The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-19
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
The Latest Tariff Talk in the National
Capital.

WASHINGTON, August 1S.-It is limited
about the capital to-day, that some
statistics have been collected which
have already given rise to much uneasi'
ness among the tariff reformers. and are
calculated to create sensation if Off
cially published. 1t is said that these
statistics will show that the revenues of
the government for the current year
will exceed the expenditures contem-
plated by the various bills making appro-
priations, by no. more than SIT 900 600.
As several of the bills carrying large ap-
propriations, although passed by the
House, have not yet gotten beyond its
control, it is said to be possible, now
that attention has been drawn TO the
matter, that they will be heavily cut, or
allowed to die, without becoming law,
in order to reduce the prospective large
expenditures to figures approaching
what had been accepted at the begin
ming of the session as fair estimates.
Secretary Fairchild has directed
that all bonds that have been
purchased by the Government since the
lst of July shall be applied to the pur-
poses of the sinking fund. It is esti-
mated that the requirements of that
fund for the present fiscal year are SAT-
$50 600, and the secretary proposes to
meet them If possible by the purchase
of bonds made under the terms of the
circular of April 18th.
IT WOULD BE 1NsEaEsTING.
Speaker Carlisle says he will meet Mr..
Blainein joint debate on the tariff ques-
ton, if the national committee con-
slider such step advisable.
HARRISON ELUCIDATEs,
INDIANAPOLIS, August 1S.-The COM
mercial travellers of Illinois and In
diana paid their repeets to General
Harrison to-day. At 4 o'clock thu
delegation consisting of about 1000
men, marched to General Harrison s
residence. The spokesman for visitors
were Congressman J. q. Rowell,
of Bloomington, and julius G.
Starr, of Peoria. General Har-
rison, in his response, referred to
the attributes OF the successful CONNER
cial traveller, and then touched upon
the tariff issues. He said:
10 uOI dliOW any one CO pelSud 10 you LudC
this great contest as to our tariff policy is
one between schedules. 1t is a question
between wide apart principles, the intelli-
gent recognition in the trimming of
our tariff laws, of the duty to
protect our American industries and
maietain the American scale of wages by
adequate discriminating duties on the one
hand and On the other denial of the con-
stitutional right to make our custom duties
protective on the assertion of the doctrine
that free competition with foreign products
is the ideal condition to which all our legis-
lation should tend.
DEMOCRATIC RALLY.
PITTsBURG, August 1S.-The annual
reunion of the general association OF
the County Democracy was held at
Allegheny City this afternoon and eve
ming. There was demonstration on
large scale. Among the speakers were
Senator Vance, of North Carolina: Re-
representatives. Tarsney, OF Michigan;
Mcmillan, of Tennessee, and Marsh, Of
Pennsylvania.
MASS MEETING.
CHARLESTON w. Va. August 1S.-
Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky, Hon.
R. @. Mills, of Texas, and Phil Thorn
son, Secretary of the National Demo