The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-05-14
STILL, TALKING TARIFF.
THE SENATOR'S Pass ANOTHER
WEEK IN DEBITE.
NOTHING HAS BEEN ACC0MPL ISHED.
The Senator'S Arc All Dissatisfied with the
Bill as it Now S,ands-No Agreement
Likely to be Reached Soon.

WASHINGTON, May 7.--During the execu-
| tive session today Senator Jones presented
| the amendments to the tariff bill which
| have been considered and agreed to by the
! democratic Sc latorS. known as the compro-
| mise committee. There are ever 400 of them
| and il makes new bill. or a measure great
! ly differing from the Wilson bill and from
the senate bill in any form in which /. has
| been presented. The amendments hereto
| fore presented by Senator Vest and re-
| ported from the finance committee ale en-
| dorsed by the committee on compromise.
| There is q genral increase in the bill, and
| in some schedules the increases very
| marked. Many of the cha lges are ual1n-
| portant and consist of a restoration OF the
| house duties. which the senate had de-
| creased. number of articles have been
| taken from the free list. chief among these
pelnS agricultural products.
Not IL Friend has the rariff BIZ.
Washington, May S.-(Special. )-That is
| mongrel tariff bill the senate finance COM
mittee has at last reported the measure
| which is to be put through the senate. If
| there is single senator satisfied with it
| he cannot be found 1t is a bill in which
| every man is given the one schedule ne
| most wants. but each OF these senators
| is dissatisfied with nearly all the other
| features
1t is a bill made up at the dictation of the
| sugar trust people through the senators this
| trust controls. The members of the COM
! mittee themselves are, perhaps, the most
| dissatisfied ones. They We're forced to turn
| frmO their convictions of a proper bill and
! prepare one that could pass the senate. They
had 10 make the most sweeping conces-
| SlonS, concessions which they can defend
! other ground than that they were
! necessary to pass the bill. But perhaps af-
| ter all the committee is right. They now
have a bill satisfactory to no one, vet a
bill that can pass the senate. 1t is bill
| better than the Mckinley law, but not
! bill any democrat would be ,contented to
| call his tariff platform.
The idea the part of the committee
| to get a bill on which the senate would
vote and pass That done, the bill that is
to become a law can be prepared in the
| conference of the two houses. OF course
| the lower house will never accept this mon
| grel measure 1t will not agree to a high
| protective tariff for the sugar trust, nor
any other trust. 1t will not agree to the
elevation of the rates OF duty on wooden
goods. Indeed, the house conferees will in
sist upon cutting and sicng the senate bill
until it is gotten into good shape. and then
the house will attempt to force the senate
to agree to it. In this way, and only in this
way, can a tariff law thoroughly in accord
| ance with the democratic platform be
acted.
1t develops now that the tariff contest in
| the senate has not been settled by any
| means.
OF course the mongrel bill reported by the
| committee on Monday is not intended
| bill that shall become a law 1t was draft
! ed for the purpose OF getting something
| that could pass. The republicans know
| that and now they are preparing branch
| covered pit for the democrats to fall into.
| They want to force the passage of this
| bill. Not now, however. That would not
suit their political purposes. Their idea is
to debate this bill for two full months; to
! show up it's Inconsistencies and its follies;
to show how it drafted and to lacerate
| the schedules in the minds of the Amer-
| can people They want to force heated dis
! cussi0ns; to force democrats to defend every
| schedule. Then along in july they will be
| willing to vote. At that time the members
| of the house will be eager for adjournm ent.
! They will want to get home and fix their
fences for PREDICTION. The republican SEN
| ators believe the representatives will be so
| eager for adjournment mat they will be
in a state of mind-like the democratic sem
| ators are nOW-which viii lead them to ac-
/ cept almost anything to pass bill and
! adjourn.
In this programme is the great danger to
! tie democratic party. The republicans
! may possibly be successful in it, though
| they win not be if the house leaders can con-
troll the rank and file of the party IN that
| body.
|
/ tariff legislation has been, and is now, that
! little element of democratic senators who
! term themselves the conservatives" They
| have held their individual interests above
| the interests of the party, and they kave
| forced the party in the senate to bow to
| their will. Just what some of these seha-
| tors have made out of it no one knows
| definitely, but more than one has perhaps
| feathered his financial nest.
Put Them TO the Test.
The question is now, would it not have
| been best at the outset to have forced these
| alleged conservatives" to show their
| hands2 There are those who doubt seri-
! ouslv whether they would bave carried out
| their threats of voting against the Dill mad
| their demands not been granted. There are
! some senators who yet favor bringing these
conservatives" before the foothghts There
| are those who believe Mr.. HIS entire fight
! has been a bluff, and who favor calling him.
| Vet there have been too many conces-
eions now to go backward The democrats
| of the senate must stand together the
| mongrel bill that is before the senate and
! force a vote upon it at the earliest possible
/ moment. But that cannot be, under the
| present rules of the senate until the re-
Dublicans agree, and it is to their interest
| tn stavn off a vote at least two months.
Thus finally, the only hope of the people
| must be in the house when the bill goes to
| conference If the house will hold out,
| even if it takes all summer, Tor a pure tdflIt-
!. for-revenue BILL that will be the result.
| 1,bo senate is not so composed to make
| such q bill Mr. HILL Mr.. Smith, Mr. Muir
phv Mr. Brce, Mr. blanchard, Mr.. CAT
| frav and others hold out against that and
| in consequence the other democrats Of the
| senate are pOWerless.
These men are really protectionists. They
| do NOT hesitate to demand protection on the
| articles they are interested in. In face of
| these declarations the question is, can they
| finally be forced, by action of the house,
| to accept revenue duties instead of protec-
| tive duties? u.s. 49,
| +hn tariff contest is a long way from being
settled and congress may be here all sum-
mer though if the tariff bill could be dis
posed OF adjournment could be had in three
weeks thereafter.
The Tariff Bill Situation Gets Worse.
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