St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-30
TO ATTACK IN DETAIL
The Ways and Means Commit
tee Decides for Separate
Bills
In Assailing the Outrageous
Provisions Of McKinley's o.
Blundep Act. N
Democrats Will Caucus on the
Silver Question Next
Friday. f.
30
Simpson, Otis and Watson to
IN If AlOno &C Alliance tr
Simpson, Otis and Watson tC
Go 1t Alone as Alliance
Men.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-The Demo-
cratic policy with reference to the tariff
in this congress has been decided. The
Mckinley law will be attacked by sep
arate bills aimed at a few parts of the
measure, not by general tariff revision
bill. This conclusion was reached this
morning by the Democratic members of
the ways and means committee after a
conference lasting several hours. When
a vote was taken it resulted to 8 in
favor of separate bills. The three dis
senting members of the committee gave
their adhesion to the policy of the
majority of their associates Oh the COM
mittee, and will act with them, thus
making the Democratic part of the ways
and means committee unit Oh the
policy which it was decided to adopt.
Nothing was said about which par
ticular feature of the present law should
be first attacked, and this will be left to
future determination. After a lengthy
discussion in which the members of the
committee in former congresses eX-
pressed their opinion in favor of a gen.
eral tariff revision bill aud Mr.. Springer
and his associates argued that
The Proper Method
Of procedure was by attacking the
tariff law i'll detail. Mr.. Bryan, of
Nebraska, offered resolution declaring
it to be the sense of the Democratic
members of the committee that its policy
with regard to tariff legislation in the
Fifty-second congress should be one OF
revision by separate measures instead
of general revision of the whole SyS-
tenn. This motion was carried by vote
OF seven to three. Those voting in
favor of it were Messrs. Mont
gomery, Whiting, Shively. Cochran,
Stevens. Bryan and Springer, the
new members of the committee The
negative votes were cast by MesSrs. Nc
Millin, Turner and Wilson, who were
members of the committee in previous
congresses. The general policy having
been determined upon, all the members
present agreed to abide by the conclu-
sion reached.
Mr.. Wilson, Of West Virginia, said
later that the majority of the committee
would act in harmony, and Mr.. Nc
Millin and Mr.. Turner, of Georgia, Su b.
seduently concurred in this stateme MT.
Chairman Springer was naturally some
what gratified that his policy of rep ort-
ing separate bills had met the approval
OF the Democratic majority. There is
no indication of any trouble at ALL" said
he when Intercepted as to whether the
Democratic members would vote as a
unit in the committee. Everything is
Perfectly Satisfactory
now, so far as l know We have care
fully considered the situation. and have
today decided that it is the sense of the
Democratic members of the committee
that we proceed to deal with the tariff
by the Introduction of separate bills in
stead Of attempting a general revision.
There has been a free interchange of
views by the Democratic members in
our conference, and the best of feeling
has prevailed. Our differences were
those merely of policy, and not as to the
great vital principle.
"There was a concenSuS of opinion
that there should be no step backward
III our party opposition to the outrage
Gus features of the Mckinley law. We
decided to assail them in the manner
that would be most effective and give
the greatest assurance of success. The
deliberations of the Democratic men,
berS have always been characterized by
the utmost good humor and kindly feel
ing. The statement in some of the
papers that there is to be a Democratic
formed OH the subject. Gentlemen
may very consistently differ as to policy,
without it necessarily following that
the party policy when finally adopted
by the majority is to be resisted by the
minority"
Bryan and IEcfTiliIn.
Mr.. Bryan. the mover of the express
sion of the!sense of the committees had
but little to saw II think ,; said he
THAT there will be no doubt of harmony
of action on the part Of the Democratic
members. now that the policy has been
outlined"
Mr.. McMillin declined to state what
he or any other gentlemen had said i'm
committee, but did not hesitate to give
it as his judgment that a gen
eral bill was preferable to in
dividual or separate bills. He believed
that the Democratic position on the
tariff now was stronger than ever be-
fore. He did not think less vigorous
policy should be adopted against the
present Mckinley law than was adopted
against the'former tariff law, whose aver
age rate was Do per cent. If that rate
required a general revision, as was
claimed by all Democrats, the require
ments of good legislation were not less
against the present law, which imposed
an averag of 60 per cent, and in addI
ton surrendered the right of imposing
| taxation to the president. But any one
knowing him would not doubt that
whatever policy the party determines
| to adopt will receive his earnest sup
port.
CAUCUS ON SILVER.