Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1884 — TARIFF REVISION. [ARTICLE]

TARIFF REVISION.

The Chances for the Morrison Bill. [Washington Telegram.] Mr. Morrison, speaking of the prospects of his bill, confirms the report that it was submitted to the Democratic members of the committee before he introduced it. He said: “They all expressed themselves as satisfied with it, with the reservation that in the discussions in the committee they might be disposed to submit some unimportant amendments. I do not consider myself so infallible that I cannot make mistakes. The bill is now in the committee for consideration. We are having some tables prepared which will show the rates of duty upon every article in the existing tariff and in the Morrill tariff bill, and what would be the effect of the bill which has just been introduced. ’ The Republicans have not held any conference on the Morrison bill, but they will probably oppose it. Their main argument is that it is a suicidal policy to agitate the tariff quest'on when business is depressed. A Republican member of the Ways and Means Committee, who is an extreme protectionist, says the Morrison bill will be reported substantially in the form in which it was introduced. Senator Beck is quoted as saying that if the House should pass the right kind of a bill be believes that it would also pass the Senate, and he thinks the Morrison bill as fair a basis for.committee action as could be obtained. MR. MORRISON INTERVIEWED. [New York Telegram.l The Brooklyn Eapie publishes an interview from Washington with Mr. Morrison in relation to the tariff prospects. He says that the bill is his own, but claims It should be styled a reduction of rates rather than a revision of the tariff. He is not satisfied with the scope of the bill, but prepared to launch , something he believed could be floated through both Senate and House rather than risk the defeat of something more to his own liking. He says he intends to get all the tariff reform he can out of this Congress. He may fail to get anything, but he proposes to go right along in what he considers the right direction.