The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-05-19
BY THE FIRST OF july
Senator Camden Thinks the tar
if Bill Become a Law.
CHANGE MADE BY THE SENATE

CHANGE MADE BY THE SENATE
Are Principally Immaterial and Will
Meet the Approval of Mr.. Wilson and
the Peeple-The Bill Now Resembles
the Wilson Bill More than it Did Be-
fore the Recent Amendments We're
Agreed To, and the Average Dnty
Under the Bill as Amended VIII Not
Vary One Per Cent From that of the
Wilson Bill. Something About the
Sugar Schedule and the Effect of the
Changes In ii.
Wheeling Register.
Senator johnson n. Camden ar
rived in the city yesterday on his
private car, "Gauley," accompanied
by Mrs. Camden and their daughter
Mrs B. d. Spilman They were
called here by the serious Illness of
Mrs. Camden's mother, Mrs. Judge
Thompson, at whose bedside Mrs.
Camden spent the greater part of the
lday. The Senator has the appear
ance OF being in better health than
for some time past, Notwithstanding
his arduous labors in the Senate.
As stated before. no one has done
more to effect compromise among
the Senators upon the tariff bill and
to get the bill into such shape that
its passage now seems to be a certain
| ~ h. hae
the very first he has realized that
the bill should be promptly passed
and his constant endeayor, since the
bill has reached the Senate, has
been to hasten action upon it. No
one has realized more fully than SEN
ator Camden, whose large interests
have felt the effects of the business
depression, that the prompt passage
of the bill was needed, and now his
efforts seem to have been rewarded,
for the Senator is now very sanguine
of the speedy passage of the bill.
my impression" said he to a
Register reporter yesterday, ais that
the tariff bill
WILL Il ASS lHE oENAlt,
and with the cooperation of the
House, will become law not later
than the first of July, at the farth
est.
When interrupted with the remark
that would be welcome news TO the
people Of Wheeling the Senator said
that he realized their feeling. II
sympathize," said be. with the inn
patience of the country in the APP
parent delay in the passage of this
bill by the Senate. What the eoun-
try needs is prompt action in the
passage Of the bill, in order that the
great industrial stagnation that has
come upon the country may be ter
minated and that the business of
the country may revive.
1T must be borne in mind, how
ever, that the present tariff bill is
farther advanced at this time than
was either the Mckinley bill at the
same period in the session or the tar
if revision of 1888 4. The McKin-
ley bill did not become law till the
last of October or the previous bill
until about the first of September.
1t should be also taken into consid-
GRAFTON that it is work of much
more care and labor to reduce high
tariff to revenue LASTS in the inter
ests of the people than it is to frame
a high tariff measure satisfactory to
the manufacturers, in whose inter-
ests all the duties are arranged.
"A revenue tariff is not free trade.
and while the duties imposed under
the Mckinley law are intended to
foster monopolies, still great deal
of care had to be exercised in the re-
auctions to see that they
WERE MADE IN FAIRNESS.
Some articles could stand more re-
duction than Others, and every re.
duction had to be made with caution.
The result, / think, has been very
satisfactory.
''There has been, think, great
deal of misrepresentation as to the
changes made by the Senate Finance
Committee in the Wilson BILL The
Senate bill is not very different from
the Wilson bill, the most conspicu-
Gus change being made in the sugar
schedule. As the bill came from the
House the bounty was retained upon
sugar grown in this country in a
gradually descending scale and i'm
ported sugar was placed on the free
list. But the Wilson bill did not
provide sufficient revenue to meet
the estimated wants of the govern
ment by some thirty millions of dol
lars, even including the income tax,
which was admitted to be uncertain
in it's results. OF this deficit in rev.
enue over ten millions was created
by the bounty to be paid to Ameri-
can sugar growers. In changing
the sugar schedule the Finance Com
mittee of the Senate went upon the
theory that the bounty ON sugar
should be eliminated as tax upon
the people, sugar had been on the
revenue list from the foundation of
the government to the present time.
with the exception of the period
when it had been on the free list un
der the Mckinley bill. And sugar,
by the way, had been placed on the
free list in the Mckinley hill to get
rid of revenue. in order that higher
duties might he placed on other ar
ticles without raising
TOO MUCH REVENUE.
The idea of the Senate Finance Com
mittee was that revenue tariff
should be again placed upon sugar
to supply the deficit in the Wilson
bill and at the same time to get rid
of the bounty to be paid. The duty
on sugar under the Walker tariff was
33 per cent ad yalorem, when sugar
was worth about twelve cents a
pound. In the present Senate
amendments the duty is placed at 40
per cent. ad valorem. equivalent tn