Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-02-01
Washington Letter.
(From our regular Correspondent

Victory is in sight. 1t has been
hard fight and is not yet quite done
with, but victory is in sight. and next
Thursday-the time of taking the vote
was postponed in order to allow two
DAYS for the debate on the income tax
ameAdment-the Wilson tariff bill will
be passed by the House and it will in
clude the income tax. There has
never been moment of doubt in the
minds of Chairman Wilson and the
democrats who have been associated
with him in leading this fight as to
final success, and the number of doubt
ers has been gradually lessening since
the democratic caucus OF last week
endorsed the proposition to make the
income tax an amendment to the Will
son bill. There are some hard fight
ers among the democrats who have
refused to be bound by the action of
the caucus and the opening of the de-
bate on the income tax amendment to
day shows bitter state of feeling,
which will probably result in lessen
ing the majority by which the Wilson
bill will be passed by about twenty
votes, but the object long sought for
will be obtained; it will be passed
The few amendments adopted, aside
from those approved by the Ways and
Means committee, bears out the pre-
! diction | made when the bill was first
reported. Only two amendments
| that changing the GATE which the free
wool clause shall take effect (was af-
forwards changed for a committee a.
mendment naming Aug. 2. 1894,) and
/ that abolishing the sugar bounty and
| putting refined sugar on the free list
OF Importance which were opposed by
the committee were adopted by the
House, while the committee succeed
ed in defeating proposed amendments
strongly backed to change the follow :
| ing clauses OF the BILL coal, iron ore,
steel rails. tin plate, agricultural pro-
! ducts. cotton, salt, lumber, besides u
number of lesser Importance. Com
p.ete printed copies of the amended
| bill were On the desks of members to-
day for the first time
! "It's an i'll wind etc. While the
friends Of the Wilson tariff bill regret
that the condition of Senator McPher-
sons health would not permit him to
! remain in Washington and perform
+, the arduous duties that pertain to his
membership of the subcommittee OF
the Senate Finance committee, which
will have charge of the tariff bill as
soon as it passes the House and is sen.
over to the Senate, they rejoice that
SO staunch a tariff reformer as Sena-
tor Mills, of Texas, will take his place
on the subcommittee. The expert
ence Of Senator Mills in preparing and
getting the Mills bill through the
House several yea s ago made him a
tariff expert and will make him val
liable addition to the committee.
The democratic Senators made il
plain TO their republican colleague
that they intend to pass the bill for the
repeal of odious election laws. al
though disposed to allow the oppo.
nents of the bill all the time they can
reasonably desire to talk against it, by
promptly defeating the motion of Sen.
ator Chandler, who has been allowed
to pose us the leader of the republi-
cans in the debate, to postpone further
consideration of the bill to next De,
cember
Representative Bailey's resolution
expressing the belief that the Secrt.
tary of the Treasury has no legal
, authority to use the proceeds of bonds
sold under the resumption act for any
other purpose than that stated in the
act has been favorably reported to the
House from the Judiciary committee
and MIR. Bailey will endeavor TO get i
vote on it after the tariff has been dis
posel Of. Secretary Carlisle does MOI
agree with Mr.. Bailey. Ga the con
trary, he contends that he can legally
use every dollar that is in or may come
into the Treasury that is otherwise
unapproprlated" to meet the oblig;
tiens of the government TIE bonds
will be issued this week, unless the at
tempt that is being made today by
lawyers in the employ OF the Knights
| of Labor to secure an injunction from
the Supreme Court of the District oil
Columbia to prevent the sale of the
bonds shall succeed, and that nobody
expects.
| 1t is understood from trustworthy
source that President Cleeeland has
| rendered the position Of public prints r
to Mr.. y. A. Crandall, OF Buffalo, N.
r., and that Mr.. Crandall has p oba-
bly, accepted it. The same authority