The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-06-16
ANOTHER CAUCUS
Republicans to Discuss the Sugar
Schedule Again.
OPPOSITION TO SENATE RATES
House Bill May be Closely
Followed.
Hawaiian Interests May Receive
ognition-Perhaps a Beet
Sugar Bounty,

WASHINGTON, June chairman
Allison of the Republican Senatorial
caucus decided today to call the caucus
together tomorrow at 10 o'clock. The
meeting has been under contemplation
for several days, owing to the fact that
there are various articles on which it
has been found desirable to have the
party in the Senate agree in its as
sembled capacity, and the calling of
the caucus was precipitated by the
fact that the sugar schedule had been
practically reached in it's order and it
became necessary to decide what posi-
ton the party should take upon this
question.
There has been very pronounced OPP
position among many Republican Sen
ators to the schedule as prepared by the
Senate Committee on Finance, some of
them going so far as to declare they
would not vote for it unless altered.
Some of these Senators declare they
will not obey even the behest of the
caucus, in case it declares for the Fin
ance Committees schedule The Fin
ance Committee admit this state of af
fairs and also admit that a change will
be made which will make the schedule
acceptable to the entire party in the
Senate.
1t is now expected that the schedule
proper will be the same as the House
bill, with an addition to duties on low
est grades of sugars of ITO of a cent
pound over the Dingley bill rates,
which provide a tariff of 1 cent
pound on 75-degree sugars, with an in
crease of 3-100 of a cent a pound for
each additional degree. This would af-
feet sugars up to 81 degrees strength.
Another plan which has many friends
is to cut the ad valorum rate of the
Senate bill, which is now 35 to % per
cent. and increase specific duties to
correspond. In either event, where
differential and refined sugar, as now
figured, is is of a cent pound, it is
to be increased to 3-16 of cent. This,
it is figured, will give proper protect
ion to beet sugar.
The clause providing for Hawaiians
will provoke much argument. There
the bill. One is the same as that
which has always before been carried,
providing nothing in the bill shall
abrogate or impair the treaty of 1875.
For this Senator Frye, who is leading
the fight, still maintains that he will
have a majority of votes.
The second is that outlined in the
Chronicle" providing that nothing
but within that time a new treaty shall
be negotiated, imposing on Hawaiian
sugars a two-thirds duty. This, it is
figured, will give .45 of a cent bounty
to island sugar Another clause will
provide for a bounty of half a cent
a pound on beet sugar, to continue
for five years, and disappearing at the
rate of 30 per cent each year. 1t is
believed that the Senate provision ad-
hitting into the country free of duty
sugar-beet machinery for two years
will be kept in the bill.
Senator Aldrich is expected to be
present at the caucus. He is GONZALES
cent, and his friends say he will be
able to attend tomorrow's meeting. It
is probable that the caucus would not
be held in his absence. There are
various other questions which will be
taken up in the caucus if the sugar