The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-03-10

Sik-The Income Tax In Order.
WASHINGTON, March 5.-Unless the
plans of the democratic members of the
senate finance committee go all awry,
the tariff bill will be laid before the
full committee Tuesday morning at 10
o'clock.
After comforting together the greater
part of Sunday. the democrats be-
lieve they have come as near solv-
ing the situation as possible, and
the intention Sunday night is to
take the final vote Monday after
noon. The disputed schedules have
been so largely discussed and so many
tentative propositions considered, that
it only remains to decide finally which
of these shall be incorporated in the
bill. Although the committee under.
stends pretty thoroughly what it will
do, the open schedules are sugar,
whisky, coal, iron ore, lead ore, lum.
Der, cotton fabrics, leather, tobacco
and silks.
A democratic member of the finance
committee, discussing the situation in
the committee and the prospect in the
senate, Sunday night talked to a Unit.
ed Press reporter with franlsness, ad-
mitting the facts which other senators
have professed not to see.
1--WE have our head in the lions
mouth" said this senator, "and will be
compelled to make the best bar
gain we can to get it out whole
and uniniured. We are the vic
Tins of the wrath of democrats who
are about as good democrats on the
tariff question as is Mr.. Morrill,, the
| former chairman of the committee.
| The democratic party can never afford
| to not pass Il tariff bill this congress.
| To do so would be to utterly demoral-
| ize the party and we could not recover
| from it in fifteen years. bill must
| be passed in some shape or other, and
| in order to accomplish this we must
| make concessions that are unpalatable.
'"The majority in the senate is very
small only three. We have forty-four
| democrats, thirty-eight republicans
| and three populists. Two democratic
votes against the bill would defeat it,
and the committee believes that if itwas
reported as we want to report it, and as
| we should do were we not thus hnndi-
capped, three senators would vote
against it. The three senators are
Gallery and White, of Louisiana, and
Smith, of New Jersey. True, Mr..
| White will leave the senate for the su-
preme court long before the vote is
taken, but his successor will be equally
has vigorous against the bill, unless
sugar is taken care of as Mr.. White de-
mands. Of Senators Brice, German,
Hill and Murphy we do not entertain
such fears; they are working hard for
concessions, but would hardly vote
against the bill when it came to the
| test.
'"These are conditions that confront
the committee and they are conditions
that must be met successfully, for as
have said, we can not afford to wait to
invite the certain disaster that would
quickly follow the defeat of the tariff
| bill in the senate. For that reason we
must report II bill that will bring to it
the support of the entire party"
This same senator said that seven
different propositions had been sub
mitted to the committee, the latest, adj
| 'vocated by one of the sugar senators,
being an ad valoram duty of 40 per
cent. on all sugar up to No. 16 Dutch
standard, and 80 per cent above that.
| This the committee absolutely refused
to consider, and proved, as is alleged,
to the senator making the argument,
that it was all to the benefit of the
trust.
The senator said that the committee
s6rrowfuliy confessed to itself that it
must give almost as much as the sugar
men demanded. He believed that the
schedule would be fixed on the gradu.
ated scale, and he was afraid the com
mittee would have to yield 1 cent a
pound on all sugar up to so degrees by
the polariscopic test; 1-10O of Il cent
additional on each degree between sc
and 80. Beyond that there was still q
dispute, the sugar men demanding 4-10C
for each degree and the committee 10th
to consent to even 2-10O
1t was claimed in the house that the
income taxrwould yield an annual rev.
enue of $50. 100000, but it is held in
the senate committee that $50, 900, OOC
would be nearly correct, although
Mr.. Mcpherson contends that this
tax, to which he is opposed, will
bring into the treasury something
like s75,OOO.OOo. Based on the i'm.
portations of the last fiscal year the
committee also figures that the in
creased importations by reason of re
duced rates will add $50. 900, 600 to the
, revenues and that the senate bill will
; result ut the end of it's first fiscal year
, in putting Il surplus of between $50,
, 600, 900 and $40, 900, 900 in the treasury.
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