Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-11-26
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regaiar correspondent.
WAsHINGrnN L @ Nov oI Isa

H"N"IN hClp ~ Out VI the pTeulCd
ment in which it will find itselI
after the 4th of next March is {
little ahead of its previous effort,
in that line. II would really be
amusing if the matter was not sc
serious. There are the very best OF
reasons for the belief that not one
single Republican senator will join
the Democrats in voting for any of
the tariff bills passed by the House
at the last session, or for any
measure that may be proposed to
lessen the responsibility of the com
ing Democratic administration and
Congress. The Democrats have
made promises they have no idea Of
keeping, and now they would like
to throw a portion of the blame on
the Republicans. The Republican
party has never shirked its own
responsibilities, nor made promises
to the people knowing that it would
be impossible to keep them, and it
will not help to shield the party
that has done both from the popular
warth, already beginning to mani
fest itself.
1t is at certain as anything in the
future can be hat the receipts of
the Government for the first fiscal
year under CIeveland-July /, 1893,
to June 80, l894-will fall far short
of its absolutely necessary expendi-
lures, unless Mr.. Cleveland calls an
extra session and that extra session
shall provide FOR new revenue in
some way, and "Republican ex-
trayagance" will not be the cause.
either. The deficit will be caused
by the natural falling off in import
duties, the source from which the
greater portion of our revenue
comes. Importers will not pay the
present tariff when by waiting until
the Democrats have agreed upon
some sort of hodge-podge of a tar
if it may be a great deal lower,
and manufacturers who use ma.
terials upon which there are duties
will only import enough for their
immediate needs, as it would be
ruinous to them to be caught with a
big stock on hand when the Demo
cratic slump in tariff rates goes into
effect. Already Democrats high in
the councils of the party are ad-
vocating an income tax, and it need
surprise nobody should this tax be
imposed by the Congress which
its existence to promising
lower taxation.
The split in the Democratic party
which appears to be imminent over
the question of whether the tariff
smashing shall begin with an extra
session of Congress Immediately
after Mr.. Cleveland's Inauguration,
or be postponed until the regular
session next winter, recalls to old
the fight previous to and in
1860 between the Democratic
"dough-faces" of the north and the
"hot-heads" of the south. Now as
then each side is clamoriug for the
control of the party management.
Howells, able editor of
Georgia, and Congressman Wilson,
of West Virginia, said to have
cabinet aspirations, are the self
appointed leaders of the h~ot-headed
wing of the party, which is demand
ing that the Fifty-third Congress
be called in extra session as early AS
L can be got together after the 4th
Of March, and that it proceed at
once to repeal the present tariff law
ana to make a new one dictated
by the interests of the South
in the eyes of this wing of the
Democratic party making a tariff
)ill is just as easy as opening a
Jackpot" The conservative wing
# the party, which might be called
.uccessor to the old "dough-face"
clement, knows enough to know that
t would come dangerously near TO
ringing on a financial panic, if it
Ioes not actually do so, if an extra
ession Of Congress begins to tinker