Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-01
REVENUE REFORM.
sfssS Nay Days (s.e SanG;c Bill Is Re-
psrtsa u SBo Cemmltse-SaW
Fer q Free ChAw."
But the ossEopss ead slAosst Must 81 II
f9g Tftbase-cobscc alcohol
GDo Sugar.
Nav York HcIalc.
HERALD RgEEAs,

fora the finance committee CT tne S=aSts
to-day. l. was no. formally made public,
bu. it5 essential feasures soon became
generally known.
II is practically tobacco and sugar
bill, with only changes CT detail il the
tariff schedules. These stem to have
becn resdiusted, with view Of giving
the protected monopolies inst wet they
HAYS asked for.
The Republican s 1nstor5 sre not even
ye. sg-eed upon every feature OF the bill,
and there are several important pr3vIs-
ions hanging in the air.
TheTa Wrre present Ia the committee
roou this moraing Senators S lermsn,
Allison, Aldricn, Hiscock aud Jones Of Ne
vhda, K puolican6, snd Sanstors Harris
aud Vance, Dam 5crsts. The aos.ntees
were senssurs Morrill,, Beck, Mcpherson
nd voorhees,.
CR0wDIEe THE DEMOCRATS.
Senator Allison, the Chairman CT the
tariff uo-coDmitsee, laid the bill before
the committee AID copy WIS given to
each member. There WAS soma discus
sion ss to making the measure puoiic.
Senator Harris proposed that The bill De
reported 70 the Senate withou. the re-
VI titIGE sllS duO L17IO a.
once. This was voted down. TIE r =
puolicsrs ssY privately that they will not
gYJ The Democratic meubjts CT the
eommi.tee much time. IL other words,
having spent more than four months in
preparing bill and for:ltyiog i. by re-
port, they Will allow their opponents jas.
six dsys to snslJzs aud ctitcise tins pill!
and will allow then Lo oppoF Iunity It all
to crlsiciss the report.
SeGs:or Harris fs scling es leader Of
the Democrats in the absence Of Senator
Back. H. hss been In correspondence
With the Kentucky Senator for some time
psst, and tae twG have collected consider
abe data In support OF the Mills DILL, bus
could, Of course, do nothing in the way Of
criticism of the provisions Ct the Senate
bill, because they knew n0Ihirg Of them.
SsIaior Beck felt, len days age, that hs
would be uGnb.e TO do anything on the
lepors, but lass WEEK hs gent up word
thai il stsnog cspaar we're SEM TO nts
resting place st Fortress Monroe ne
would dictate SONS matter to him. The
stenogtapher went, aud copy Of the Dill
WAS io-Gay dispatched to the Senator by
special N sssenger. S.ns.or Beck Is ex.
pected IN GOWN Thursday evening, when
he will be able 10 consult with his Demo-
cratic colleagues
VERY SECRET.
After these Masters h4d been arranged
In com mittes this m 0rHiag the reading Of
the bill oagsn, ous IL hsd got no fartner
than the h.ss Of the tariff schedule when
IL O'CLOCK arrived and the committee was
compelled By the rales to sti 0ur1. Sen
asoT RtrYis wrote his nams on his copy
OF the bill! and hslGed II tc Mr.. Darfes,
ths0l5rk, wit1 the request that he Keep Il
Licked up fer him. The other Senator's
handed t1eir copies also 10 Mr.. Durfee,
with the idea inst IN this way they would
keep apY knowledge OF the bill from get
ling 20 the people Tie Herald, however,
will take care Of that.
The oil Is csicul.ted to make s reduc.
ton in the revenue Of sbou; $40 900 0G0.
This % practically taken eff three articles
-,Uoacco, sugar Rgd "sicohol used ii the
SITS" rle additions 20 the Tree list in
the Senate bill are Few ana he amount OF
revenue raduction gained thereby rela-
lively tr!dlrg.
COMPARISONS.
comparison Wisn the Mills bill gives
the following result:
Senate Bill. Mills FIJI.
Reduction. Il 6uctton.
TOBACCO > UUt UuO IOO4cC III 5cI lbi
sugar % OOS.stJ ~ugar........ 10 S3f, la
free nsI..... 5000 Ots Free list. 49, i7s ia
Alcohol ...... loVUUUVv AlcoEol...... -
TIE reducLiun ID Ehe .aiin schedules OF
the Ssns!s DILL outside Of sugar smoun.
to ll:,la more thsn reatius.mant, aud
soma Ct them will increass receipts in
stead Of decreasing them.
AGAINST TIE POOR NAN.
The Sebsle committee has followed the
principle OF making duiss specin ias .ead
OF ad vslorem Were possible. This Sd
vantage which Senator Aldrich will
urge in hls report for the spec.h; sy5-
tam is that 1t oftsts less opportunity for
unGervslusti)n ftsuas than the ed
valoIem system Custom Officers are sLi
to prefer Inc spec d plan because Of lis
greater simplicity of operation. The I'D
valorem system was sdoptet, as fsr Sc
practicable, in tne Mills bill with view
of i'm osirg no heavier duties relatively
on the cheap fabrics Of the poor than on
the costlier ones O, the rich. Esch was
{, psy she same proportion O! their vs!ue
while undsr tbs specific sys-
TEN, with the same duty per
ysrd for costly materials and
cheap onee, the poor man psys an enor-
mously greSter proportion IN taxes than
lie rlCn nAQ
To PLEASE THE MoNoPoLIST5.
The Senate schema seems TO bear out
pretty we'll the promise made by Senator
Allison N DIE thsn tTo m 0aihs ago thai
1t would be siuilsr IN no respect to the
Mills DILL. Eyeu the administrative
features are different. The ri lis bill
carried the administrative provisions Of
the measure drawn By Mr.. Aor.m S
Hewitt. while In Congress, and the Senate
bill Incorporates boldly The undervslus-
ton act which passed the Senate early in
the winter. Tue Senate bill, moreover,
Is complete re-snac.ment OF the tariff
schedules, sad covers $50 pages, while
the Mills oil msrely ref=r5 70 those parts
OF the tariff OF 1883 which 1t 10 proposed
to change.
The Republican Sens:ors believe they
hsvs SO drawn their measure as not to
drive away s1e support Of sny protected
interest, srd they feel psrtl ulsIly we'll
satisfied with the gentle way in which
they have handled the Industries OF The
Pacific slope. Wool is given more pro-
lection than ever; lumoe-, fruit end nuts
ere Isf. at the old rates, and borsI is put
q. higher dusy than under the existing
law.
T.BACco AND SPIRITS.