The times., 1897-05-10
SUGAR SCHEDULE DISLIKED
President Considers the Senate Re-
vision Obnoxious.
Features of the ningley Bill Thought
TO Give Sufficient Protection for
Rcfiners OF the Staple.

President Mckinney is known TO have cx-
pressed an unqualified disapprovai OF the
sugar schedule . the Senate revision al
the DiDgiey tariff bill to seyerai members
OF the Senate Finance Committee before
they reported the bill The committee aid
not see ut tn motiffy the schedule in any
slightest partifufaf along tne lines that
Mr.. Mckinley desired
II may now be stated positively, thefe-
fore, that the sugar schedule prepared by
Republican Senators is obnoxious to the
Republican President, who was supposedly
elected hecatse he represented the tariff
ideas Of the people or the Republican party
President Mckinley is said not 10 up
prove OF nany or the important features
of the Senate bnl@ Nearly every reduction
Of the bill fronf the rates Of the DingIey
bill is heiieved TO be at variance with his
ideas. This is sbmewhat matter OF sur.
mise, however, based on his weII-known
high protective policy.
OF the matter OF the sugar schedule there
seems no question. MIR. Mckinley believes
tine Senate committee has gone entirely too
far in the other direction, giving too much
protection TO tie sugar trust In his
opinion the Dingley bill gave the refiners
OF sugar sufficient protection 10 compen-
safe them for the alleged difference in
cost of refining here and abroad and the
differential duty and the added duty on
sugars imported from bounty paying coun-
tries made disastrous foreign competitio
impossible
Many Republican Senators do not ap-
prove of this sugar schedule
1t is an interesting query. who the Re
publican members OF the Senate Finance
Committee wished to please when they
framed this sugar schedule. They did not
please Mr.. Mckinley, nor a large number
of the Republican Senators. Practically
the entire Democratic and Populist forces
in the Senate believe that the schedule
is outrageous. Speaker Reed and the
other Republican leaders of the House,
nearly the whole House, frowns on it
Public opinion is bitterly and overwheIn-
ingly against it
There is the sugar trust remaining. II is
asserted thatthis schedule was made word
for word and line for line at the dictation
of the sugar trust, and for no other pur-
poses than to meet its desires absolutely.
Representatives. of the sugar trust haze
had free access to the rooms Of the Re-
publican subcommittee in the Arlington
Hotel, when even the Republican Senatorial.
colleagues OF the members were excluded
They have been the honored guests Of
the committees. They have been wined
and dined. They have given wine aud
dinners in return.
The sugar schedule as II stands in the
Senate bill suits the sugar harons hettar
than the present law. present they are
enabled to pay 2 per cent yearly on their
inflated stock and have millions
Of surplus. II the Senate bill becomes a
law they should be able to increase the
dividends to 16 per cent
Another Senatorial investigation may
possibly be in order before that time, how
ever. In such an event there is an inter
,sting QUESTION that is agitating many
healthy min ds, Would any possible re-
calcitrant witness, after carrying their
cases through all the courts, finally be
Dardoned by the President?