The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-26
DON'T LIKE IT AT ALL.
Representatives Call the Senate
Bill Hard Names.
A Conference Necessary on the
Tariff Bill
MISSHAPEN MONSTER.
Mr.. Harter Thinks it Should be
MISSHAPEN MONSTER.
Mr.. Harter Thinks it Should be
Rejected Outright


do with it? The attempt to create SEN
timent in favor Of its immediate passage
soon ended for the adverse feeling proved
simply overwhelming All the members
express their views with great plainness,
and nearly all concede that with the great
variety of opinions there must still be con-
siderable delay. Mr.. Springer's idea that
the necessities of the treasury would justi-
fly the immediate acceptance and passage
of the bill as it came from the senate met
with very little encouragement Mr. Har-
ter's vehement protest that the bill should
be rejected outright, because no bill at all
would be better than such an i'll bcgotten
and misshapen monster" met with still
less favor. 1t is fair estimate to say that
nine-tenths of the house Democrats are
insist on some changes On this subject
Mr.. Bynum says:
Congressman Tynums Views.
CAN this talk about an immediate
agreement without conference is rot. =
There is not man on this side who Is SO
far satisfied as to let it go without pro-
test. Even If they should have to yield at
the last, every man wants to put himself
on record against many Of the senate
amendents. And they will take time to
do that regardless OF pressure from any
body
Would it be possible to let this bill go
into effect at once with the understanding
that it binds nobody and that a movement
for further amendment is to begin at once,
as has been proposed?'
mo. The proposition is ridiculous. I
am satisfied that whatever bill this house
accepts must stand the settled tariff
policy for five years and possibly for 10.
1t is true, as they say, that only one tariff
in our history has ever stood 10 years I'M
changed, but there are too many new con-
ditiOnS now for that fact to stand as prec-
edent. There are too many interests COM
bined In favor of stability and too many
1aborers interested. OF course there will
he amendments proposed at every session
of congress, and probably some of them
will be adopted New channels of bust
ness opening all the time, new articles
are brought into use, and so new clauses
must be added to a tariff law, but the
Democrats may as well understand that
they will be responsible for whatever bill
becOmes a law, and it will be considered
that they are bound by it. OF course we
gentlemen who are now here cannot bind
our successors in any legal way, but just
the same the bill which is passed will be
looked upon as the Democratic party's
bill, and all the interests win expect US to
be bound by our own work.
The Popu1ist View.
1t was amusing to hear the remarks of
other Indiana members on tho Bynum
view, and still more SO to hear those of
Democrats from farther west. Mr.. Bryan
takes the straight POpuliSt view lately set
forth with such ability by Senator Kyle
that there is no such thing possible
stability in a protective tariff and that no
body is bound morally, legally or in any
other way by any tariff bill ever passed.
All the Populists laugh at the idea Of any
tariff bill being a ffnality or being fixed be-
yond the next term of congress and declare
with rather rough wit that it is lust an
old piece of Republican claptrap which
the Democrats have picked up according
to their CUSTOM Several southern Dem
tai ocfa fa1l " fl,<a x-iox
and one Of this class, Hon. Hugh Dins-
more, says; - Ny view is somewhat like
that Of the Dutch justice of the peace in
the old story, who said, L will take two
days to study over this case, but can say
right now that will finally decide for the
plaintiff. After deal of discussion we
shall accept the senate bill substantially
always excepting the one-eighth differ
entail duty on sugar We won't have that
at any price. This house never will agree
TO it. The Republicans have poured whole
barrels of sarcasm on for giving up to
the Sugar trust and allowing this one
eighth of a cent per pound extra on refined
sugar, forgetting the fact or trying to
make others forget it that they gave the
trust one-half of q cent q pound. On that
point you ought to see Warner, as he has it
all down fine The necessities OF the treas
ury will hurry us little, and we will ges
through rapidly and yield almost every
thing except the sugar differential That
A doomed
The Investigation.
Hon. John De Witt Warner it is
scarcely necessary TO add, dealt with the
subject far more emphatically. Hc has a
whole magazine Of figures to show that
the sugar refDers need no extra protection
whatever, because they can refine as cheap
~ in this as in any other country His
views have been published in one shape or
another SO often that it is only necessary
to give his very latest conclusion, which is
that the labor cost of refining 100 pounds
OF sugar is only II cents in Brooklyn, while
IL Is 20 cents in Cuba and "a cents in Eng
land He is quite positive as Mr.. Dins-
more that the senates differential duty on
sugar will be rejected, though everything
else has to be accepted to balance it. In
all the talk in the house it is evident that
the latest developments before the senate
1nvesti eating committee have had q great
effect. Both the committee and the Dis
trict jury seem inclined to deal very ten
DERBY with Messrs- Schriver and Edwards,
the correspondents, but they show plainly
that they would like to deal severely with
Mr.. Havemeyer and few others. Senator
Allen Is particularly vigorous on this sub
3ect, and it is said about the capitol that if
any one has gained by the investigation it
IN he
He made the motion in the committee
that Messrs. Hzvemeyer and Searles be Ger
tined TO the grand jury for prosecution
under the statute, and there was q very
lively debate, but the two Republican.
Senators Lodge and Davis, sustained him.
while Senators Gray and Lindsay voted
no. he then moved to have the two gen.
tlemen brought before the bar of the SEN
against this Incidentally it has come out
shat the Louisiana men and the beet sugar