The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-08-10
FROM WASHINGTON.
ON THE TARIpENE.p,

sEi TIE" s oN THE TARIFF NEAR,
How German and His Crowd Have Been
Forced 70 Deueat-The Terms OF the Ad.
justment-IIill's Bill Passes cor tne Nv
clusiOn of Anarchists (sreenbnc cks fo
BE Taxed-,Dobs Which the "COurtesy
0fthe senaue. Has Put Through In the
The unioosehing OF the tariff deadlock
now nearly five weeks old since the nossooe
of the bill through the senate-wbich seemed
Oh the point of realization last Friday. was
knocked out, as 1t has been twice since when
solution seemed equally hopeful. Rut now
another adjustment, which really seems To be
final one, is practically completed. and there
is every ground foi'fje1iefafter ali these weary
months of delay. and disappointment and Oft
deferred dates, tilat next week will see the
bill enacted into law.
| There nave Deen three great factors operat-
| ing for the defeat of the sconseryotivev com.
bine in the senate that has made such endless
difficulty by threatening to defeat the whole
cause of tariff reform unless thew could have
such exemptions us they wanted. The first
and chief has been the expression that has
| been coming up, from the whole country de-
mandlng not only SPECIFICATION but attention
| to the rules of commoA s.6esty in legislation.
The Second was tie estion of Senator
| voorhees,, the prilTe ~-esentatiye of the
senate as the head Oft inance Committee
| and the senate confere n favor of free coal
and free iron and q low tariff for the sugar
trust, with his warnin hat the men who
were standing out agail adjustment on such
fair and reasonable and intrinsically righteous
lines as these were looming themselves to
everlasting infamy. The third was the failure
to start back fire against Cleveland and
Wilson by calling caurus of House Demo-
Gratis, because this caucus instead of advising
surrender, gave its enthusiastic support to
Wilson and his bill. Following the develop
ments was an advancc all along. the line
to press the advantage which the
genuine tariff reformers have had
all along. The Loui lana senators for
instance have been threatening that they
would turn against the ,A'l4inless they could
have about what theJ want, particularly a
part of this years bounty on sugar as we'll as
duty on both raw and refined sugar. They
have been notified that if they do this, bill
for absolutely free sugar shall be at once in
trod'lced, and it would be sure to go through
both houses with rush. The LOuisianians
came right down from their perch. So with
Morgan and Pugh and their threats about
coal and iron ore. So actually we have this
week seen Smith, who has been one of the
worst acting of the lot, writing letters
declaring that he has been for free raw
material all along, and Gorman telling how he
is himself going to move for free sugar unless
is done! A story is going the
rounds that Cleveland has talked with Cor
man, Smith and Brice >aparately. and that
each one has asserted h would accept free
coal and iron ore, but tha- the other two of
the three would not. Whether true or not, it
shows exactly the whole animus of the COM
Dine.
The settlement is due TO the fact that Cor
nan saw after the event of the early week
hat he was surely defeated in his fight. He is
lot the man to let a defeat become rout,and
le SCI TO work to save what he could by COM
promise after all these weeks of threatening
nat not an men from the senate bill should
,e yielded.
The terms of the compromise are primarily
40 per cent dutyion raw sugar, 40 per cent on
he raw sugar In the refined ana one-ffth of a
ent differential on refined sugar. The scheme
somewhat complicated one and will need
areful administration, but the duty shows OH
fs face the amount of protection accorded the
efiners,. without the deception and uncer-
ainty OF the progressive ad valorem rate and
ntiebie, as ,yi.s ~ "a l;.ltIon nor of NE cents !,
ear until 1t becomes fiSe. Lead ore. about
vhich there has been q great deal Of talk. il |
made in some quarters to have the house rate |
which greatly reduced the duties--restored,
mt this was not done. The senate rate on
oDacco Will probably stand, and whiskey
vii be put back to the 81 gallon provided |
or in the house bill, with the provisO, how
YER, that the bonded period may be extend.
q from five to eight years by the payment,
fter the end OF five years, of an additional
aX OF five cents Il gallon Il year. It is also
Understood that the house provisions on
ioolens, cotton goods and the metal schedule
ave been cut into but little compared with
he cut upon which the house insisted. The
eXtile schedules are likely to be enacted
bout as they passed the senate. The house
onferees have been insisting that they could
OF accept the high rates fixed in the senate
i'll, but Senator Smith of New Jersey and
enator Murphy of New York have insisted
hat these schedules We're already cut to the
uick and that they could not submit to hay
lg them cut deeper. The Republicans under
lldrich's lead have intimated that they must
ave the senate schedules or will make trouble.
he Republicans hold the situation to cer-
lin extent in their own hands, since the
lack quorum. and could hardly
roduce one for any length of time.
Some of the dispatches this morning indi-
lte that an agreement is ''otfr again. But
he best indications are that it stands so far
IT goes, but the house cOnferees are going
Try TO get more concessions. Cleveland
I'LL believes it is possible to get free coal as
ell as iron. The Republicans threaten to
'day,
The house caucus Tuesday afternoon had a {
cry large attendance-166 members. 1t {