The evening times., 1896-12-14
FOR EMERGENCY REVENUE
Senator Frye Would Pass the
Dingley Bill at Once.
MUCH DANGER IN DELAY
Republican Party VIII Lose Votes
if 1t Cannot Meet Treasury De-
ficiency-Will Take Six Months
to Pass Revised Tariff Bill-No
Canadian Reciprocity.

The raising of revenue / $ the most I'M
portant matter now before Congress.
That is the opinion of Republican sena'
tors who are practical men and have the
interests of their party at heart. These
gentlemen insist that something should be
done at once to meet the growing deficiency
in the Treasury. They think that s. OF
more pressing Importance than the passage
O ( a tariff measure.
They are not opposed to the revision or
the tariff. Indeed, they think the tarilf
should be revised at the earliest monent,
but they hold that revenue should be Iur-
nished first. They appreciate the sitliit-
ton i'll which President Mckinley Will he
placed after March 4. Senator Frye Is tne
of these. Beside being that, he is one OF
best informed men on the tariff question
in the Senate. In an interview on revenue,
he says:
REVENUE NEEDED.
.'The emergency revenue bill now be-
fore the Senate ought to pass, though there
is no chance of that being accomplished, un-
less the so-callcd silver Republicans vote
for it.
The delay in getting hill through to
stop importations is likely to affect us
very seriously next year. Under the great
influx of imports that will take place be-
fore aEyncw bill llcanpasS. our manufacturing
and working people will be seriously hurt
next year.
Men who voted for Mckinley on cX-
pectation that they Will get work and
are kept year and more without work
because of this influx of foreign goods
will not feel much like voting for the
Republican party in the next Congressional
election. 1t viii take six months to get Il
bill through Congress.
Il do net think that any public hear
ings whatever are needed. new hill
could he framed in ten days. Dinglcy
could do it He knows all about the tariff.
And all of the old members In both Houses
are thoroughly well Informed on the sub
ject
SCHEDULES THAT NEED FIXING.
There are only few schedules that
need much change. The cotton schedule
is all right, excepting in a few Of the
high class goods. The wOolen schedule
will have to be transformed from ad
valorem to specific rates, and compen-
satory duties given for the duty put ON
wool. The greatest trouble with the
wooden schedule now is that under the
ad valorem system we do not get half
the duties the law calls for. On raw
wool, / suppose, the Mckinley duties VIII
be imposed, or perhaps cent less a pound.
I'm things where the prices are settled
on a lower basis, we must make cor
responding reduction in duties from that
Of the Mckinley bill. Tin-plate is one OF
those things. II will need a duty proper
tionate to the lower prices. But some
things are too low i'll price, and to give
our wnrknGmen employment, duties must
he raised accordingly.
The iron and steel schedule does not
need much change. Steel ties for cotton
and some things put on the free list must
be returned to the dutiable list, and inCon-
r,-.,f,i mol 90 inc rrfy nj hp In
ished product, only d little higher than that
of the raw material, must be corrected.
In the agricultural schedule duties must be
restored.
CANADIAN RECIPROCITY.
Senator Frye does not think a great deal
of Canadian reciprocity. In speaking of that
proposition, he says:
There is no probability whatever OF rcci-
procity with Canada, The thing is utterly
impossible They want to sell us farm
products We don expect to sell them such
products, but manufactured goods. They
cannot make a treaty to let our manufac-
tured goods IN without doing the same thing
for similar goods manufactured in Great
Britain In that event their market would
be no good for US.
Canada cannot make any treaty. The
treaty would have TO he made with Great
Britain, and she would never consent to let
our manufactured goods be sold in Canada
free of duty. If Canada were independent
a reciprocity treaty would be arranged in
no time. But us long as she remains de-
pendency OF Great Britain there is not the
least probability of any reciprocity what
ever. 1t is utterly impossible