The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-05
THE BILL REPORTED
Tar # - easure Unexpectedly
prs>~,,i.d 70 the Senate.
BRAND NEW PREPARATION
CHANGES MADE ARE MAINLY
AGAINST THE FARMERS.
RECIPROCITY THROWN ASIDE
THE REDUCTIONS OUTNUMBER
THE ADVANCES IN RATES.

THE ADVANCES IN RATES.
HOW THE SOUTH IS AFFECTED
Manufactures Of Cotton Are Raised bur
Tobacco is Lowered Agricultural
Products Are lowered But the West
is Taken Care of in Its Spscia'tes--A
Creation of the Trusts fi:h the
Farmer left Out.
Washington. d. c., May 4.-The tariff
bill was reported to the Senate to-day TO
the surprise of Senators and the puDllc.
When the Senate Finance committee met
to-day the idea prevailed that the Dill
would be held in committee for two days.
All the members of the committee were
present The Democrats examined the
bill for nearly an hour, making run
ming comment upon it. They announced
that they were against the bill as a
whole. They soon understood that Sena-
tor Jones, of Nevada, was going to vote
with the Republicans and realized that
there was no possibility of changing the
measure. They had no desire to make
any factious opposition, and when mo-
ton was made by the Republicans to re-
port the bill at once, the vote was
promptly taken ALL the Republicans,
with Senator Jones, OF Nevada, voted for
the motion, and all the Democrats voted
against it, the vote standing six to FIVE.
The Republican members Of the COM
mittee say there is no statement to be
made as to the effect Of the bill, the
amount of revenue to be raised by it or
the reductions Wher the bill is taken
up in the Senate Mr.. Aldrich Will make
a statement in the opening speech. 1T
will raise revenue enough" was the COM
ment Of Senator Allison, assented to by
Senator Aldrich They estimated, how
ever, that the increased revenue to BE-
raised from beer would be $4,000, 900.
and from tea, $10OO0,OO0.
Senator Jones, of Arkansas. said he
thought there would be about six weeks
in debate on the BILL
Several sections in the last part Of the
Dingley bill, which re-enacted the present
law, are stricken out This will have the
effect of leaving the present law stand
and avoid discussion to great extent
The comments on the bill are, of course
partisan. Some features are very much
dishked by even Republicans, but upon
the whole the Republicans commend and
the Democrats condemn it, though mem-
bers of the committee say that the sub
committee has, in many particulars, i'm
proved upon the Dingley bill.
PRACTICALLY A NEW BILL.
The new bill is radically different from
the Dingley bill, practically amounting
almost to another measure. Many i'm
portant schedules were rewritten en-
tirely.
In reporting the bill Senator Aldrich
gave notice that it would be called up
on Tuesday, the 18th instant.
The time for the bill to take effect is
made July /, 1897, instead Of May LIST,
as provided in the House, and the words
in the first paragraph 'Or withdrawn for
consumption are stricken out.
The sugar schedule is as follows: Su-
gars not above number 16 Dutch stand
ard in color. tank bottoms, syrups of
cane juice and of beet juice, melada, con-
centrated melada concrete and concen-
trated molasses testing by the polari
scope above 81 and not above 50 degrees,
seventy-nine hundredths Of one cent per
pound, and for every additional degree
shown by the pOlariscopic test, two hun
dredths of one cent per pound, and frac-
tions of a degree in proportion. Sugar
above number 16 Dutch standard in
color, and sugar that has gone through
process of refining, one and sixteen one
hundredths of one cent per pound; and i'll
addition thereto, on all the foregoing 30
per cent.
Sugars not above 16 Dutch standard
in color, tank bottoms, syrups of cane
juice and beet juice, melada, concentrat-
ed melada concrete and concentrated mo-
Iasscs testing by the pOlariscope not more
than 81 degrees, % per cent Molasses
testing above 40 and not more than DO
degrees, four cents per gallon; testing 56
degrees and not above 20 degrees, eight
cents per gallon. Machinery for the man
ufacture Of beet sugar admitted free.
Sugar cane in it's natural state and
manufactured, 10 per cent; saccharlRe,
81 per pound and 10 per cent.
Hides are transferred from, the free
list, and the tax on beer is increased to
$1.44 per barrel until January I, 1900,
when it is to be 81.
RECIPROCITY GOES TO SMASH.
The retroactive clause of the Dingley
tariff bill is stricken from the Senate bill.
The entire House provision relating to
reciprocity has been stricken out, and the
following substituted: That whenever
any country, dependency, or colony shall
pay or bestow, directly or indirectly, any
bounty or grant upon the expectation of
any article or merchandise from such
country, dependency or colony, and such
article or merchandise is dutiable under
the provisions Of this act, then upon the
importation of any such article or mer-
chandise into the United States,
whether the same shall be i'm
ported directly from the country
of production, or otherwise, and