting to 81 per |
'ent, and both the cane sugar producers Of |
Louisiana and the beet sugar growers of |
he west will not be satisfied unless they
ire protected.
Republican Plans.
The Republicans now feel sure that they
Will DO able TO reorganize the senate when
hey get ready to do so, but their present
programme is to let the organization stand
ust as it is till next winter, except as to
he finance committee. They will not
ave q clear majority of the senate after
he 4th of March, and, while they do not
xpect any difficulty in the passage of their
arif bill, they might not be able to reor-
'anize the committees if thoy were to set
ut to do So They fear also that an at
empt ut reorganization might embarrass
he tariff bill by rousing party prejudice
r producing personal disappointment i'm
he Encouragement of committees. The
republicans will probably have IA votes
n the senate after March 4, or one short
majority with the vote of the vice
resident. But it is said ON good author
~ that three or four of the silver senator's
rom the far west who We're formerly Re-
ublicans will vote for the tariff bill, and
hat one or two Democrats will follow
heir example. Some of the Independents,
Ike Pettigrew and Kyle of South Dakota,
re still unknown quantities, and so are
ne or two of the Populists.
An official of the navy department. whose
uties bring him much in contact with
he naval attaches of the various foreign
and legations here tells me the
japanese naval attache Is the brightest
IAN in the corps. The duties of a naval
ttache, you know, are to keep his govern
lent informed as to the PROCESS of the |
United States navy, the newest inventions !
nd processes in armor plate, construction,
roJectilos, powder, ETC. Well, the little |
ap is the keenest and quickest man in the
IT. He is absolutely without imagination,
ut in thoroughness of DETAIL in practical
bility and business sense he is said to |
INK away above all the Europeans. The
apanese are very ambitious for naval
'rength and are watching every invention
nat gives promise of helping them on
leir way to mastery of the Pacific, which
obviously their goal.
Personal Matters.
Mrs. Cleveland is noted among her ,
lends as a very observing woman. Very ,
tile goes on In the White House, even at /.
le crowded receptions, unknown to her.
t the last reception n young lady from
ut of town was in the line passing through {
le red and blue parlors, and as she came !,
p to Mrs. Cleveland and shook hands
18th her the lady of the White House, with
lat rare smilo Of hers, exclaimed: eff / 9
N not mistaken, your twin sister passed
trough here about ten minutes ago.
You are mistaken, Mrs. Cleveland, 4" re
led the young lady, "for L have no sis.
r.. "Well, she was your double, them"
torted Mrs. Cleveland After that the 7
,ung lady and her friends kept their eyes
zen for the double, and sure enough, half ,
I'D hour later, they found her leaning up
J the arm of handsome naval officer in ,
lie cast room The two young ladies were
nearly alike as to cause their friends ,
'eat establishment. The wonder is that :
rs. Cleveland should have noticed the re- |.
mblance of two persons in a line that re- ,
aired three hours to pass.
Loa IL. |