The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-11-28
pl,pn,ch 70 De Intelligence.

wAsuSGToS, D. c., Nov. 27.-ThoSe
who expected that the Democratic
ways and means committee would frame
a tariff bill on the lines laid down in
tho Democratic national platform of
1892, which declared for a tariff for
revenue only, and that protection to
American industries is unconstitutional,
are not disappointed. The new tariff
bill, which will bear the name Of Con-
gressnan Wilson, who miSrepresents
the Second West Virginia district, was
given to the public to-day, and ia 30
radical in its free trade features that it
surprises even the Democratic members
Of Congress.
BRITISH RREE TRADE.
It's distinctively tariff.for-revenue-
only bill. The addition to the free list
is startling in it's length and the num-
Der Of industries it will affect disas-
trously are numerous.
Free raw materials" with a
vengeance! The list includes every
principal product Of West Virginia
coal, lumber, salt, wool, iron ore among
tho most important, in spite OF the pro.
test Of West Virginia Democrats and
the Democrats OF other states that de-
pend on like industries for their pros-
perity. The blow to labor in West Vir-
ginia and to every other state, threat
ened so long by the Democratic party,
has been delivered straight from the
shoulder.
The tariff on the manufactured pro.
ducts of the country, almost without ex'
ception, 10 reduced to the revenue
basis; the protective features of the Nc
Kinley bin have been repealed; ad.
valorem duties have been substituted
for specific duties, thus carrying out
the tarift-for-revenue-only theory, and
whore revenue duties could not be i'm
posed, except in few instances, the
article is placed on the FREQ list.
RECIPROCITY REPUDIATED.
That bste noT of the free traders, the
principle of reciprocity, the legacy oI
James G. Blaine to the American peo'
pie, is emphatically repudiated and
thus the tariff bill, in addition TO the
reforms" il makes in the customs laws,
will necessitate immediate readjustment
Of treaties with those South American
countries which enjoy practical oil
theoretical reciprocity with the great
American republic of the northern
hemisphere.
The bounty on sugar. which was to
be SO promptly repealed, is, instead, to
be repealed by easy graduations, and
will not reach its conclusive effect until
after the end Of the present century.
The meeting OF the ways and means
committee was very brief. All the
Democratic members were on hand, but
the only Republican members present
were Reed, Burrows, Hopkins, Payne
and Dalzell. Immediately after the roll
call Chairman Wilson spread the bill
before the committee, and the clerk in
stantly thereafter supplied it to the
members OF the press on the outside.
The only advance copy furnished was
the one given to the white house mes
senger halt hour previous for trans
mission TO the tresluenL.
DEMOCRATIC V Ew.
No business whatever was transacted
by the committee. The Republican
members were supplied with copies o.
the bill, a few jocular remarks being
made, and the committee adjourned tc
give time to the minority to examine
the measure. Most Republican mem'
bers declined to express any
opinion to the bill until they
should have an opportunity to ex'
anime it in detail.
Representative Bynum, OF Nebraska
a Democratic member gave out the tol
lowing statement in regard TO tho bill:
u am very much pleased with the
tariff bill; in fact it go nearly carrie:
out the platform upon which l was
elected in 1890 that could not well be
dissatisfied with it. | wrote the tariff
plank for that platform and went into
detail more than is usual"
REPUBLICAN VIEW.
Mr.. Dnlzell, OF Pennsylvania, said
that it would be impossible for him to
express any opinion except in gem
sral way. As to the effect of the bill,
he said, would be to reduce the revenue
about Sj0,00O000 per annum. He
thought the bill should be called "a
tariff bill only for revenue"
aIr. Dalzeli criticised severely the ad
valorem system OF revenue which the
olll incorporates, as he claims that il
invariably results in cheating the gov.
ernment and has been condemned by
every secretary OF the treasury