The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11
President Mckinley FruitIessly En-
deavors to Learn When Senators
VIII Act on the Tariff Bill.
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS
MIR. MORGAN'S CUBAN RESOLUTION
MEETS WITH OPPOSITION.
Vigorous Speech by "a Hale, and
Reply by Mr. T~urpie-HOuse DEM
Qcrats still Divided.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, May 10-A significant
feature of the visit of a Western delega-
ton to the White House to-day to invite
the President to go to Utah in July and
participate in the ceremonies incident to
the fiftieth anniversary of the settlement
of that State was the tariff turn the exec
utive insisted upon giving the conversa-
ton. In the party We're George Q. Cannon,
the great Mormon leader; Senator Cannon,
his son; Senators Pettigrew and Cullom
and several other Western senators and
representatives. The President said he
would like very much to make the trip,
but he feared his presence here might be
required at that time by the exigencies of
tariff legislation. Then he turned cross
questioner and asked the visiting statesmen
their opinion as to the duration of the SEN
ate tariff debate, and when the bill would
reach him. He directed his talk with espe-
cial earnestness to Senator Pettigrew. The
replies were generally in a vein to lead to
the hope that the Senate majority would
not waste time over the bill, but no assur-
ance of early action could be given.
One of the best tariff experts at the capt.
tai is authority for the statement that the
d~ifferential duty on sugar in the Senate bill
is "a Of a cent per pound. When Congress
fixed the differential at Is of a cent in the
Wilson-Gorman bill it created a tremendous
scandal, the recollection of which will not
be effaced for years. The sugar schedule
in the pending Senate bill is such a COM
plicated affair that it's real meaning is hid
den from every one except the experts, and
even they differ in their conclusions. 1t
can be stated as practically a certainty that
the House will never agree to the Senate
of the proposition develops, opposition in
the Senate grows to such a degree as to
threaten it's passage through that body.
Although the Senate sugar schedule is man
ifestly in the interest Of the Sugar Trust,
there have been as yet no indications of a
scandal like that which shook the country
three years ago. Sugar stocks have been
more or less affected by the gossip over the
schedule and by the announcement of re-
suits, but the range of fiuctuation has been
quite moderate. YThe limit since the ways
and means committee began on the House
bill five months ago having been less than
ten points, with a mean figure of /. to
115.
Representative Fowler, of New Jersey, to-
day introduced in the House a bill for the
creation of a tariff commission to inVes-
tigate federal taxation so to
changes and TO adjust inequalities of exist
ing law. The bill provides for a commits
sion of seven members at a salary OF $i,UW
per annum, with a term of office each of
tWenty-one years. The commission shall,
under the terms of the bill, make annual
reports to the President, and 1t is given
power, with the written approval of the
President, to SUSPEND any tax on imports
in whole or part.