The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-02-28
SLOW AS FATE
Senate 81 Lingering Along on
ghe Tariff.
Chances 10 be Made for Increased
Revenue.
MISTAKE WAS MADE
When Committee Refused to
Receive Hearings.
MISTAKE WAS MADE


s'Df course che senate viii nnger long on
the tariff " says Hon William j. Coomps
Of Brooklvn tOf course they viii delay
TIL very late In the spring or early ia the
summer. But what does it signify This
supposed or alleged eagerness Of business
men to have the tariff settled IS all q mat
ter of Imagination. No + don't mean
that exactly There is q real feeling among
the business men. but If IS the result
of Imagination. I5 doesn't make an lOta
difference what the tariff percentage ls
on most of these things they are fuss
ing ab0ut-cn three-fourths Of them any
how. perhaps on nine-tenths Of them
have been exporting American made goods
for S. years aud tell you this tariff scare
IS obsolete The American tide has risen
far above it.. Look at galvanized iron. for
instance 1T sold in New York lately for
less than the English price You newspa-
per fellows ought to have known better
than 90 encourage the idea that the senate
would rush the matter Didn't you know
that the senate was q very waignty and de-
Lucrative 5odys
"a Continental Companion
MFR Co0mhs accompanied this statement
with facial movement which in q man Of
less dignity might have been taken for a
humorous wink.
s.rhe com nittee made a mistake, of
course. in refusing hearings. The different
senators can get hearings anyhow. and the
thing viii draw out-weu. / don't know
e.
bother about 81, for the manufacturers are
resu ming business just the same and would
have resumed anyhow, as we can produce
hundreds Of classes OF articles at less cost
than foreigners can. Why, look at the sense
oft Eng and is too restricted ia territory.
Germany ist2Xed tOdeath and ridden down
with military organizations. France much
in tile same AS, bends her energies to things
not ia our-Luc- and 81 on with all the Ola
countries We alone are free from all
weights except those of. our own making
We alone have continent to draw upon
and all the liberty that we want. Then
what effect win the Wilson bill have?
Why. just to let people know the thing can
be doue-jus5 TO give a healthy shock TO
diseased Imagination"
.'If the tariff makes no difference. where
viii be the particular gain by the Wilson
bills7
"In the revenue. Must have that, you
know and If y0ull watch the senate I'm
pretty sure you win find that all the amend
ments arc in the interest Of revenue. OF
course they Will accommodate some inter
ests b the additional duties they place. but
the primary object will be revenue and
when we get the bin into operation and
people get over this senseless scare we shall
have the world for customers. and I antici-
pate boom. Oh. certainly. you can say
with corfdeuce that the senate VIII take
plenty OF time and debate the thing long
and thoroughly. AS long perhaps rs the
Mckinley bill was debateds that it viii
amend the bill chiefly ia the interest of
revenue. and that the delay VIII not make
any difference ia a revival of business"
Eeoiprocity with france.
Some LITTLE discussion has been excited
bv t1e presence here Of Leon Chotteau. The
eminent Erench economist and we have
heard THE same old charges that were made
about The decentralization of silver-as, for
instance. that he was here to work with the
senate committee OF to intrigue with the
senators to get favorable terms for French
goods. OF course he denies all this. but
has a proposal which he wants debated
openly for sort of reciprocity treaty be-
tween France and the United States. OF
the con gressrlen spoken to on the subject
one-lalf say very emphatically- tlmpOssi-
Bile. Not worth while to think about it.
France sends us luxuries for the most part,
and we must tax them to the very highest
point the traffic viii bear. The only ques-
tion 4 ask ab,3ut those French articles IS,
win higher tariff be hostile to revenue2
IF uot, then 4 ana for the higher tariff n
The ether half say, Haven examined the
subject, haven thought much about 1T;
ann not much stuck on reciprocity any
way. 10 VIII eli q few add 81 don't see
how you could make an additional market
for another pound OF American pork or an
other bushel of American wheat, as Blaine
said. So. as ab present advised 01r. Chot-
leau propds ton would be voted down in
ne house by at least 10 to l.
AIr. Hatch Of the First Missouri district
nas been extremely active of late in looking
after the farm er's interests. He wants ev-
cry kind of bi 4 referring i'm any direct nlan-
ner to he tanners interest referred to his
committee -rllG1 on agricultura-and has 4
mot been at ~ set back by the rules of the
house requiring all bills providing for reve-
nue. togo TO the ways and means committee. 4
Vow, tue antfoption bin. around which this
light IS chiefly 7vaged. is on its face "a tax (
allon measure but every body knows that I
the real object is NOT revenue. tt was the /
same with tire prohlbfuory, or almost pro /
Alpltory, tax on oleomargarine. OF. to go fur
Their back with the 10 per cent tax on state /
banks. The question is whether the rules /
should be observed and the bill sent to the I
committee having charge of the main OBJ I
1ect named in the bill or to the mmittee 4
having charge of the interests which the I
complaining Massachusetts, member says.
Friends 81 the Farmer.
s'Ar Hatch really wants to have an the 4
advantages of ways and means bill and I
of an agricultural bill. too. and none0f the 4
advantages Of the former He wants to +
work the revenue principle in the aaricuI- I
tural machine and we very naturally don't +
want him 10 do it, But ana afraid the
speaker viii help him right along This
peskv silver business keeps bobbing uL at 7
every opportunitE. or rather at every inou-
portunity. anc all these different things are /
friends of the farmers OF course needn't 4
saw that III fs all bosh-the Hatch bill 4
xnean-for every body knows there must be
option sales and future deliveries. but Z
guess ib win pass and the traders viii sim
ply have Id invent some new dodge, and it Y
viii not take them long"
Washington city has really been good I
deal stirred Ir recently on importance, vvO-
mans suffrage, religion and other reforms I
3 early all the congressman went to hear
Moody and Sankey, g surprisingly large /