The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-25
An EARLY PASSAGE.
The Tariff Bill Expected 10 Pass the
Senate in June.

( General Opinion as to the Daytime
/ IS the Outside-What Senator Briee
1t in About Two Weeks - What the
House VIII Do-Ahead of the Mills
Bill.
Washington, May 24.-You need not be
surprised to see the tariff bill pass the
! Senate any day after June l. Too soon,
do you say Well. wait and see. Any
mum Der Of senators may be found who
will name June Is as the day when it will
go out of the southern portals of the
Senate chamber and get ready to be
wrangled over by the ''conferees on the
part of the House" Senator Brice
says it will be out of the Senate by June
10, and possibly by June ); and the willy
senator calls to mind his prediction about
the passage of the repeal of the Sherman
law last fall, which prediction was
hooted at at the time as being too pre-
vious, but it came to pass all the same
SWALLOW IT WITH A GULF.
But you need not be surprised if Sen
ator Brice's earliest date is discounted
few days. The Senate is just
now proceeding slowly. This slOwness
will continue some little while and then,
all at once, when few will be looking for
it, things will work suddenly up 10 a con-
summation, and the part of the bill which
still remains undiscussed will be swal-
lowed with great gulp, and the pro-
tracted agony will be over in the Senate.
Measures are right now on foot to bring
about the end of the whole business in the
Senate by June /. They may not succeed,
but perhaps they will.
DIVERSE OPINIONS.
There are, of course, diverse opinions
among the representatives as to what
should be done with the tariff bill when
it comes back to the House. Some think
it ought to be accepted at once and
passed with all the Senate amendments.
They believe this, not because they favor
the amendments, for most of them are
Objectionable, because they increase the
rates in the Wilson bill, but they
think the people would rather
have the matter ended, with the
increased duties, than to have the
delay and the uncertainty prolonged by
an attempt to make the Senate back
down from its amendments In other
words, that the people would be better
pleased to have the tariff settled than to
wait an indefinite time for the chance of
a decrease, which might be slight or
otherwise.
ANOTHER OPINION.
There are others who maintain differ
emit attitude. They say: I'VE may pos
sibly have to accept the increased duties
laid by the Senate; but we ought not to
do so without fight. If we don't favor
them-and vast majority of us don't
we must let the people know it, and
make struggle, even though it should
be hopeless one from the start. If we
are forced to accept the Senate bill, let
il be done only after such fight as will
show that we did so only because we con-
sidered it better for the interests Of the
people to do So rather than 10 prolong the
uncertainty in the present financial dis
tress."
THE FIGHTERS sTRONGET.
I am inclined to think that the latter
class, the fighters, are the strongest and
most numerous. There is not a genuine
tariff reformer in the House who would
like to go back to his constituents and
tell them that he willingly accepted the
Senate bill as fulfllment of the pledge
of the Chicago platform. He would much
rather tell them: 1--WE passed a good bill
in the House-one that would have given
great relief to the people-but the Senate
spoiled our work by adding on where we
cut off and we accepted their bill only
after we made the hardest fight we pos
sibly could
BETTER TRAN THE MILLS BILL.
And yet the present Senate bill is a
considerable advance in the red uction over
the famous Mills bill, which was hailed
as a grand step in tariff reform when it
passed the House. This fact shows the
great growth in tariff reform sentiment.
Greater reductions than were entirely
satisfactory five years ago, are not now
large enough to satisfy the demands of
the people.