The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-18
SCHEDULES
ARE READY
For Submission to the
Democrats
SENATE AMENDMENTS STICK
WESTERN INTERESTS WE'LL
CARED FOR
SENATE AMENDMENTS STICK
If Hope Finds Fulfllment One More
Week Will See the Final
Adjournment
Associated Press Special wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
WASHINGTON, July 17.-When the
Republican conferees on the tariff bill
adjourned at p. m today the announce
ment was made on behalf of each of the
houses that they had agreed on all this
items of the bill and that the result Of
the partisan conference would be SUBJ
mitted to the Democratic members Of
the conference at a full meeting to bo
held on Monday.
This announcement had been made In
formally to the Democratic members OF
the conference at noon and had forced
the subject of general speculation about
the senate during the afternoon. 1t ap-
peared after the informal statement waD
made that there was still much to be
done in the way Of putting the bill in
shape, and the conferees spent six hours
in close application to the work In hand.
They were, for the most part. merely
running over the bill. but there are stilf
no rates to- be agreed upon articles which
had been passed over until the sugar
schedule should be finally disposed, Of
The revision was not even completed
during the afternoon session and some
of the members returned to renew the
work tonight.
1--WE cannot" said Senator Allisont
''say just what the attendance Of Dem-
ocrats on Monday will be, for there "
still much to be done to get the, bill In
readiness for them"
1t is understood that some Of the mem-
bers will work tomorrow for the ac-
complishment Of this purpose and 1t -
hoped to have the bill printed and pre-
pared for the inspection of the Demo-
Gratis by 10 o'clock Monday. The Repub-
licans still further hope to secure the as
sent of the Democratic members in re-
porting the bill after one session, and
they hope to be able to present it to
congress at the beginning of the seS-
sion Monday.
The members of the conference still
preserve the strictest silence in regard
to the changes made, giving out 10 off1c-
ial confirmation as to the changes made
in the bill. 1t is learned, however, from
an entirely reliable source that very
large majority of the senate amend-
ments were accepted. This was render
ed necessary by several circumstances
number of amendments made by the
senate were verbal, others were trivial
and still others were made necessary
TO secure harmony of construction and
would have been made by the house II
that body had had the bill under considL
Grafton for so long time as the senate.
All such changes as these were accepted
without question by Che house confer
ees They also accepted in most cases
all these alterations by the senate in
order to secure the passage Of the bill
in that body. Senator Jones' Of Nevada
holding as he did, practically the ball
ance of power, both in the senate and IN
the committee, was enabled to secure
many concessions for western interests
in the senate and these he held without
exception in the conference. He even
succeeded in scuring a degree of proteo-
ton for beet sugar greater than was
given either in the senate or the house
bill.
The bill as agreed upon will, when
made public, present an entirely new
sugar schedule, at least in the main item
Of duty on raw and refined sugar, tho
fourth presented since the bill emerged
from the receeses of the ways and means
committee.
When the announcement of an agree
ment was madethe indications were that
they had surrendered everything in the
sugar schedule to the house. No one
in possession of all the facts could see
how it could be otherwise when it was
known that the house differential Of
one-eighth of cent had been accepted
and the senate provision for throwing
off one-tenth of cent in low grade SUI
gare receded from.
you will discover" said Senator AL
drich, in discussing the matter among
his colleagues, that the senate saves
something after all, and that it Is not
a complete surrender on our part"
The wording of the sugar paragraph
was as follows, and shows that he was
right:
Sugars not above number 16 Dutch
standard in color. tank bottoms, syrups
of cane juice, melada, concentrated me-
lada, concrete and concentrated mo-
lasses, testing by the polariscope not
above rs degrees, 95-100 of one cent per
pound, and for every additional degree
shown by the polariscope three and one-
half hundredths of one per cent per
pound additional, and fractions of a de-
gree in proportion; and on sugar above
number 16 Dutch standard in color, and
on all sugar which has gone through
process of refining, .125 cent per pound
additional"
1t will be observed that the modifica-
tion of the sugar schedule still leaves the
rate on pure sugar testing 100 degrees
1.95 cents per pound. which was the sem
ate rate. The differential on refined SUI
gar e however, one eighth of cent
per pound, while the senate differential
was one-fifth Of cent per pound The
house also secured the elimination OF
one-tenth Of a cent reduction allowed
on jaggory and other low grade sugars
testing below 81 by the polariscope. xt
is claimed that the increase on the high-
er grades of sugar which win result from
the increase Of the polariscope Gradations