The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-18
RATES AGREED ON

REPUBLICAN, COMPRESS READY
FOB THE DEMOCRATS.
House Makes Its Point on the Sugar Seized
uie, the Final Shape of the Schedule
Raising the Estimated Revenue 9
Couple of MiIIions-senate Does No,
Quite Surrender Everything, Senator
Jones of Nevada Assisting Materially il
This WIse-Rides Remain DutiabIe-
Democrats to be Taken In Monday.
publican conferees on the tariff bill adj
1ourned at 6 O'Clock today the announce
ment was made on behalf Of each Of the
houses that they had agreed on al the
items of the bill and THAT the result of
The partisan conference would be SUBJ
mitted to the Democratic members of
the conference al full meeting to be
held On Monday.
This announcement had been made in
formally TO the Democratic members of
the conference at noon, and had formed
the subject of general speculation about
the senate in the afternoon. 1t appeared.
after the informal statement was made,
that there was still much TO be done in
putting the bill in shape and the conferees
spent six hours in close application to
the work in hand.
They were, for the most part merely
running over the bill, but there are still
rome rates TO be agreed upon on arti-
eles which had been passed over until
the sugar schedule should be finally dis
posed OF The revision was not even COM
plete during the afternoon session, and
some Of the members returned TO renew
the work at night.
I'VE cannot" said Senator Allison,
SAY just what the attendance of Demo-
Gratis on Monday will be, for there is still
much to be done 10 get the bill in readi-
ness for them
1t is understood that some of the mem
bers viii work tomorrow for the accom-
plishment of this purpose, and it is hop
for the inspection of the Democrats by 10
o'clock Monday. The Republican still
further hope TO secure the assent of the
Democratic members in reporting the bill
after one session, and they hope to be
able to present il TO congress at the be-
ginning of the session Monday
NOTHIN CHS OFFICIAL.
The members of the conference still
preserve the strictest silence in regard
to the changes made. giving out no Off
cial confirmation as TO the changes made
in the bill. 1t is learned, however, from
an entirely reliable source, that a very
large majority Of the senate amendments
were accepted. This was rendered nee
eSsary by seyera. circumstances A num-
Der of amendments made by the senate
were verbal; others We're trivial and still
others were made necessary TO secure
harmony Of construction and would have
been made by the house if that body
had had the bill under consideration for
81 long time as the senate had. All
such changes as these were accepted
without question by the house conferees
They also accepted in most cases all the
der 70 secure the passage of the bill in
that body. Senator Jones Of Nevada,
holding as ne did, practically the balance
Of power, both in the senate and the COM
miItee, was enabled to secure many con-
SESSIONS fer western interests in the SEN
ate and these he held without exception
in the conference. He even succeeded in
securing degree of protection for bee:
sugar greater than was given in either
the senate or the house bills.
THE SUGAR SCHEDULE.
The bill, as agreed upon, will, when
made public, present an entirely new su-
gar schedule, al least in the main item of
duty on raw and refined sugar-the
fourth presented since the bill emerged
from the recesses of the ways and means
committee.
When the announcement Of an agree
mept was first made, the indications were
that the senate had surrendered every
thig in the sugar schedule 10 the house
No one in possession of all the facts
could see how it could be otherwise, when
1t was known that the house differentia.
of one-eighth Of cent had been accepted
anu the scndlc pItNlSlON LOT throwing OIL
one-tenth of cent in low grade sugar
receded from.
You will discover" said Senator Aid
rich. in discussing the matter among his
colleagues. that the senate saves some
thing, after all. and that il is not a COM
plete surrender on our part
The wording of the sugar paragraph |
was as follows and shows that he was
right:
Sugars not above No. Is Dutch stand |
ard in color. tank bottoms. syrups of cane !
juice. melada. concentrated melada, con-
crete and concentrated molasses, testing !
by the po.ariscope not above 40 degrees, |
95-100 of one cent per pound. and for ev- |