Omaha daily bee., 1893-08-28
Favorable Action in that Body on the
Wilson Bill Now Assured.
PROBABLE ACTION BY THE SENATORS
Unconditional Repeal VIII Not BE Accepted
by Them without n Fight-The OPP
portunity to Talk Will Not BE
Overlooked.
WASHINGTON BUREAU OF The BEE, !
5l3 FOURTEENTH STREET,


morrow, and that the senate would pass
like measure If direct vote could be secured
upon it. There are few in Washington
tonight but who acknowledge defeat it the
friends of unconditional repeal in the senate
can get direct vote. 1t is now known to "a
dead certainty" that If the proposition to
vote for or against unconditional repeal,
with nothing else in view >could come before
the house it would have decided
majority. There are now four or
five senators who have been classed
all along as free coinage advocates who say
they will support unconditional repeal if all
other proposals are voted down; that rather
than vote against it, when it stands alone,
they will vote for it. They give uncon-
ditional repeal safe majority Senators
Teller, Stewart, Vest, Cockrell, Butler,
Morgan and other free coinage men ac-
knowledge that their only hope now lies in
the rules, which make it possible for them
to defeat a vote. They mean to talk the bill
to death and welr out the repealists. AS
they did the election bill of two years or
more ago. A change Of the rules 50 as to
bring the silver DILL to a vote seems impossi
BILE, rs there is no process of ending debate
upon rule which would secure closure, even
about even that direct vote cannot be se-
Gu red upon unconditional repeal In the sem
ate, and two to one that compromise will
be effected whereby another silver law will
take the place of the present one.
Anxious About the Tariff
There Is one subject which overslaughs
all others at the present time in commercial
circles. 1t even ranks the financial problem
before congress. 1t is the tariff. Manu-
facturers and business men, as well as the
farmers, are anxious to know what kind of
u tariff bill the democratic congress and.
democratic admins tration will finally put
into law and when it will go into effect.
There Is not man in congress- be he n
high protectionist or free trader, but that
acknowledges frankly and openly the i'm
portance of informing the country as to
what kind of a tariff bill is to be adopted and
when it will take effect. 1t is not so much
the specific items which are to be affected
by the new tariff bill as it is the time when
those who are to be affected must adjust
themselves to the new conditions. The BEE
correspondent spent the greater part of the
past week making inquiry of the leading
partisans in congress and trying to get the
position of the administration upon the
tariff
The first and most important fact ascer-
tanned in this research for information is
that the tariff bill which will become law
some time next year will be very moderate
senate committee on finance, Messrs. Cor
man, Mcpherson and other democratic lead
ers of the upper branch Of congress, as well
as Chairman Wilson of the committee on
chairman, Mr.. McMillin, Mr.. Bynum and
other leaders in the majority of the lower
branch of congress, all say that, owing to
the construction of the democratic party in
congress and the solid republican phalanx
opposed to radical tariff reform it
will be physical impossibity to pass any
bill which makes Il serious cut into manu-
factured articles; that the measure must
contne itself almost wholly to enlarging the
free list.
Will Be Put on the Free List.
The principal items which now pay duty
and are to go upon the free list are wool,
iron ore, coal, wood and salt There may be
some reductions of duty upon the cheaper
grades of woolen and hemp and linen fabrics
There Will be a good many articles taken
from the dutiable and transferred to the
free list in the chemical schedule. So far as
implements and tools of all kinds, manufac-
turcd steel and iron OF the better grades
wares from metals and glass are concerned
the manufacturers and dealers in these
articles can rest assured nothing will be
done to materially affect their business,
unless it is to give them free raw materials
to work upon.
One of the republican members of the sem
ate committee on finance, who had much to
do with the preparation of the Mckinley
bill, assures your corres spondent, after a full
conference with the republican senator's and
those leaders upon the democratic side who
will control the revision of the tariff bill
when it comes from the house, that while
they would If they could, the democrats can
not possibly pass any tariff bill which will
depress the manufacturing interests of this
country He says that If he were manufac-
turing any Of the leading articles he would
not, knowing what he does hesitate n
m. IA Ia t- ht,rt rt,,An1
It's present lines, as it cannot be injured by
the new tariff law Another prominent re-
publican member of the senate committee on
finance says that he is answering all letters of
inquiry from manufacturers by saying there
need be no alarming apprehension as to the
outcome of democratic work at tariff re-
vision, as vicious, malicious or general
destructive legislation cannot get through
the senate. He says that il the democrats
had q majority of ten or twelve IN the SEN
ate, instead of only four or five as new, they
would pass bill framed on free trade lines,
providing for just enough revenue to meet
government expenses, and if they could in
advance adopt an income tax we would have
almost absolute free trade; but every repub-
lican in the senate will stand solidly against
democratic tariff revision, and under the
present rules of the senate the large body of
republicans can out talk and flibuster to
death almost any feature of bill.
Control the Situation.
Besides this there are four or five senator's
on the democratic side whose political fu-
ture would be ruined is they did not secure
protection for certain industries in their
states. These states are overwhelmingly
democratic, and the products which the
democrats are determined TO protect ure
produced In no republican state. so that the
democratic senators directly interested are
OF necessity forced to go to the republican
side and treat for peace and cooperation.
This condition Of circumstances places the
republican minority in the senate in prac-
teal control of the situation. 1t is not 10 be
supposed that they will recede in any direc-
tion so as to give the democrats opportunity
to carry out their pledges made in party
platforms.
1t is generally conceded that the new tariff
law will not 90 into effect before July 1895,
or October of that year. There are many
prominent democrats who advocate date,
when the new tariff law shall take effect, not
earlier than January l. 1896,
Western Pensions.
The following pensions granted are re-
ported;
Nebraska-Increase: James p. Harding,
Sett, Furnas county.
lowa-Orlginal: Sidney ]. Bolts, Elliott,
Montgomery county; Ashbel w. Beach,
Northwood, Worth county; David W. Utts,
Lyons county; Margaret Mcdonald. Keokuk.
Lee county; David w. Thompson, Caledonia.
Ringgold county. Increase: William S
JohnSon E'radarip Monroa cnunty. Na,h,,,