The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-04-16
TARIFF TTyKERIyG.
Proposed Changes by Senators ia
the Dingley Bill Rates.
SEVERAL URGE HIGHER DUTIES.

Senator Quay Wants Carpets and Mat
tings wen Provided For, and senator
Perkins Wants the Duties Raised on
Fruit Products.
Washington, April 16.-The Republi-
can subcommittee OF the senate COM
mittee on finance held an all day ses-
sion at the capitol yesterday to afford
an opportunity to other senators to
make suggestions on the tariff bill.
Among the senators who called and
had conferences with the committee
We're Messrs. Quay, Sewell, Elkins,
wellington, Perkins, shoup. Pritchard,
Baker and Harris of Kansas Sena-
tor Platt, Of New York, also spent some
time with the committee, but he ap-
peared to be a listener rather than a
participant in the proceedings.
Senator Quay had only a brief con-
ference, and devoted himself especially
to the rates on carpets and mating,
upon which he urged rate of duty
which would insure protection to the
Industries of this country against the
products of China and Japan.
Senator Perkins was given an exc
tended hearing on the fruit schedule,
He presented the committee with SAM
pies Of both California and foreign
ourrants and raisins, and asked for an
increase of the rate on Zante currants.
bringing 1t up to 215 cents per pound.
He also suggested a duty of / cent a
pound on oranges and lemons. instead
Of three quarters of a cent, as fixed
by the Dingley bill.
IT was suggested to Mr.. Perkins by
some OF the members Of the committee
that the fruit schedule had already
been attacked because Of rates charged
to be high, but the California senator
contended for thorough protection Mr..
Perkins suggested a substitute sched-
ule on beet sugar providing for a duty
of / cent a pound on sugar testing 70
by the polariscope, and increasing to
i1s cents for the 80 per cent test. The
committee promised to give this mat
ter due attention but gave no further
indication Of the probable result of It's
deliberations,
A more pronouncedly favorable re-
eeptiOn was given to a suggestion for
drawback duty on imported tin cans
in which fruits and salmon are ex-
ported. This suggestion appeared to
meet with favor.
Senator SewelTs suggestions pertain
ed to almost the entire list of New
Jersey manufactures, and he filed
briefs bearing upon all of them. He
suggested notifications of the chem
ical schedule. He also presented q re-
quest of the silk manufacturers for q
uniform so per cent ad valorem duty,
and of the pottery makers for a COM
pound duty on pottery products. The
latter complain that ad valorem duties
permit ruinous undervaluations, while
the silk men say that the so per cent
rate which they enjoyed prior to the
enactment of the Wilson law was en-
tirely satisfactory.
Senators Baker and Harris asked for
a duty Of 81 per ton on gypsum, and
for a decrease of the duty proposed
ap Mexican cattle. They represented
that there were immense beds of gyp-
sum in the west, sufficient to supply
the wants of the entire country. With
reference to cattle importatlons they
represented that the cattle were need
ed to Gonsume the grass crop of the
west, and that it was more economical
to move the cattle than the grass.
Senators Ell1ins and wellington both
appeared in support of the Dingley
rate on coal, which there is an effort
to have reduced
During the day a number of the Re-
publican senators from the inter-
mountain states met to agree upon a
plan of cooperation. They reached nc
definite conclusion except to stand to-
gether in their demands on WOOL hides
! cattle, lead ore and other Rocky
Mountain products.