The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-16
IGNORED by WILSON.
Southern PrOtectiOnists Refused Per-
mission TO State Their Views.


WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.-The iron and
coal men Of alabama will not be accorded
a formal hearing by the ways and means
committee. For a week or two past Rep
resentative Wheeler, Senator Pugh and
others have been interviewing members of
the ways and means committee with a
view Of having a hearing accorded to the
representatives of the Commercial Club, of
Birmingham, who desired to protest against
the proposition now pending in the COM
mittee to place iron ore and coal on the
free list. At a recent meeting of the Com
mercial Club OF Birmingham, which is
of that city, resolutions We're adopted call
ing upon the Alabama Senators and Rep
resentatives liz Congress to vote against
any bill reported by the ways and means
committee to place iron ore and coal on
the free list. AS Birmingham is the great
manufacturing city of the new South, the
ing considerable weight upon Alabama
members In Congress. Representative
Wheeler has had several conferences with
Chairman Wilson, of the ways ana means
committee, and Senator Pugh has been
telegraphed by the Commercial Club to
request that a. delegation from that body
be accorded q hearing before the ways and
means committee on the 21st inst. But
the Alabanians Will be disappointed, for
Chairman Wilson has refused TO accord
them q hearing.
Representative Magner, of New York, is
protesting VIGOROUSLY against the placing or
cotton bagging On the free list. and has
announced to Democratic members of the
ways and means committee that he will
vote against their bill il it contains this
provision. Representative Bland, of Mis-
souri,, has also come to the front lately in
the role of ore of those dissatisfied with
the proposed tariff bill, and he Is reported
as threatening to vote against the bin and
fight it on the floor Of the House if it
places wool on the free list.
The full Democratic membership of the
ways and means committee has been
called 20 meet tomorrow morning i'm gem
eral conference, and IL is expected the
meeting will have rhe effect of clearing up
the uncertainty that has existed for some
time with reference TO several of the i'm
portant schedules in the new tariff bill.
The members Of the committee who have
been favoring the provision for an income
tax feel confident that the result of the
series of conferences, to begin tomorrow,
will prove that the majority of the COM
mittee favors such a plan. The iron ore
and coal schedules will be discussed. and
the question of placing these two articles
on the free list probably finally settled in
the affirmative. The tobacco, beer and
whisky schedules are also expected to be
considered in full committee, and there
now appears little doubt there will be a
material increase In the tax on whisky and
other distillery outputs. The proposition
for an increase of 30 cents a gallon on
whisky is now being informally discussed,
mention ar increase as high as so cents a
gallon. The United States Association of
Brewers have fled with the committee a
long rgument showing why no increase
should be made in the present internal
revenue tax on beer.