Show 44 H 44 4 6 f WAR TAXES AND RECIPROCITY I It t H. H 4 As fur far far faras as the House of H Representatives is con con- the war ar taxes ate are now out of the wa ay The Ille I action f i n both body 3 yesterday ester day aJ in passing passing the the repeal J bij leaves n. n rasa for fOl the he next next important HI hel o on the the which is the Cuban reciprocity re re- te- te question 1 To who have been watching the people proc pro pro- c ings in Con Congress rSS it Is sufficiently evident that Speaker tp Henderson his lieutenants PaYne Pa of v. York York- Dalzell of Pennsylvania Grosvenor of Ohio a t their f following Howing are re individually antagonistic scheme of concession to Cuba whatever r. r They fear fem that Cub Cuban n reciprocity will open wide the tariff door doot to reciprocity fr treaties aties in ill general But Hut the influence and pressure of the administration added to fear of what the Senat Senate might do has f forced r rd cd them reluctantly to seem to favor or sOI some le sorto sort sort- o of sop to the tile Antillean n Cerberus Mr 11 Payne is re reported le ie- ported d to be considering a proposition to nui maintain pi duties paying pacing to the Cubans a rebate out of tJi the Treasury on their sugar exports to t the United States The Tue difficulty with such a a. scheme would be e. e th that t the Cuban government probably would apply appl exactly the same medicine to imports from this country and and so so not a cent of benefit would accrue to pro producers on either si side e. e It rt is stat stated d that le leading agli agriculturists in van vari various vali oils ous parts of the Union are aie arguing that a a. sacrifice of say ten million dollars in n duties on Cuban sugar su ii- ii gar would not hot or linfa unfavorably bly affect our cane oi or beet heet interests would open up ill an exclusive American market t for fifty million worth of flour flou cattle cat- cat tle tIed hogs s' and nd pr provisions and that all the returns i would go go- directly into the pockets of our farmers farmers' That may or may not be true true- true but but the fact remains that the tide has set too strongly in the direction of reciprocity to be now turned back It lt is s not seriously to be doubted that t the le House louse I consider and le perhaps pass some sort of a meas- meas ur 1 in recognition of the Q i ma d for fOl legi legislation relieving Cuba of some Of p plesent Dingley tariff bur burden en But it is not lit C an any bill on the subject approved by the Hb Hiie e. e Wa Ways s and Means Committee ommittee would finally b law It is more probable that the onus onuS' of am amending and licking into ultimate shape shap will he be left lef Senate and on that side of the Capitol th tb Q l I ces are aie that the complete abolition of war 2 t maY not be accepted an and that the Senate will wiH Old l bill hill to conference nce with a marked marke change changer r th That respect am and with a Cuban reciprocity a n the ne ou e of Representatives es will have havee tt ose e between eating humble bumble pie and accept- accept dicta of the more powerful chamber and s ting itself to the mortification of seeing reci- reci s P pl th Cuba Cutia effected by resort to the treaty making power All danger that the two branches branch s' s of tU tj the legislature may mar lock l horns orns before they e. e is not yet ret et obviated thou though h we weT J T IJ Ie t l that t there may be beno beDo no wrangling over t- t tw N agitate the country and int interfere with the orderly ti y transaction of th the Nations Nation's business in I Tigress I. I ess j |