The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-07-27
SEATTLE. rErDAr. JULr 10



Wilson tariff bill as passed By the house
by imposing duties on iron, coal and re-
fined sugar. Coal and iron ore stand IN
the dutisble list Of the Mckinley tariff a.
IS cents per ton. The house bill put :hem
on the free list, The senate restoEed them
to the dutiable list at 40 cents per ton each.c
At present raw sugars are admitted Free
while there Is duty on refined Of II cent a
pound with l-l0of cent per pound Ad-
ditional upon refined from bounty eopns
tries.
The present senate sugar schedule favors
the sugar refners. Cd by an ad valoFem
duty of 40 per cent. on the difference obe-
tween raw and refined; CD by specific
duty Of x cent on refined and of 40 addi-
tional on refined sugar from bounty pay
ing countries. 88
II Is not easy for Republican to under
stand why, altar placing wool on the free
list. the Democratic majority in the
senate should not have placed bEtu-
mInous coal on the free list. But
Virginia, Maryland and West Vir-
ginia were interested In having tariff
placed on bitnminous coal. The interests
Of these Democratic states had to be
guarded. Senator Faulkner, OF West Vir-
GINA, said: eff believed that the Demo
cratic platform meant FREQ coal 1 would
vote TO remove the duty on that ma
terisl." o. :
Senator Hoar reminded him that the
Democratic speakers on the stamp in New
England In the last presidential campaign
promised the people Of that part of the
country free coal u they would put the
Democratic party in power. The West
Virginia senator declared that 4if the doc
trine Of free coal had been preached in my
state the Republicans would have carried
It." Faulkner further said that to place
coal on the free list now would be to rum
those interested in the coal industry in
West Virginia. Maryland. Pennsylvania
and Virginia. because 1t would bring them
into competition with the cheapiy mined
coal from other countries"
PETER. of Kansas. whose state Is In
terested in wool. which had been PLACED
on the tree list the day before. inquired
why the same argument did not apply to
wool as to coal" or course logically the
argument Is as good In one case as In the
other, but the Democratic party In con-
gress, ruled by the South. was not en-
gagged in framing logical but sectional
tarin. Kansas is not part of tho s%sokGa
South, and 50 WAS not entitled to as
much consideration from the Democratic
majority in congress as are the Southern
coal producing states that are qaite viii,
Ing 20 have the free list extended so long
rs it does not include coal, iron ore aud
sugar. The Dcm5eratio senate was walls
Ing TO enforce protection where the states
which supply Democratic majori1ses have
interests TO be protected. bat4n other cases
anti-protection principles must be applied,
though industries that Of wool we're
wiped out Of existence. 1-5c~o $500
When the Wilson house bill as am6nsSed
BY the senate passed that body IL became
known chat President Cleveland was de-
termined 20 mold the tariff btu 20 his hk-
Ing. Wilson, chairman of the house CON-
mittee Of ways and. means, read a letter
from the president, marked personal, in
which be said that the senate amendments
placing soft coal and iron ore on the dntia-
bic Ilst must be rejected: that Re was tor
free coal and free iron ore. The presissen I
Was kind enough TO say that be vas no,
wholly opposed q the senasa amendments
placing daty on sugar, both raw and re-
fined. and his whole letter amounted 10 q
direct threat 10 the senate eoniezees that
IL the tarIf bill Was not framed within
these lines he would veto the bill. The
president has evidently determined fhA.
Senators Ssorman. Rrioe. Murphy, Smith,
Mcpherson aud the Others DO are re.
sponsibie for the Amsndmsnts mage 10 The
house bill, shSlF retreat from tAeir post
ton aud restore all the essential feature,
Of the bill as they came from the house.
The answer 10 the presidents demand has
already been maize BY Senator German IN
a most bitter speech. and Senator saith.
Of New Jersey. IN his remarks Of Tuesday
was less bitter bat equally resolats. IL Is
believed that the senate sill not yield and
that the senate amendments must stand
or the Pill cannot receive their votss
IL is reported that the president has told
these senators sAat shs principle OF free
Faw materials must he adhered so. thai
e0al and iron ere mpst lie restored 20 th,
free list one o. these senator's biantiy re
piled that II vas well ka6gao that ths
foaia eppositlon % Al3pty Oh coal eaUes
net from men interested solely IA the sue
cess Of Democratic p6nelplss. bas irosr
the Nova Scotia coal synaicals, in whieh
his Political sponsor, wnhAa {. Whitney
sss4-t6e-s eefssAry Of war. Danisl : Ia
mont are Deeply interested ftaanciassv
The se9ssor further said that hss stats &c
ssrss zeal - hs restored 10 tie daflabl'
lsss, and that he. as representative O
that stats. should eoasas ue 20 Tsf4sssssl
lsr aishes
Ibs psssltsat argues shsE coal snd Iron
oFe mss. g. % ne free lat OF nsmoSF&tis
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