The Indianapolis journal., 1894-03-21
WORSE THAN THE WILSON BILL.

The tariff bill which Mr.. Voorhees, re-
finance committee is in many respects
worse than the Wilson bill. Indeed, any
bill made by three such men as Vest, Jones
of Arkansas and Mills, more ultra free
traders than Wilson and his coterie, be-
cause they never forget that they have
been confederates would naturally be a
the North than one which Mr.. Wilson and
the White House tinkerers would make.
The voorhees, bill is more a sectional bill
than is the Wilson. Some of it's features
are more protective than the Wilson bill,
but they protect Southern industries to the
detriment of Northern. Duties on coal and
iron ore are essentially Southern. In re-
gard to the industry of making, tin plates,
which could be made to be worth millions
to the country, one would think that the
trainers of the Voorhees, bill after putting
a duty on iron ore. would increase the du-
ties on tin and terne plates Instead OF do
ing that, the committee has reduced the
duty from 1-5 to 1 cent a pound. This was
to be expected of such intense Southern
men as Vest, Jones and Mills, but some
thing different might have been expected
from Senator Voorhees,, whose State would
plate industry. The sugar duty Is imposed
by the committee more to protect a lin
tied Southern industry than to obtain rev.
enue. The duties on sugar, coal and iron
ore have been imposed to secure the votes
OF six Democratic Senators who would
have had the courage to break away from
their party If their demands had not been
conceded. The clause of the Voorhees, bill
abruptly terminating the reciprocal treaties
with Cuba, Germany and Brazil so valua-
BILE TO the bread and meat producers of the
the detection of the two Louisiana Sena-
tors from this tariff reform measure. With
the Wilson bill these treaties might be re-
tanned. If Northern Democratic Senators
like Hill. Murphy. Mcpherson, Smith and
Brice had Threatened to vote against the
committees BILL 1t is probable that North
ern industries might have been saved In
some degree, but the Southern dictators
who are now running the Senate do not fear
the clustering of Northern Democratic SEN
ators as they assume that the former will
uyba ha
vote for the Southern bill. The Senate bill
contains clause taxing the loans Of loan
and building associations when made to
others than stockholders. 1t must have
grieved the confederate brigadlers who
framed the bill to concede so much to the
thrifty and frugal people of the North as
such a restriction affords
VIII the Senate pass this bill? 1t remains
with five Democratic Senators representing
the great Industrial States of New York
New Jersey and Ohio. Thus far only one
of them, Mcpherson, has been called upon
to indicate what he will do So far as in
dicated he shows a disposition to desert
New Jersey and become an obsequious fol-
lower of Vest Mills and Jones of Arkan-
sas AS to Indiara's Senators, everybody
knows what they will do. No one was sur
prised that they made haste to get behind
the banner of the solid South in support
of it's tariff bill. Bourbonism always re-
peats itself. The North expects something
better of Hill, Brice, Murphy and Smith.
Will they rise to the occasion?