The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-03-08
ON SUNDAY
The Tariff Tinkers Finished the WI.
son Bill.
The Open Schedules Are Sugar, Whisky
Coal, Iron Ore. Lead Ore, Lumber, Cot
ton Fabrics, Leather, Tobacco and
Silk-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.
democratic member of the finance
committee. discussing the situation in
the committee and the prospect in the
senate, Sunday night talked to Unit
ed Press reporter with franllness, ad-
mitting the facts which other senators
have professed not to see.
1--WE have our head in the lions
mouth" said this senator, land will be
compelled to make the best bar
gain we can to get it out whole
and uninjured. 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 a 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. A 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 it was
reported as we want to report it, and as
we should do were we not thus handi-
capped, three senators would vote
against it. The three senators are
Caffery 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
as 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 bill that will bring to it
the support of the entire party"
This same senator said that seven
different propositions had been SUBJ
mitted to the committee, the latest, ad-
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 so 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
sorrowfully confessed to itself that il
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 l cent a
| pound on all sugar up to 80 degrees by
| the polariscopic test; 1-100 of cent
| additional on each degree between 81
| and 90. Beyond that there was still a
| dispute, the sugar men demanding 4-10(
for each degree and the committee 10th
to consent to even 2-100
1t was claimed in the house that the
income taxrwould yield an annual rev
enue of.s30 900 900, but it is held in
| the senate committee that $50, 900, 00C
would be nearly correct, although
| Mr.. Mcpherson contends that this
tax to which he is opposed, will
bring into the treasury something
like S75,0OO,0O0. 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, 900 to the
revenues and that the senate bill will
result at the end of it's first fiscal year
in putting surplus of between $780,
600, 900 and $40, 600, 900 in the treasury.