The Portland daily press., 1893-11-27

| labor Gov. Waite of Colorado, the gentle
man who proposed to wade in blood to his
| horses bride, if necessary, in defence
OF silver, wants the Almighty to arouse
public sentiment to the iniquity of Colo
RADIO attachment laws which he pro-
nouces the most infamous since the
days of Caligula"
The latest reports from the subter-
ranean chamber where the committee on
ways and means is preparing the tariff
bill indicate that the idea of taxing in
dividual incomes has been abandoned,
the administration, which, at first,
favored it, having changed its mind and
come to the conclusion that it could not
be made popular. 1t is proposed, how
| ever, to impose tax on rents, on the
| property of nonresident owners and on
the income of great corporations above a
| certain amount, but whether this scheme
will be made part of the the tariff bill
or constitute separate measure is not
| determined. The committee hesitate to
make it strict party measure, as they
| will if they add it to the tariff BILL and
on the other hand they see that they
would be in bad fix if after the passage
| of tariff bill, constructed on the
assumption that a large revenue would
be deprived from the modified income
tax the latter should fail of passage.
Unless something unforeseen prevents
the new tariff bill is to emerge from
| Il cr,1r,, - IT, 1,1.l% +1I, Hlso
stories about it have been SO contradic-
tory that it is useless to try to make out
| what manner of bill it is in advance of
| publication. 1t is pretty certain however
that the tariff plank of the last Demo
cratic platform has not been lived up to-
There will be more or less protective
| duties in it, called incidental to escape
the Inconsistency of adopting tariff
which, according to the Democratic
platform, violates the constitution.
The bill, whatever it is, is understood to
| have the endorsement of the administra-
| tion and all the administration help
possible will be given to push it through
Congress speedily. AS there are great
many Offices yet to be distributed the
| administration doubtless has the means
of doing good deal of effective pushing.
| Senator Voorhees,, who led the admin
| istration forces in the Senate on the sill
yer bill contest, expresses the belief that
the bill will be enacted into law by the
first of February He is probably alto
| gether too sanguine. Six weeks ale too
/ short time for both branches of Con-
gress to properly debate radical
change in the revenue laws. If the bill
becomes law by the first of July it will
able expedition. If such tactics as were
resorted to in the Senate to postpone the
silver repeal bill should be resorted to it
might be postponed indefinitely. It is
not probable however that any thing
of that sort will be seen at the
coming session. There will not be, we
believe, any disposition on the part
of the Republicans to place
any unreasonable obstacle in the way OF
the passage of the bill. They are COM
mitted to the principle of the rule of the
majority, and they cannot with consis-
tency place any illegitimate obstacles in
the way of the triumph of that principle
because. that majority is Democratic. We
know that some Republican journals are
urging the Republicans to resort to all
sorts of parliamentary devices to defeat
the bill, but that policy seems SO OBJ
viously bad one that we do not believe
| that any considerable mum Der of Re
publicans will accept to it unless the De-
| mocrats should undertake to unreason-
ably abridge the opportunities of the
minority for protesting against the new
bill and pointing out it's dangers to the
country's industries. AS the tariff is
bound to be changed it is for the interest
of all that the change be made as soon
as possible. No tariff bill that any party
is likely to construct can do SO much
mischief as the. present uncertainty.
When the conditions under which manu-
facturers are to work for several years to
come are known manufacturers can to a
Ger tain extent accommodate themselves
to them, but while they are unknown
they can do nothing but stand still.
We think it is the general desire of man
| uIdCUuFoTS anu BUSINESS Q6n UQaG Gne
conditions under which they are to oper-
ate for some years to come shall be fixed
as speedily. as possible. They are likely,
therefore, not to look upon any obstruc-
tion for DISTINCTIONS sake with much
tolerance no matter from what party il
comes. The country has decreed that
the experiment of revenue tariff or
nearer approximation to it than the
present law, shall be made and the soon
er it is done the better. If it brings
greater prosperity to the country than
has been enjoyed the last thirty years
under protective tariff it will have
demonstrated its superiority. If il
brings less the people will soon find il
out and insist upon its abandonment il
a way that will be effective, and will no
be forgotten for great many years tt
come.
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