Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1894 — END OF TARIFF NEAR. [ARTICLE]

END OF TARIFF NEAR.

It Is Expected Tllaf Discussion Will Be Closed W r ithln Two Weeks. A Washington correspondent assures the country that the tariff debate in the senate” will close within the next two weeks. The bill, he says, cannot now be beat n. The Democrats will all vote for it with the possible exception of Mr. Hill. The income tax feature of the bill is reasonably certain to be retained, although the campaign against it has been quit" vigorous of lath The New-Yorkers are especially bitter in their opposition and the re-

cent meetings in New York City have served t > inspire Senators Hill and Murphy to renewed efforts against it. Nobody else in the Senate, however, is paying the slightest atten’ion to the ciamor of opposition from New York, for the fact is recognized* that those interesting themselves in these meetings of protest against the income tax are malnly persons connected with corporations. All of the Populi t Senators will vote for the retention of the income tax, so that, with the solid Republican strength of thirty-eight votes against it, there would still be needed five Democratic vot‘s wi’.h t e opposition to insure its defeat. The only Democ atic opponents now counted upon are Hill. Murphy, Smit i and Brioe, so that the income tax is likely to have at least a ma ority of one. Speaker Crisp and the Democratic leaders in tho House are expecting the tariff bill to come back to them soon, aud to that end they are hastening the pending measures in the lower branch of Congress. Tho bank tax bill is now before the House, hut notice has been served upon its friends that they must get it out of the way at ouee. Most of the appropriation bills are through the House. Among the few remaining is the Indian bill. As soon as it is out of the wav the House will be ready to resume consideration of tho tar IT bill. The House members genera l ly now believe tho Senate is in earnest about hastening the bill, and it is conse uently expo -ted to coma back to the house witnin tho next two or three weeks.