The Washington times., 1894-06-01
SHERMAN ON THE TARIFF
Veteran Ohio Senator Opposed to the
Income Tax and Sugar Schedule.
CAMDEN HAS HIS INNING
There Was Such Slim Majority for the
Bill That He Waived Minor Differences.
Dolph Talks Three Hours on the Wicked
Newspaper Correspondents.

The tariff discussion was continued yester-
day by Senator Sherman. who made lengthy
speech against it. and by Senator Camden, oi
West Virginia. who said that in view OF the
narrow majority for the bill he had waived
minor differences OF opinion.
Just before Senator Sherman spoke sena-
tor Vest announced the acceptance of Senator
Aliens proposed duty on planed and finished
lumber, which was passed by strict party
vote.
The committee amendment increasing the
duty on chair cane from to 10 per cent. ad
vaiorem was agreed to, and then a series OF
Republican amendments on lumber were rap
idly voted down.
Senator Sherman in his speech scored SEN
ator German and the Democrats for their
policy OF bringing in new bills from time to
time, and declared it was in marked contrast
with the solid Republican front.
He thought the bill should have been
framed by q tariff commission.
AS far as this was concerned, that state,
said Senator Sherman, had in the Neal-Mc-
Kinley campaign decided for MeKinleyism.
Specific duties he declared preferable to ad
valorem duties. differentiation of duty.
when he was Secretary of the Treasury.
caused a loss of 90 per cent. in the revenues.
Mr. Sherman then analyZed the duties in
the bill TO prove that it was sectional-a
charge against it which. he said. he regretted
to have to make. He ridicnled the policy of
free raw material. The ore ceased TO be raw
material when labor was applied to bring it
out OF the earth.
He citei statistics to show that much OF the
stock Of banks was in small holdings, and
that the income tax would fail upon the poor
and the thrifty. Il was juStfiable. he said,
only ne a war tax. He favored the tax dur
ing the war and favored lis repeal afterwards.
Taking up the sugar schedule. the Ohio
Senator claimed it had been drawn by the
sugar reiiners in their own interest. He said
the duty really granted five-eighths of cent
pound on the refined article and that the cor
poration. organized as it was in violation of
the law against trusts and combinations. with
a capital Of S75. 900 600, was getting at the
hands of the Democrats grossly exaggerated
protection. And this was done when protec
ton wGs refused to tho wool-growers of the
country. This he declared was the culni-
mating atIocity of the bill.
In discussing the income tax Senator Sher-
man said he thought the proposed tax was an
outrage on small depositors IN savings banks
and small corporations. II such u law was to
be passed, it should begin with average in
comes OF, say. a thousand dollars. He then
intimated his belief in a cloture measure in
the Senate, and closed with hopes that bill
would soon pass and the country see speedy
return 20 prosperity.
Senator Camden, who followed with brief
speech. said the imperiled business interests
OF the country demanded the earliest possible
passage OF the bill. He had been willing, on
account Of the narrow majority, to subordi-
nate his special views in order to unite solid
Democratic vote on the bill. He did not be-
lieve time should be consumed in splitting
hairs on unimportant items. provided the bill
was based on the broad principles of the
Democratic platform. He believed in placing
the highest duties on luNurics and the lowest
on necessaries.
A tariff bill on a revenue basis cs ed incl
dental protection. Senator Camdt spoke of
the divergence of views and the difficulty of
harmonizing them, and said that now all
seemed 10 he united and willing to make con.
cessioEs. In modifying the House bill rela-
tive to free raw materials. the Finance Com
mittee believed it wiser to approach raw ma
terials with gradual steps. With this view
wool was mde free, and the duty on coal ana
iron are reduced one-half. while sugar is
made dutiful at ! cent per pound. much less
than in bills preceding the Mckinley law
Time alone would determine which was the
wiser .poliey as between the House and Sen
ate bills, one approaching raw materials by a
stroke of the pen, and the other by gradual
reductions.
Mr.. Dolph (Rep.. Ore at this point said
that having reached the sugar schedule it
was well to remember that an investigation
regarding this schedule was now being con-
Quoted. and before he closed his..remarks he
would move to postpone the sugar schedule
until the investigation was concluded.
He then entered into discussion OF the in
cident of Tuesday and the report that wit
nesses refused to answer questions, and en-
tered into discussion Of the liberty of the
press, which had grown to be a neces-
sary evil.
Ii had now become question whether the
Senate had control of its own business or
whether it had to go down on newspaper row
and ask what it should or should not do.
The Oregon Senator addressed himself to
the press gallery, and looked up at the news
paper men from time to time. He said the
Senate had treated the press kindly and had
provided for its accommodation.
After some debate with Senators Chandler
and Hill Mr. Dolph entered into general dis
cusson of the question which lasted for three
hours, and consisted largely of reading ex-
tracts from the record He went into detail
into the Imprisonment of z. l.. White. at one
time correspondent OF the New York Tribune.
who was ensconced in a committee room with
his family and fed on the deicacies of the sea-
son. He thought the correspondent ought to
have been placed in the crypt.
just before O'Clock Senator Dolph con-
session.