Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1896 — NEW REVENUE LAWS. [ARTICLE]

NEW REVENUE LAWS.

It I* Said Some Tariff Legislation May Be Knacted. ' A Washington correspondent says that it is assumed as one of the things very likely to occur that there will be tariff legislation without regard to currency reform enactments. Speculation upon this point is taking a form which leaves little room for doubt that the matter has been thoroughly discussed by the friends and advisers of the President-elect and that, sufficient pledges have been given by free silver Republican Senators to insure the passage of new revenue laws whenever the word is given. As time progresses the chances will" increase for the enactment of a new revenue law during the short term of the present Congress, but it will not do to assume this as one of the sure things. The election returns from the several territories are of a character to blast whatever hopes they may have entertained of being admitted into the sisterhood of States during the life of this or the fifty-fifth Congress. Xo Voting population that is committed to free silver can hope to receive any fators of that sort at the hands of a Congress that is committed to a gold standard.