The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-12-06
'THE REAL SENTIMENT
Of Democratic Members on Tho
New Tariff Bill.
THERE ARE BUT FEW DIssENTERs.


The RepublIcnns Who Have Counted on q
Split In the Democratic Party to Defeat
the Bill In the House Are Doomed to
Disappointment- Party Anxious to
Have the Question Settled.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.-The gathering
Of the members of congress offered an
opportunity to get at the real senti-
ment of the Democratic members on
the new tariff bill which has leen pre-
scented by the minority of the commit
tee ON ways and means There are, of
course, members of the house who are
not satisfied with the bill. and who viii
no doubt vote for some changes, yet 1t
is apparent from the way they talk if
the bill should come TO vote IN It's
present form it would pass with few
dissenting members among the Demo-
Gratis
If the Republicans have any hope
that there is sufficient dissatisfaction in
the house to defeat the bill they have.
made mistake, for the Democrats
seem only anxious to have the bill
through ds soon as it can be possibly
passed
1t eeems to be not so much the ques-
ton of the rates as the settlement of
the whole question that the majority of
the Democratic members are most in
terested in.
Al member of the Democratic fajor-
ity of the committee voiced this sentl-
nient of a number of Democrats when
he said the bill
Would Not Need Much Discussion
in the house; what was wanted was To-
get the bill over to the senate at an
early aday as possible. He indicated that
even If it should be necessary to apply
cloture rule that it was very likely that
the Democrats would put the bill
through without very much debate. 1t
would, of course, be necessary for the
Democrats 10 have behind them good
working majority, or at least quorum
of the house in favor of the bill.
1t now looks as if there would not be
much difficulty in securing such
quorum if the talk INDUCED in by the
Democrats that have thus far arrived
is any indication of the sentiment of
those who have said nothing. In all
the number whom may be heard talk
ing on the subject. none go SO far even
IN private conversation as to say
that unless some notifications are
made that they will oppose the bill
OF course, all is not sentiment among
the Democrats. There are plenty of
them who say they will make an effort
to get something
For Their Own ParticuIar District,
bat failing in that, they will support
the bill as a party measure.
The president in his message points
ont a method that they may adopt
when he says that it is not to be ex-
pected that all can be satisfied, but
that in the great issues and upon a
great question some sacrifice must be
made for the benefit of the great prin-
ciple involved.
The presidents approval of the Will
son tariff bill will go long way toward
uniting the party if there had been any
differences of opinion of any remarkable
degree. What is most often heard in
connection with the tariff bill from the
DesAocratic members is the statement
that the members of the ways and
means committee were charged with
the work ofI9reparing bill and that
they made study of it,
Ought to Know what Was Best
for the party. Those who did not pre-
tend to know so much about it must be
content with what the party has done
through its committee. for it is prob
able that the committee has made a
most thorough and careful investigation
and that it is able to better Judge what
is wanted than those who have not
given the matter any consideration.