The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-15
S7,5OO,OOO FOR SUGAR
THAT is THE PRESENT SENATOR'S
WOULD MAKE THE TRUST.
House Republicans Willing to Stay
Four Months Longer Rather Than
Give in to JObbers.
TO INVESTIGATE THE TRUST
SIMPSONS RESOLUTION ASKING FOR
COMMITTEE AT ONCE.
Reports from the Conference Conn
mittee Indicate that the Members
Are in a Deadlock.
COVERT REBUKE TO Mr.. REED
| SENATOR'S RESENT HIS "MEDDLING'
WITH THE CONFEREEs.
Believed the Speakers Action Has
Given House Members Re-
newed Courage.
Reports from the Conference Conn
mittee Indicate that the Members
Are in Deadlock.
COVERT REBUKE TO Mr.. REED
SENATOR'S RESENT HIS "MEDDLING'
WITH THE CONFEREES.
Believed the Speakers Action Has
Given House Members Re-
newed Courage.
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WASHINGTON, July 14.-Representative
Henry, of Indiana. expressed this afternoon
what seems to be the very strongly prevail
ing sentiment in the House on the question
of the passage of the tariff bill He said:
I'VE have been sitting here for four
months considering a tariff and revenue
measure. and 1, for one, am prepared to sit
here until the 1st of September, or for four
months longer, if need be, to get the kind
of a bill we want and the kind of a bill to
meet the approval of the country.
Practically all the damage that can be
done by delay has already been done, and
the necessity is not nearly as great at the
present time as it was sixty days ago for
quick action. l am as anxious as any one
can be for an early settlement of this mat
ter. so that the people can settle down,t
knowledge that the end of tariff legislation
has come, but it is of more importance that
we have the right kind of law than that
we enact any kind of law in order to gain
a few days or few weeks time
The above expression of opinion was
drawn out in the course of a discussion re-
garding the Senate threat that no bill
would be passed unless the House surren-
dered to the Senate in various important
schedules, conspicuous \among which is
sugar Yesterday the f1OuSS fNepuDllCdllS
were full CT alarm and excitement over the
reported weakening OF the House conferees,
but they were greatly braced up to-day,
and with the full assurance that they have
the powerful backing and support of
Speaker Reed they settling down to a
firm determination to stand by their guns.
They feel that by weakly indorsing the
trust-tainted amendments as they come
froS1 ba will bp
TEEN of their constituents and court defeat
when they ask for a reelection next year
Therefore. for strictly personal reasons, as
well as for patriotic and partisan grounds
they feel that they are warranted in main
tanning to the end refusal to accede to
Senate amendments where such changes
are VIGOROUSLY made in the interests of
trusts and combinations. They do not pro-
pose, if they can help it, to supply their
enemies with club to be used on their own
heads with deadly effect.
To illustrate the depth and extent of the
House decision to stand by the main pro-
visions of the original Dingley or House
bill, Speaker Reed said this afternoon that
it was not a question of whether a tariff
bill would pass the Senate as much as it
was whether it could pass the House. The
speaker is in dead earnest in his determina-
tion to uphold the dignity of the House and
compel the recognition Of the wisdom of
the House bill. His attitude puts back
bone into the Republican representatives.
Representative Hepburn of Iowa, one Of
the great leaders of the House, does not de-
spair of an early adjustment of the differ
ences between the two Republican wings of
the conference committee, but he does not
think that end can be or should be reached
by the adoption of the Senate changes in
the Dingley bill where such changes afford
ground for the charge that they were made
in the interests of trusts. With regard to
the sugar schedule, he said that the whole
people know, or think they know, that the
Senate amendments propose to give the
Sugar Trust $7,500,00O over and above what
it was entitled to, a proposition which is
offensive and repugnantto a vast majority
of citizens. He suggests as a basis of COM
promise between the two houses and as a
means for restoring good temper the adop-
ton of the suggestion made by Secretary
Gage for the internal revenue clause to
tax sugar imported into the United States
since the beginning of this special session
of Congress and the application of the same
principle to wool and wooden goods. He
says that all the sugar thus imported is in
New York, that practically all the wool and
woolens imported are in New York and
Boston, and that an internal tax equal to
the duty which is proposed TO be levied on
similar goods would yield a revenue of be-
tween $50, ,00O, 600 and $40,O00000, respectively
He said that such a tax would be easily
collectable and that it would be proper
equitable and popular tax. He seemed to
think that the conference committee might
adopt this plan when the Senate and House
conferees got tired of scowling at each
other