The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-06-07
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The TARIFF
Overtures From Democrats
to the Beet Sugar
Insurgents.
Possible Alliance That Might
Bring an Early Re-
vision.

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rron, The Journal Bureau. Room 80. Po.'
building. Washington
Washington, June Z. - Tariff revision
sentiment is increasing at a. rapid rate in
congress, due to the platform express
sions of republican conventions, state and
congressional district, in various parts Of
the country. The leaders, as yet, have
strange, these leaders being for the most |
part men from the eastern states, where |
high tariff views prevail. 1t is among |
the rank and file Of the house membership |
that revision sentiment is making most |
Roadway, and it need not surprise the
public if an effort should be made to- put
revision under way at the short session
of congress next winter. =.
The beet sugar war of the present con-
gress is expected to play an important
part in bringing tariff reform about, and
OF the numerous suggestions that have
been made as to ways and means there is
one which is attracting considerable at
tention. It is that the insurgent repub-
| licans of the next congress unite with the
democrats to prevent the election of
| Henderson or anybody else as speaker
who will not favor revision and appoint
| a ways and means committee accordingly.
| Overtures from leading democrats have
| already been made to those insurgents
| who are sure to be returned to congress
this year, and they have been listened to
with interest. OF course, it is too early
to speak definitely, or to know what will
done, but it is entirely possible that
| q n al cltnh a "
come to pass unless the house leaders by
| that time awake to a realizing sense of
| what is coming. =. -:
1t is conceded that in a movement of
| this kind the northwest will have an i'm
| portant clace. Minnesota for instance,
| which has been consistently insurgent, in
both houses, since the Cuban question
came up, will be in position to demand
important recognition, and her delegation
| will be we'll in the front of any, tariff re-
form movement. This fact should be
borne in mind during the campaign this
year., for the state as whole wants the
! iron, steel, glass, lumber and other
schedules. changed. Should there be a re-
i volt such as has been outlined, it would
mean that Representative Tawney, OF
i Minnesota, would be chairman of the
ways and means committee, and as such
would have general chargeHof a tariff re-
7 vision bill. Stranger things have hap
! pened. . -:
Speaker. Also Opposes Morris Bill.
/ It is beginning to leak out that the real
opposition to the consideration Of the
Morris bill in the house is not Representa-
I tive Eddy or Representative Fletcher, al
though both Of these gentlemen oppose it,
but S peaker: Henderson, who is pretty
close to the -Wey erhaeuser and other
lumbermen of. the northwest, and wants
to see no legislation enacted that will be
hostile to their interests. The speakers
relations to Minnesota 'lumbermen are
T also close, and it is generally believed
that these lumbermen have succeeded in
making him think that it would be un-
wise to pass such a bill as the Morris bill.
Naturally, the speaker welcomes the I'M
expected aid of Fletcher and Eddy, for in
proportion as these gentlemen succeed
1t will be unnecessary for him to. show his
hand. ess;-..-: - : ><c,s - - S-.-
Washington and st. Paul Are To-
. -: = T. =: gether. -.--}
.This is the first time in twenty years
that the federal and state officers in Min
nesota have been really and truly in
close sympathy and harmony" said a
member of the Minnesota colony the other
day, following the informal luncheon
which the congressional delegation gave
to Governor Van SAINT in Senator Hans
brough's committee room at the capitol
In former years there always was a sort
of hitch somewhere between Washington
and st. Paul, and it made its influence
felt in the state campaigns. This year
there is the closest harmony and good
will, and in the campaign which IS about
to open the entire delegation, on the
stump and elsewhere, will give the state
ticket most enthusiastic and loyal sup
: port.
.. House Opposed to Rebate.
Apropos of the possibility that the Gu
ban rebate proposition will ultimately
prevail in the senate, 1t is interesting to
recall that such a proposition was pre-
scented to the second house conference by
Representative Tawney, backed by Judge
Morris, and was swiftly rejected. In fact
so bitter were the house leaders against
rebate, that Representative Grosvenor, OF
Ohio one of the republican wheel horses
announced openly that if the rebate
scheme were adopted by the conference
: he would resign his place on the ways
and means committee. The scheme was
rejected by large vote, although Taw-
ney and Morris went down to defeat with
; feathers flying. In the senate there Is
a repetition Of the house program. The
insurgents have issued an ultimatum te
the effect that they will consent to a re-
bate bill, by way of compromise, failing
which they will resist to the last4ditch
the plans of the -so-called administration
senators. What the outcome will be
cannot now be foretold, but 1t is very ap-
parent that the struggle will be an inter-
esting one. The presidents statement
that the difference between reciprocity
and rebate is too slight to divide the re-
publican party, is Strengthening the posi-
ton Of the insurgents, and SO there is
more likelihood of the rebate plan carry
ing in the senate than there was in the
house.
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