The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1880-04-23
THE TARIFF IN CONGRESS.
MAs THE DgmoGRATIc PARTY FREE
TRADE PRINCIPLES:
FIse Views Of a Man Wha speaks knowingly
ana with Justice what Has Been
Done ana what RemniHs-A
CowaTdIy Policy.
IFFom ll,s wIa.llInglon ro.l.l

him on the tariff question.
Colonel" asked the reporter, sis
there prospect Of any tariff lcgisla-
ton during thepresent Congress
"Weli, the prospect Is not very en-
couraging.9
"I thought yoa were to introduce
another bill on that subject"
al had some idea Of doing 10, bat it
would be substantially introducing the
same bill that ! dill before, aud which
was indefinitely postponed Il has re.
ally hccn introduced ly others, and
such measure is now in the bands Of
th6 committee. The action of that
body heretofore indicates that no tafiir
legislation may be expected, however"
GLOW does that com11 Il the House,
do you think, opposed TO a reductions of
rates or "a rsvision of thr tariff"
THAT has not i.een is-ated. Tariff
matters havn not bal chance 10 get
before the lionse. Til. Committee Of
Ways and Means, rs constituted, seems
10 be opposed to anything of the sort. "
Cannot the sense of lhe House Ice
tested without the Consent of that com
mittee T.
Under the new ruh-.. no. But
understand that since the discussion Of
Monday last the Committee ON Rules
will probably mako n cl.ange, 80 that a
hill may be scat TO the Committee Of
the Whole on the iirat motion, as under
the old system"
IL have seen, remarked the reporter,
$50 many different explanations Of the
scope and intention of your Hill that l
believe an authentic one from Yourself
would lc desirable" -
"ob. it @aSi'y no a,sv'i's.' ssid sir.
Morrison, ".',el, revision Of the tariff
~ such a tariff bib as On. u,igl,t repsou.
all. hope TO ss-' passed ''s a D.u,eeaat-
ir Eil,us:i &c Regu4rnlatises. : 1sat /
tiiapel.t IA the most i.rseiiesiis tldng
'i,nj,ar ihe cir,n,a-fanirr-.
Please Is. si4s.iiip aud give us the
intended effect"
eThe effect would have l.een that
any aitielc en,braced IN tle bill which
now PAYS duty ia excess Of fly ia.s
cent. ad v.slorern, or on e,.st price, that
excess would he taken of 50 that the
asstosu wsold pay 40 more than fify
per cent"
"But il not that very high duty r
Certainly. a few Years aso any
one would have been ashamed to insist
on maintaining duty in excess Of City
pev cent. To illustrate my idea, let me
say that City per cent, duty makes you
pay ono dollar ont of every three in
vested in articles for daiyi that is, the
laborer who puts three days work IN
sugar or salt, or any other necessary of
lie, in cheap blankets ar coarse WOODEN
goods even, gives one day Of the three
for taxes and protection. Take the ar
ticle of sugar, so largely use.l by the
poor. When the earnings of two or
three days labor is invested in that ar
ticle, I thir k one day is enough to give
to taxes and few sugar planters in
Louisiana. But now more is exactej.
This article pays about sixty per cent
and what ! proposed was to reduce 1t
to fifty per cent only, because ] feared
that was all could get. Even that is
resisted, aud the same and more may he
said OF all other articles affected by the
bill INTRODUCED. and which now pay
duties in excess of fifty per cent. The
sugar duty is by no means the worst
abuse, because many articles are SO
highly taxed that they are not brought
to this country. Besides, the sugar
duty is mostly revenue, about fifteen
per cent. of What we used being made
| here. she duty on the other eighty
five per cent, which amounts annually
to about $4O,0OO,O00, is revenue, ant
goes into the Treasury. The increaset
price of the fifteen per cent, amounting
to about $G,OOc,OoO, goes to the planter
as bonus received by protection. NJ,
bill would leave him $4,000 900, whicl
is enough. The other million weul'
make many a poor fellows coffee sweet
or, besides lowering the price ofall in
ported sugars in proportion"
; "What effect viii the non action. I
! Congress have in q political sensel'
81, "Do yon mean how it will affect th
7 Democratic party, which diaclaims
its platforms and throughout the coul
try against tariff abuses, and then taxi
four years TO pass one little bill. repea
I ing the duty on single article,quinin
e accomplishing only through q suspe
Z sion Of the rpte. and the assistance
+ many Republicans 7"
o Chats about, what I mean"
a ooh, don't ask me that
Q "Well, thenS you say that sugar
y !, not one Of the greatest abuses Of t
> !, present taritI'system. Name some 81
fo ers.''