Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-11-28
TO GET 1T THROUGH.
Democrats Will Have a Hard Fight
Over the Tariff Bill.
OPPOSITION FRCM VARIOUS SOURCES
The Party Whip to be Used to
Pass II.
THE REPUBLICAN POSITION.

The democrats prepared now for q
hard fight to get their tariff bill through.
While, generally speaking. the great mass
Of democrats are throwing their hats in the
air and approving the bill with loud ac-
claim the constituents of many of them
are very seriously affected by some OF the
heavy cuts, and a great many threats OF
opposition are heard Nearly every mem
ber finds some item in the bill which will
cause some trouble in his district and,
while approving the bill as a whole many
| OF these are anxious to have a change as to
some particular item. The principle Of the
bill is approved by democrats; they are
dubious about some OF its details.
The Feeling Of Republicans.
The republicans condemn the bill without
qualification, but express satisfaction at its
being so radical as to unmask any pretenss
on the part of the democrats of a purpose
to preserve the protection of American in
terests They regard the bill as making q
square issue between protection and free
trade. and it is very satisfactory to them
to have the issue come in this form. The
republican members of the committee will
have no bill of their own to bring in but
will merely write report, analyzing and
criticising the Wilson bill They will be
particularly earnest in their denunciation
of the ad valorem system, and will .pro-
claim square fight between protection and
free trade. The Pennsylvania democrats
are greatly disturbed over the heavy cut
in the iron and steel and glass schedules,
and the committee apprehend some trouble
! from that quarter.
Louisiana People and Sugar.
The Louisiana people are greatly dissat-
isfied with what has been done to sugar,
and fight is threatened on this item in
/ hnfh pd dorss
in getting a duty restored. From Michi-
gan a fight is expected against the free raw
material feature of the bill, and opposition
Is feared from New England members. The
committee are relying, however. with great
confidence upon the support they are prom
ised from the administration. and believe
that they will be able to smother out all OPP
position, nearly all, in the democratic
ranks. They believe that when the party
whip is cracked over the backs OF the kick
ers they will all hurry into line. and that
the bill will go through both the House and
the Senate practically as reported
Not Acceptable TO Iowa People.
Congressman Gear OF Iowa. a republican
member of the ways and means commit
tee, has just arrived in the city. Speaking
of the tariff bill he says: 1T is a very
drastic measure. and IL will not be accepta-
bic to the people Of Iowa The cut in the
schedule relating to agricultural products
will hurt Iowa as well as all other states
contiguous TO the Canadian border by SUBJ
jecting their farmers with competition with
the agricultural products of Canada The
people of Iowa understand the situation
and appreciate fully what competition with
Canadian products means Irrespective OF
this fact, Iowa is a protection state just as
much Ohio is for while we are not .
manufacturing state in the sense that Ohio
and Illinois may be said to be- we manu-
facture Sl2O,O0.Oo0 a year, and believe In
the protection theory.
Representative Bostner's objection.
Representative Boatner of louisiana .
democrat, said: My objection to the bill
is that it falls below the point OF raising
revenue. If they had put a small revenue
duty on some of the things which are on
the free list under this bill. which would
! not have affected the cost of the articles
TO the consumers but would have added 10
4 the revenues Of the bill, il would have been
measure entirely unobJectionable."
Its Effect on Revenues.
Speaking of the effect on the revenues
Mr. Tarsney said:
Under the Mckinley BILL particularly
in the wooden, cotton and iron schedules,
many of the cheapest commodities were
covered by specific duties the ad valorem
equivalents OF which were very high.
amounting in many instances to from three
4 to four hundred per cent absolutely prohib-
lncSc GIutT lfllS bll DclIlB re-
! duced TO very low ad valorem. IL is fair
to presume such reductions will stimulate
importations and greatly increase the rev.
! enues upon all such articles. 1 am inclined
to the belief that from this source from ten
to fifteen millions of dollars of the deficiency
l viii be made up leaving not exceeding from
4 forty to forty-iive millions of dollars. which
| will have to be supplied from other sources
of taxation. But there has been a demorali-
| zation of business. owing TO other causes,
! which have interfered with the revenues
! during the past year. Had business re-
| mained in a sound condition and the McKin-
! ley bill not have been changed, the revenues
/ would have exceeded the requirements OF
! the government by from five TO ten millions
of dollars. AS it may be safely predicted
| that business will resume its usual condi-
| ton during the next fiscal year. that amount
may also be added as against the apparent
| deficiency created by this measure IL may.
| therefore safely be predicted that not more
| than thirty-five millions of dollars will have
| to be provided by the changes in the rev.
I enue system yet to be completed by the
| committee"
| To Raise Revenue, Not Glass BeneGt.
Mr.. McMillin said that the bill was made
! to raise revenue for the support OF the gov
ernment. and not for the benefit of any
! class of individuals. Free raw materials. he
said. were given TO cheaper the cost of man.
ufactures and reduction was made in the
| duty the manufactured article to give
! the consumers the benefit OF the reductions
He said that the present law took three or
/ four dollars out OF the pockets of the con-
| sumers for every one dollar put in the
! treasury. and the reductions made in this
! bill were vastly beneficial 10 the people. In
the main," ne added. ''Gd valorem duties
have been adopted instead OF SPECIFIC, be-
cause under specific duties. the coarser
/ grades Of goods pay the higher rate of duty.
"Under our present system agriculture
has languished. Therefore. many of the
more important agricultural implements
: were placed the free list. In addition
/ to this. the duty on iron Troducts-upon
which modern agriculture so much depends
has been greatly reduced. The duty on
refined sugar was cut one-half. II was con-
trolled by a trust which was able to exert
too great an influence on prices. and which.
l am informed, was able to pay - per cent
profit last year.
I'm fine. IL may be generally stated that
the bill reduced heavily wooden goods iron
and steel products. cotton goods. chemicals
and many other things essential to the pros
perity Of the people, an1 viii, when tried.
If il becomes a law, prove great benefit
! 10 the country"
Confident ~ VIII Become Law.
NJ. Bynum said that he fe,t confident
that the bill would become law substan-
TALLY reported from the committee. lie
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