Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1893 — TARIFF PREDICTIONS. [ARTICLE]

TARIFF PREDICTIONS.

rhe Result of. Tuesday'* Election* May and May Not Influence Logialntion. A Washington dispatch, Nov. 10, says: It is difficult to predict what effect the recent elections will have on the tariff bill now being formulated by the Democratic majority of the ways and means committee, but the utterances of Chairman Wilson Indicate that the result will have little weight in changing the policy of the party leaders. Indeed. Mr. Wilson rather confidently predicts that the passage of the very measure now being prepared by himself and his colleagues will bo the only thing needful to restore public confidence and replace the Democratic party on the pedestal of political supremacy. But the □pinion of Mr. Wilson Is not shared by all the other prominent men of his party. In fact, there are indications that the result of Tuesday’s elections will impel several Democratic leaders of National reputation to counsel tho ways and means committee to moderation, and will discourage the radical legislation that tho free trade wing of the party has been so strongly urging. It has been quite generally believed that the bill to be reported by the ways and means commintee will enlarge the free list by removing tho duty on wool, lumber, iron ore, coal and salt. Already the Democratic opposition to this policy has become so apparent as to demonstrate much truth in the famous characterization of Hancock, who declared the tariff question to be largely a local issue. A Democratic caucus will determine the policy to be pursued soon after tho meeting of the regular session.

The country people now form taxpaying clubs and each year a different member of the organization comes to the city and pays for all the members. A neighborhood bands together, each man putting in the amount of his receipt; then the one whose turn is next visits tho city and makes a day of taxpaying. One gentleman from Jackson township came in last Friday or Saturday and had about forty receipts to carry home when he got through.—Greencastle Banner-Times.