The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-06-03
TARIFF PROGRESS
The Metal Schedule Under
Discussion in Senate.
Republican Members Will 90
Into Caucus on Sugar and Wool
Senator Stewart Cossuses Time With
Plnaaclal Speech -Scuator Aldrich III.


was slightly under the weather yester-
day. and 30 did not appear at the SEN
ate, but his assistants, Senator Allison
and Senator Platt Of Connecticut, man.
aged the tariff bill so well that, before
the senate adjourned. they had got half
way through the long metal schedule,
with very much less friction than might
have been expected. The finance com
mittee amendments. with one slight ex-
ception. were all adopted, and all op-
posing amendments. except one. were
voted down.
After the metal schedule is completed
today or tomorrow there VIII be only
the wood schedule to dispose OF before
the sugar schedule Is reached.
Messrs. Jones Of Arkansas and Vest
urged numerous amendments, embody-
ing in the main the Wilson rates, bat
these were rejected with only one excep-
ton. This exception related to anvils,
ON which Mr.. Vest secured a reduction
Of the committee rate from to 1% cents
per pound. 1t was the first change made
without the assent OF the committee, and
1t was due mainly to lstless manner Of
many senator's in voting.
Early in the day Mr.. Tillman Of South
Carolina secured the adoption Of reso-
luton directing the judiciary commit
tee to inquire into the recent decisions
against the South Carolina dispensary
law, with view to reporting suchlegis-
lation as might be desirable.
Report on Derelict.
Washington, June 3.-Captain Shoe.
maker. chief Of the revenue cutter ser
vice, has received from Captain Phillips
commanding the cutter Perry, a repor,
giving the details Of the finding of the
derelict American schooner General
S.glin. The Siglin was sighted 10miles
off the west coast Of Graham island.
northwest of Vancouver b. c. The
wreck was found with bow and stern
just out OF water dismasted, decks swept
and bulwarks gone. The vessel was
boarded and search made for bodies. but
none was found. The coast Of the ad-
jacent islands were examined by skirt
ing the land as closely as possible for any
indications Of survivors Two Indian
villages were visited, but nothing could
be learned of any one having landed on
the islands. This report seems clearly
to indicate that the IL persons on the
Oi5llH WeTc iOSt III Tie StOTH WHICH
wrecked the vessel
Newspaper Mems Trial Set.
Washington, June 3.-The cases of
Messrs. John S. Shriver of Washington
and T.. j. Edwards of New York the two
newspaper men who figured in the Sugar
trust investigating committees prose-
cution of contumacious witnesses, will
be called for trial next Monday. Shriver's s
trial will be proceeded with first, and
that Of Edwards will follow. Three or
four witnesses have been summoned for
the defense. District Attorney Davis In
tends that the trials shall be pushed
through without delay, and will contend
that their cases are radically different
from those of the acquitted sugar mag
mates on the ground that they explicitly
and unequivocally refused to answer
questions.
Senator Aldrich Confined to His Room.
Washington, June 3.-Senator Aidrich.
who has charge of the tariff bill, is con-
fined to his room at the Arlington hotel
by an attack of indigestion. The SEN
ator's physician says there Is nothing
serious in the attack, bat advised him to
refrain from senatorial labors for few