The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-10-13

ments should he submitted to n c::ucus
OF de nocra,ic senators, and that III,
president and secretary of the treasury
shoui'i he also consulted. for kim~
that tie administration could drfesI IN,
bill aIi iiscrcdit all uf u ii he cho.r
to do SO.
Senator Jones stated tha, he had
submitted the amendments both TO n q
president and secretary, and they ap-
proved the course proposed, as ahso.
lutely necessarv 10 secure the passage
of some tariff bill, although MIR.
Cleveland said he hoped some WAY
could be found 10 remove The duty on
coal and iron ore
As amended the bill put an al
valorem duty OF 40 per cent on all
sugars, with one-tenth of - cent on
sugars coming from countries giving ai
export bounty, and Onc-eighth differ
entail on sugar above lG Dutch
standard
The amendments were submitted t.
democratic caucus and every senator
present agreed that he would suppor,
them in order to pass tariff bill.
In justice 10 myself make this state
ment, aud I declare but for the assur-
ance of the president made to Senator
Jones, snd aftcrward TO Senators Jones
and Harris that the administration
would support our action would never
have taken part in what was done.
/ knew that Mr.. Cleveland, as head
Of our party, could defeat any bill we
might offer and thereby discredit those
Of us who prepared it, and I knew that
in the silver fight he had actively inter-
fered to secure the repeal Of the Sher-
man law.
The facts have stated about which
there Is no dispute, caused me to ex-
press my regrets in the senate publicly
and without equivocatiou, when Mr..
Cleveland caused his letter to Mr..
Wilson to be read In the house, as
perfidy to the democratic party.
In that letter the president indorsed
the senate bill as to the tax on sugar,
and deprecated the idea that hostility
to the sugar trust should influence the
action Of congress. The Wilson bill
put sugar, raw and refined, on the free
list, yet certain newspapers proclaimed
every day in their Washington dis
patches that the president and the
house stand firm against the senate and
the sugar trust.
As a matter Of fact, MIR. Cleveland
stood with the senate on the sugar
schedule against the house, and Mr..
Carslisle, secretary of the treasury,
sent to the senate when the house bill
providing for free sugar was pending
letter stating that the passage of such
bill would create an annual deficiency
of CSC, 100000. The statement that
there was any issue between the presi.
dent and myself as to tariff reform Il
false. The statement that I sympa-
thized with Senator German is equally
false.
II the president had contented him.
self with denouncing those who had
forced the amendments upon Us,
would have said nothing, but when he
attacks the whole senate indiscrimi.
nately, for action to which he had given
his approval as absolutely necessary,
could not remain silent.
The bill passed the senate by reason
of the two populist senators, Allen and
Kyle, and the two Louisiana senators,
voting for it. This was done reluctantly
and it was we'll understood ut unless
certain changes were made confer
ence, these senators would u support
the bill on its passage. 20 already
in speech delivered in ID senate on
August 18th last given "details Of
what occurred between u eonferees
of the house and senate. -
The new tariff law is in ~ better
as tariff reform measure Y the self.
constituted critics have induced many
democrats to believe. 1t removes many
of the oppressive provisions IN the
Mckinley act aud does not deserve the
anathemas which ignorace and preju'
dice have poured upon it.
While the reduction of import dutie.
is $4,000, 900 annually, as compared
with the Mckinley act, yet as Mr.
Wilson justly says in his letter to ths
New York World, this docs not by any
means show the vast saving to the con
sumer. The outrage Of protection fol
projections sake Is found in the In
creased prices which the domestis
manufacturer is enabled to charge BY
reason Of the tariff on foreign imports
Compared with this, the amount o.
duties levied is comparatively unimpor
tant.
II the new law has done nothing else
its provisions on wool and w0Olei
goods have made o direct issue, thu
result of which will determine tn,
question of tariff protection IN thi
country. Under the Mckinley law th'
woolen schedule Is the citadel Of pro
lection. In 1898 wooden goods wer,
imported valued at $50, ,01S, 1912
upon which duties were collected
amounting to $50, ,4O4, ,797 81, the aver
age rate on the schedule being $50:
per cent. These enormous dutie
necessarily increased the use of shOdd,
and other adulterants in so-calle,
woolen manufactures.
On wool the duties imposed by tn,
Mckinley law ranged from l2 cent
per pound to 80 per cent ad valorem
Our republican friends assured tn
wool growers that the prise Of domes
tic wool would increase, but the pric
commenced to decline in tine first si
months of Harrison's administration
and is now lower than ever before. ]
the new law, which puts wool on tn
free list, demonstrates that the impor
tatisn of foreign wool is necessary i
order that our manufacturers can max
wooden cloth which will successful
compete with that made abroad, an
the domestic wool advances in price, a
it has done already, by reasOn Of add
tional demand, the fight for tari
reform is WON For myself, am gla
that the issue has been made, and
shall confidently await the result.
If there were no redaction of dutie
in the new law l should gladly supper
it, because it provides for a tax upo
all net incomes above "a 200 year.
All taxation should be In just propol
tion to the protection given by the GOV
ernment. Under the tariff systel
advocated by the republican party I'll
poor man pays as much to the suppo
of the national government as II
} multi-millionaire. The Tariff is u ia
unon cOnsumntion NOT nnon nronart