The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-12-28
THE SENATE'S ACTION.
What tho Upper House win Do Recon-
ing n OuextiOn of Moment. 3, si&tt

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ing q Question of Moment. 5f
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-What the
senate will do with the tariff is coming
to be a question of some moment now
that it is realized that probably only q
little more than month will elapse be-
fore the bill providing for it's change
shall reach that body. The Democratic,
members of the finance committee ap-3
preciate that they will not be relieved Of
responsibility by the action of the house
and are looking forward to the time.
when the senate will have to take it up
and go to work upon it as live issue
and with complete sense of their duty
to their country and their party, regard
less of the action of the house. They
have already gone far enough to know
that it is going to be very difficult for
them to harmonic views which are in
some respects widely conflicting. The
meetings which they held few weeks
ago are believed to ha- f developed more
in this respect than was given to the
country. s
Question Of . Substitute. sf5
There will necessarily be vast differ
ences as to the details, and it seems prob
able now that each member of the COM
mittee will have many changes to sug-|
gest if the bill is allowed to stand as 8
whole, but the principal contest will be
over a proposition to report a complete
substitute for the Wilson bill in the sem
ate. The only thing which will prob.
ably prevent this radical treatment will
be the impossibility of agreement among
the Democratic members who do not ac-
cept with favor the present bill The
Democratic membership of the senate
committee on finance, composed as it is
of senators from all sections of the coun-
try, as far east as New Jersey and as far
west as Missouri, and lnclud-
ing representatives from Indi-
ana, Tennessee, North Carolina
and Arkansas, naturally presents all the
varying shades of sentiment on the sub
ject held in the party, from belief in
protection to American labor and Alneri-
can industries, to an advocacy of as near
an approach to free trade as the c0llec-
ton Of revenue to pay the expenses of
the government will permit. 5,s
Probably Report the Wilson BILL T. i
With the administration holding the
same views as the chairman of the COM
mittee, it would seem probable that at
this time the Wilson bill will hold it's
place as such when reported to the SEN
ate from the finance committee. Un-
auestionally there will be many changes,
buff the internal revenue bill should
provide fairly satisfactory means of
providing for the treasury deficit the
Wilson bill after being tossed about,
criticized and altered to a greater or less
degree, will be reported to the senate by
its committee early in the spring
months.
Might Join the Republicans.
Such thing might happen as Senator
Mcpherson joining with the Republicans
and thus taking the question out Of the
hands OF the Democratic majority of the
committee, but that is not probable un-
der all the circumstances. Strong pres
sure may be brought upon him from his
own state to pursue this course, but the.
wishes of the president will be strong
factor with the New Jersey senator.
Furthermore, he is a man who always
prefers to make his fight within the lines
IF his own marty j. ~