Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-01-02
OUR WASHINGTON WIRE.
, ENArOR SHERMAN WILL ATTACK
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
{ tsaksr Carlisle Will Aaaeanes NE
Committees ON Wednesday y--CeaSssss.
man slills aud the TariR-As Gsshsfs
Some Figures.

WASHINGTON, January 2-Congrcs. win
Da in session but four days this week.
Ii will convene At noon on "Wednesday and
there will be very little, ii any, routine
business transacted. Speaker Carlisle in.
tends 10 announce his committees on
"Wednesday.
Senator Sherman i going 10 start the po-
iirical ball moving in the upper branch Oi
Congress by delivering what is expected 70
be q very severe criticism OF the Presidents
message His friends are eagerly expect.
ing his speech, which II Is thought will
bring out a great deal OF the warmcst and
most exciting political debate. II oppor.
tunity offers, Mr.. Mitchell OF Oregon will
speak in support ri his resolution IN inves-
tigate the Feasibility Of the establish
meut OF naval station on the Pacific coast
Mr.. Blair will try To have his educational
bill considered and the direct tax bill may
k,>Aken off the calendar and passed. II
win be impossible TO give anything like
rpliable forecast Of the proceedings in Con
srsss before Wednesday morning.
Consre.smap Mil. and the Tariff.
WAsHINGros, January 2-Congressman
Mills. Of Texas, who w.Jl as everybody
expects, be the Chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee of the House, has been
making some calculations rs To the effect
likely 10 be produced ou the revenue by
certain changes in the tariff. and he has
called upon the Bureau of Statistics for &
great deal of information on the subject.
The result of his calculations and the fig
ures received at the Bureau OF Statistics, he
has had printed, but not as o bill to be
introduced into the House. only rs data
f.om which bill may be formed. Thi,
data will be submitted to the Committee on
Ways and Means when the House reassem.
bles and that committee has been organ
lied
Mr. Mills denied the truth Of the pub.
lished story that he has submitted . com
pleted tariff bill to the President and that
the latter has approved it. So far rs Mr..
Mills knows. nothing like a finished tarifi
bill has yet been prepared for introduction
in the Hcuse The President, he says, has
not been consulted about any OF the data
he has collected. and ~ far AZ he is person
ally concerned no tariff bill would he pre-
sented to the House until the Committee
on Ways and Means had considered il and
taken part in shaping it. Mr.. Mills is in
favor of substituting nd rdlorepI for specific
duties in many cases. because he is Of the
opinion that the specific duties weigh more
heavily upon the poorer classes of goods
which are used by the poorer class of TeO-
pie. and that under specific duties the
wealthy people who bay the best kind Of
imported goods do not Psy their fair pro-
portion of taxation.
Representative Browne, OF Indiana, who
will certainly be one Of the Republican
members of the Ways and Means Com
mi,tee, thinks the House will pass . tariff
reducing bill this session. II will not be .
radical measure, however, as the conserva-
tive element in the Democratic party, he
thinks, will prevent that. The Democrats
in the House. Mr. Browne says. in an
interview published in the Post here to-day,
will not put forward a bill on the lines Of
the Presidents message. They would not
dare do it They wouldn't dare bring for
ward q bill to carry out their theory Of
tariff for revenue only. Such bill could
easily be formed: there's no difficulty
about it; but the country wouldn't stand
il and the Democrats know that. The
changes in the tariff, ii any, will not be very
numerous. OF the four thousand articles
aud more now on the dutiable list. probably
not half . dozen will he removed The
great number of articles. which is so much
talked about as being very troublesome, will
remain pretty nearly rs they were. You
can get q copy OF the last tariff Law
and be perfectly certain that in all.
except about dozen items. the new
would reduce the revenue $4,000. 900.
NV plan would he To put sugar on the free
list. ano salt and lumber. and take the in.
ternal revenue tax off tobacco Adding to
the free list is the only certain way al re-
ducing the revenue. That necessary reduc-
ton made by means of the free list. would
endeayor to remove some of the ineQuali-
ties of the du:iabie list. have the frame
of such a bill ready. aud when the time
comes / intend TO offer il. with the ap-
proval OF my colleagues, to the HOUSE II
| should be on the committee on Wsys and
Means again, and | suppose shall. I shall
make q note of every item in the list which
in my opinion needs 10 be changed These
things, which | will have an opportunity of
noticing as the bill passes through our com
mittees. / will put into my own bill and
the result l will submit TO the House.
When the bill of the Democratic party
comes before us, we want to have propo-
sition OF our own TO make. l can imagine
that the Democrats. by mutual concession,
may get up bill that the Republicans
could not well afford 10 vote against with
out offering substitute. Ii the tariff bill
Of the Democrats should be defeated, the
Republicans will require 10 saw 10 the peo-
pie in their next campaign: We offered
good bill and the Democrats would not
have it | can imagine that the Demo-
rats this time however. may get up quite
respectable bill"