Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-05
Two Views Of a Bill.
Majority and Minority Reports
on the Senate Measure.
ALSO REMARKS OF MR.. BECK, sOLUS.


Say About the Work in u Couple of
Hundred Pages of Print Remarkable
Unanimity In the View That the Other
Fellow Is a Chump-A Blessed Posi-
biiity of cess-Congressional Trans
actions in Brief.
WASHINGTON Cry, Oct 5-The majority |
and minority reports on the tariff bill were
presented to the senate yesterday, Both are |
very long and explicit, and are intended for |
distribution as campaign documents. The ma |
jority report, representing the views of the |
Republican members of the committee on |
finance, fills eighty closely printed pages, of
which twenty-five are tabular. There are
detailed comparisons between the features of
the Mills bill and also those OF the present
law and the bill upon which this is a report,
making all of the essential points compre-
hensive to the average reader.
The report opens with the statement that
the demand for a careful and thorough re-
vision of our revenue laws is imperative,
This revision is necessary: To reduce the
national revenues which are now excessive;
to remedy the defects, anomalies and noon
gruities which have been from time to time
discovered In the tariff schedules, or which
have been created by erroneous decisions of
the treasury department; to secure the
proper read juStment and equalization of
tariff rates rendered necessary by modified
business ronditions, improvements IN method
of production, radical changes in prices, or
by new elements or sources of competition;
and to give relief and protection to many
Industries which are now suffering on ac-
count of the inadequate rates levied on
competing proouceS
Ihe report then says that inc puhhc oe-
mand Tor reduction OF revenue mas oeeh
fhaue more urgent ny ot,e pol'cy VI inc 're''-
ury III oePos'tihS So',oVoovu Vi 'ne sur piuS
IN national oahSs' "hich pohcS ~ Vigorously
crlticised ana arraisned, 1ne report ueciar'hg
mat the money cou'd al all ttileS nave oee'l
uisposed OF prohtaoiy IN Ihe purchase oi
| nohhs, Chus securing 'he pra'ticai INVEST
ineht OF large portioh OF tne surplus NJ une
rate Oh at least per cent per ahhuhi' inns
money, having been deposited can not'
probably, no" De "lthorawn without ser
| iousiy enoahgerng business INTERESTS put
the SITUATION shonid not be aggravated ey
other deposits The report says: Inc fali-
| ure to prevent this dangerous accumu laton,
| melting, as it does, extravagant expenditures.
and constituting an everpresent menace TO
| the prosperity and euterprisss of all our peo.
| ,la cor NOT ha t,,, sa,,,ral1y .o,Ja,,,ad. hut
| !. y r;I .,:t ~ ..; -. =,
~ ~ " ia't"i' ''' "iiN" '.'o oAoNu'i' Nopa'
hieh' vi 'ne so'trhi'eh' ~ aione fespons.oie-
10 amend the provisions or law which en-
| force the collection Of excessive revenue, and
| to remedy the defects which we have emu.
| merated ara within the scops of legislative
relief and compress NAV nroperiv he held
| rasnops;b,a for anv evils res,,Iting from a
| ,a.i.i,,,,.,,,, - -;s.;..- l..,1;.i 7. 40,
| e'n''iuan,o ", eNi''iis SonN''o'' nay
however, oe talriy SAID thae responsibility
Tor delay IN the adoption OF legislative RENE
| dies rests upon the party in control OF the
| house of representatives, which by the con-
stitntion has sole nowsr to originate reyenue
b;l,s Tba narticip,tiop of the sepata in any
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~ eu'o rI
,d.ion u' -, nos -" t, IN .a
~ va - a..
SO nl' $50 e. ;n;s,,;at;an gnar 3D.
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congress has been in session since the Sd OF
March, lSs5-and its sessions have covered at
least twenty months of that periodic have Sc
cured the concurrence of the two houses upon a
measure which would have reduced the revenue
and amended the administrative features OF our
80 H. 60, ,,,,,.,oss ~ r. ,rh h.ra
trolled the nolirv of fhe rarty in newer IN aeav
action, to magnify cause for uneasiness, and to
multiply and intensity evils until the people of
the country should imperatiVely demand relief,
and then to assume that the ev'l1 and emharrass
|
~ ,'e mn
- ,a,,,.i, - ~. 80, III -,
tacb,nant of the great ,,,ass N the
of the country to a system which has been pro
ductive to them of unexampled prosperity pre-
vented the adoption OF policy of open attack
and made it necessary that some plausible reason
silouiu oe Iolilr ,ol que S.eai'"y i'i'Snhien
VI INV, r.eH -, - d.,
Nc,
eAaf'iihatioh VI INC nuns o'il '"eS nave pe
come SATISFIED VI nS liaaequacy as RENE
diai measure, III we" OF the cohdieioh "hicf
eohiroh.s US ana II, Some general er,t'cisfn'
u Tue ohi iea'n 'ue T'pe'u'ioh tha' III
anop'ioh "ou'u pio,'apiy fesui' III an III
crease ihSVean oi reuuclioil oi customs reVe
nue.. III provinces no remedy lor nhderVai
uation, but on the other hand it invites ant
substitution of nd valorem for specific duties
II does not ramedy any of the ineoualities q
ono,oiias or cnra ap1 Of tho dafao+s of nv
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SUNG i"" pc III
hrihlties' !. crea'eS' ny us coecufities vi pur
pose and phraseology, ana by It's FAULTY con
struction, doubts and antiquities, whlcl
must mustiply indefinitely the confusion
now existing II does not preserve the elias
sitication of dntiable articles in scbadu,as
; 81 !, ie i,rros,ibIa 70 GOV in many in
| 49,. .. II. ol-o =. -;
l. ,,,.,..a,,., -, - 81 =.
,ne ~ '"e vi
were ntennea 10 apply, OF what their e1ec
would be; ana the results winch would nov
from its failure as a corrective measur
4 would be much less disastrous to the mate
rial interests Oh Tue country IMAM thos
winch must surely loloW the ADOPTION OF II
4 vicious affirmative propositions.
I After an exhaustive examination and crit
r icism of the Mills bill in detail and a Ion
discussion of free trade nroteetion tho IL
a Dor cost of production, and war tariff. tn
ma iority close their report with the follow
I fng observation concerning their work. an
+ The two tariff measures now before congress
In all the numerous changes suggested you
: committee has had constantly in view the pref
aration OF consistent measure whose benefcei
!. influences Woniu De ieit N every section and
reater %iSsr1 70 o,,r ind,,stris s'a ad
b strenetbenjpg and ipvigoratipg the America
@ system of protection secure the harmonious d.
o velopment and prosperity of agriculture, man
d features and commerce. The difference betwee
the house bill and the substitute reported by yo'
r eommilIee are lindamenIal. Inc mouse OH III
70 oe" ~, 40. ON inc n snA' onil9u'is
i a reduction or reneal Of nrotsctive drtis
a and tho, tar;ff ravisior ,,1aans si, ~