The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-24
NEARING TIE END.
Tariff Infamy Goes Through To-
day-When Does It Take
Effect /?


House has taken recess until 1920 this
afternoon to await theSSenate's action on
the conference report on the tariff bill.
Chairman Dingley, of the Ways and
Means Committee, has introduced in the
House a resolution for a final adjourn
ment at five o'clock tonight If cur
rency commission bill is passed therefore
it will be by an order allowing not more
than forty minutes for debate.
The close of the long and exciting
struggle was near at hand when the
Senate met. at 10 o'clock this morning,
under the unanimous agreement of last
night that the final vote be taken at 3
P. M. today. Only II Senators were on
hand when the session opened and sew
eral Of these busted themselves with
clearing out their desks and preparing for
departure. There was no prayer, as this
was a recess session from yesterday.
Immediately after the Vice President
had called the Senate to order Mr.. Chan
dler On. H) moved an executive session.
He yielded, however, to Mr.. Bate (Tenn.)
who desired to have day fixed for eulo-
gies on his late colleague Mr.. Harris, of
iSHHtSSee- JdHudfy 10 lleAt WAS dSItSu
upon and then at 1906 the Senate went
intno executive session.
The doors wereopened at 1920 A. M,
and Mr.. Allen tNeb.) resumed his speech
in opposition to the tariff conference re-
port and the bill in general. BY this
time the attendance of Senators had in
creased to thirty and the galleries Were
filling~in anticipation of the final scene
in tn etariff contest Mr.. Allen criticized
the effect of the bill on the farmers.
He instanced barbed wire, required by
them for fences. on which they were
placed by the bill at the cold-heaTted
mercy of the barbed wire. trust. How
different it was in the case of the moneyed
aristocracy- 1t was all right, the Sen,
money gamblers of Wall street to make
S32000,000 out Of the sugar schedule since
the Dingleg BIZ was ; ilrst reported It
make So, 00O.o00 out of government bonds
Illegally issued under the administration
of Grover Cleveland. Farmers ought to
legislation of Russia is as beneficial to
them as the legislation of the United
States. As a sequel to Mr.. Aliens heated
alleged fraud in Ohio at the last election,
the Nebraska Senator presented tables
comparing the vote cast for, MCKINLEY,
umn showed "fraudulena excess that of
Ohio being state at 94,500 In closing Mr..
Alien announced his purpose to withhold
his vote on the question of agreeing to
the report.
Mr. Caffery (La.) followed in criticism
of the sugar schedule. He stated that
hurrying in with cargoes of raw sugar,
to avoid the duties of the bill. Already
eight months supply had been brought
in, thus cutting of government revenue
to that extent and giving enormous prof
its to the trust
Mr. Gear questioned these figures, say
f1<y 11xr ffaIr--
sugar had been brought in
The question of the day and hour when
the new tariff law will go into, operation,
if signed by the President before twelve
o'clock tonight. has been raised at the
Treasury Department. Information has
been received that a vessel laden with
probably will enter the harbor at Phila-
delphia during the afternoon. Another
vessel with cargo of wool is in Boston
harbor, and other vessels similarly laden
are expected to arrive during the day
Hitherto the customs offices on the At
lantic coast have been practically closed
pioyes being permitted to leave. Secre-
tary Gage, however. has decided to keep
the offices open today until four o'clock,
and Assistant Secretary Howell has sent
the following telegram to the Collectors =
"Department's instructions to. you on
June Sd, 1890, regarding hour of closing
on Saturdays, were as follows:-
g Such deputies. clerks and other en-
plOyes as are necessary to transact such
current business as may arrive before the
usual closing hour of each working day.
must remain attheir posts for that pur-
pose. You will follow the above instruc-
tions at the present time
These instructions, however, do not af-
feet the question of the time the Tariff
Act goes into operation. The question is
a new one so far as Tariff acts
are concerned and consequently new
er has been directly passed upon
by the. courts. The Mckinley Tariff
terms. on october g. five days after it re-
ceiyed the Presidents signature. The
Wilson bill became g a. law at twelve o'clock
the lapse of THE ten days allowed the
President by the Constitution for the con-
sideration of bills passed by Congress.
The matter has been well considered by
the Treasury officials and it is very probs
able that they will hold that the new act i
went into effect at twelve o'clock last
night. The department. however, has
ten days before final liquidation in which
to determine the question and no action
is likely to be taken before the last of
no at he or1i iact