Show MEANING Iwa OF TERM I u N IT ED ST STATES A TESI Wi Will Say It Is Not Ter to U SI 4 N Til ThIs I 01 to Ul ct L rim Ir Island 01 o I I York York Jan di patch to the Tribune from Washington N My T The e ot of the ways was and mUns to report the author II and the law a as to the of th the tem terra Unit United State States In the th on con provision which that al all duties Imports and excises shah be e uniform throughout the United Stat States whether I it includes simply tb the ara area actually included within the of States States or whether hether I It covers all also the territory belonging to the Unite UnIted wi submit I its conclusions to 10 the ful full committee at time the inset Int IntIng Ing hg mn n WenNI It Is pretty cr ocr t time the conclusions wt will not b unanimous and I It Is equally certain that th the majority will 1 hold thAt time the pro provision vision llon or of the Constitution referred to does doe not apply to territory belonging to the United States until RUe after Con gross enacts a 1 law w on the subject In support ot of this position the wl will present a formidable and Irresistible arm array ot of judicial and other authorities Including the eighth ot of time the Congress relating to the North welt treat Territory There I is hard hardly I any reason to doubt that the majority of the Insular cor corn of time the wi wilt take a similar ad sad be guided ulde b by the same principle In legislatIon for the tho government nt of I It II is probable that the committee wi will not report n a bi bill on that subject before th the Senate committee shall have Ilae done doneso doneSo so So Steps have hat ben been token to obtain a general expression of views ot of members on both rIdes fides ot of the house Houle In regard to the form of at government to 0 be end and the kInd of tariff Inter Internal nat nal revenue to be enacted Lter Later thIs week the Republican memo meun bers ber of te lie commIttee on ways was and means following In this respect anI only time the example ot of the of the same committe commIttee which It Is understood too line hns been made acquainted with the views Ies ot of Colonel BrYan on these theBe subjects wi hold a Conference to compare and dl discuss ues the arlous suggestions that have hae ben been and wi be offered re sheeting the tariff and internal r revenue for tor mo The he Payne Iane bi bill to extend the tariff nn and Int Internal revenue laws ot of the United I States tates over oer the island wi will form torm the basle of discussion lon and comparison One ot of the suggestions made madeI I to modify the bi bill so 0 ni its to proto provide that Puerto Jenn Rican products shall hal be bethe admitted Into the Unite United States at Ity fifty pe sent cent ot of the r tea of uty Imposed on Jr IJ lIke products respectively when Im 1 a foreign country countr und and also alsoto to provide for tor a sliding scale of reduction tion nt at the rate or of 1 15 per cent a year ear earon on Puerto production until the dutle Ihal shall be extinguished This IU sug suggestion eton tS not recel received with much fator b by several members ot of the corn com mittel to whose attention It wa was brough brought Chairman Payne of time the ways was and means committee when Interviewed said uld that the PresIdent has hns assured him recently that he tIll adhered to the position taken In his annual message In favor of tree trade between Porto PortoRico I Rico an and the United States I It Is a as asyet yet It fur tur ruin c cerium what posItion wil wilbe viiI be n In either the tho Senate or the tho Hou house respecting this matter In regard to one thing however tum to members of th the majority In both ts are virtually which Is IA that n a measure should and wi will willbe be enacted a as larl early as practicable for tor forthe the of the inhabitants ot of the island The opinion Is als also generally that whatever may many be done wIll 1 not ImperI Imperil time the system of ton Inthe United States tM |