The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-02-21
WASHINGTON NEWS.
SENATE TARIFF BILL PASSED.
yo,. on til. n....rs, Bad for ives. Ylrsl.i. Is.
tablI,hnsat,-Ths House Not Likely to Pass
the Bnl-AppOIatnsat Of Civil Service
comnI,liOusrs-g General Notes. fi

From Our Special Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, February 20.-Judge Kel
ley's announcement to-day that he would
call up his tariff bill hereafter when the ap'
preparation bills were out Of the way, was
greeted with derisive laughter on the Dem
ocratic aide, for everybody knows that it Il
now utterly hopeless to suppose 1t can ever
be brought up and passed at this session
The Senate, after session Of twelve
hours, passed their bill by 40 to 10. The
only Republican voting mo" was Mitchell
and the only Democrats voting for 1t were
Bayard, Mcpherson. German, Groome,
Davis wv. Va.), Camden, Brown, Jackson
and Slater. The bill as it stands makes
sweeping reductions upon iron and steel
and seriously embarasses woolen mills,
especially knit goods. The bill
takes care Of most Of the smaller
manufacturers, especially those in New
England, but it grinds down the coarsei
products Of New jersey, Pennsylvania,
Ohio and West Virginia. The iron and
steel men were satisfied with the report oi
the Tariff Commission, which the Ways
and Means Committee adopted, but the
Senate Finance Committee reduced the
rates all around and the Senate still further
reduced many Items leayiugs pig iron
$3.50 per ton, and steel rails at sl56S. II
is difficult to see how any Representative
from the iron and steel districts could vote
for 1t.
1t now goes to the Speakers table in the
House, where 1t will be on the calendar
with only four or five bills ahead Of it, one
Of which Is the bill to extend the time for
taking whisky out Of bond.
ITS PATE IN THE HOUSE, Ei
1t is impossible tonight to tell with Ger
tainty what will be its fate in the House,
The Democrats in the Senate were eighteen
for and nine against it. If some proper
ton Of Democrats oppose it in the House II
can only be passed by the votes Of Penn
sylyania, New Jersey and Ohio Repub
licans. The united action Of the Repub
licans in the Senate was the result Of {
party CAUCUS this morning, which took tht
ground that the Republican party
could not afford to be held responsible,
for the failure to pass the same bill
and is the old story Of sacrificing principle
and interests for temporary expediency
Beck, Cockrell and the trading free trader
voted mo" because the reductions wert
not sweeping enough, and professed tarit
men voted for it knowing 1t will force {
reduction Of wages or q suspension o
work all over the country because ther'
has been an insane howl organized BY
agents OF British and German work
shops, which it seems 10 narrsw mind
easier to yield to them than to com
bat with argument and facts till the
error and wrong be shown. Unless tht
iron and steel and wooden manufacturer
Of the Middle States look sharply to theil
representatives within the next few day.
the bill will be passed in the House by The
vote OF men who know the vote is ar
iniquity and q deadly blow at labor ant
capital, yet whose votes are controlled b,
the skeleton Of last fall's election, inter
spersed by designing men who elamor fol
free trade and lower wages in the American
workshops.I