Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-01-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, D. O.,
Jan. 18th, 1888.

JAIL LOU, AooOs
The ouestion whether We are
:. h.v..rw scr~ard stan In the
~ -s
olrecuon OF 'arin loior" sno
tax reduction BY tho present
IL still an open one,
but the chances are decidedly
against It, In spite OF al the
confident talk ana promises Of
the Ways and Means Committee
early In the session things OF
this stage look . little squalIy'
The tariff bill reported rom the
Senate Committee on Finance
differs very materially from that
Of tho Ways and Means Com
mittec, and both are at variance
with the recommendations o.
the Tariff Commission, while al
three fail to conform to the
Ideas either Of FREQ traders OF
protecti0nists, aud none Of them
appear entirely satisfactory 70
those who believe In moderate
and progressive measures Of
reform. When to the
existing middle are added the
amendments ofthe House TO the
Ways and Means Committee bill,
and the general confusion Of
ideas which viii be created by
the attempt to reconcile the
provisions Of both measures! q
needs more than ordinary fAttn
~ Congressional industry anu
discretion 70 expect any result
whatever nom such chaotic ma
terials. ltis interesting TO oc-
casionaIly happen around the
east side Of the House wing IN
view Of the ways aud Means
Committee room. One can toll
70 : nicely what the committee
is doing Dy the class OF visitors.
Osc day the bsrbed wire MAX
or! are on hand In force, button
h0ilng members - they pass IN
ana out; another day the steel
ral lobby inonopolises most OF
the space; then the jute butt
fellows snow up, and They're
followed In turn ~ the dlstfiIers
and there hired mon. The tin
mon, the sugar rennere, the
Standard oil company lobby, the
plate glass manufacturers, the
tobacco men, and representa-.
tives Of every other industry
takc their turn, and they are al
ways on the alert. The button.
holes Of the poor tortured men,
bers have suffered terribly from
the train. Recently the ship
builders havajoined the throng
and pervadd the entire south
end Of the building.
It appears that the surprise
and satisfaction with which
many advocat@ Of tariff reform
greeted the report of the Tariff
was p mature Q.
and. more minute scru.
tiny discloses that in many items
where there are apparent rec
concentrations Of important re-
ductions, the report really re.
higher dutias. Those
lnsidt0ue proposals are wrap
PED up IN language which can
only pc understood BY experts,
put fortunately experts have not
been wanting to expose their
real nature. And as IT this dis
covery were not enough to viii
ste the report, the Ways and
Means Committee ofthe House,
IL revising the schedules pro.
posed by the Commission, is
selling the opportunity to REQ
higbDr duties in still
further partlOnlars. The gene
raj impression now is that the
Commissions report could not
pc adopted as 1t stands without
more harm than good,
md that what little good there
= In 1t will be found elimenated
by the time the notifications of
he Ways and Means Committee
IRE completed. 1t IL becoming
more and moro apparent every
day that it will remain for the
next Congress-. with it's Demo
majority, to effect q re-
Iorm of the tariff that will be
something more than . sham.
rhs work Of the Tariff Commits.
ZION has justified all the predic.
ions made ON the score of its