Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-11-17

sidei alton, other changes in the in
tcrnal revenue laws will not be ne.
cessnry. There will be no increrse
in the beer tax, the whiskey tux, the
taX on manufactured tobacco or the
tax on cigars.
REFORM OF THE TARIFF.
WAsHINeroN, Nov. 1O.-Democratic
members of the Ways and Means
Committee talk in way that Major
Mckinley no doubt would consider
very rude if he could hear them.
They assert very positively that
notwithstanding the Majors advice
to them to abandon the work of re
vising the tariff, they mean to go
right OH with that work. just as if
Major Mckinley had not been re.
elected by big majority in Ohio the
other day
If Mckinley thinks his reelection
means that the country has changed
its mind about wanting tariff reform,
he is welcome to his thoughts
The Ways and Mems Committee
and the Democratic party think diff.
ferently. Some of the committee,
moreover, hint broadly that NIckin
ley is man of one iden and is liable
to construe almost anything that hap
pens into an endorsement of himself
and policy.
The work of constructing n new
tariff bill on the revenue lines laid
down by Democratic traditions and
platforms will so right on, absolutely
regardless of the State and local elec.
tons Of last Tuesday.
DEMOCRATIC LEADERS LAUGH
ut the suggestion that the tariff issue
was in any way involved in those
elections. Tho people voted under
tho sting of hard times. These hard
times were brought about by McKin.
leyism, by Republican, financial legis
lation and other vicious Republican
Legislation.
1t is now the task of the Demo
Gratis to help restore prosperity by
undoing tho evil work winch the Re
publicnus committed. In this work
they will assuredly not go to the Re.
publicans for advice
'If we admitted, which we emphnt.
ically do not, said one member, "that
Tuesdays elections were repudia
ton of the anti Mckinley policy for
which the people voted in 1890 aud
1892, the Republicans have furnished
us with ample precedents under
which we could Justify ourselves in
refusing to heed the people. McKin-
leyism was the issue in the election
of 1890. 1t was overwhelmingly de.
feated. The Republicans themselves
admitted this. But they didn't set
about repenling the Mckinley law
in obedience to the vote of the peo
pie. Far from it. They defied the
will of the people, and arrogantly
blocked every effort the Democrats
made in the Fifty.second Congress
to eliminate some of the most iniuui-
tous features of the Mckinley law.
Again in 1892 McKinleyism was the
issue. 1t was again
VIGOROUSLY REpUDIATED.
Still in the short session of the Fifty
second Congress, after their second
defeat, the Republicans of the Sen
ale made no move to obey the popu
lar mandate. They treated the over
whelming demand for tariff reform
with contempt. Now because they
are successful in local elections in
which the tariff was not an issue,
they demand that the Democrats
shall not go on with the work of tar
iff reform. This is gall and impu-
dence run mnd."
Chairman Wilson, of the Ways and
Means Committee, said tonight that
the reports now circulating in the
newspapers purport;ng to give out.
lines of the new tariff bill were very
misleading. All of them he had seen
bore unmistakable evidence OF being
mere guess work. The committee,
for obvious reasons, is keeping its
counsel until it gets the new tariff
bill into something like its final shape,
When that time comes the provisions
of the bill will be made public. Un,
til then people would be very unwise
to get excited over reported provi
sions of the bill.
THE SOONER THE BETTER
CoLUMBUs, o., Nov. 12.-Mr Onth
waite, member of Congress from thi.
district, being asked what effect tho
results OF the election will have upor
tariff legislation, said: