The San Francisco call., 1897-07-19

ing chairman of the Senate Committee on
Conference, have been at work all day at
the Capitol, assisted by Cleaves and
Courts, clerks of the Senate and House
Committees on Appropriations. respect
lively; Clerk Lord of the House Ways and
Means Committee. S. N. D. North of Bos-
ton. who has acted as clerk of the sub
Committee on Finance since the consid-
Grafton OF the bill was begun, and three
typewriters and stenographers. They
had herculean task before them, and at
first it was thought they could not con-
clude it tonight. They did so, however,
and the conference report and manuscript
of the bill as it will appear when the pro-
posed changes are made was sent to the
printers early in the evening ana ap-
proved by the full meeting Of the con-
ferees at late hour tonight.
The Senate conferees have no hesita-
tion in saying the bill as it comes from
the conference committee will fail short
temporarily of producing the necessary
amount of revenue by Sis, 900, 600 or $20,-
600 900. When the House bill was re-
por ed to the Senate, Aldrich, speaking
for the Senate Finance Committee, said it
enough and he is Of the same opinion
still. Chairman Dingley does not publicly
make this admission, but it is we'll known
that during the session of the conference
com mittee he agreed with the opinions of
the Senate conferees that it will be neces-
sary for the appropriations committee of
the two houses to cut down expenses very
materially in order to make up the def
ciency in the new tariff bill for year or
two. At least two-thirds of the amend
ments placed in the bill in the Senate
were adhered to by the conference, but
many Of them were verbal and unim port
ant in character.
Some OF the most important changes
found in the new bill, and nearly all of
them are designed for the purpose of in
creasing the revenue to be derived from
il. Notwithstanding the persistent and
widespread statement that the House
sugar schedule was adopted by the con-
ference, this is not fact. The schedule
agreed upon is new one and entirely diff.
ferent from any sugar sch edule ever be-
fore included in the tariff bill. 1t is a
scientifically-c schedule, and one
of the Senators said tonight that when it
was read and understood by the public it
will be accepted as an honest, sensible
piece of work. 1t is as follows:
Sugars not above No. 16 Dutch stand
ard in color, tank-bottoms syrups of cane
juice, melada, concentrated melada, con-
crete comma tested by polariscope not
above rs degrees, 95-100 cent a pound,
and for every additional degree shown by
the polariscopic test $4,000 cent per
pound additional, and fractions of de-
gree in proportion, and on sugar above
No. 10 Dutch standard in color and on
all sugar which has gone through the
process of refining, 1 95-100 cents per
pound. Molasses testing above 45 degrees
and not above So degrees, 3 cents gallon !;
testing Sc degrees and above, 6 cents a
gallon. Sugar drawings and sugar sweep.
ings shall be subject to the same duty as
molasses for sugar, as the case may be,
according to the polariscopic test"
1t is admitted by the Senate and House
conferees that the new schedule Will pro-
vide s., ,0O0,0 or So 600. 900 revenue more
than under the schedule as it was pre-
sented to the conference. Senator Lodges s
pet scheme for tax on stocks and bonds,
which was adopted by the Senate with
surprising ease and unanimity. was
dropped by tho conference committee in
the same hasty manner, as it did not seem
to have friend at court. 1t was not
thought the revenue sought to be derived
from it would be seriously missed. and it
is the general opinion of the mem bers OF
| the conference that it would be very dif-