The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-07-15
Senate and House Tariff Conferees
Are Widely Separated.
Wool, Sugar and Hides Sub
<l:jects Of Dispute. .laa
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esaaless Object 10 Speaker Reefs In!shsr'
sncs With conisvnea

washington, July 1s.-The cOhferee6
on the tarin bill are still very wide apart.
They were In session nearly all day, but
no conclusion was reached. and there
were no signs Of the lines breaking.
The belief IL entertained that both sides
will have TO make concessions az the
only way out OF the difficulty. az the
temper Of the house is such that II would
not tolerate an abject surrender TO the
senate, while the SENATE or rather the
members who are manipulating things.
are I'm no mood to give up everything the
house demands.
At the senate end OF the capitol yes
terday II was said with good deal Of
emphasis that no matter how much talk
the house made II would have TO take
It's medicine, and II might as well make
up It's mind to swallow the dose and
make az few faces as possible about II.
Over on the house, side, however.
different story Is told. Members OF the
nc use say that the backs Of the ccnferees
have been stiffened, and they dare not,
for their own sake, sign q report which
IL an abject surrender to the senate.
The house, they say, would not tolerate
It for one moment and the report would
be sent back to the conference and the
conferees instructed to hold out TO the
last.
These men say 1t will be easier to reach
an agreemnt now than II will be later.
| because II the conferees submit q report
which Is rejected by tho house they will
| be given such ironclad instructions that
compromise would then be out OF the
| question and one side or the other would
have TO make a complete surrender or
| else the bill will fail.
| From all that can be learned, how
ever, there has been a general recess
sion from the partial agreements. In
the more important articles, until sugar,
wool, hides, etc, can be definitely fixed.
Sugar is still the principal contention.
The best reports represents the house
conferees, with Speaker Reed behind
them, holding out for the house sugar
schedule, without change whatever, and
the senators as quite determined not to
yield to this extent. The house con-
ferees insist that this schedule must be
definitely fixed before other questions
shall be taken up.
One of the other questions Of second
ary Importance upon which sharp diff
ferences have arisen Is the senate amend
ment for a stamp tax on stocks and
bonds. The house opposes the amend
ment, but the senators while not welded
to 1t insist upon 1t as necessary FOL
revenue. The house Is also resisting
strenuously the 20 per cent duty placed
upon hides, and Is at the same time
persistently holding out for restora
ton of gunny bags, cotton ties, etc., tc
the dutiable list.
A senator who talked with one Of the
conferees said: "They are In a tenn
porary deadlock and are tied up all along
the line. 1t looks as If the situation
might remain unchanged for a week."
While this appears to be correct out
l line Of the situation, the prevailing i'm
. preston is that a settlement of one o.
= two important schedules would be i'm
y mediately followed by a complete ad
!, justment of all Of the differences.
D The senate conferees are disposed L
e resent the efforts of Speaker Reed T.
n influence the action Of the conferees
t The senators are inclined to constru
d the speakers participation in the pro
y ceedings as unwarranted. and are ap
paranty more determined, than befor
n his attitude was made known, to hol
out for the senate figures.
e schedule, the carpet manufacturers an
d the wool growers. outside the confer
: ence, have practically reached an agree
e ment which 1t Is presumed will be rati
3. fled by the conference. This agree
nlent provides for the restoration @
the house rate. Of IL and IL cents respec
= lively on first and second class wool!
. and on the third class article the wot
men agree to the proposition of the cal
pet makers to extend the dividend lin
from 10 to IL cents. making the rate o
wool Of this class worth less than
: cents dutiable at 4 cents a pound, an
" those worth more than IL cents dultabl
" at cents. This increases the rate o
" all the higher grade woods, which
~ agreeable to the wool men and holds tf
!" carpet wool down to figure acceptab
o. TO the manufacturers.
- The conferees remained In session vi
10 I'll after o'clock and then adjourne,
omitting the usual evening session
They had not reached a point whel
es they could call In the Democratic col
re ferees, but all said progress had bee
ce made 1t was impossible to say wheth'
It the senate or house had the advantaf
al Of the days work. as both sides locke
. weary and troubled. The outlook for
,e final agreement was said to be at gre,