The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-01-26
TIE REPuRLIcAN PLAN.

iii fIUbIlCAN TLANs
2. The present republican plan is to
cut the democratic Tariff bill to pieces
as much as they can in the House,
the let it go to the Senate, where the
republicans propose to substitute a
hill of their own, repeating the tobac-
20 tax and the sugar duty and adding
some unimportant articles to the free
free list as tut % the t,,rlff Ffcitfm
whale in their own party.
3. But the success of the republican
plan depends on the cooperation OF
Mr. Randall, who openly declares thar
he is opposed to touching the sugar
duty, and who, while he may in the
end agree to the democratic bill, is
known to prefer the total abolition Of
the internal taxes to any other meas
ure. A certain number of republicans
also prefer this, and considerable
number OF Southern democrats are
out-spoken for it.
INFLUENCE OF THE PRESIDENT.
4. When Congress opened the re-
peal of all the internal taxes was IA
vored by most Of the republican mem
bers and Senators, but the Presidents
message recommending tariff reform
developed SO much tariff reform opin.
ION in the Western republican States
that the republicans in Congress soon
saw that they dared not plant them
selves squarely on the Blaine cable
platform of "Don't you touch the tai.
iff." Hence the proposition to repeal
the sugar duty has gained strength.
5. The "raw material" people, such
as the wool men, are now engaged in
vigorous effort to prevent the manu-
facturers from falling In with the
democratic tariff plan. How far they
will succeed it is still impossible to tell
The wUOllen manufacture, Tor in
stance, is deeply depressed, but suoC
many woolen men believe that the,
can persuade Congress to make som,
slight changes in the wool and worst
ed duties and thus help them out anC
the wool growers are very ready tt
to promise them assistance in this, OF
condition that the manufacturers hell
them to resist free wool,
Thus ring or combine is perpetua
ted which has long existed in this anC
many other branches of industr,
whereby the manufacturers are per
snaded to favor high duties on ray
matarial on condition that the ray
materials producers help them to still
higher duties on their manufacturer
: products. This tariff combine" !
very sOlidly welded together, and ]
the cause Of the curious phenomenO
which has been seen here for years G
manufacturers, whose clear adyant
! age it il to have free raw materials
r using all their influence in CongreS
| in favor OF high duties on these sam
raw materials.
CHANCES OF A REFORM BILL.
6. If this high tariff combine break
e up the democratic bill will have
fair chance to pass, suppnsing it to !
framed on the grounds describe
= above. 1t will be difficult in that ca.
{ for even the republicans 70 object
U such bill.
7. II the republicans want to pus
a measure Of their own, they must
would seem, diop the sugar prolect
, because for on that they cannot hOI
for the support of Mr.. Randall az
Y followers II they see themselves lik
e ly to fail in this. they may propose Il
y total repeal of the internal taxes, al
Is the issue may in the end not impro
3, ably be between this and democrat
7. ic tariff bill.