The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-11-24
ETARIFFT
Said the Ways and Means Committee
Will Make the Bill Public by
Nov. -.
Popular Pressure For Information ~
the Subject Is Too Great to
Withstand.
The Question of an Income Ta'
Figures Prominently in the
Deliberations.

WASHINGTON. Nov. 1S.-lt is the hope
of the Democratic members of the ways
and means committee to he able to re-
port their new tariff bill To the public
about Nov, p. or near the close of next
week. The popular pressure is SO very
great for information ON the subject and
the opportunities of he interests
affected for changes in the bill SO EN-
barrassing to the committee that it has
been determined to settle all points upon
which uncertainty exists aS soon as pos
sible. For this purpose Il series of on
f~ereTces of the full Democratic member
ship have begun. and the work of the
subcommittee is to he submitted and
finally passed upon by the entire MEM
bership. On the veyed questions con-
corning which the subcommittee have
been unable to agree. the principal dis
cussion of the members will be first
directed. Among the important Of these
problems are the
Question Of An Income Tax,
the internal revenue and contemplated
additions to the free list. There is a
difference Of opinion among the Demo-
cratic members over adding iron ore,
coal and salt to the free list, and the dis
cussiOn is sharp as to the wisdom of such
action. Free wool. free lumber and free
cotton bagging seemed assured, though
there is even SOM dispute on these
points. The Alabama Democrats are mp
in arms against putting coal and iron
ore on the frup list and still demand that
their appeals 10 the committee shall be
heard.
The internal revenue schedules will
not I've 50 radically revised as was at one
time supposed. The proposition of Hon.
David a.. Wells. t" double the tax
on beer. is
Heartily Opposed by the Brewers
and does not seem to have been very fav-
Orably received by the committee. The
brewers are insisting that if any changes
are to be mad" the increase should be
levied on whisky. and this seems to be
the most likely policy of the committee
at this time. The suggestion of an in
crease of 60 cents per gallon on tn"
whisky tax has come somewhat as Il sur
prise. rs until recently the highest in
crcase generally discussed only added b
cents per gallon to the present tax. The
practical abandonment of the proposition
TO abandon the tobacco tax leaves but
little choice if any material increase Of
revenues is to be derived from the inter
nal revenue schedules. and the objection
to adding anything to the present tobacco
tax has been 50 sharp and emphatic that
few Democratic members now give it
any public approval.
The Most Nrxcd Question
to he settled by the series of conferences
of the full Democratic members is that
of ii graduated income tax. Messrs.
Bryan of Nebraska and Tarnsrv of
Missouri are the principal champions of
this proposition in tn" committee. and
they appear III Il fair way to carry their
ideas to practical results.
The aluminium manufacturers are pro-
testing against any reduction Of the
duties on aluminium imported from
abroad. Under the Mckinley bill ii tar
i'll Of s cents per package of 100 leaves
and , per cent al valorem was levied on
imported aluminium. and since that time
the manufacture Of the metal in this
country has been greatly stimulated, and
500, 900 900 said to he now i'll
vested in this industry in til" United
The manufacturers contend
that no II can disput" THAI it i an i'll
FAINT industry of that elias, which the
themselves hay" conceded t.
be- entitled to protection.
Cleveland d.rt> Iinnr again.
W \SiilNGTON. Nov. lS. President
accompanied u. Secretary |
Lamont, arrived in Washington at SD