The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-03-02
NOT VERY ACTIVE.
The Senate Not in Any Great Hurry
in Getting at Work on the
Tariff Bill.
A Movement on Foot for Some Kind
of Reciprocity Treaty
with France.
The Anti-OptiOn Bill of Congressman
Hatch Will A gain BE Discussed
in the House.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Feb 2S.-[Special J.
"Of course the senate will linger long on
the tariff" says Hon. William j. Coombs
of Brooklyn. "Of course they will delay
till very late in the spring or early in the
summer. But what does it signifyp This
supposed or alleged eagerness of business
men to have the tariff settled is all mat
ter of imagination. No; | don't mean
that exactly. There is q real feeling among
the business men, but it is the result
of imagination. 1t doesn't make an iota's
difference what the tariff percentage is
on most of these things they are fuss
ing about-on three-fourths of them any
how, perhaps on nine-tenths of them. /
have been exporting American made goods
for 3S years, and tell you this tariff scare
is obsolete. The American tide has risen
far above it. Look at galvanized iron, for
instance It sold in New York lately for
less than the English price You newspa-
per fellows ought to have known better
than to encourage the idea that the senate
would rush the matter. Didn't you know
that the senate was very weighty and de.
Lucrative body?"
A Continental Comparison.
Mr.. Coombs accompanied this statement
with facial movement which in man of
less dignity might have been taken for a
humorous wink.
1.-THE committee made n mistake, Of
course, in refusing hearings. The different
senators can get hearings anyhow, and the
thing will draw out-well, ] don't know
how long. 1t isn't, in fact, worth while to
bother about it, for the manufacturers are
resuming business just the same and would
have resumed anyhow, as we can produce
hundreds Of classes of articles at less cost
than foreigners can. Why, look at the sense
of it. England is too restricted in territory
Germany istaxed to death and ridden down
with military organizations. France, much
in the same fix, bends her energies to things
not in our line, and so on with all the old
| countries. We alone are free from all
weights except those Of our own making.
We alone have a continent to draw upon
and all the liberty that we want. Then
what effect will the Wilson bill have?
Why, just to let people know the thing can
be done-just to give healthy shock to a
diseased imagination"
IF the tariff makes no difference, where
will be the particular gain by the Wilson
| bill?"
I'm the revenue. Must have that you
know and if you'll watch the senate I'm
| pretty sure you will find that all the amend
| ments are in the interest of revenue. OF
course they will accommodate some inter.
ests in the additional duties they place, but
the primary object will be revenue, and
when we get the bill into operation and
people get over this senseless scare we shall
have the world for customers, and antici.
pate a boom. Oh, certainly, you can say
with confidence that the senate will take
plenty Of time and debate the thing long
WcKinlev hiII was dehateI. that II will
amend the hill cbief1v in tbs Interest ot
revanue and that tho delay will NOT mat a
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