The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-19
THE JERsEY CITY VIEWS, MONDAY. FEBRUARY Is. 1884,.
Jim" SMITHS BLUFF
Frightens a Few Senators of the
Finance Committee Who
Don't Know Him.

Specfut 70 inc jersey Cuu NeuS.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 10, 1s94.-The
| attitude which Senator Smith of New Jersey
has assumed on the tariff question is causing
the members Of the Senate Finance Commit
tee considerable uneasiness. Mr.. Smith is
nothing if not o~utspoken and positive, and
the threats of hostility which he has let fall
within the committee room have convinced
the democrats that he means what he says.
As Senator Allison remarked of him, ''Sena-
tor Smith seems. to know what he wants, and
there is apt to be trouble if he does not
get it.n
Although Senator Smith left the room of
the committee last Friday night In dis
pleasure at the u%nconcern with which his
appeals for changes in the tariff bill were
received, it was noticeable that he was
! again asked by the members OF the COM
mittee to appear before them Saturday
morning, and he did SO, before taking the
train for home. This indicates a desire on
the part of the COMMITTEES to placate him,
if possible, and it also indicates what can
be accomplished when a bold and deter
mined front is assumed, as it has been by
Mr.. Smith. There is no question but that
the Senator has told the committee that
while a large majority OF the schedules in
the bill are perfectly fair, there are others
Uldb are fulIlOuS, dlQ bu6So u6 WILLIS
changed. His success as a manufacturer has
had a good deal to do with a regard for his
opinion by the committee, although it is
doubtful if they will follow the advice that,
he has rendered.
SENATOR ~M'PHERsoN's ACTIVITY.
The interest which is being shown by Sen
ator Smith in the preparation of the tariff
bill has had a noticeable effect upon Mr.. Nc
Pherson. As is well known, the latter tenn
porarily resigned his position on the com
mittee after the bill was placed in the hands
of a subcommittee, of which he was not a
member, and his place was filed by Mr..
Mills, whose ideas on the tariff are very
much more radical than those enter
tanned by Mr.. Mcpherson. Thu latter
at first determined to nave little or
nothing to do with the framing of the tariff
bill, understanding that his views would be
those of a minority among the democrats.
The pressure which has been brought to bear
upon him, however, from citizens of his own
State and Of New York, and the interest
which Senator Smith is showing in the
effort to secure recognition for the New
Jersey manufacturers has forced Mr.. Nc
Pherson into the thick of the fight, and he
is now as earnest an advocate of the manu-
featuring interests as he can be consistent
with his position.
Just before he went South, however. Mr..
Mcpherson burned all his bridges behind
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Chairman of the Finance Committee, in
which he said he would stand by anything
and everything which the committee did.
The committee has evidently taken him at
his word, and has not accorded him the con-
sideration to which he is entitled, believing
that his position ON the committee and the
pledge given to Senator Voorhees, would
prevent him from openly nlanifesting any
dissatisfaction. Senator Smith, on the other
hand, is not thus hampered, and he is in a
position where he will command and receive
more consideration than can be shown at this
time to Mr.. Mcpherson.
RAILROADS N LEGISLATION.
In the course of q debate in the House
Saturday, regarding some town sites in
Oklahoma, the question being whether the
Government or the railroad sites should be
legalized, Representative Dunn of New Jer-
sey expressed his opinion about the relation
of railroads to legislation. II believe" he
said, that a railroad company is just as
much entitled to the protection of thAGoy-
eminent as a private individual. If yol
will examine the formation of corpora
tions you will find that they are created
from the surplus capital of the
business men of the entire country, and they
are, therefore, entitled to the same protec-
ton as a private individual and to all of the
advantages that will build them up for the
public good. But this is as far as | would
60. I do not believe that they are entitled
to especial advantages, while, ON the other
hand, I AVE no sympathy with the spirit
that is always crying down railroads and
forgetting how much the railroads have
done to develop the country