Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-16
NATIONAL CAPITAL GOSSIP Senate Tariff Sub Committee In
 AlLDay Session
TO HEAR SOME SUGGESTIONS
From Representatives of the People Beet Sugar Seed Being Sent 0ut-In-
 terestIng Bits of Gossip.

Washington, April 15.-The republican sub committee of the senate committees on finances held an all day session at the capitol and afforded an opportunity to offer suggestions on the tariff bill. Among the senator's who called and had conferences with the senate sub con- mittee were Messrs. Quay Elkins, Per kins, Shoup, Pritchard, Baker and Har- ris of Kansas. Senator Platt, of New York, also spent some time with the com- mittee, but he appeared to be a listener rather than participant in the proceed ings.
 Senator Perkins was given an extended hearing on the fruit schedule. He pre- sentsd the committee with samples of both California and foreign entrants and raisins and asked for an increase of the rate on entrants bringing 1t up to 2A cents per pound. He also suggested a duty of cent a pound on oranges and lemons instead of % of cent as fixed by the Dingley bill
 It was suggested to Mr. Perkins by some of the members of the committee that the fruit schedul= had already been attacked because of rates charged to be high, but the California senator contend ed for thorough protection. MT. Perkins suggested a substitute schedule on beet sugar pIONlu1lS iOT d uuly Ol OIle Ccul a pound on sugar testing 70 per cent po- lariscope and increasing to 1h cents for . the 90 per cent test The committee promised to give the matter due atten- tion, but gave no further intimation of its intsntion or deliberations
 The committee gav= favorable recep- tion to the suggestion for a drawback duty on foreign tin cans in which canned fruit is imported. This suggestion ap- peared to meet with favor.
 Senators Elkins and Wellington both appeared in support of the Dingley rate on coal which there is an effort to have reduced.
 During the day number of republican senators from the inter-mountain states met to agree on plan of cooperation. They reached no definita conclusion ex- cept to stand together on their demands for wool, hides, cattle, lead ore and other Rocky Mountain produce
 BEET SUGAR SEED.
 The agricultural department is sending out to farmers and to experimental sta tons a large amount of beet sugar seed with a view to determining the feasibility q growing -beets in certain sections of he country In an interview with re- gard to the growing of the seed Secrsta- " Wilson said:
 eWe have been sending out sugarbeet seed to most of the States in the Union. They gre experimenting south about as Iat us Ule GarDUT1S anu II SAdS. IL vel GI fort has b. en made to procure first-class seed. Most of the work is being dcne through the experiment stations that get the seed from the department, and they send it out with instructions regarding the cultivation of the plants and pro- vide for the return of the samples to the stations in the fall for an analysis. The department is also taking in hand the gr-wing of high heredfty sugar beet seed. Ihe seed being sen- out by the depart f-,1 rsnt, extending over many years. In some cases forty years of time is given, where every beet is tested by ths ponris- cope to ascertain it's per cent of sugar. The high. heredi;y sugar bset seed is worth perhaps it's weight in gold. It is the result of the very best work done along these lines during all these years.
 "Gapitalists are turning their at,en- ] ton towards investrn snts along this line | The difficulty is sboGt getting money enough to ersct the factories, which cost from S3O0, eco to half a million dollars. 7. .'The business men in the cities have elearned that they cannot thrive unless the farmers thrive, and the success of the Oxnards assure farmers that where all rtile clements of success are carefully selected to begin with there is no ques- d.dn of the, ultimate result
 It seems thus the effort of the depart nf mt of agriculture to save the S100, 000,- ;Q0o we now pay out annually for the pur- sch2se of sugar and reaching out for the fs75,0O0,000 which the British pay for their butter, each year will hslp the balance of ifrade eventually.
 LIEUT.. PEARY GOES TO MARIE
 ISLAND.
 The navy department is in a ferment over an order to Lieut.. Peary the Arc tic explorer, to leave the New York navy yard and take up his station at Mare Island, Cal. Just at this moment the of fjoo fri falxinp aotiue interest in Polar expeditions are engaged in raising fund in New York to defray the expense of another expedition to be conducted by Lieut.. Peary into the far north. It is said that the detachment of the officer from New York will now in- volye the enterprise in failure. The chief of 3he bureau of yards and docks is said to ,hold that the New York navy yard, which new employs four civil engineers, can get along with three, wherefore it is proposed to send Lieut. Peary to Mare Island.
 CAN'T ATTEND THE OPENING
 President Mckinley today decided that he. would be unable to attend the Nashville exposition on the opening day, May 1, but will formally notify the au- thorities that he will visit. the exposition after the adjournment of congress.
 CIVIL SERVICE DON'T GO.
 Edward F. Renick, of Georgia, chief clerk of the state department, has been granted a months leave of abssnce and when that time has expired, he will be superseded by w. F. Nichols, of Nebras- ka.; MT. Renick entered the government service under civil service rules and was promoted through various grades of the treasury and state departments until he reached his present position by ap- pointment of Secretary Gresham. His place is one of those embodied within President Cleveland's order extending the civil service.
 = PROPOSITIONS PRO AND CON.
 The managing committees represent ingl the republican senators and the oppo- sitibn coalition were in session several times today in the endeavor to reach an agreement on the reorganization of the senate committees The republicans no- tffisd the combination of the rejection of their proposition and submitted a proposition of their own which was that the republicans should take the chair manships as suggested and that thsy shonld be given control of the commit tee pn appropriations, rules and post offibes.-rThe democrats declined to accept this in fulb but to take 1t in part. Th y st,,Aififd A willingness to give the replub-