The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-20
NOW THEY'REO OFF.
Big Ten Days Talk on the
Tariff Has Begun.
Chairman Dingley Reports the
Bill to the House.
HE MAKES A SPEECH
In Which He Follows the Lines
Laid Down
By the President in His Mes
sage to Congress.
HE MAKES A SPEECH

Washington, March 20-Yesterday
was stormy day in the house of repre-
sentatives The Republican leaders be
fore adjournment secured the adoption
of a special order fixing the limits of
the tariff debate and two of the regu-
lar appropriations bills which failed to
become laws at the last session were
passed and sent to the senate. The
other two will be passed today so that
as Mr.. Cannon said, all the driftwood
of the last congress will be swept away
before the struggle over the tariff bill
begins.
The galleries were thronged and there
was hardly a vacant seat on the floor
At times partisan feeling ran high and
the hall echoed the cheers of the ma
jority of the opposition as their respec-
tive spokesman made effective points
There were several squabbles among
the Democratic leaders which afforded
much amusement to the majority Both
Mr.. Bland, the silver champion and Mr.
Holman, the old watchdog of the
treasury appeared in their old time
roles.
Chairman Dingley of the ways and
means committee, presented the report
on the new tariff bill. The report fol-
lows largely the lines of the explana-
tory statement on the bill made by Mr..
Dingley on Monday. The report says
the deficiency in revenue justifies the
conVocatiO of congress to made a rem
edy. Although the government realiZ-
ed 1929, 481, 1874 from the sale of bonds to
redeem demand notes, $20S, 900, 900 of the
notes were paid out to meet the de-
ficiecy, which notes, it says, have been
a potent cause of the distrust in bust
ness circles.
At least &c. 900, 900 of the $196 200, 900 in
the treasury will be paid out by June
1 to meet the deficiency.
If the revenue had continued to rise
after the opening of the year, 1893 says
the report, as it had before that time,
the revenue would have been ample to
meet all expenditures and the govern
ment would have bRPn shared
initiation of issuing bonds to meet de-
ficiencies The report continues: An
other imperative duty resting in con-
gress is so to adjust duties to secure
needed revenue to carry on the govern
ment as will better protect Industries
which have suffered the past three
years from unequal foreign competition
and from the cOnsequet loss of purchas-
ing power of the masses of the people,
upon which the demand for products
and the prosperity of every citizen de-
ponds.
THE feasibility of uniting in a tariff
both revenue and protective qualities
has been amply demonstrated by the
results of the protective tariffs in force
from 1851 to 1893, at which latter date
the tariff of 1890 was practically uni
lifted by the anticipation of reduction
on a non-protective basis. The work
ig of the wool and wooden schedule of
the etarim of 1890 was practically null
and of the same schedules in the tariff
of 1894 on anti-prOtectiVe basis is ex-
The new wooden schedule it is pre-
dicted, will restore the wool growing in
duStry to the farmers, revive manufac-
turing and largely increase the revenue
from that source, which, because of the
character of the fine goods imported
under the tariff of 1890 was practically
derived from luxuries.
Concerning the sugar schedule the re-
port says: We have increased the duty
from the 40 per cent adva1orem imposed
by the present tariff on raw sugar to
]. SO cents, with a counter valuation on
all sugars equivalent to the net export
bounty paid by any country in order to
increase our revenue and a the same
time afford sufficient protection to en-
ultimately produce what sugar we may
require for consumption.
Our experience under the tariff of
1888, with specific duties on sugar, and
under the present tariff, with advaIor-
EN- duties, has convinced US, as it has
the administrators of the law and the
sugar trade generally although refiners
dissent from this view, that specific du-
i ties are preferable, more easily and GER
| tainly administered and absolutely es-
| sential to reliable revenue
There is then a review of various 9th
| err schedules in the bill. the effect of it
| being described and commented on at
some length. Only the most general
comparisons We're made. The report
urges action on the bill
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