Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-10-09
SENATE TARIFF TALK
MT. Allison Starts the Ball
 Rolling.
AND MIR. VANCE HELPS IT ALONG

MT. Allison Says the Senate Bill Contem-
 plates the Abolition of the Surplus.
 MT. Vance Says the Mills Bill Is for the
 Relief of the People.
 WASHINGTON, Oct 9-After disposing of several routine matters, the senate began the discussion on the senate substitute for the house tariff measure known as the Mills bill.
 Mir. Allison took the floor, and entered into a long explanation of the substitute. He spoke of the length of time it had taken the house to prepare bill not, he said, for the purpose of strengthening the industries of the country, but with the effect of greatly disturbing those interests. From the report of the secretary of the treasury for the first quarter of the present fiscal year he calcu- lates that there would be a reduction of $S,OOO,OOO i'll import receipts as compared with last year, and a reduction of S17 ,OOO,- GOO compared with the secretary's esti- mate. He thought reduction of $6O ,OOO,- 900 to $7O,OO0, 900 great as could be safely made The senate bill contemplated that for the present fiscal year and years to follow here should be no surplus for the sinking funds, certainly none beyond the amount necessary to redeem bonds falling due Oct. l, 1891. He could not understand by what pro- cess of financiering such large surplus should have been allowed to accumulate, when the government could have purchased bonds so as to have made ; per cent on the money. Coming to the features of the bill, he said that the senate bill differed from the house bill in that it proposed to deal with all the schedules of the tariff, while the house did not.
 The senate committee had sought ill this bill to care for every industry ill the coun- Nf the minority of the committee He said the report of the three Democratic senators who had been able to agree was full of misin- formation. The calculation of the reduction to be made by the Mills bill was based on the assumption that the importation of arti- cles on which the tariff was increased would be correspondingly reduced, This was prob lematic, but there was no question of the re- duction to be made by the senate bill. It was between s61 ,0O0, 900 and $73, ,0O0,0OO
 Speaking of the tobacco question Mir. Ali son said that the committee had yielded to what they supposed to bs universal senti- ment in taking the tax from that article. As to the abolition of the tax on alcohol for use in the arts, Great Britain and Germany had had that principle in tleir taxing system for many years and found no difficulty in preventing frauds in that connection.
 Coming to the sugar question Mr. Allison said that even with the proposed reduction of 50 per cent. the duty would remain at fl per cent ad valorem.
 He believed that sufficient encouragement for the production of sugar from sorghum or l beets was left in this protection. The effect of the house bill ill regard to the sugar schedule, he said would be to legislats $6, ,0O0, 900 year, or 12 per cent on their capi- tai, into the pockets of the sugar trust. The effect of the proposed advance in duty on i'm ported cigars would not be much felt, as they l were luxury. As to the schedule of ''pro- visions," he said the senate bill proposed specific duties as far as possible. The com mittee was considering a rate on imported | eggs. The committee had substituted specific | for ad valorem duties on silk and silk goods, following the recommendation of Secretary 1 Manning. This, he thought, would increase | somewhat the duty on silks.
 In conclusion MT. Allison said that the sen, ate bill was distinct measure of protection 1 to American industries, while the house bill was a long step ill the direction of what was | known as free trade.
 Mir. Vance, a member of the minority oi the finance committee, took the floor. He 1 said that the government of the United States had entered into a partnership with the manufacturers of the United States at the close of the war, to establish unho.y anC iniquitous system of taxation upon the many 1 for the benefit of the few. The house bil made total reduction of SIS, ,OOO, 900. How did the senate substitute divide its reduction of duties: It took So from the government l for every $1 it took from the manufacturer.
 Mir. Vance continued at somc length tt argue that the senate bill was framed in thu interest of the financial classes. He said tha if Henry Clay was alive he would denounc. the senate bill most bitterly. It was non sensical, he said, to hold that high tariff meant high wages If it did, wages woult not differ in every state of the union. H. denied that the manufacturers furnished home market for the farmer. and said tha the decay of agriculture was most noticeabl in manufacturing districts.
 | He accused the Republican party of thwart ing the efforts of the Democratic party t. reduce taxes They would have the presi dent pay premium of 30 per cent to thei
 friends the bondholders to reduce the surplus
 he said the president did not choose to do il
 Nobody would be deceived by the charg
 that the Democratic house was responsihl
 for the delay in sending measure to th
 senate for it was well known that the Rs
 publicans of the house had resisted ever
 step in that direction; and the Democrat
 who had helped them to defeat the efforts c the Democratic party had been lauded to tn
 skies
 In conclusion, he said that the house bi
 had been framed to relieve the people, an
 the senate bill to relieve the treasury. To correct statement of Mr. Vance, Mi Aldrich said that the bill did not recommen
 that opium be added to the free list, but pr, hibited its importation.
 Mr. Hiscock took the floor, and the bi
 WAS then laid over.
 6 An Awful Crime.
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