THE CUBA REVIEW 



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PLANTATION CARS °' ^'' '''^''' ^'^^ 



THE PARTS FOR SAME 



No. 1005-A (Palabra de clave XPTAS) 



El grabado ensena unc de nuestros carros para cana con jaula de acero. 



Fabricamos un gran numero de carros para cana para uso en Cuba, Puerto-Rico, 

 America-Central y Mexico, que tienen jaulas de acero 6 de madera y construidas para 

 Ids distintos tipos de carga y descarga de la cana. 



AMERICAN CAR & FOUNDRY CO., NEW YORK, E.U. A. 



Direccion telegraflca : Nallim. New York Produccion annual de mas de 100.000 carros 

 Representante para Cuba: OSCAR B. CINTAS, Oficios 29-31 Havana 



The Tariff Discussion 



The discussion on the tariff bill up to 

 August 13th left the sugar schedule still 

 untouched. Democratic senators find cause 

 in the death of Senator Johnston of Ala- 

 bama for no little apprehension regarding 

 the division of the Senate on the tariff bill. 

 Before the death of the Alabama senator 

 the Senate stood 51 Democrats, 44 Repub- 

 licans and 1 Progressive. Then it would 

 have been necessary for four Democrats to 

 change to give vote with the opposition to 

 defeat the bill, but the loss of one Demo- 

 crat so changes the situation that a change 

 of front by three Democratic Senators 

 would effect the defeat of the measure, 

 providing all the Republican Senators and 

 Senator Poindcxter, the Progressive, should 

 cast their l)allots in opposition to it. The 

 understanding from the first has been that 

 the Louisiana senators, both of whom are 

 Democrats, would use their infinence and 

 cast their votes against the bill so long as 

 it contained a free sugar provision, how- 

 ever remote. Therefore, with the opposi- 

 tion maintaining its solid front, one more 

 change would be sufficient to reverse the 

 vote and defeat the bill. 

 , There are, however, many coiitjngencies 

 to be considered before leaping to the con- 

 clusion that this will be the outcome of the 



contest. The first of these is the conceded 

 difficulty of finding another Democratic 

 convert to the opposition theory. Another 

 is the possibility of gaining supporters for 

 the bill on the Republican side. It is broadly 

 liinted that Mr. Poindexter may decide in 

 the end to give the measure his support, 

 and it is almost as generally believed that 

 comparatively few changes in the schedules 

 might bring to its support such Republi- 

 cans as LaFollette, Norris and Kenyon. 

 On the other hand, it is probable that among 

 the first changes demanded by even the 

 most liberal Republican Senators would be 

 the restoration of sugar to the dutiable list. 



Senator Newlands is known to be much 

 averse, personally, to free sugar, but the 

 Senate is still ignorant as to how he may 

 vote in view of the edict of the Democratic 

 caucus. 



No one pretends to see the end of the 

 discussion. The sugar schedules, which it 

 was expected would be taken up a few 

 weeks ago, is still untouched. The debate 

 on preceding i)ortions of the bill has been 

 long ago drawn out, and when sugar was 

 readied in the natural order, it was passed 

 over because of the temporary indisposition 

 of .Senator Ransdcll. — Willett & Ciray on 

 August 12th. ■' ' ' ^ ■'•■'' 



