Show washington WORKS the resolutions solutions Ee introduced by senator plumb in mil aiu sais liisi followers Fol louers fame by a tariff bill oilier items from our regular washington D amay 30 mr introduced a resolution in the senate which 51 enable its members to learn hat ohp arc voting for when they paa a affecting the prices of most all of the productions and importations of ahe stales the present practice with tariff bills enables a committee inspired by tho protected interests to force a bill through con drefs refs without any consideration and which none but an expert isn nidar tand the day atiat the bill 13 presented to the house it is shrouded in then the party lash is applied the desperate opposition of a few industries calls particular races into notice A pretense i afforded for the airing of a little oratory and the bill passes the members dont knoer hy or what they have in cread or decreased in duties in he ion list of tariff rates and ia a great part of tho de of the bill the committee that dratted it are guilty of the same ignorance the resolution directs that the finance committee report to the senate in connection with the tariff bill a statement showing the duties levied under the present davs under the mckinley mouse bill and under the bill it shall itself produce in parallel column for convenient comparison aal examination tho committee ia specially instructed aliat liat where it recommend a levy of duty not now provided for by law or an increase above that now imposed to furnish the senate the therodore thero fore in each case in writing mr McKinley said his followers sought to pain fame and political capital by making a totally tariff bill to d eliat the rates were altered for every imported article after four months of labor the change was made but no reason could be given for P great ganv if not most of the alterations in making them mr mckinley and the committee knew nor did they take the trouble to learn what the rates were under alie present law he acknowledged this repeatedly on tho floor of the house of congress when applied to for information the prime object seemed to be 1 new and a mckinley hish tariff bill it was presented to th f louse with no comparative tables and no reasons were given for th changes made many of which would destroy flourishing industries and others bising the tariff where the duties already produce a heavy revenue and unnecessarily tax the people eor example what reason was offered tor raining the duty on copper after companies were n amed in the house who made scarly profits as great as on an investment of 1500 or on tin that every famila requires though not a pound is produced in this country the people of kansas would like to hear alie reason why their smelling v orka should be dried up and market in mexico for their bread stuff destroyed by new duties on silver lead ore that already produces a big surplus revenue and so on and in on consideration of alie of the senate it was amended to add a column showing the equivalent ad valoree valorem duty another for basea where tariff is reduced and the words where practicable added to the requirement of giving reasons for alterations this last amendment is unfortunate as the ommittee will malc its own construction of the word Practicable but it is to be hoped that there are more in the senate infused tho idea of mr plumb to suffer certain manufacturers to fry their own fat rather than have the duties higher and tho frightful example of the house before it and its increased facilities for information iiii to bo limped that the senate will produce a tariff bill that will be free of a great deal of the injustice in that one so wantonly passed by the house having completed the greatest effort of his life mr mckinley McKin lev is now preparing pre naring a silver bili it is conservative in ais tendencies and of the jeneral terras as that adopted by the house caucus he expects to pas it through the house by a special order before the senate passes a silver bill which he fears will be for free coinage he thinks that if a conservative is first passed by the house it will have a good effect in deterring the senate from extreme courses the na al appropriation bill has finally passed the SS ennio including the provision for these heavily ar vessels at a cot of each quite a spirited discussion preceded the passage of this pr vi ion between senators in favor 01 anil opposed to a large anvy mr blair wished to amend bv making a provision unavailable until england had been requested by the president to withdraw all her naval forces from american Americ nn waters and dismantle her naval stations in both north and south american and adjacent islands and if the request was not corn plied with within ayar to build a great navy in to the question as to what anav er he would expect from eng lind he that he thought it would le |