The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-07-02
.IHE TARIFF ON LUMBER
[ kaduoed in the Senate Bill Despite
the. Finance Committee.
no AMENDMENT AGAINST TRUSTS

no AMENDMENT AGAINST TRUSTS
Republican Senatorial Caucus Decides
\ That the Terms Of the Wilson Law
ON That Subject Shall be Continued.
4 To be Sent to Conference.
ds washington, July 2.-The. finance
soynmittee suffered several unexpected
lfeverses during the progress of the
)ariff bill yesterday. being defeated on
5lhree important votes Cotton bagging
WAS placed on the free list by @ vote
ipf 80 to Is, and cotton ties also, by a
vote Of 20 to 20. The duty on white pine
humber was reduced from 81 to 81 per
LOCO, the vote being 80 to 81. The
amendment on pine occasioned, the
greatest surprise. and led to gen.
)ral breaking up Of party lines on both
)ides Of the chamber. During the early
ytages of the debate the duty on
lumber. including pine, was placed at
%, after a protracted contest.
Yesterday Mr.. Teller returned to the
er0ntest and moved to place white pine
humber on the free list. The amend
ment was defeated by the close vote
ri 80 to SO, four Republicans, Baker,
Barter, Hansbrough and Quay, joining
with the Democrats, Populists and
silver Republicans In the affirmative,
while three Democrats, Bacon, Nc
Emery and Martin, voted with the Re-
publicans in the negative. Following up
khis close vote Mr.. Mantle, silver Re-
publican, moved to reduce the rate on
white pine from ~ to 81, and this car
Fied by majority Of !. Two Republi-
rams, Baker and Carter, voted with the
Democrats In the affirmative and three
Democrats Bacon, McEnery, and Mar
tin, with the Republicans In the mega
tive.
/. The bill Is now completed with the
exception of the reciprocity section
hhd some comparatively minor para
graphs. Much progress was made yes
terday in clearing up detached para
graphs heretofore passed over. Only
three of these-coal tar, potash and tea
s-Femain. SO that these items. the reci-
procity section, and the brief internal
revenue and administrative provis-
aons are all that remain Of the bill to
be disposed of before the final vote is
taken.
The Republican senators held what
They decided should be their last cau-
eus on the tariff bill last night. The
meeting continued for more than three
sours, and was productive Of import
ant results. which were not reached
without the display of considerable
Feeling Among the points decided were
khe following: :
To report no antitrust amendment
howard the original finance committee
provisions for a duty on tea and an
increase Of A cents per barrel in the
tax on beer, and to provide for tax
bn bond and stock transactions.
The greater part of the time was
given to the proposition for a. proyis-
Jon against trusts. The committee had
held meeting during the afternoon,
hi which the whole question was gone
over at length with other Republican
penators, including Messrs. Hanna and
Ehander. 1t was then decided that 1T
would be extremely difficult to secure
legislation that would be effective,
and that upon the whole it was i'm
polite and unMiss t0 undertake. 1t. A
report was maze accordingly 10 the
caucus and resolution adopted au-
thorizing the presentation of an
amendment providing in express terms
for the continuance in effect of the
terms of the Wilson law which makes
Il unlawful to form trust in imported
articles. This report was finally agreed
10.
The committee had been supplied
with estimates Of the revenue the bill
would produce, made by Mr.. Worth
ington c. Ford, who had given the
opinion that, with an equal volume of
imports, the bill would produce during
the first year more than sl00 900, 900 in
excess of the returns under the Will
son law for the first year it was in
existence. Senator Allison said, how
ever, that these figures were mislead
ing, as the imports would not be ex-
pected to be so large, and advised his
fellow senators on this account not TO
accept them as any Indication of the
possibilities Of the bill.
When The tariff bill reaches the
house after 1t has passed the senate it
Is not probable that there will be any
attempt to oppose the motion which
will be made either directly by Chair
man Dingley or by the operation of
special order, to disagree to the senate
amendments and send the bill to con-
ference. The Republican leaders do not
think there is any necessity for de-
bate until the bill is reported back by
the conferees, and the Democrats are
inclined to the same opinion. Mr.,
Bailey, the leader Of the minority. said
he would not oppose motion to get
the bill into conference, provided the
Republicans would agree to reason
able time for debate when the bill was
reported back to the house. He thought
three or four days for discussion at
4 that time would be sufficient.
The numbev of conferees to be ap-
pointed on behalf of the house has not
yet been decided, nor the political di-
vision, but the conferees. as is usual,
will be the ranking members of the
committee from each side. 1t Is prob
able that there will be seven conferees.
The political division may be five and
two, or four and three. The Republi-
can members of the committee in
their ranking order are Dingley,
Payne, Dalzell, Hopkins, Grcsvenor.
Russell Doliver. Steele, Johnson,
Evans and Tannev, and the Democrats
Bailey, McMiliin, Wheeler. McLaurin,
Robertson and Swanson.
The estimate of the time the bill will
be in conference ranges from two to
ten days. but the best opinion is that
the conferees will report the bill back
a week from next Monday If it comes
ever from the senate on the latter
day.