The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1895-12-27
MORE TARIFF AND BIHlS
TWO Proposed Measures to Meet the
Emergency.
The Bonds VIII Be Issued Only as a Tempo
Tary Relief
a Tarih BIZ and Bond Bill Agreed Upon
by the Ways and Means Committee
Mr.. Eeach's Proposed Pan
American Measure.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24-Two meas
ures have been agreed upon by repub-
liean members Of the house in response
to the call of the president. One Of these
will be tariff bill, to increase the
revenue; the other financial plan to
maintain the gold reserve and prevent
alleged existing trouble with the
greenbacks This party plan has been
perfected by two meetings ofthe repub-
lican members Of the ways and means
committee; the first held Saturday
night, with the cooperation OF Speaker
Reed and other leaders; the second
yesterday afternoon.
The tariff bill will be entitled, "a
bill to increase the revenues and to
prevent deficits in the treasury" and
will go into effect when signed by the
president, if be signsit, and will remain
in effect until August /, 1898, when,
by its provisions, its operations will
cease. Its items follow; A duty on
wool of go per cent Of the Mckinley
law rates; a compensatory duty on
wooden goods of go per cent of the Nc
Kinley law rates; duty Of 60 per cent
of the rate of 1890 on lumber, which
will be from 10 to Is per cent. ad valor-
EN-; an increase of % per cent, from
the Wilson-Gorman act rates on cereal
breadstuffs, dairy products and live
stock, including poultry; horizontal
increase Of Is per cent from the VIII
son-Gorman rates on all other sched-
ules, with the provision that in no case
shall the duty exceed the Mckinley
rates, except where the WilsOn-GOrman
rates exceed those of the KcKiniey
law.
The second bill will provide for two
issues of bonds The first will be an
unlimited amount of three per cent,
FIVE year coin bonds. to protect the
gold reserve, with the provision that
the currency redeemed by the proceeds
shall not be paid out for current de-
fcits in the revenue unless the expenses
Of the government are in excess of the
revenues (which, it is expected, they
will not be if the first bill is in opera
tion) In addition the second bill will
provide for one year two per cent
treasury certificates of Indebtedness,
not to exceed $50, GOO, 600 in amount,
and to be disposed of at the discretion
of the secretary of the treasury, to
meet current deficits in the revenue.
These are to be offered for sale at the
sub-treasuries and repositories of the
government. 1t is possible also there
may be added to this bill a plan to in
crease the currency by authorizing ma
tional banks to issue circulation to the
par value of all the government bonds
deposited by them with the govern
ment as security for their notes.
AIR. Beach's Proposed I'll
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24-Represeuta-
tive Beach, of Ohio is to introduce an
important bill which is the outgrowth
of the Venezuelan dispute. 1t is an
act authorizing the president of the
United States to call an international
GOh1CIGuCC VI Ill lItG uGN WI III re-
publics for the purpose of declaring
the Monroe doctrine to be interna-
tional law, The text of the bill is as
follows:
BE It enacted, etc., that the president of the
United States be and be hereby les authorized
To invite the governments of the other Ameri-
can republics to appoint p!euipotentiaries
with full powers to meet in conference in the
city OF Washington within one year from the
approval Of this act for The formal acceptance
and declaration Of the Monroe doctrine as a
principle OF international law.
Sec. . That any government may appoint as
many plenipOteEtiaries as it may elect but in
the determination Of questions before the con-
ference no government shall have more than
one vote
Sec. 3. That the president be and he hereby
Is authorized to designate the secretary Of
Stqte as the plelip)tentiary or the part of the
United States, aud that the sum Of $4,000, or
so much thereof as may be necessary. be ap-
propriated out Of any moneys in the treasury
of the United States not otherwise appropri-
ated for the payment Of the expenses Of said
conference, and the same shall be disburSed
under direction Of the president in accordance
with section 2gi Of the revised statutes