Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1887 — A DEMOCRATIC [?]ILL. [ARTICLE]

A DEMOCRATIC [?]ILL.

THE ADMINISTRATION REFORM, « As Proposed in Revision of the Tariff—A Measure That Lors Off $62,000,000 — Internal Revenue Not Touched. Washington, December 20. The administration tariff bill, which will go I efore the ways and means committer- with the indorsement of Speaker Carlisle, after the holiday recess, as the basis of revenue reform, co template a reduction of $62,000,000 an Dual revenue. Of this amount, $50,000,000 is to come from the reductions of duties, chiefly on manufactures, aud $12,000,000 from .adding wool, salt, lumber, coal, etc., to the free list. The bill aims at a veiy extensive revision of present methods of administering tha tariff law, and at remedying inconsistencies and irregularities in the law as well as a general revision of the high rate of tariff taxes. It proposes ths substitution f specific for ad valorem rates where the latter are difficult of enforcement In the chemical, earthen and glassware schedules, numerous judicious reductions are proposed. In metals, material reduction on iron and steel are recommended. In the vool and «oolen schedule, raw wool being made free, the rates on woolen fabrics are so reduced as to take away about sl<‘,ooo,ooo upon the basis of last year’s importations. Inconsistencies as to i;ates on worsted and woolen cloths V.re corrected, and there occur some of the most important changes proposed in the bill. The bill embraces the schedules prep red for Congress last winter by Secretary I archild, substituting specific for ad valorem duties on silk, glove* and embroideries. It also includes the Hewitt plan for reform of the customs and administrative service with some changes and additions suggested by treasury experience since Mr. Hewitt’s bill was first introdu ed.

ashington, December 20. — Representative Brurura, of Pennsylvania, offered a preamble and resolution reciting that it is currently reported that the coal ope rators in the Lehigh region are now importing, or are about to import, 2,000 Belgian' miners under con- J tract to take the place of the miners now on a strike in that section; that the striking miners have used every endeavor to have a settlement of the differences by arbitration, and that the operators hare positively refused to enter into arbitration, and requesting the President to notify the Treasury Department of these facts, and urge them to use special efforts to prevent the landing of the Belgians, and to see that the law against the importation of labor under contract is strictly enforced. And so it. goes. The coal opelators advance the price of the product/of their mines $1.50 per ton but refuse to advance the wages of their employes 3|t cents per ton. — The operators are ihe men for whom the Republican party is clamoring for protection! If the wage-workers of -the land do not set down upon them—and that hard —we miss our guess.

Ex-Judge Nelson, of New York, in recently speaking of the renomination and re-election of Grover Cleveland, said: “He (Cleveland) has conc ; iated and united the Democratic party; he has removed from the minds of Kepublicans all fear of the Democracy, except the fear that its course in office may be so wise and patriotic that a long period of probation awaits th outs. He has made himself pre-eminently strong with the workingman and with th? business man ” Blaine’s Republican platform for 1888: “Keep up the taxes and spend the revenue.”