The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-03-20
THE new TARIFF BILL
Creates Some Dissatisfaction in
Sections Of the Country,
WHICH WAS TO BE EXPECTED.
The Committee Claim thnt 1t IL as
Satisfactory to All Glasses for
Human Ingenuity to Make 1t.
Farmers Well Cared For. n,
,s,tr!a, Digatch TO he Iatcuige,,eer.

WASHINGTON, D. G., March 1O.-As
might have been expected thereis con-
siderable dissatisfaction over the tariff
bill which has just been completed by
the House Committee on Ways aud
Means. The diversified interests Of the
country make 1T physical impossibility
for my party or set OF men to compile a
tarilr bill which will meet with the com.
pete satisfaction OF NIL localities or all
men in any party, as each State and al.
most every Congressional district has an
industry which those locally interested
desire to be specially protected by a Gus.
toms duty. AS a whole, however, the
bill is pronounced n very good one by
those best able to Judge OF its merits,
The manufacturers and consumers nc.
cord the committee the credit Of having
done the very best they could to please
all interested. Tho prairie States and
loCalilieBin the central States are not eu-
tiiely satisfied with the reduction OF the
tobacco tax. III
PREFER FREE SUGAR., '4.I
They prefer to have free sugar and
lower tariff upon clothing and the arti.
cles OF most common use. and leave tho
tobacco tax ns ut present. There ia a
very large and growing interest in Me-
braska, Kansas, Iowa and many other
States in the beet sugar industry aud
representatives of'these States not only
fought hard against such n heavy cut in
the sugar duty. but declare that they
will not support the reduction, which
makes cut Of between fiity.ive and
sixty per cent. The combined interests
Of the producers and consumers, never
20 much varied in any country, had to
be considered rs a whole by the com.
mittee when the bill was der consider.
alton.
The cut in steel rails and all iron and
steel manufactures will be pleasing to the
localities where there is a great deal of
railroad building. The protection to
iron and steel has advanced these indus.
tries to stage where they can come
much nearer competing with the world
than at any time in our history and put
them upon an equal footing with any
country in the world were it not for the
fact that we employ higher grade of
labor and pay better prices.
THE FARMER OUGHT TO he PLEASED.
The reduction in the lower grades OF
wool and the increase in the higher
grades will have the result OF lowering
the prices OF clothing TO the masses and
ailording higher prices to the farmers
who produce the highest grade OF wool.
The farmers fare better in this bill than
any other class. The reductions are all
upon articles most used by farmers and
nearly all Of the increases IN duty are
upon articles in the production OF which
the farmers arc most interested. The
cereals and other crops OF our country
are protected by the bill which amounts
practical inhibition, except when we
have q failure in crops. The farmer
has everything to please him in this
bill that it was possible to provide and
nothing OF which he can complain. I
TOBACCO TAX REDUCTION.
There may be exception taken to the
reduction Of the internal taxes upon
tobacco, but the wishes OF that great
expansc OF growing country south OF the
Ohio river mnst be taken into consider
alton, and it might be understood chat
it has voice in the reform of the tariff.
Tho South demanded a complete aboli-
ton OF the tobacco tax and gets re
ouction OF about SO per cent. Fl
The Republican members Of the Com
mittee say that their report which will
be forthcoming in a tcw days will ex-
plain all the seeming inconeruitles and
show that the bill is as satisfactory to
all classes as it was possible for human
ingenuity to make it. There will, Of
coursebe long aud warm debate on the
bill when it comes up for discussion in
the House, and every member will fight
for his local interests, but there is no
doubt that tariff bill will be passed.