New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-30
TIE NEXT DIGESTION.

Within the first month OF It's session inc
Senate has acted upon one of the great ques-
tiops to which the people have called the at
tention Of Congress. The prOmLtne of the
Senate Is cOInmendable and the bill passed,
Though bv no means perfect, will be recOg
nized by the country as sincere and earnest
effort to remove abuses in the Civil Service.
Now, if the Senate will act with equal prompt
ness on the tariff and internal revenue, it will
receive hearty Appreciation
There are many reasons for suDposng that
the Senate may be more ready than the House
to act upon the question of taxation AT he
last session, the House having passed an inter
nal revenue bill, the Republican Senators in
conference decided to support amendments
making important changes IN the tariff, not
withstanding the objection that 1t would be
wiser to wait for the report of the Tariff Com
mission OF the changes then proposed some
of the most important are embraced in some
form in the bill reported by the Commission
The discussion in the Senate at the last session.
though it resulted III no final action, went
far enough to show the opinions of many Sen
ators who had been considering the subject
and attracted to it the attention of other Sem
ators who are for that reason in some degree
ON Finance, which ell braces such veterans as
Messrs. Morrill, and Sherman, and at least four
other members who have given the tariff ques-
ton especial attention, was able before the
HOLIDAYS to prepare its report upon the bill rec
commended by the Commission, and ii is not
unlikely that the members of the Senate may
he found equally ready to act upon the measure
without delay If so, the House may have be-
fore it from the Senate a complete revision of
the tax laws before it has ceased to debate the
subject in Committee OF the Whole. AS the
measure would, in that case, come before the
House as an amended bill already passed 10y
that body, 1t would have some important par
lamentary advantages.
According to brief reports thus far sent, the
Senate Committee has proposed to adopt the
bill of the Tariff Commission, with fewer
changes than have been already made in the
House Committee. Some of the most important
departures of the House Committee from the
plan of the Commission have not been proposed,
il seems, by the Committee of the Senate
which is led bv very experienced and earnest
defenders Of IL protective policy. This at
least seems certain, that bill which adheres
quite closely to the plan of the Commission is
more likely to meet with public favor than one
which departs widely from that plan. 1t vas
the duty of the Commission to arrange har-
monious adjustment with due regard to all the
great interests affected. This duty, it is the
prevailing opinion, the Commission has per-
formed with conspicuous ability and fairness.
A very large proportion of the people, if we may
Judge from expressions in journals of widely
different opinions, and published in different
parts of the country, has accepted the report of
the Commission as in the main very judiCiOus
compromise.
Tnis favorable impression has been
strengthened by the intense earneslness aud
persstency of the extreme Free Traders in
their attacks upon the measure. Nr. Moore,
for instance, appears in public two or three
times day to belabor the measure from Free
Trade point of view, and prominent journals OF
similar opinions find themselves quite unable
to express their feelings toward the bill with
out resort to abusive epithets and unwarranted
imputations. On the other hand, the angry
dissent of not few manufacturers has been
heard, though each class OF these, it may DO
noticed, generally commend the report as
wise adjustment In the main, while objectlng
strongly to the features that threaten reduc-
ton of duties In which they are especially in
terested. Thus The Bulletin of the American
Iron and Steel Association, while it "congratu-
lates MIR. Oliver uDnn his success in the per-