The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-02-28
DINGLEY'S PET BILL
The Tariff Measure Will Not Be
Presented TO This Congress.
ITS LITTLE GOOD, ANYWAY
Hanna's Novel Proposition to Be
Boss of the Senate as Soon as
He lakes His Seat-Cos-
sip at the Capitol.
IT'S LITTLE GOOD, ANYWAY
Special Dispatch TO the Standard.

presented at the present session Of con-
sress, now within few days OF its end.
When congress met, after the election.
1t was at first bravcly proposed to pass
a tarin bill ut this session and thus lift
all responsibility for this important
legislation OF the hands of President
Mckinley and the incoming congress
However, when a few conferences had
been held between the Dingley COM
mittee and the corporations which were
most eager for recognition in the trib-
ute to be levied on the people for their
benent, II was discovered that the work
OF revision would prove prodiglously
diiilcult. II was thereupon announced
that the bill would be finished and pre-
sented to this congress, and pressed he
Tore the new congress In exactly the
same form it left the present one. This
dill has. 1t is true. been compiled and
drafted by the ways and means COM
mittee, and tn quote the language OF
one OF the most prominent members
OF the committee, Is now carefully
canned" and awaits presentation In the
new congress.
As matter of fact the committee
has, Notwithstanding its long. hard, la
Dor, done nothing more than give the
blll rough hrst draft. which In many
important schedules bears striking
resemblance to the Mckinley hill itself.
The bill of the committee seems 10
have been modelled somewhat after the
old celebrated maxim of Hoyle: When
In doubt. lead trumps." Whenever the
committee has had a difficult para
graph and had trouble In adjusting IL
to suit the wishes Of the candidates for
protection. IL has adopted the easy and
simple method OF close approximation
Of the Mckinley schedule and said "Of
course you ought to be satisfied with
that"
II Is already freely predicted that the
new Dingley bill. II IL were To become a
law as now drafted by the committee,
would produce large deficit each year.
The only hope of making II a revenue
producing measure, seems to he re-
course To the sugar tariff. The unpop-
ularity of this tariff is well known to
the republican managers: they even
fear the sugar tax would be defeated In
the house Of representatives.
The committee on rules will presum-
ably bring in special rule closing de-
bate. Under this rule only a motion to
recommit viii be In order before voting
on the bill. The democratic leaders are
practically determined-if the bill con-
tains a sugar tax-lo make a motion to
recommit To the committee with in
structions To provide for absolutely free
sugar. They say that there Is no doubt
Of the success Of free sugar on a direct
vote in the house. and II the bill
reaches the senate without the sugar
tax republican managers can not hope
for the votes of McEnery and Caffery,
the sugar democrats Of Louisiana. who
have already signifed their intention to
support the hill IL II contains a recog-
milton OF the great industry of the
planters of their state.
Readers of THE STANDARD will be
interested in knowing the exact Ian
guage OF the bill. as now drafted. rela-
tive to two important mineral inter-
| ests. These are furnished your corre-
spondent by Representative Hopkins Of
| Illinois, who Is one of the most promi-
nent members OF the republican major
| ity of the committee. He states that
| the exact language of the copper and
lead schedules is as follows:
Copper imported in the form of ores
and old copper and regulus Of copper
and black or coarse copper. which were
placed on the free list under the Wilson
act remain on the free list, but copper
| in plates, bars. ingots and any other
| forms not manufactured has been
taken from the free list and made duti-
able at ] cent per pound. Copper In
| rolled plates called braziers copper,
| sheets, rods. pipes and copper bottoms.
also sheathing or yellow metal of which
| copper is the component material of
| chief value, and not composed wholly
or In part of iron ungalvanized. cents
| per pound, present rate 20 per cent. ad
| valorem.
Lead ore and dross ~ cents per
pound; present rate x of cent per
pound. All lead in ores may he admit
ted in bond and the duties paid at the
place OF delivery on the official assay
| of the lead sheets. Lead in pigs and
bars. moulten and old refuse lead, run
into blocks and bars and old scrap lead
I'll only to be manufactured. cents
per pound. present rate | cent per
pound. Lead in sheets. pipes. shot. gla
zier's lead and lead wire, 2is cents per
pound; present rate. Ia cents per
| pound
Senator to-be Hannas announcemen mt
that IL will lie his purpose in the new
| senate to look after the tariff hill
causes a great deal Of speculation al
the capitol II Is a decidedly novel
proposition for a new senator. and a
short -termer at that. 10 assume the
| leadership Of the senate. This is, how
! ever. exactly Nndl iidnnd VIII ~ u N'
takes charge Of the drafting or revising
| of the tariff bill. Senator Hanna's as
sumption would certainly bc severely
rebuked were II not for the extraordi-
nary circumstances under which he
comes to the senate. There have been
personal representatives Of presidents
in preceding senates. there are one ~
two who in the present senate still rep
resent the impotence and decay OF
Grover Cleveland.
But there has never before been a
president who was the personal repre-.
| sentative of a senator There are many
Indications that this will be the relation
of the new president and the new sena'
tor from Ohio. II is the novelty NJ this
situation that attracts notice and eN-
cites criticism at the capital. Speaking
| of Hanna's letter To General Aiger al
Detroit some republican senators grow
indignant chat il. when they are con
fident that their observations will moi
be made publicl. He informed Genera
| Alger that he could not address tn,
Michigan Republican club on WashtnE
tons birthday. because Mckinley is u
and | have too many callers"
II is safe to say that no senatorial
novic. ever came to Washington viii
such a blunt and garish announcement
Of the purpose ~ becoming boss
Even Hill's appearance in the senai,
was hut mildly haud-waEonish com
pared 10 the Gawnlng OK Hanna. Sena