Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-12
The MISSOURI SENATORS.
Their Views as to the Tariff Policy OF the
Dnmocrntio Party.

| Their Views as to tho Tariff Policy of tho
Democratic Party.
Senator Vest 1.-THE Democratic party
should now proceed deliberately and
cautiously to attack tho outrageous taxa
ton of the Mckinley bill by the enact
ment in the next House of Representa-
tives of epecial bills reducing tariff
faxes on all necessariss OF life. These
| hills should be sent to the Re
publican Senate and the Issue made
| directly between the two houses. III L
had my way / would not pass through
the Democratic House a general tariff
bill. but would pass bills aimed at the
most outrageous and salient features OF
the Mckinley act and let the Senate
meet the issue fairly. Let the House,
for instance, put salt on the free list, and
let the Senate digest that. Several years
ago the Democratic House of Represen-
tatives took the duty from quinine, and
the bill became law by the concurrence
of the Senate and approved by Repub-
lican President If were q member OF
the House would adopt n similar course
ns to salt. lumber. and other articles OF
prime necessity.
Senator Cockrell: 81 do not want to
appear as forestalling the action of the
House, and / therefore do not care to
discuss what might be done. will say,
however, that / have always been IN
favor of special tariff legislation. For
instance. l voted with pleasure to put
ouiuine on the free list, and would
take pleasure in voting for bills admit
ting such necessaries as wool, salt, lum-
Der, and others free OF duty. All We
need 10 do is TO be III the future, as
in the past, the peoples party, and
we shall hold the ground gained last
Tuesday. If care is exercised IN guard
ing the interests of the people by all
LEGISLATION proposed and passed, the next
Democratic candidate for President will
be elected by large majority, and he
will be supported by q Democratic
House and Democratic Senate. But
il is impossible now to tell just what
tariff legislation viii be expedieAb or
necessary. BY covering more than
$50, 600 900 In the Treasury that was
not collected with the current reve-
QueS, We EuNe SUI lIuo nNihNiSht w
meet the expenses of the Government to
the end of the year. and to redeem the
864, coo, 600 Al per cent. bonds maturing.
This, however, will exhaust the money
on hand, and it is likely that the legisla-
ton of the new Congress will have to be
shaped with view of raising additional
revenues. But that can be best deter
mined when We get the schedule of i'm
ports for the ensuing year. We can then
tell exactly how the revenues have been
affected, and tho interests of the people
damaged by the present law. New mea-
sures then can be framed accordingly.
But we shall certainly not attempt to af-
feet the revenue by increasing duties as
the Republicans have done. The change
in the sugar tax was purely for the bene-
fit Of the Sugar Trust. 1t reduced the
income of the Government about
$50, 900, 900 q year and did not benefit
the consumers of sugar in the slightest
degree. Then the tax on tobacco ought
not to have been changed. The reduc-
ton of the tax was o benefit to the to-
bacco manufacturers, but the consumer
is not affected by it to his benefit. >"