Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-12-29
ON THEIR FEET AGAIN.
Tariff RefOrmers I'm the House Deter
mined to Fight the Senate Bill.


THE PRESIDENT HAVING SOUNDED THE KEYNOTE,
THEY WILL CONTEST THE GROUND INCH By INCH
THE SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE MATURING
THEIR MEAsURE-oBsTAcLEs ENCOUNTERED. -
The tariff reformers in the House are getting
bravely over the effects of the recent defeat,
and are taking real interest in life again.
They have never accepted the result of the
election as settling the tariff question: and have
not for a moment been ready to yield to the
opposition. They hoped to be able to defeat
the republican bill in the Senate, or to expose
defects in it which would make its passage by
the republicans even mere dangerous to its
promoters than a failure. But when the DEM
ocratic Senators made complete surrender
after short and half-hearted fight, they were
DEEPLY DEPRESSED.
Accompanying this surrender came demand
from some Of the southern members in the
House that the Mills bill having failed to be-
come a law, they be given chance to do some-
thing for their people by the repeal of the to-
bacco tax, SO Objectionable to some of their
constituents. All this was discouraging to
those men who look upon tariff reform as a
principle paramount to any merely local ad-
vantage. 1t looked for a while as if some
IledsuTo temporary relleI mlSnt POSSIBLY
be got through the House. Such a thing now
is most improbable. The democratic members
OF the ways and means committee and the ma
jority of their party, whom they represent. are
determined now to take up the Senate tariff
bill just as it comes to them and to make q
thorough analysis of It and
ATTACK 1T WITH ALL THEIR HEAVY GUNS
in committee first, and then, perhaps, in the
House before the session is over. 1t is in the
committee that they expect to do it most
damage, and they do not propose to let the
dread OF going all over their hard work Of last
session deter them in the least. They have
screwed their courage up so that they may not
be frightened off by the glimpse OF the hard
work before them.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND SOUNDS THE KEYNOTE
President Cleveland, in the last paragraph Of
his letter read at the tariff reform club banquet
in Boston last night, sounded the keynote Of
the music the tariff reformers in the House
propose to march by. ''In the track of re-
form" he says. ''are often found the dead
hopes Of pioneers and the despair of those who
fall in the march. But there will be neither
despair nor dead hopes in the path of tariff re-
form. nor shall its pioneers fail to reach the
heights"
This harmonizes with their present DISPOSE
ton: Holding fast their faith and rejecting
every alluring overture and every deceptive
trust, they themselves shall regain and restore
the patrimony of their countrymen, freed from
the trespass of grasping encroachment and
safely secured by the genius of American JUS
tice and equality"
NO COMPROMISE.
The policy the majority Of the ways and
means committee propose to follow is to "re-
ject every alluring overture and every decep-
tive compromise" They are still full of fight
They do not expect anything worth speaking of
from their colleagues in the Senate in the
short time that is left them for the discussion
OF the Senate bill before the vote is taken on
the 21st, and they are preparing themselves to
receive the bill.
THE SENATE sUB-COMMITrEE.
Messrs. Allison, Aldrich and Hiscock are still
at work on the various sections Of their bill
that have been passed over without action on
account Of their importance, and such para
graphs of importance as have not yet been
reached in the course Of the second reading.
They were in session in the finance committee
room nearly all Of to-day. Anumber of annoy
protest, request and demand are constantly
being brought in by the daily mail, and per-
sOnal applications for hearings are still being
made in behalf of int ,rests affected by the bill
These, however, do not give them as
much trouble as the opportunities of some Of
their colleagues. In view of the small majority
Of republicans in the Senate, it becomes neces-
sary to yield to these demands often, when if
the committee could have their way about it
matters would be different. Several Senators
have taken advantage of this to secure some of
the best interests Of their constituents against
molestation. The committee may, therefore.
alter the bill somewhat to meet the views of
individual Senators, as they have been obliged
to do IN several instances already, but they
expect to pass the bill much in its present
shane.