The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-02-21

ment Of the Tariff Commission was q trick; its re-
port was sham; and the Ways and Means Com
mittee made worse job of IL than the Tariff Com
mission. Ths Senate ventured upon some i'm
provements, but il is certain that many Republi-
can Senators will not vote for the Senate bill.
The Dem )crats have been severely denounced as
obstructionists but when Mr.. Morrison proposed
In the House Tuesday TO substitute the
schedule of duties on metals adopted by the
Senate and so dispose of that part Of the question
without delay, he was simply laughed at. Who
were obstructionists then?
In view of such facts it will not do to as
sumo that Democrats are responsible; in
deed, the people never expected the Demo
cratic party to be responsible for the acts OF
the Forty-seventh Congress. Individual
Democrats, who have played into the hands
of Republican protecrionists, will be held
responsible by their constituents for their
shameful derelictions of duty, but no re-
sponsibility attaches to the party until ii
controls legislation. If, when the Forty
eighth Congress assemblies, the Demo
cratic majority does not inaugurate sweep
| ing tariff reforms and other reforms
essential to the welfare of the country, il
should be, and will be, held accountable. II
was in the power Of the Republican party to
have done something TO relieve the tax
burdened people, but the managers of the
Party are the tools of monopolists, used by
monopolists as mechanics use gimlets and
gouges, jack-screws and Levers, and are made
to do their duty by the power which money
can always exert when venal men are to be
dealt with. The Pittsburg Post refers to the
action of the Senate and House, by which
valuable time has been consumed until
prudent legislation upon the tariff is out Of
the question, and says:
The Tariff Commission report. which was to be
the grand Republican panacea, was laid before
Congress in December. The Republican Finance
Committee of the Senate took it up and slaugh
tered 1t wholesale and retail. Then the Reprb
lican Senate took up its Committees report and
cut 1t right and left. generally in the line of re-
duction from the Committees report. which was
In itself a reduction from the Commissioner
schedule In the House the Republican Ways
and Means Committee took up the Commission's
report and devoted nearly couple of months to
the work of amending 1t. generally in the line oil
increased duties. and now the Republican House
is engaged in considering and modifying
the report OF its Republican Committee. so thai
we have in reality before Congress, at this time
emanating from Republican sources. the Kepub-
lican Commissions Tariff, the Republican Senate
Commuters Tariff. and the Republican House
Committees Tariff and to still further complicate
matters the Republican Senate is gong ahead
making tariff of its own. and the Republican
House a tariff to suiF itself. Here is confusion
worse COMPOUNDED. and for which the Republicans
are responsible. and solely responsible.
A fragrant outrage has been perpetrated
upon the people by the triumph of the mo.
nopolist lobby, and it is of the first impor-
lance that the people should know, with the
everest exactness, just how matters stand.