Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-02-15
Washington Letter.
(trom our regular Correspondent.

washington Letter.
(From our regular Correspondent
Senators Jones, of Ark; Vest. of
Mo-, and Mills, of Texas, the three
good democrats charged with the i'm
portant duty of preparing the amend
ments to the Wilson tariff bill which
are to be submitted to the Senate F.
nance committee, have proven them
selves giants and earned the gratitude
OF the country, which wants the tariff
disposed of at the earliest possible mo-
ment, by completing their work, and
as the other democratic members of
the Finance committee have kept in
touch with them in their work it is
altogether probable that the amend
ments reported by them will all be
adopted by the committee and that
the Wilson bill will be before the Sem
ate before the close of this week. This
breaks the record in committee work
on tariff bills and is highly creditable
to the men who did it, but there is an
other thlng that is even more credita-
bic to them. The bill they have re-
ported will be supported by every
democratic Senator. The proposed
amendments have not been made pub
! lie, but they are all in one direction
that OF lncre asing the revenue which
! the new tariff will produce. There
are reasons for the belief that among
the proposed amendments are a duty
on Goa, and on sugar, both raw and
rshned. The subcommittee made no
change in the income tax. One of the
principal reasons for largely increas-
;; ing the revenue features of the tariff
Dill Is that the democratic Senators
are opposed to any further issue of
bonds and propose to place the Treas
] ury in such a condition that no more
will be needed.
Had the House not adjourned Satur-
day on account of the sudden death of
Repre- sentative Houk, of Ohio. who
dropped dead Friday afternoon while
visiting friend. it is probable that
Rep sentative BANDS bill for the
coinage OF the seigni orage in the Treas
] nry would have passed to-day. That
| II will pass early this week is the gem
eral expectation. There is much tai k
about the bill being vetoed by Presi-
dent Cleveland, but it is admitted bv
those who say they expect it to be We
toed that their expectations are not
based upon any information they have
received from the President. There
Is also some talk about submitting the
Dill to democratic caucus and that
may yet be done; not for the purpose
OF endorsing it but for the purpose of
to changing it to avoid the danger of
a veto.
Senator Morgan, of Ala. who is
chairman OF the Senate committee on
Foreign Relations, was at the time the
annexation treaty was negotiated with
J the Representatives of the provisional
government of Hawaii strongly in ia
vor of annexation. For that reason it
has been feared that he might not a.
gree with his democratic colleagues
Senators Gray and Butler-on the sub
committee which has been making the
investigation, as to the nature of the
report to be made on the evidence ta-
ken by the subcommittee have just
learned from trustworthy source
that those are entirely groundless,
as the three Senators named are in &C.
cord and will all sign the majority re-
port. The investigation is closed but
the report may not be made to the
Senate until after the tariff bill is
passed.
The remains of the late Representa-
tive Houk, were accompanied to Ohio
by joint Congressional committee
composed Of the following: Represent
tatives Hare, Springer, Bryan, Hulick,
McCraig, Ellis, of Greg. and Richie,
and Senators Brice Sherman Dubois,
Hunton, Martin and Allen. Mr. Houk
was much liked and the unexpected
manner in which he died, while APP
pearently in the best Of health, has