New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-25
FINAL TARIFF CHANGES.
THE TIMERS PUTTING THE FINISHING
TOUCHES TO THE BILL
WHETHER TO INCLUDE TIE

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MAIN MEASURE OR NoT-PERsIsTENT IN
THEIR FREE-TRADE TENDENCIES.
Try TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.)
Washington. Nov 2.-The Democratic men,
hers Of the Ways and Means Committee spent
more than nine hours to-day discussing and con-
sidering the revenue bill. and several of them
tonight said that the tariff provisions, II not
those relating to the Internal Revenue laws
svould be completed and ready for publication on
Monday. Mr. McMillin said that it had not yet
baen decided whether to embody all the changes
proposed in one bill or to bring in two DIS. II
was also said that the new rate Of taxation on
whiskey had not yet been fixed, that the sugar
question was still an open one and that no ue-
cdsion in favor of tax on incomes had peeh
reached. The opposition in the majority OF 'he
committee to an income tax is exceedingly stIons
and irm and there are some indications mat II
will prevail. but that is by no means certain.
large amount of revenue must be Obtained
from some source. Without any tariff or IN
tcrnal revenue legislation whatever there would
be deficit of $4,000 900 at the end Of the current
fiscal year. according to Treasury estimates
The transfer of so-called raw materials from
the dutiable list to the free list will probably
cause a loss of sl2 100000 of revenue. and there
will also be a heavy loss, at least for year or
two, on account of the reductions OF rates Oh
dutiable merchandise. How great that loss VIII
be nobody can estimate, but nearly everybody
agrees that II will be two TO three times as iaibe
as the loss on account OF the removal Oh the
duties from so-called raw materials ii IL
should only be twice as great the total amount
of deficit and loss would be about SS5.OVO,opO. All
increase of 30 cents a gallon on whiskey would
probably yield eventually $35,0"Ooo year. ouO
the general opinion is that this would not begin
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least Provision would have to be made there
fore for $4,000, 900 or more. and probably ma
jority of the House of Representatives. if not OF
the committee, would prefer to tax incomes
rather than reimpose a duty on raw sugar.
=. Protests against tariff tinkering continue 10
pour into the room of the committee. II these
protests were as many as the leaves OF the
forest, they would produce no erect Whateee.
upon the Democratic members. Ihey are not
only unrcsponsive but stone deaf. to every APP
peal and argument in behalf or American IN,
dustries and American labor. written ana
printed protests, memorials and petitions are
not read much less considered, but a reauy
ear is open TO the statements and suggestions OF
F'ree-Trade theorists. importers and agents OF
foreirn manufacturers Day after day this
goes on and Democratic statesmen VINO repre-
sent districts which lag far in the rear. so lar
as the development of their material resources
is concerned districts in any one or when
workshop giving employment TO NIFTY or even
twenty hands would excite wonder Toy with IN
dustries and interests in which billions OF money
are invested and from which millions OF amer,
lean citizens gain the means OF subsistence anu
the comforts OF he. inc trpof's ,he co r,c
mittee are not exaggerated beyond the power
of human belief. it is proposed to give foreigners
absolute control of the American market unless
American worlingmen and workingwomen Will
consent to work for wages that viii compei
them 70 reduce their scale Of living to an equal
itv with that of the labor of Europe. and far
below, that which any native-born American Cit
izen who is under fifty years OF age mas ever
seen That such revolution can ever be ac-
ho1 az Of
tention and privation, If not of actual starVa-
ton and boodshed no thoughtful ana intelh-
gent man can believe.
of Massachusetts, who is member OF the ways
and Means Committee and also Mahuiactu,eir
. of v-ooen goods. that wages must be reduced II
protectiye duties are swept away. He knows
that the wages of the operatives in his own
mills must and will be cut down II he Is forced
10 compete on equal terms with the English.
the French or the German MANUFACTURED: He
knows that he will not be satisfied with a
smaller interest or dividend on his investfAent
than he has heretofore received. and tnat inc
|, wage-earners who toll in his mills must there
fore suffer loss Of wages or employment, ara ne
also knows that the same thing will happen 10
every wage-earner In every other MIL WORK
shop and mine. on every farm and transporta-
ton line and in every other branch of American
industry And yet. knowing all these things.
Mr. Stevens it is understood stands conscntnS
to the reduction OF eveTy pr e' BASIS H and
advocating the free admission OF so-c2!lcd raw
materials" He does this in obedience 10 me
demands Of tariff resolution drawn By man
who has recently been buried under majority
of so 000 Protection votes in the state OF ONO,
and he does il despite the fact that the district
which he represents in Congress has just given
Republican Protection plurality almost as
large as the plurality that he received one year
ago. Mr.. Stevens is reported to have said only
yesterday that "New-Englard will suffer less
injury than any other part of the country from
the new tariff He could not have chosen n
!, more appropriate word than suffer to de-
scribe the effect of the measure which he ana
his Democratic colleagues have framed and now
Propose to push through a Democratic House Of
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