Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-05-03
JONES IN CONTROL
Practically the BOSS +" Of the New
Tariff Measure.
he d STILL A PROTECTION NAN,

hut Wants . Few Small Changes Before
He WIN Let the nm Out q the Senate
Observation-Disclosures Treaty To Bs
Voted on This wsek-Rssult L. Very On.
eertain-Civil Service Reform Seems 70
Re In Peril
Washington, May 3.-The tariff bill
~ amended will not be given to the
finance committee today. No meeting
Of the committee as originally intended
will be held. The reason given for this
il the absence Of Plat Of Connecticut,
. member Of the subcommittee ON tar
III. Some questions have arisen in the
past few days concerning which It is
considered necessary to consult the Con-
necticut senator. and he has found It
Impossible to reach the city until this
afternoon--too late for the meeting A
meeting probably will be held tomorrow,
The Republican members will in the
meantime continue their efforts to have
the Democrats fix time for reporting
the Dill. The latter, however, persist
IN declaring that they will enter upon
no agreement on this point until they
shall see the bill and have an opportuni-
ty to examine it. The Republican SUBJ
committee spent all yesterday working
on the bill.
Only Pebble ON the Beach.
Jones Of Nevada. the independent
member Of the senate committee on
finance. spent several hours with ALI
son and Aldrich. representing the Re-
publican subcommittee on tariff, Satur-
day. He went over the bill with them
and suggested changes where he was
not satisfied with the existing provisions.
No statement of the Nevada senator's
position was authorized, but It il I'M
derstood that the Republican members
feel more certain Of his cooperation
since this interview than heretofore.
They are. indeed. quite confident Of it.
He assured them that he was still a
protectionist. and anxious to support the
Dill, but told them he would have to in
sist upon certain concessions to western
interests. He submitted q number of
amendments providing for slightly ad-
vanced rates on third class woods, on
citrous fruits borax, ETC., and was as
sured that these matters should have
the committees best consideration.
Some Details of His Demands,
Jones presented the demands not Of
his own state alone. but Of most of the
Rocky mountain and Pacific coast
states. He asked for an increase of the
duty on third class woods beginning at
cents pound for the poorer qualities
and adding one-half of a cent a pound
for each additional cent Of selling value.
but agreed to q slight reduction on FIRST
and second class woods. There Il good
reason to believe that changes win be
made In accordance with these sue-
gestions. II carried into effect they
would result in putting . duty of or
~ cents pound on the more valuable
OF third class woods. He also asked the
committee to stand by its decision for
a duty Of ~ cents a pound on hides
ana for IN cents on lead ore. He sug-
gested at the instance Of the sugar beet
growers a duty Of 1 cent a pound on
sugar testing 20 by the polariscope and
adding sufficient for each additional de.
gree to bring the rate up to ~ cents for
sugar testing 80 degrees. with one-eighth
OF q cent of on sugars imported from
countries having a reciprocity agree
ment with the United States.