The morning news., 1894-07-02
A HARD FIGHT
Will Be Made Against the Senate In
creeses in the Tariff Bill.

Will Be Made Against the Senate In
creases in the Tariff Bill.
Washington, July knowing that the
tariff bill is liable to get to the House
from the Senate any day, asked Repre-
sentative Montgomery of kentucky some
questions about it. Judge Montgomery
is one of those ardent, out-and-out tariff
reformers who believe in it with
all their heart. and who are
not In favor of dickering with
it to please this or that man, or TO help
this or that industry. He thinks that
the Democratic party, which has been
crying tariff reform so many years, ought
to show that it means what it has been
saying, and ought to give to the country as
radical tariff reform bill as the revenues
of the country and the condition of its in
dustries will stand.
Judge" said the MORNING News cor
respondent. will there be much Of a fight
over the tariff bill as it comes from the
Senate?"
eyes. sir, ," said he emphatically. ~ think
the Wilson bill is the best one that has
ever passed the House, and am in favor
of changing back the Senate bill so as to
make it as far as possible conform to the
Dill as III WIS Wlltu IL lGlb Ju6 I1OuSt.
What changes are you in favor of"
81 am in favor of striking out every
increase that has been put on it in the
Senate"
What do you think ought to go on the
free listW
Coal, iron ore, wool, cotton and sugar
II looks like we may not get those things,
but | am in favor of making a fight for
them, and of getting as near them as we
,Nneeihlyr I acnapiallyy O,,nOca6 n
the sugar trust getting any favors in the
bill. I cannot see any reason why
thev should receive any discrimi
nation in the bill, and l, for
one, don't propose that they
shall have any | emphatically disapprove
the way the trust has been acting since
the billhas been before the Senate, and
am steadfastly opposed to their having
any recognition whatever"
.''What DO you think of a duty of 40 per
cent. ad valorem on sugar.
well, that might be considered fair,
and may be that is the best we can do;
but must say ! would prefer a specific
duty, say of l cent pound
And you are in favor of making the
stiffest sort of a fight along the lines you
have iudicatedln
Il am. am not all pleased with the
Senate bill. 1t does not look like a bill
COTTON up'in the interest of tariff reform
1t looks too much like the Mckinley bill
to suit me, though it is much better than
that bill In the Mckinley bill II seemed
that every manufacturer was allowed to
say what the tariff should be on the arti-
cles he manufactured. | can not say that
this is true of the bill now before the
Senate, but it is too near true for this 20
be thorough tariff reform bill. Tho
Wilson bill gave as much protection as
any democratic bill ought TO give, and
more than many of us who were on the
committee wanted to give; but we had 10
take things as we found them, and do the
best we could under the circumstances.
Therefore, while many of us would
have preferred a much more radical bill
than ours was when IL came from the
committee yet we believed that that was
the best that could be done OF the present
time But we don't like the increases
that the Senate has put In our bill, and
we are going to wage war against them.
What do YOU think of the prospect of
getting those increases stricken OHP'
~ can hardly say as TO that. have
not canvassed the mem bers of the House
generally enough to form anything like
certain opinion of what they will do but
from what ] know Of them, believe that
they viii insist so strongly on striking
out the increases that have been put on IN
the Senate, that the result will be "a
very material reduction in the Senate
bill We may not knock them
all out, but the Senate bill will be badly
dishgurod before we get through with il.
The House. in making up the Wilson bill,
went IN for thorough and genuine reduc-
tion Of the tariff They did not play with
the subject. and while the committee in
yited hearings from interested parties,
we did not feel IL our duty TO
Grant eyery0Atnsuthe aAsked for We
understood that our first duty was
10 the whole country, aud not " O COM