Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1894-08-16
THE TARIFF BILL PASSED.

At last the uncertainty is ended. and
the house Of representatives have yielded
to what proved choice OF two evils
the senate bill or the Mckinley bill, and
have given up the struggle by agreeing.
by vote OF ls2 to l07, TO the senate bill
in toto, and it has gone to the president,
who will doubtless allow it to become a
law without his approval. The house
Immediately passed separate bills for free
coal, iron ore. barbed wire and sugar, and
will 60 before the country on tina. issue.
While the house has been defeated in this
struggle, and both house and senate held
up by three or four senators as virtually
as highwayman holds up a stage coach,
yet the bill goes long way toward re-
deeming party pledges, and is vast i'm.
provement over the Mckinley bill. The
duties have been reduced from an aver
age OF - Per cent to an average OF 36 per
cent; the free list has been extended by
the addition OF many raw materials, which
will better enable our manufacturers to
compete in the markets OF the world
and the income tax provision, which tax
es what people have in excess Of their
needs and not what they need and can t
get, has been passed.
The remarks OF Chairman Wilson in
offering the resolution TO agree to the sen.
ate amendments were calm, but eloquent
and to the point. At the beginning Of his
speech he said:
do not pretend that am gratifed at
the outcome Of this prolonged controversy
do not pretend that up to the very last
had not cherished the faith and hope
that we would reach another and better
and more satisfactory conclusion OF this
conflict between the two houses OF the
American congress. l had hoped and be-
lieyed until there seemed to be no ground
scarcely for the hope and belief that in
such contest this house, backed by the
American people, enthusiastically sus-
tanned by the Democratic party, would be
able to achieve some honorable compro-
mise between the two houses which We
could have accepted, not from sense Of
duty, but with sense OF satisfaction and
feeling that We had responded to the
mandates of the American people. But,
Mr.. Speaker, we have simply realized IN
this great fight the fact so we'll stated by
the great leader OF the tariff reform fight
on this great question, that when the peo-
pie had gained victory at the polls they
must have further undergraduates
down fight with their own representatives..
And we have realized if nothing else, the
salutary lesson OF the intrenchment OF
the political system in this country under
thirty years Of class legislation, until the
mere matter OF tariff schedule is a matter
of insignifcance, and the great question
that presents itself is, Is this to be gov.
eminent by self-taxing people or gov
eminent by trusts and monopolies?
Ex-Speaker Reed added to his already
exalted position as a debater by INVITING
the conferres upon their inability to effect
compromise with the senate.
In the separate bills for free coal, iron
ore, barbed wire and sugar, the bold high
waymen Of the senate have, We think,
more to fear than they anticipate. The
Republicans will stand for free sugar, and
unless these men come to time on the
other bills this one will pass the senate
Just as 1t comes from the house, where
the vote on it was 276 for to II against
being the largest affirmative yea and nay
vote ever cast in the house.