New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-05
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THE TARIFF BILL REPORTED
a SURPRISE TO THE SENATE.
THE DTNGLEY MEASURE SUBJECTED
TO RADICAL REVISION

SENATE TO BEGIN on MAY Is
fBY TELEGRAPH THE TRIBryH.1
Washington. May 4.The amended Tariff Bit
was submitted this morning to the Finance Conn
mittee by the Republican subcommittee Of four
which has spent the last five weeks in revising
the necessarily hurried and tentative schedules
framed by the House managers. and after a brief
discussion the Democratic minority yielded
gracefully to the inevitable and allowed tho
measure to be reported at once to the Sem
ate. Senator Jones. Of Nevada. having declared
his intention to vote with the Republicans In
favor Of an immediate report, all inducement on
the part of the minority to resort to diatory
tactics vanished, and the Democratic members
of the committee declared themselves satisfied TO
let the bill go at once on the Senate calendar,
with the understanding that Its consideration
should not be attempted before May IL.
On the formal vote In the committee ordering
a favorable report Mr. Jones Joined the Repub-
lican side again for the first time since his
epistolary renunciation OF Republicanism for
Popusm, and his timely assistance shifted tenn
porarily the balance Of power In the committee
which since 1893 has steadily been thrown on
the side Of the elements in opposition. Six votes
including Mr. Jones's. were cast TO report the
new tariff measure, and only five could be mus
tered to hold it in committee
PRACTICALLY A NEW BILL.
Many extravagant and contradictory reports
have got into print about the changes made
or contemplated by the Senatorial revisers or the
Dingley measure but the Republican managers
kept their secrets WELL and the text OF the bill a.
made public to-day. found to have put 10
confusion every published speculation ventured
on the general details and scope OF the revision.
The House bill has been practically MADE over
by the Senate subcommittee. the work OK the
reviewers in the upper branch cutting even
deeper than did the Senate redraft or the NC
Kinley bill in 1890 Many Of the alterations
are patent enough. and public attention Is ap'
to be concentrated on dozen or two or the iho'o
obvious and important changes. But tne fe
modelling which the Dingley schedules nave
undergone extends to the minutest deta'is VI
rates. and affects alike the dutiabe list the free
list and the internal revenue provisions oi III"
bill.
The effect of hundreds OF minor amehoiiie"'s
&c unfortunately somewhat obscured py CONSTANT
changes in classifcations, the House ha'ihe
evidently adhered to the text Of former house
hills and the Senate committee, as IN 1881
and again in 1894 returning to the amehoeo
nbraseologv which II in most cases finally suc-
caeded in embodving in the law A fun Synopsis
&c given elsewhere Of the changes mace III tho
hill bv the Senate subcommittee and repor'eo
IN the Senate Some of the more strikihs may
be particular:zed here.
SOME OF THE STRIKING CHANGES
Tho Senate reyisers for instance, have stricken
out sntireIv the so-called retroactive clause OK
tho House bill and changed the date on WHICH
the new rates are to go into effect from Aprh
n IuIv Of this year. Several important emer-
gancv taxes are laid. which are TO expire ~
Limitation on January |, 13oo Tea IL u w
taxed 10 cents a pound for the next TWO years
and a half An additional internai revenue a.
Of Al cents barrel is laid on peer are po.,'
and similar liquors for the same periou i"'
present tax of 81 barrel is to continue uha'.
fected both before and after l3oo' Inc i"'e'".'
revenue tax on snuff and chewing tooa'eo
raised from six TO eight cents pou''''
cigars are to pay SO a thousand cisare'es
Weighing less than three pounds thousand, %
q thousand. and cigarettes Weighing more ''iA''
three hounds thousand, - thousahu'
All the administrative paragraphs u N
Uouse bill are stricken out, as Is lts rec'p''0''
section the Senate revisers Substitutes i'' 'N
last a paragraph laying a counterVaihhs u"'. '
art;c,es which enjoy an export bounty. Inc
Housa proviso that no duty laid IN the peh"ne
hill should be held to invadate the RECIPROCITY
,oo.v ,vitb Hawaii was also omitted by tho
cora,e committee the whole question ol rec'-
tt, hairy left TO be dealt with in the Senate
or in conference committee.
The chemical schedule of the new bill. whlch ~
= bigblv technical one, shows many Hihor
changes the duties laid by the House oeing on
tho whole slightly reduced. Borax, proouc'
IN which Senator Jones. of Nevada. sho"eo
,i,eIv interest is an exception to this RUE lhe
dutv on borax crude has been raised ifoi'i wv
70 five cents a pound. In the eartheh"a'e s'"e
uIa the House classifications nave oeeh ch"Ne'~
and ad valorem duties have been IN many o"S'
substituted for specific The grass du'leS h"''
bccn cut down a trife throughout Inc MN
-, ,,o,ol schedule shows similar reductions
holou, the House rates. The duty on Iead ors
hos heen increased. however. In response 10 Iar
Western demands, from one cent 70 one anu
half cents a pound. The duties on WOOD ana
u,rufactures of wood nave been materially Es-
duced.
CIGAR SCHEDULE ENTIRELY NEW
,,.,r schedule is an entirely rev one, the
,,,,as ,oid being both ad valorem and SPECIFIC.
,,so ,axt Of the Senate substitute is as follows:
So. no, above No. l6 Dutch standard in color,
,snH bottoms, syrups OF cane juice, ana OF oees
aice meada concentrated meada eonc, noIariscons ms
sPmTeh'a'e sboye g and not above s. degrees 70 Of
cent Pp per bv the poariscopic .O2 OF cent per
POUND and fractions Of dessg IN IN sSop sna
susar suSar that has gone through a process OK
refining. lie cents per pound and I'm, IN ADDITION s ys,
dren sugars not above No Is Dutch standard In
color tank bottoms. syrups of cane juice ana oeet
49, meiada concen ira ted meada concrete, ana
cconcentratod molasses testing by the poiariscope
NO, more than 81 degrees. 10 per cent al Nalorem:
n1e Mo,anees - testing about 40 and not more than
degrees cents per gallon; testing % degrees ana
not above 70 degrees. cents per gallon
The House bill laid on specific duties ranging
from cent per pound on grades testing 40 de-
erees by the polariscope TO one thousand eight
hundred and seventy -nve-one- -thousandths OF
cent on refined sugars. The tobacco rates have
heen reduced by the Senate Committee from ~