Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-17
AN EVENTFUL DAY.
the National senate-Reed's Victory at
Home-Tarif Gossip.

Correspondence OF the Gazette.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 10.-This was an
eventful day in the senate, witnessing
the passage Of the tariff bill. The bill
was passed without incident, and the day
Is chiefly remarkable for the fact that it
chronicles the date Of the passage of the
bill by the senate which has wrestled
with the subject since early In June.
The bill Will be referred to the ways and
means committee in the house. That
committee will report back with the rec
ommendatiou to non-concur in the sem
ate amendments, and conference com
mittee will be appointed. There are
many leading members on the Republic
can side who say they will not vote for
the bill until the senate provision for
duty on sugar below No. l6 should be
stricken out. II these members should
adhere to that determination, and the
Democrats should vote as they did be-
fore In the house on the subject, the sem
ate would have to recede or the bill Will
fail In the house. But If the Democrats
in the house divide their votes, as they
did in the senate, the sugar amend
ments adopted by the senate
will prevail. AS to the length of time
that will be required TO dispose of the
bill, much depends upon the action of
the house on the sugar question, but
Mckinley and Aldrieh say they hope to
get the bill through In week. Seven
conferees on the part of each house will
be appointed. The senate conferees will
probably be Messrs. Aldrich, Allison,
Hiscook, Sherman, Carlisle, Mcpherson
and Vance, and the house conference
committee will doubtless consist of
Messrs. Mckinley, Burrows, Bayne,
Dingley, Mills, Mcmillan and Flower.
Reed 3 ardent friends in the house can
scarcely contain themselves since his re-
election by SO large q majority. Their
heads are completely turned. But his
victory was easily accomplished with the
methods used to secure 1t. The whole
power of the party machine was put out
to build up big marjorIty in his dis
trict. Neither money nor work was
spared, and local pride went long
way towards bringing out the voters to
sustain the speaker. On the other hand
it was impossible for the friends of Mr..
Blaine to show any resentment against
the "new car" without their attitude
being exposed to the injury of MIR.
Blaine.
phe congressional committee Is organ
lied for Reed. Their purpose is to send
him to the senate and then to make him
the magic name in the next national
convention. To make this possible it
was necessary that he should have a
large majority in his district, and his
failure TO make big showing at home
would have been Reputation of the
action of the Republican party in con-
gress.
With no other district in the whole
country to look after, all the work of the
committee with its immense re- |
sources at Its command, was conferred in !
this election. The campaign committee |
will now devote its best energies to Sc |
cure the election of Mckinley and Can |
non. They are bound to save the leaders |
even If many other members have to be |
sacrificed to accomplish it. They will |
exhaust their resources, If necessary, on |
districts where the result will reflect |
more particularly upon the course of the |
party in the house.
The tariff bill as amended by the sem
ate is intended to go into effect October |
l of this year. Goods placed in hand not |
later than August may be Withdrawn ut |
present rates until the LIST of November,
but all goods now in transit or that have
gone into hand since the last day of
August will have to be Withdrawn before
October l or the high rates of duty will
have TO be paid. The disposition
toward the importer and merchant is
even worse in the house than In the
senate, go that it is certain they will ex-
tend the time for the bill to take effect,
and it may be that they will not agree to
the extension until November for goods
N hand last month. A provision ex-
ending the bonded period to three years.
goods to pay the rate of duty chargeable
1t time of withdrawal was adopted by
he senate. 1t is expected that the tariff
bill will reach the president for signature
q about two weeks.