Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-02-22
Daily lntslllssncer.


VD ~ considering in caucus what
II GAeaM do upon the proposition to
nnl ~ tobacco tax. Mr.. Crisp, OF
vla, was the active agent In as
1olng the caucus, and once more
s 1n1oo b The front 20 . clear.headed
n1er. We have often had occasion to
JnMk ~ independent energy With which
II. Cxiep, during this Congress, has
1At y draw his party in the right path.
g ~ hovo rover found him wrong in his
1l1lcs and be has been very successful
~ sssurin9 his aim. He IL not
SonD cleafly right ID the stand he
*NoW takes In favor Of such reduc-
~ oe the revenue Is can be had,
SGonn that which ID desired cannot be
$3.50. Mr.. Crisp was with his party for
y ~ Mills bill which has failed Of pas
- in The Ssnate. House and Senate
\ o6onpd horns over it, and the Senate has
/; Cgopooed to substitute for it an entirely
1lnoEsut bill.
II House ways and means committee
- ngaged In . controversy as to the
GovAt Of the Senate to originate q new
IN - substitute for the House meas.
s - The ways and means committee
( ~ b clearly right in their position
ypon this question I; but that will not
Gnaet The Mills bill and Mr.. Mills Is not
doing anything in practical way to re.
1ueo the surplus revenue by charging
upon the Senate usurpation of authority.
4r. Crisp 10 not that kind Of a statesman.
H b . more practical man. Seeing that
~ Mills bill cannot pass, he proposes
tsat the Democratic party shall pass the
C0wles bill, which removes the tax from
tobacco and that it shall add to it the
tEUo list In the Senats tariff bill, thus re.
dueing the revenue some thirty millions.
It b supposed that the Republican con-
gresgmen will not refuse to take off the
Internal revenue tax on tobacco and
q H. tariff tax on the articles on
Their own free list, when they are brought
i FACE to face with the question and the
h Good eense OF putting them there can
hardly be questioned, one would think.
Yet 70 distinguished Democratic
s ropCentative as Mr.. Breckenridge, OF
n Kentucky, seems to be unwilling to fol-
s 1ow Mr.. Crisp's lead in this matter and
hlsfellow members OF the waysand means
4 committee are also unwilling. They
{ Geem TO eel that nothing good In the tax
reductio, line can originate outside their
committle, and have persistently refused
b take up the Cowles bill which has now
been reported from the appropriations
oommittee and which is likely to become
law. It certainly is desirable that the
Democratic representatives in Congress
should take united position in regard to
e. And a. it is in the line Of revenue
reduction 1t is not easy to see why they
cannot. That 1t does not give all that
the party wants is no reason, surely, for
hiking what it does give, when that is
4 clearly al that can now be got.
Mr.. Randall reports this measure from
6 H. appropriations committee aud finds
/ himself again the leader Of the party
h IT. revenue policy, aitT having
within the year been assigned place
outslde the party lpale. This may be q
0isagreeable.r reversal of position to those
Democratic leaders who find themselves
now On the under side of the wheel but
( ie they will think about 1t bit, they will
ind that Mr.. Randall went under then,
- they propose to go under now, by
being little too obstinate iu opposing
tho will Of the majority Of the party. Mr..
B Randall comes up smiling now because
b represents the party will; which has
not changed at all concerning the merits
OF revenue and tariff reduction; but
Yields to the circumstances that forbid 1t
{ now gaining all that it would have, and
make 1t ready to take what it can get
which IL sensible policy always a party
y apt to be sensible, though its leaders
benot.