The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-03-08
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
nBRER'' RROWER ON THE REP
UBLICAN CAMPAIGN COMMIITE.

tBRER'' RROwER ON THE REP
UBLICAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE.
Tariff Bill at last Caucu1 of the Party
to be Held. Internal Revenue Legis-
Iation. Educational Bills. Need Of
Work. The Leading Issues Of the
Campaign. Cleveland in the Lead.
Special Correspondence to The Sentinel.
WAsHfNGToN, d. c., March 2nd.-
Mr.. Brewer has been chosen to rep
resent North Carolina on the Republi-
lican Congressional Campaign Com
mittee.
Interest this week has centered on
the tariff bill, which was submitted to
the entire committee on Ways and
Means Yesterday. Thirty thousand
copies of the bill will be printed and
circulated. The bill, as it stands will
never pass the House, nor do the fra
mers expect it to do so. 1t is intended
more as e "feeler" of the public pulse.
There will be caucus of the House
called at an early date to consider the
bill as it now stands. IF majority
OF this caucus concludes IT, Ill he main
features of tbs bill are accep BILE and
feasible, the oil, CAREFUL, mended,
will then b. presented to h House,
and an atteu pit made to pass {. Later,
some think the Interna, Revenue
bills will be added to the general tariff
bill and thatthey will be passed togeth=
er. The tariff reformers will try to get
any bill through that materially re-
duces the tariff, unless these Internal
Revenue features are added. Some of
them begin to realize this, and wish to
have the revenue reduction bills add
ed at once. 1 have found out, in the
last few days, that there are theorists
on the Ways and Means Committee
who do not mean all they profess.
when they pledge themselves to work
for the Internal Revenue reduction.
These men will have to be watched,
for without the Internal Revenue re-
duction the general tariff bill will fail
to pass the House. A bill will then
be preseI ted In the Senate in which
the general tariff reduction will be
nominal and the Internal Revenue
reduction will be made the leading
feature. Thus the Republican party
will make good campaign material for
the States Of North Carolina and Vir-
ginia, especially. 1t is no use to deny
it, our people are more interested in
the Internal Revenue reduction than
in the general tariff reduction. The
two oug ght to be indissolubly linked,
in a compromise bill which could pass
the House. The Republican majority
lin the Senate could scarcely afford
ito reject such bill. 1t is to be hoped
that the practical men in the House
will come to the front in the coming
caucus, and make this plan dominate
all others If they do not, there are
breakers ahead which it will take al
most miraculous skill to avoid.
As the general tariff bill has been
made SO prominent during this ses
sion, and as a Just tariff reduction i:
to be made the issue on which the
campaign is to be fought, | append
the leading items Of the bill which was
submitted yesterday to the full COM
mittee
Be 1t enacted, etc: That on and
after the first day of July, 1888, the
following articles mentioned in thi.
section when imported snail be exempt
from duty:
Timber, hewn and sawed, slaves O.
wood, laths, shingles provided tha
any export dnty is laid on any of the
above mentioned articles on either O
them by Bny country whence import
ed, all said articles imported from sale
country shall be subject to duty a
now provided by law.
Salt, in bags, barrels or other pack
ages, or in hulk, whichsini ted from
any country which does NJ barge al
import duty upon salt expolted from
the United States.
Flax straw, fax, hemp, ma nilla ant
ether like substances, jute, sum, sisa
grass and other vegetable fbers, bag
ging, suitable to the uses to whicl
cotton bagging is applied, composed
LIN whole or part of hemp, or other ma
terial; provided that as to hemp ant
fax, jute, jute butts, sum and sisa
grass and manufactures thereof, excep
buflaps not exceeding sixty inches il
width and bagging for cotton, this &C
shsll take effect July 1st, 1889.
Iron or steel sheets or plates or tag
gers, iron coated with tin or lead, an,
commercial known as tin plates, bees
wax, gelatine, and all similar prepars
aions glycerine, fish glue, phosphe
roas, soap stocks, soap, all which ar
not otherwise specially enumerated Q
provided for extract of hemlock @
other bark used for tanning, indigo
iodine, licorice juice, oil, crotem, hem
seed and rape seed oil, linseed oil, col
ton seed, petroleum, alumna-alun
all limitations of natural mineral ws
tiers, baryta, unmannfactused boraci
acid, borate of lime and borax, cemen
Roman, Portland and all Others
whiting and Paris white, copper, su
phate of. or blue vitriol, iron, sulphat
of, or copperas, potash, crude, carbon
ate of, or fused and ceustic potash
chIorate of potash and nitrate of pot
lash, or saltpetre crude, sulphate c
potash, sulphate of soda, inter cak,
and glauber's salt, sulphur in roll
wood tar, coal tar, crude, analine O
and its homologues, coal tar, product
all preparations of coal tar not color
eor dyes and not acid of colors or dye
iiogwood and other dyewoods, extract
and decoctions of, spirits of turpen
tine, bone black, ivory drop black an