Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-05-12

GOulG tilluS AbC0G tLO JAe "a
Schedule and the Effect Of the
Changes in 1t.
Senator johnson y. Camden arrived
IN the city yesterday on his private car,
"Gauley," accompanied by Mrs Cam
den and their daughter, Mrs. B. D.
Spilman. They were called here by the
serious illness OF Mrs. Camden's mother,
Mrs. Judge Thompson, at whose bed
side Mrs. Camden spent the greater part
of the day. The Senator has the ap-
pearance Of being in better health than
for some time past, Notwithstanding his
arduous labOrs in the Senate. As stated
I'm the REGISTER before, no one has
done more 10 effect a compromise among
the Senators upon the tariff bill and to
get the bill into such shape that its pas
sage now seems TO be a certainty,
than has Senator Camden. From the
very first he has realized that the bill
should be promptly passed and his con-
slant endeavor, since the bill has
reached the Senate, has been TO hasten
action upon H. No one has realized |
more fully than Senator Camden, whose
large interests have felt the effects OF
the business depression. that the prompt |
passage OF the bill was needed, and now |
his efforts seem TO have been rewarded, !
for the Senator is now very sanguiue OF /
the speedy passage Of the Ol,i.
My Impression" said be 10 REGIS /
TER reporter yesterday, "iS that the /
tariff bill
WILL PASS THE SENATE,
audtwith the coo operation of the House,
e willA become a law not later than the
FIRST OF Jolly, az the fartheSt.
When interrupted with the remark /
that that would be welcome news 10 the /
people of Wheeling the Senator said !
that be realized their feeling. Il SYM |
natbize." said he, with the impatence /
OF the country in the apparent delay 10 |
the passage of this bill by the Senate. |
What the country needs is prompt ac-
tion in the massage of the bill, In order |
that the great industrial StaguatOn that |
has come upon the country may be ter
minated and that the business Of the
country may revive.
"Tt must be borne in mind, how
ever, that the present tariff bill
e. farther advanced at this time than
was either the Mckinley bill at the
same period 10 the session or the tarlH
revision OF 1854. The Mckinley DILL
did not become a law till the last OF Oc-
tober or the previous bill until about
the first of September. 10 should be
ais, taken into consideration that 10 Is
work of much more care aud labor TO
reduce a high tariff 20 a revenue basis
in the interests Of the people than 10 is
To frame a high tariff measure satistac-
tory 10 the manufacturers, 10 whose in
terests all the duties are arranged.
"a revenue tariff is not free trade,
and while the duties imposed under the
Mckinley law are intended 10 foster
monopolies. still a great deal Of care
mad N be exercised In the reductions 10
see that they
WERE MADE IL FAIRNESS.
Soma articles could stand more reduc-
ZION than others, aud every reduction
had 10 be made with caution. The re-
suIt I think, has been very satiSiac-
tory.
,sTbere has been, / think, a great
deal of misappreheusIou as 20 the
changes made by the Senate Finance
Committee in the Wilson bill. The
Ss,are bill Is not WY different from
the Wilson bill, the most conspicuous
change being made In the sugar Scnei-
uIe As the bill came from the House
tbe bonntv was retained upon sugar
Hrtn or n Il a.
srandiur scale and imported sugar was
placed on the free list. but Jne wilson
bU did not provide sufficient revenue
IN meet the estimated wants or the gov
eminent by some thirty millions Of DOL
lars. even including the Income tax
which was admitted 20 be uncertain In
its results. or this deficit 10 revenue
overs ten millions was created by the
bounty TO be paid 70 American sugar
r,rov,ars. In changing the sugar
schedule the Finance Committee of the
senate went upon the theory that the
bountv on sugar should be eliminated as
n tax upon the people, sugar had been
on the revenue list from the foundation
Of the government TO the present time,
With the exception Of the period when
3, had been on the free list under the
Mckinley bill. And sugar, by the way,
had been placed on the free list in the
Mckinley oil 20 get rid of revenue, in
order that higher duties might be
nlaced on other articles without raising
TOO MUCH REVENUE.
The idea OF the Senats Finance Commit
tee was that revenue tariff should be
srain placed upon sugar 10 supply che
deficit in the Wilson bill and stthe same
time 10 get rid Of the bounty to
he paid. The duty on sugar
under the Walker tariff was
33 per cent. ad valorem, when sugar was
worth about twelve cents pound. In
Tbe present Senate amendments the
dntv i placed at 40 per cent. ad valOrem,
eCnivalent TO about one cent pound,
a4 against about iour cents unuer ,ne
Weller biu. 1T is estimated that this
iii nroduce a revenue Of thirty million
Solisrs annually. Adding to this the
80 -aitlions dow paid as bounty, which
wilf be savecb will have the enee, ol
orj.,ire fortf millions Of revenue. But