The Globe-republican., 1897-07-22
TARIFF AGREEMENT.
IMPORTANT CHANGES ARE
MADE BY CONFEREES.
The sugar Schedule RearrsnEed-Ftf-
tees Fer Cent Daty ON aides-Ths
Tariff on Lead Ore. Lumber and
other Articles


other Articles
WASHINGTON, July lJ.-The indica-
lions are that the tariff bill as agreed
to by the Republican conferees prob
ably will have passed both houses of
Congress and be a law at the end of
the present week.
The bill. as agreed upon. will, when
made public. present an entirely new
sugar schedule, at least in the main
item of duty on raw and refined sugar.
There is an increase in the duty on
the highest grades of sugar. bringing
the total duty on pure sugar, testing
100 degrees, up to . cents per pound.
This increase is attained by adding to
the Senate rate y of .Ol of cent per
pound ON sugar testing even IS de-
grees, and it is claimed that the in
crease on the higher grades which this
change insures will add immensely to
the protection to the sugar beet in
! 1ustry.
| The refiners necessarily receive in
cidental benefit from the same in
crease. but for the process of refining
they get only one-eighth of a cent, as
provided by the House bill.
1t is estimated that the changes in
the sugar schedule will raise about
s., ZOO. 900 additional revenue.
Following are among the more i'm
portant changes made in other sched-
| uleS:
Hides, 80 per cent ad volorem, in
place of the 20 per cent fixed by the
senate. The house of representatives
made strong fight to have hides re-
stored to the free list, but they were
compelled to submit to the untiring
demand of the senate.
Lead ore. l y cents per pound.
Pig lead, "a cents, the Senate rates.
Iron ore as fixed by the Senate.
Coal. bituminous. g. cents per ton.
White pine lumber was restored to
the House classification and the House
rate of Sc per 1000 feet. instead of the
Senate rate of 81.
The reciprocity clause has been
transformed into modification of
both the Senate and House schedules
that is, the number of articles which
can be used as basis for reciprocity
agreements has been increased, but
the Presidents discretion as to rates,
and the ratification of treaties by the
Senate. which was the main feature of
the Senate provision, has been re-
jected.
Another victory of the House was
the elimination of the Senate stamp
tax on bonds and stocks. 1t was de-
cided that the machinery of collection
was too cumbersome.
WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE open
session of the Senate was brief and
uneventful yesterday. The Harris
resolution relating to the Union Pa
c;fic was further discussed. At 1870
the Senate went into executive ses-
sion. remaining behind closed doors
until o'clock and then adjourned
until to-day.
WASHINGTON, July l6.-Paciiic rail-
road affairs occupied the attention of
the Senate throughout yesterday. and
the Harris resolution relating to the
pending judicial proceedings against
the Union Pacific road finally went
over until to-day.
WASHINGTON, July 16-No business
was transacted by the House yester-
day. Immediately after the journal
was approved, recess was taken on
Mr.. Cannon's motion until to-day. Mr..
Cannon having giving assurances to
Mr.. Bailey that in his opinion a par
tial or complete conference report on
the deficiency bill would be ready by
that time.
WASHINGTON, July :5.-The Senate
was in a deadlock yesterday for
several hours. with business al
stands till. while calls of the Senate,
roll calls and other parliamentary ex-
pedicnts were resOrted to. 1t was due
to the effort to secure action on the
resolutions of Mr.. Harris, of Kansas,
designed to prevent the disposal of
the government lien on the Union Pa
ciic railway, under the terms of the
alleged agreement There were many
roll calls on Mr.. Harris motion to con-
slider the resolution. quoruns appear
ing and disappearing, and from IL to
5 o'clock no final vote on the motion
was secured. 1t finally went over
over until to-day.
WASHINGTON, July 15.-Representa-
tive Simpson of Kansas yesterday in
trOduced in the House a resolution di-
recting the speaker to appoint COM
mittee of five to investigate the sugar
trust. The resolution is preceded by
two whereases. the first of which de-
clares that it is currently asserted"
that the American Sugar Refining
company has, in violation of law. Gre
ated gigantic monopoly" and the
second that said corporation. ''by the
use of watered stock, by unfair com
petition and by illegal combination
has crushed out legitimate competition
to an extent which gives it the power
70 depress the price of the raw mate
rial and to advance the price of the
manufactured article at will, thus
throttllng the cane and beet agricul-
turiStS with one hand and prasDinu