Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-01-04
TARIFF PLANS CUT And DRIED
Indications That Republicans Have
Determined on Extra Session of
Congress in Spring.
The PURPOSE is PROTECTIVE TARIFF
Claimed That the Proposed New Tariff
Measure Has Been Framed for I'm
mediate Action-Grand Stand
Play in Progress. ah,noh
church.

Washington, Jan. 4.-The tariff plan
of the Republicans are cut and dried
There will be for one thing an extra ses
sion. This extra session will be called al
soon after Inauguration as McKin.vy~ snt
the law can bring it about. When Nc
Kinley comes to Washington to take hi
inaugural oath, it is probability that hi
will bring with him the extra session cal
already prepared.
| The purpose of this coming extra ses
sion is tariff. The Republicans will pass
tariff measure. That will be the main
business Of the session. They may be
forced also to tinker with finance in an
incidental way.
To be ready to pass tariff bill with
the convening of the next congress, the
Republicans, with the wisdom and fore
thought which has generally character
lied them, are preparing the bill now
The ways and means committee is not in
its makeup expected to undergo
much change. Dingley, Dalzell, Gros-
venor and Serene Paine will all be in the
next congress, as they are in this. Reed
will be the speaker again, and will stick
to the committees as they are.
Nor are any important notifications
anticipated in the senate finance commit
tee, the sub-body to which tariff bill
would 60 when it passes the house.
For these reasons of non-change in the
congress committees, 1t is possible, as
we'll as wise, to make up the detail of the
coming tariff bill now and have it ex-
haustively ready to report for passing
the house the moment Reeds gavel falls
for order on the first day, if the tariff
managers and Republican party man
ayers deem it the political thing.
THE TARlFF BILL READY.
AS to the bill itself, it has been pract i
cally agreed on and is already fairly
framed and drawn in all its broader lines
Mckinley, IN nomination and election, is
the production of the manufacturers.
They paid his debts, they betrayed the
expenses of his nomination, they swelled
bis cam paign fund later until it took
seven ciphers to tell the total. The
banks aided, but the manufacturers led
and really bore the heat and burden of
the day in McKinley's construction.
The manufacturers with tariff will
naturally be McKinley's first care. The
banks and finance must wait, as second
fiddle folks should. And, as stated, the
tariff bill agreeable to the general desire
of the manufacturers is already settled
fact, and its draft is this moment with
Dingley.
What the sugar men want, what the
iron and the oil and the wooen and the
cotton aad the lumber and all the other
men of manufactures want has already
been quietly but clearly expressed.
Dingley knows their wants; Mckinley
knows and, more important than all,
Mark Hanna knows--he who collected
the money from these folk of the manu-
facturers and made the tariff deals in the
first place.
Because tariff in it's passage is fairly
programmed thing to-day, these meetings
or 'hearings" before the ways and means
committee
ARE THE MEREsT CLApTRAP.
They mean nothing of tariff import.
ance. They are intended for the grand
stand, for the public, and to give the ap-
pearanca of making bill in broad day
light, before mems eyes, which has already
beer made in the dark.
These meetings have but one purpose,
Of filling the public mind with the idea
that the tariff mongers of the Republic.
ans are nothing If not fair and sincere;
that they are moved wholly by public in
terest and not at all by any favorltism
for certain manufacturers who "put up"
for Mckinley.
Because these "hearings" are naught but
grave faces are mere blinds, their nun.
ber or extent can not be subject of con-
Germ. Whether they have eight or eighty
hearings or none at all, the tariff bill will
come out the same.
There will be no attempt to pass tar
iff bill this session. Cleveland would veto
it; but even if he would sign it the Re-
publioans, playing their game wisely,
wouldn't give him chance. They pre-.
fer to have an extra session with Nc
Kinley in the White house to sign the bill
ana take care of their tariff measure.
They are right.
It is expected when the bill is made
that it will be the strongest and most
eminent case of protection" the world
has witnessed yet. The duties will be
high and specific rather~than ad valorem.
Nor is much trouble or opposition an
tici pated in passing the bill. There will
be practically none in the house; and
present signs would chow clear weather
ahead in the senate. It is a safe prophecy
that May l5 next will find the new tariff
bill agreed to by both house and senate
and in McKinley's hands for signature.