Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-04-16
OBJECTION NOTED
To Various Schedules Of Ding.
Iey's Tariff Bill.
PLENTY OF ALrERAr1ossw WANTED

New Jersey Il . Very Lively Kicker, Re-
ing Dissa&isfied with the Rates on An
Her Preducts-Wants Of Some Western
Men-vest Ealogixes the Jesuit - ~
Indian Teacher and Denounces All the
Other schools fer Young Lo.
Washington. April 1e.-The Republic
an subcommittee Of the senate commit
tee on finance held an all-day session at
the Capitol yesterday to afford an OPP
portunity to other senators to make sug-
gestions on the tariff bill. Among the
senators who called and the conferences
with the committee were Quay. Sewell.
Elkins. Wellington, Perkins. Shoup.
Pntchard, Baker and Harris of Kansas.
Plat Of New York also spent some time
with the committee. but he appeared to
be q listener rather than q participant
in the proceedings. Quay had only a
brief conference. and devoted himself es-
pecially to the rates on carpets and mat
ting. upon which he urged a rate Of duty
which would insure protection to the in
dustries Of this country against the
products Of China and Japan.
Protection for California Fruit.
I-eTAluS was given an SXteuQeQ near
ing on the fruit schedule. He presented
the committee with samples Of both CAL
ifornia and foreign currants and raisins,
and asked for an increase of the rate
on Zante currants. bringing it up to 2n
cents per pound. He also suggested a
duty of 1 cent a pound on oranges and
lemons. instead of Y Of a cent. as fixed
by the Dingley bill. 1t was suggested to
Perkins by some of the members of the
committee that the fruit schedule had
already been attacked because of rates
charged to be too high, but the Califor-
MIA senator contended for thorough pro-
lection. Perkins suggested substitute
schedule on beet sugar providing for a
duty of cent a pound on sugar testing
20 by the polariscope, and increasing to
" cents for the 80 per cent test. The
committee promised to give this matter
due attention, but gave no further indi-
cation of the probable result Of its de-
liberations.
Sewell Has EN- All on His List.
Sewelrs suggestions pertained to al
most the entire list of New Jersey man.
ufactures, and he filed briefs bearing
upon all of them. He suggested modi-
fication of the chemical schedule He
also presented request of the silk man.
ufacturers for uniform SO per cent. ad
valorem duty. and of the potterymakers
for a compound duty on pottery prod
ucts. The latter complain that ad va
loren duties permit ruinous under-yal-
uations. while the silk men say that the
50 per cent. rate which they enjoyed
prior to the enactment Of the Wilson
law was entirely satisfactory. There
were several circumstances against the
Dingley rates. One of these was from
the paper manufacturers to the effect
that the proposed rate on bleaching
powder (chlorate of lime) would be
ruinous to them; another from the wire
men against the rate on iron, and still
another from the watchmakers on watch
movements.
Western Men Want Changes.
Baker and Harris asked for a duty of
$2per ton on gypsum, and for a decrease of
the duty proposed on Mexican cattle.
They represented that there were immense
beds Of gypsum in the west sufficient to
supply the wants of the entire country.
With reference to cattle importations
they represented that the cattle were
needed to consume the grass crop of the
west, and that it was more economical
to move the cattle than the grass. FL
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support of the Dingley rate on coal,
which there is an effort to have reduced.
VEST ON THE INDIAN SCHOOLS,
Says the Only Efficient Ones Are Conducted
by the Jesuits.
Washington, April 16-The senate
spent yesterday considering the Indian
appropriation bill, but did not complete
1t. Early in the session the proceedings
were made executive. and an attempt
was made to obtain an agreement for a
vote on the arbitration treaty, which
failed as usual. Adjournment was
taken to Monday.
While the Indian bill was under consid
Grafton Vest spoke in criticism of the
provision of the bin abolishing Indian
schools. He knew. he said, that what
he said would subject him to bitter
criticism. He was brought up a Protestant
and had no connection with the Roman
Catholic church. But he had no SYM
pathy with that cowardly and ignorant
sentiment that any religious denomina-
ton could menace our liberties. He had
been reared to believe the Jesuits were
opposed to republican institutions. But
he had Travelled through the Indian