The morning call., 1894-01-15
TARIFF THE TALK.
All Ready for the Wilson
Bill.
DEMOCRATS ARE CAUTIONED.
They Must All Be Present TO
Defeat Amendments.
DEMOCRATS ARE CAUTIONED,
ORATORY IS NOW THE ORDER
Plan TO Substitute a Duty on Sugar
for the Obnoxious Income
Tax Measure.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14-The real work
on the tariff bill viii commence to-
morrow, when the bill will be read By sec
lions and will be opened By amendment
under the fye-minute rule. From now on
the bill will be in constant danger Of
amendment, and the House Democratic
leaders have urged upon all their col
leagues the absolute necessity of continual
presence until final vote is taken.
Chairman Wilson said ut is Of the
utmost importance that every Democratic
member be present in tie House from this
time until the passage of the tariff bill.
From this time forward actual voting on
the amendments will proceed from day to
day. Ii Will be necessary to maintain a
quorum, as the absence at any time Of
sufficient number for vote might involve
the loss of day or TWO in the coBsidera.
ton Of the bill. What is of mere conse-
quence is that amendments to the bill will
be made while friends Of the measure
and majority Of the House are present.
Il would be most unfortunate if amend
ments were made through the absence Of
sufficient number Of Democratic men,
bers to prevent them. For this reason it
is essential that a Democratic majority
should attend the sessions until the debate
closes"
The committee amendments necessary
20 correct imperfeetions discovered in the
bill will have the right Of way. The bill
will first be taken up by special sections
under special order and thereafter will be
open TO amendment in any part.
The Democratic members Of the WAYS
and Means Com mittee had a meeting this
afternoon to decide upon amendments TO
De offered. The decision OF the Demo-
cratic members Of the committee TO report
The income tax and other internal reyenue
features of the committee revenue plan
as a separate measure removes one Of the
main dangers TO the bill. as the opposition
to the iBcome-tax feature was formidable.
The fact that the proposition is not in
cluded in the bill will, it is thought,
strengthen the attempt to remove the sugar
bounty and substitute In its stead a duty
Of one cent on sugar. Should this be done
it wOuld raise $4,000, 0oO in the revenue
and save $1,000. coo Of sugar bounty and
remove tie necsssity and probably Kill the
income tax proposition. a great difficulty in
the way OF a modification of the bill in this
particular. is the Republicans will not vote
placed on the free list by the Mckinley
law.
The most important committee work Of
the coming week will be that before the
Ways and Means COMMITTEES, where the
internal revenue bill is still under con-
sideraii0n. Very unexpected vas the
change in the attitude OF Representative
Bynum in bis moving a reconsideration Of
the internal revenue features. There is
much doubt as TO what the committee will
ultimately do with the bill. The members
have agreed that work on the bill shall be
completed so as to go before the House
next Thursday.
as the Committee on Foreign Affairs
has reported all the Hawaiian resolutions
referred 10 it, the correspondence sub
miIte1 by President Cleveland has been
referred to this committee, and it will de-
terrpine az a meeting Thursday what
course is TO be adopted in reference to il,
The Coinage Committee. having agreed
70 report the Bland ssignorage bill. will
now give its attention to the Bland free
coinage bill Stone Of Pennsylvania is
drafting report Of the minority against
the Bland seignoraEe bill, but neither the
majority nor the minority reports will be
presented until after the tariff debate has
closed. Senator Gallinger has given notice
Of a tariff speech tomorrow. but it, as
well as the elections bill, may be crowded
over until later in the week by the tariff
talk AID the contest over Horn blowers