Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-05-20
TALK ABOUT THE TARIFF.
BILLS AND NIL MAKING REcoRDs
ron THEMSELVES.
The Texns Senator shows the Tarin
world That lie Cannot be Led
Around by tho Nore-senntor
PeRer's Unique Position.


candor forces the Democratic confess
sion that the tprin outlook liz not rosy.
The Indications are that some time
within the next two months the 4oa
Independent amendments credited TO
the eompromisers and the committee
amendments 10 follow will be disposed
OF aud a llii passed which VIII greatly
reduce the Mckinley duties and as
greatly Increase the duties MS provided
In tile wilson bin. The tariff discus
zion has monopoilzed the speculation
of congressman, Everything hinges
about the senate's action ON the bill.
Congress cannot adjourn until a tarin
bill has passed both branches Of con-
greas. and with but little progress
made on the appropriations bill this
much to be desired contamination
seems long way on. There are rep
Jesentatlvna on the Democratic side
who have been attacked with the po-
litical blues who profess 70 believe that
the middle of September or the first Of
October Will find congress stili IN SEES
sion. Some OF the Republicans profess
20 believe that no tarln bill will DO
passed by that time.
What the Republicans most desire
IL delay The sooner some kind Of
tAtln law Is enacted, the better II will
be for the Democrats at the congress
sionai elections Until something 50
dhne with the turir there can be but
little Democratic organization, Both
Democrats and Republicans under
stand this fully, and political neoes-
stiles demand that the Republicans
consume all the time possible through
nnbuster.
Acting upon the suppostion that the
tarlff bill would be out OF the way the
National association OF Democratic
clubs has issued It's circular urging
Democrats all over the country to
bring the tnrin issue to the front and
ms FAR as possible ignore all other
questions. Upon the tarln tile party In
more united than upon any other qucs.
ton. and despite the symptoms OF
RandallIsm which have recently been
displayed by alleged LEADERS, Ia the sem
nto the voters In the party are with
MiIson and Mills and Voorhees,.
Mliis' Charges.
1t was n daring thing for Mills At
The beginning OF the discussion OF the
Jones amendments 10 charge Brloc and
German with their authorship and de.
nounee their output as a practical sur.
render 10 the protectionists, It war
just the Kind OF speech that makes llfo
long enemies OF senators. German viii
never forget Il and IN years 60 come
Mills 20 almost certain to feel the "
foota " this speech For Its delivery
Aiiiiu has boon severely criticized. II
has been charged that by his impetu.
onity he has endangered the passage
OF any tariff bin whatever and that
where the remaining Democratic soma
tors had united It was his duty TO pre-
serve a discreet silence But way
down Ia their inuermoat souls three
tourths OF the Democrats Ia congress
approved everything the Texas senator
naid. majority OF the Democratic
senators did not want the amendments
which We're agreed upon. They were
simply forced. or rather thought thoy
We're forced. 10 acccpt them, In order
TO- get any bill through az an. Mills
didn't think 80. lie believed, and 90
did many OF the Democrats who fought
Tor the Wilshu bin In the house. that
had the Democrats ON the finance COM
mittee stood drm the other Democratic
senators would have been brought 10
time There were more than enough
Domncrats TO pass the bin with the
certain support which would come
from the Popullsta, and the public son.
tinent behind tarim reform would have
made itself felt, rhat 10 ut least tho
way Il majority OF the house Democrats
felt about II, and the surrender to two
pr three senators has only intensified
the house opposition 10 senate methods
Foremost rnrin Iteformer.
Politicians WIN have fruitful Held
Tor study In the records which certain
senators are making Mills and nm
represent the Democratic extremes,
ana have No shaped their course that
the attention or the country VIII be
largely conferred on them, I'M played
ior the support OF New York aud sac
fiheed his Democracy in an attempt Ia
copciliate the political and business
bpsses who nominate the Empire
state lie can not count upon the fol-
lowing Of o single Democratic senator
and Ia at outs with Gorman ana l3rice,
who were at FIRST supposed to be In
SOME sort OF combination with him
I'm ~ a senuto puzzle a successful
politician who neither drinks nor chew.
nor uses profanc langtmgc. nor plays
cards, is always a puzzle. and every,
body Is afraid o. him. That is the cas-,
wiki I'M. and white the explanation /,
parIialiy accepted that he has shaped
his course 10 retain his grip on New
York politics., everybody suspects that
there Is something else bohind Il.
Mills IL industriously engaged IT
maklng for himself the reputation o
being the foremost tarn reformer II
the country From purely selAsi
standpoint the Jones' amendments OF
as Mills would say. the Brlce-Gormai
amendments, have been fortunat,
Thing for him. Had there been n,
Democratic disagreement Minis coul,
not have ahone more conspicuousl,
thnn any one or dozen Democrat,
senators Voorhees, and Harris Ant