Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-06-08

WASHINGTON NEWS BUDGET
Members of the Republican Senatorial
Caucus Vote to Stand Together in
All Schedules of Tariff Bill.
THE FINANCE COMMITTEE INSTRUCTED
New Sugar Schedule Decided Upon
and the Abrogation of the Hawaii
an Treaty Discussed Withouta
Definite Conclusion.
THE FINANCE COMMITTEE INSTRUCTED

Washington, June 8.-The Republican
senatorial caucus today voted to stand
together on all schedules of the tariff bill
The caucus instructed the finance com.
mittee to report the new sugar schedule
to be all specific, and on all sugar which
has gone through the process of refining
one and ninety-five one hundredths of q
cent per pound duty, instead of one cent
and eight hundred and seventy-fve one
thousandths of one cent per pound, as
provided by the house. Coarse, raw
sugars from the PHILIPPINE islands and
Java, are to be admitted at one tenth of
a cent less than other raw sugars. The
abrogation of the Hawaiian treaty was
discussed but no conclusion had been
reached when the CAUCUS adjourned.
The text of the new sugar schedule is
as follows: Sugars not above 16 Dutch
standard in colors, tank bottoms, syrups,
cane juice, metada, concentrated metada,
and concrete and concentrated molasses
tested by the polariscope not above five
degrees, cent pound, and for every
additional degrees shown by the polari-
scope test, three one hundredths of / cent
per pound additional, and fractions of a
degree in proportion. In sugar above
number 16 Dutch standard in color, and
on sugar which has gone through the pro-
cess of refining, cent and rs 5,hundredths
of cent pound; molasses testing above
40 degrees, and not above Sc degrees, 3
cents per gallon, testing Sc degrees and
above, 6 cents gallon; sugar drawings
and sugar sweepings, shall be subject to
duty as molasses or sugar, as the case may
be, according to the polariscope test;
sugar tank bottoms, syrups, cane juice,
beet juice, metada, concentrated metada,
and concrete and concentrated molasses,
the product of any country which pays,
directly or indirectly bouty on the ex-
port thereof, whether imported, or other
wise, shall pay in addition to the forego-
lug rates, duty equal to such bounty,
or SO much thereof as may be in excess
of any tax collected by such country,
upon such exported article, or upon beet
or cane from which it was produced. A
new paragraph is added as follows: "That
the duty on molasses clayed, joggery, and
other sugars testing not above 81 de-
grees by the polsriscope, shall be one
tenth Of l cent a pound less than those
imposed by the preceding paragraph on
the corresponding tests sugar"
LATE NOMINATIONS.
The president today sent the following
nominations to the senate: Treasury:
Frank A. Leachy to be superintendent Of
the mint, at San Francisco; William NJ.
Lynch, of Louisiana, TO he assayer of the
mint at New Orleans.
Justice: Henry NJ. Hoyt, of Pennsyl.
vania, to be assistant attorney-general.
War: Sergeant A. Anderson, jr., Fourth
cavalry, to be second lieutenant; Cor
poral j. E. Hunt, Eighth cavalry, to be
second lieutenant; Second Lieutenant V.
A. Caldwell, Twenty. fifth infantry, to be
first lieutenant.
THE AGRICULTURAL SCHEDULE.
When the agricultural schedule was
taken up today, Senators Jones of Ar
kansas, and Vest of Missouri, made a
strong effort to have the duty on cattle,
barley, wheat and other products reduced,
on the ground that high duties on them
were unnecessary, and merely intended
to hoodwink the farmers, but they failed
each time, and the committee rates were
adopted. McEnery, Rawlins and Tillman,
all Democrats, voted against their party
on most of these motions. Bacon of
Georgia, offered an amendmdnt, placing
duty of 20 per cent advalorem, on raw
cotton, and it was discussed. Chiffon of
Texas, opposed the proposed duty, saying
it would do no good. Egyptian cotton
did not compare with cotton grown in
this country. McLauren of South Caro-
lima, took issue with Chiffon, and said
Egyptian cotton competed with certain
cotton grown in South Carolina.