The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-04-26

Ah AAN AA0u1Ns
The House went into Committee OF
the Whole on the tariff bill.
Mr.. Byuum, of Indiana, said the bill
presented did not meet with his un-
qualified approval. He believed that
duties on imports should be levied and
collected and all times to meet the cur
rent, ordinary expenses OF the Govern
ment, and that any extraordinary ex-
penses should be met by a resort to in
ternal taxes.
Believing this to be correct, he would
maintain the present internal revenue
system OF taxation until the last obliga-
ton was discharged, but mindful OF the
diversified interests OF the country, he
was willing to come to the consideration
OF the bill in spirit OF concession and
compromise, and Join inthe construction
OF q measure which yielded something
to productions OF every locality.
Mr.. Browne, OF Indiana, expressed
himself as not in the least frightened at
the plethoric condition OF the National
Treasury, that neither johnson, nor
Grant, nor Hayes, nor Arthur had
made the condition of the Treas
ury a pretense for disturbing the
INDUSTRIAL POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT.
The country continued to enjoy an
unparalleled prosperity. The accumu-
lation of revenue might be made the oc-
casion for doing much for the peoples
benefit. The national debt might be
gradually paid of, the merchant marine
might be built up, harbor and coast de-
fences might be constructed, navy
might be provided commensurate with
our glory and grandeur as Nation, and
"a grateful people might tender to the
old soldiers who saved the country q
parting benediCtion.
4 Looking at the interval revenue sys-
TEN from q revenue standpoint there
was much to condemn in it, and il the
people understood that the whisky tax
was kept in order that the protective
system might be maintaineded, the
whisky tax would have to 90.
Turning to the wool provisions OF the
bill, he quoted figures to show that the
domestic product had increased enor-
mously under twenty years of protec-
tion-had grown from weakness into
strength, while, by the reduction OF
duty by the act OF 'S3, the industry had
been well nigh ruined. 1t was a little
singular that while wool was put on the
free list sugar was to be protected by an
annual tax Of $45, 100000.
Mr.. Dockery, of Missouri, said that
the surplus was required in the channels
OF business and trade and commerce in
order that capital might employ labor,
and said that the question presented was
how that surplus was to be disposed OF.
Would it be done by the making OF
ExTRAvAGAST APPROPRIATIONS?
He warned Congress that il it did not
reduce taxation that was the way in
which the surplus would be got rid of.
There were on the calendars OF the House
to-day hundreds Of measures which
would never have been heard OF had it
not been that there was surplus in the
Treasury. The Democratic party had
always been the friend OF the laboring
man, and il the Republicans could
show that their protective system
was beneficial to the wOrkingmen Of the
country, he was willing to waive his OBJ
lection to it. But they could not do so.
On the contrary many unprotected in
dustries paid their employees higher
wages than were paid to lab0rcrs in the
protected establishments. He had sta
tistics to show the immense bonus which
the protective tariff put into the pocket
Of the manufacturer, but which did not
go into the pockets Of the workingmen.
The Democratic party proposed to
favor a revenue system which would
give all the incidental protection which
the manufacturers needed but did not
propose il it could avoid it to continue
system which levied an enormous
tribute on the agricultural States for the
benefit OF the manufacturing States.
At the evening session OF the House
the tariff debate was opened by Mr..
Shaw, OF Maryland, who advocated that
clause of the bill which places tin plate
on the free list.