The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-03-15
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
MORE TARIFF TALK-RANDALL'
BILL-AN EFFORT TO MAKE

MORE TARIFF TALK-RANDALL'.
BILL-AN EFFORT TO MAKE
Ransom, Vance, Daniels ana Barbour
Take sides-Insalls' speech-sher
man to have North CaroIina's Vet
by the Grace of Col. Cannady.
Special Correspondence Of the Sentinel.
WASHINGTON, D. c., March 13.-l
have heard of little else this weel
than the tariff bill The addition O
the Internal revenue features have ad
ded to the popularity of the original
bill, but the complaint is made thai
the fruit brandy tax, amounting to q
little over a million dollsrs, should
have been added also. An effort i:
now being made by one delegation to
have this done, and with fair pros
pect. of success.
Mr.. Randall's tariff bill, which will
antagonize Mr.. Null's bill, will be in
.troduced in the House next Saturday
or early during the coming week. The
bill is already drawn up and will be
printed and freely distributed. The
reduction on customs duties amounts
ito about $25, 100000. The reduction
,on internal revenue is about 100000,
600.
You can see at a glance what a
temptation it is to. our delegation to
support the Randall bill. Several Of
these express themselves as being
strongly inclined to support the Ran
dali measure solely because of the re-
lief it will afford their own constitu-
ents. From a national standpoint a
compromise between the two is most
desirable. North Carolina and Vir-
ginia are not the nation. From local
considerations 1 prefer the Randall
bill. But the future success of tn ,
Democratic party, the duty of endors-
ing the Democratic Executive, the
necessity of keeping party pledges, all
lrender compromise measure eminent
sly desirable. The strongest friends of
the Mills bill are working to get an
expression Of opinion, favorable to
them, from Senators Ransom, Vance,
Daniels and Barbour. Senator Ran
.som, as close friend of the President,
:and a. a North Carolinian, devoted to
the interests of North Carolina, will
move slowly and cautiously in the
matter. Senator Vance is an outspo-
ken tariff reformer, but nothing can
blind him to the interests of his own
people. A compromise measure to
which he would agree, ought to salts
fy every body in Western North Car
olina. And a measure which hore
his imprimatur would be unreservedly
accepted by our people because of
their great love for and confidence in
him. His loyalty to them no power
could make them question, and their
confidence in his judgment would
cause them to accept measure which
was not all they have been led by 9TH
er politicians to believe it would be.
would endorse any com
promise easure Senators
Vance and Ransom would approve,
without reading a line of it. But
here they are only two men against
many others who are not actuated
by the same spirit of fairness, and un-
til they see that their efforts will
amount to something, l do not think
they will commit themselves either
to Randall or Mills.
The Republicans are as much
divided on the tariff issue as
the Democrats. They have been
trying for weeks to formulate tariff
bill to suit their purPoses-and 80 far,
they have failed, utterly. They can
not agree on anything, and this statu
quo is not confined to to the House
The Senate is if anything worse off
Some of the Senators are in a quanda
~ as to how they shall vote when the
House bill comes before that body. In
the meantime, the surplus is piling up
in the Treasury. hear this morning
that the amount that will be on hand
by the end of the fiscal year, June 80
approximates $115, 900, 900 One thine
is clear, the Democratic party canno
afford to go before the people in q
national election unless something il
done to reduce this surplus and lif
the burdensnme war taxes under
which our people now suffer.
The Republican tricksters in the Sen
ate passed yesterday through thai
body another outrageous pension
bill, hoping to reduce the surplus by
giving pensions to Federal "bounty
jumpers" and alleged Union soldiers
This pension bill may or may not pas,
the House, but there is man in the
White House who has the courage tt
veto it second time. The gas bags
in the Senate have already defied hin
to veto it, and there is no doubt abou
it, he will accept the challenge. Agar
his veto will be endorsed by the rank
and file of the Federal veterans who
do not like to be placed on an equality
with the bounty 'jumpers" and alleged
soldiers who never smelled gun pow
der nor heard Confenerate cannon
.ade. The only thing to be regretted
about the veto is the Democrotic House
is content to proclaim itself set ol
towards when it throws the necessity
of the veto on the shoulders of Dom
ocratic Presidenl. The bin ought te
be killed in the House.
Senator Ingalls, overstepped the
bounds Of common sense in his bid fol
the Presidency when he made bis
speech on the pensions bill IN the Sen.
ate. He abused Hancock and Nc
Clellan and other Union hsfoes whose
COURAGE and nilifary prestige are