The Indiana State sentinel., 1894-08-08
THE SENATE AND THE TARIFF.


Senator Gorman's fallacious argument
against free coal viii apply 10 every,
thing on the list quite as well as It ap-
plies to this product in which he is 50
deeply interested. If his argument is
sound. then the Mckinley bill should be
left alone and the democratic party
should die.-Galveston News (dem).
With the cunning skill SO characteristic
Of him. Senator German has not allowed
his hand 10 b. seen 10y the public in all
these weeks of debate and argument, Of
concession and compromise; neverthe!
less the work Is his and the responsibility
also fails upon him. TIA ere fore. Il is not
difficult to perceive the force o. the blow
that defeat viii indict upon him.-Balti-
more News (deml.
When the tariff bill came from tbs
ways and means committee there was a
provision I'm il that il should 20 into
effect March I. There Is a provision in
the senate bin that It shall 60 into effect
Aug. 1 GOday). We think we can risk
the assertion that the advisability Of re-
vising this provision IS one thing upon
which the house and senate can gree
Louisville Courier-Journal (dem).
Every system Of tariff taxation neces-
sarily involves immense and discriminate
ing protective" taxation, which the
democratic platform declares is robbery
Of the people for the exclusive beneht
of the pet manufacturing class. Under
the low tariff of 1886 all American inter-
ests 1Ourished as never before or since
The similar Wilson bill is now the only
hope Of the country and it must be
passed if IT takes tn December--N- Y
Herald (dem).
Let the conferees agree upon a bill
embOdying reasonable concessions on
both sides, but abolishing the corrupt and
scandalOus concession TO the sugar trust
Whatever stays, this must go Then let
the country see If German and Brice and
Smith will stand by their bargain and
their speculations even to the point of
preserving the Mckinley law. Mr.. Cor
man rightly said that the maintenance
Of this law. against the democratic
pledge and the demand and expectation
of the country. would carry "a fearful
responsibility" Let him and his asso-
ciates he made To face ii. There has
been enough talk and threats and futile
dalliance and dickering. Bring the
boilers to the scratch!-N. \. World
(dem.).
The house has only TO stand firm. II
the senate refuses to act an adjournment
may be had in order that members Of the
house may go to their constituencies fOI
the fall elections with their tariff war
cry still potent. BY that time public
opinion will have had its effect, perhaps,
upon the half-dozen democratic senators
who are now thWarting the democratic
party's will, and the house bill may
be passed as early as Jan. !, 1880 All
this loss of time, protracted business de-
preston and public anxiety generally
might be avoided but for three or four
democratic obsructives. Their course is
having its effect It has excited the
wrath of the people everywhere. The
''comprOmise'' senators are generating
cyclone of indignation that may at no
distant day destroy wholly the tar1n
rates on many other things besides sugar
now so stupidity contending.-BaltimOre
sun (dem.).
The people of this section demand that
the house cOnferees shall maintain de-
teTminedly their insistence that the SEN
ate recede from the trust amendments.
They have entire confidence in the COM
pleteness and justic of the Wilson bill,
yet they are not unwilling that some con-
cessions be made in the interest OF
harmony, though opposed to the aban-
dOnment .Of a true measure Of tariff re-
form at the mere behest Of a minority
which dares not act openly. They are in
no desperate hurry, either. During ths
past six months they have waited, with
varying degrees of patience, for the real
iZatiOn Of their hopes, and two or three
weeks more will not work any additional
harm If they can finally secure the VIII
son bill substantially as it passed the
house. They want the house conferee5
to exhaust every means that may llducs
the senate conferees TO recede from the
senate amendments or secure from the
latter such concessions as VIII preserve
the integrity Of the house bill and Sc
cl1re to the people that kind and extent
of tariff reform which the democratic
party stands pledged 10 give taem.
This is the sentiment of Missouri. This
is the sentiment OF the West This IS
the sentiment Of the entire country.-St-
Louis Republic (dem.).