Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-04-11
HOUSEF EFAVORS REPEAL
OF PrOhibitOry Tax of 10
Per Cent. of Bank Issues.
SENATOR HILLS ATTITUDE
Is Causing the Democrats N Do Some
Thinking as to the Future.

cratic caucus after a session OF 2 1-2
hours last evening, adopted the following
resolution without dissenting vote:
Resolved. That IL Is the sense of this caucus
| that the prob bitory tax Of 10 per cent Of bank
issues be repealed.
| Resolved, That when the bill known As the
| Bra Wiley and spencer bill which the com
mittoe on banking and currency has ordered
reported 20 the house, IL called up for action,
an amendment be offered repeating the pro-
hibitory tar on state banks that ample time
be afforded for discussion, and II necessary 10
secure this, the committee on rules be re-
quested TO take proper action.
Exactly l02 Democrats of the house
were present The attendance from the
south and west WAS very heavy, but only
few eastern men appeared, among them
being Messrs. Straus, Cummings, Dunphy
and Warner IN. YE Pigott Comm;
O'Nsil (Mass.). and Sibley (Pal
The result OF the caucus means that the
bill to repeal the state bank tax shall be
considered as rider to the Brawley bill,
which is now on the calendar. and that a
vote shall bs had upon IL. Ii was gener-
ally admitted in the caucus that this re-
peal could not be accomplished uncondi.
uonally.
Mr. swanson gave, as result OF his
and Mr.. Williams declared, AS a result OF
his investigation, that a majority of the
house favored the repeal, although not
Internationally. The question Of condi-
tions were only briefly touched upon.
An Interesting Session.
The white winged dove Of peace
aliRhted on the senate yesterday, and an
amicabls settlement between Senators
A a. Il
agreed between them that for the balance
Of this week the senate should meet at
noon and the tariff bill should be then
taken up at | o'clock and discussed until
o'clock without dilatory tactics, while
Mr. Harris withdrew his request for the
reading Of the bill in full
The feature of the day was Senator
Lodges lengthy speech on the tariff, in
which he attacked the theory of free
trade. advocated protection, and styled
the Wilson bill "a mere collection of pref
erences and revenges," and as being
neither free trade nor protection.
The resolution offered on April 2 by Mr..
Wolcott looking TO negotiations for the
coinage Of Mexican standard dollars in
United States mints was taken up and
agreed to.
The bill introduced some time since by
Mr.. PETER, generally known AS the Coxey
good roads bill, was reported adversely
from the committee on education and
labor.
In the House.
The house devoted the entire day TO the
postofiice appropriation bill. The at
tempt TO ins rt in the bill an amendment
desired To prevent the bureau of engrav-
ing and printing from manufacturing
postage stamps was defeated on point
Of order Mr.. Hatch, chairman of the
committee OF the whole, deciding that IL
was new legislation.
An amendment TO classify as third-class
mail matter, novels, etc, published period
ically on subscription. was adopted, and
the remainder Of the dav was occupied
discussing the Kyle amendment to cut off
the su bsidy granted TO the fast southern
mail. From the tenor of the debate, the
indications seem TO be that the amend
ment will be defeated when the vote il
taken.
HIS Attitude.
Hilps speech IL the theme OF comment
at the Capitol and In administration cir
cles. II is admitted TO be one OF ability
and strength.
It cannot be denied, however, that IL is
more or less tinRed with an element Of
hostility toward the administration, view
ing the pending bill as an administratio
measure. 1t is intended as an attack on
Cleveland's policy, foreign and domestic
AZ we'll What may come OF his speech
and what may develop out OF the situa-
tion is a matter Of speculation, out
serious consequences to the Democratic
party ere expected
The New York senator's arraignment
of the Democratic members of the finance
committee who framed and are pressing
the bill, and his laying great stress upon
its sectional character, has placed an in-
separable barrier between himself and
the southern Democracy. He has burned
his bridges. and hereafter there can be no
affiliation on tariff reform between the
New York senator and his friends and
the southern Democracy. The feeling Of
bitterness on the part of the advocates Of
tariff reform on the line of the present
bill, directed toward Hill and those mem
bers OF the party whose actions they re-
gard as treacherous, IL sure to become
almost personal in Its character.
An open rupture in the party and the
severance of long esta blished relations are
likely to follow Will the Democratic
managers in the senate. in Difference to the
warnings Of Hill, change their plansi
This Is the question which II being dis
cusssd in all political circles here. 1t can
he stated in the most positive manner
that the Democratic managers will not
change their course one iota. but will in
sist upon the passage Of the bill as 1t now
stands In the senate.
The income tax feature, which Is so OBJ
jectionabls to the New York senator, will
not be eliminated. The friends Of this
tax on the Democratic side are more de
termined now than ever for its retention
Can the opponents Of this tax defeat the
tariff billi Many are Of the opinion that,
n the income tax is reJained In the bill,