The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-02-16

ago 1t was announced that tho provi-
slons OF tho bill had been agreed on in
committee, and that this would DO about
the first bill presented after tho adop-
tion OF the rules. Rut tho tree coinage
bill Is In ahead OF 1t, and now II Is said
that no tarid bills will DO presented for
ten days or two weeks more. Many OK
plantations are offered for this delay.
there can BIO no doubt OF ono thing,
however, and that is that tho "Do-Noth-
ing" wing OF tho Democracy Is getting
In Its work. The advocates OF q Fabian
policy OF mastery inactivity arc being
heard from. A scheme of tariff reduce
ton, until few months ago tho war
cry OF the Democracy In every quarter,
and still tho cherished hope OF Its chief
apostle, Mr.. Mills, has suddenly become
unsuitable" and .'inexpedient."
Tho Trumvirato has spoken, and tho
cherished principles OF Democracy aro
not'in 1t. Now what will Mr.. Mills do?
And what will his sympathizers do2 1t
is not believed that Mr.. Mills has at all
abatcd his. purpose OF bringing in gem
eral tariff bill. j Can he secure Its pas
sage? In all probability, no. lin all
probability he will DO able to accom-.
plish nothing more than to oiIcr tenn.
porary check to the accepted programme
Of tho pieccmcal advocates. But no
will make tho effort just the same; and
1t Is tho knowledge OF; this purpose on
his part which is responsible for the
delay in the presentation OF Mr.. Spring
er's bill. Mr.. Mills has some very &C.
tive sympathizers on tho present ways
and means committee, and inspito ofthe
fact that they were reported to have
given in their adhesion to the plans OF
the majority OF the committee, in spirit
they are still with Mr.. Mills. His plan
defeated, they arc indifferent as to
what plan is chosen; they neglect the
meetings Of the committee; they will
take little or no active interest in any
thing that may DO done relative to tho
tariff at this session. These men are
McMillin, Turner, and Wilson, OF West
Virginia, three of the very foremost
members of the majority. Though
abundant explanations have been at
tempted to show why Mr.. Wilson has
suddenly come to regard plan Of gem
eral tariff revision as "inexpedient" ut
present, the truth is, as it has always
been, that Mr. Wilson is not OF that way
of thinking ut all. lie is not the kind OF
man who changes his convictions at
word Of command from anybody. He
stands nowhere no has stood ever
since he has been in Congress, with
Mr.. Mills. and the result will show it.
CURIOUS FACT,
A curious fact has come to light in the
deliberations OF the ways and means
committee on the wool bill. This is,
that the revenue on the wool schedule
for the first half of the fiscal year, and
the estimates OF the entire year, cores
ponded exactly with the receipts under
the same schedule for the preceding
under the operations Of the old law,
when there was a considerably lower
rate OF duty. Now the force OF this fact
lies inthe application OF it. The ways
and means committee well knows that
it will be called on to explain this APP
parentcontradiction Of its pettheories. If
the importations arc exactly the same
under tho two schedules, who is it that is
paying the increased duties, and who is
getting the benefit OF them? Foreign
exporters, or American wool men?
Mr.. Springer's proposed bill will re-
duce the duties on the manufactured
wool product rs follows: Those now %
per cent to 20; those now 80 to 25;
those now IS to 80; those now 40 to So,
and all above 10 to 40. This relates to