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FRIDAY MORNING. JULY %, 1912.
Of the Free Press.
WASHINGTON, July Is, 1912.

general interest to your readers has been
done in the Senate since the date of my last
communication, witt, the exception of the
passage through that body of the Bill " fur
Their to extend remedial justice in the courts
of the United States" The object Of this
Bill is to guard agains, unnecessary collisions
between the State and General Govern
ments, in matters which properly belong,
under the Constitution of the United States,
to the General Government, to whom is
given the general supervision of our foreign |
relations, the regulation Of our intercourse
with other nations, and the exclusive power
of declaring war and making peace. This
Bill is calculated to provide for cases that
may occur, in this country, similar 10 that of
McLeod-and, if its provisions had been in
operation at that time, the General Govern
ment would have been saved much trouble
and expense and the country at large much
anxiety and excitement. But notwithstand-
ing the pressing, palpable necessity of such
legislation as this Bill contemplates, the Loco
Foco members Of the Senate resisted its pas.
sage with great unanimty and with exraor.
binary obsinacy and perseverance. Blu, the
arguments IN favor of the Bill we're so con.
elusive and overwhelming that it was passed
by very unusual majority, The following
are the yeas and nays:
Yeas-Messrs, Archer Barrow. Bates, Baynrd,
rerrle, Choate Clayton, Conrad, Gratis Crittenden,
rick Miller, Morehead, Phelps, Porter Preston, Sim
mons, smith, OF Indiana, Sprague, Tallmadge, White
Woodbrdge-27.
Nays-Messrs. Allen, Baeby, Benton Buchanan,
Calhoun, Cnthberr, Fulton, King, Linn Sewer, smith
of Connecticut Sturgeon, Tappan, Wilcox, Woodbury.,
Wright, Young-l7.
In the House Of Representatives the Tariff
Ri'' has been tho prominent subject under
consideration. | believe | mentioned in my
last that the House had rao,cd n r, solution
to the effect that all debate on the genera!
provisions of the Bill should cease at u
o'clock last Tuesday noon. Up to that hour,
the discussion was continued with extraor-
binary spirit and animation. On the Mon
day previous to the termination Of the debate,
the House continued in session ill after IL
o'clock at night. Every Loco Foco, who
spoke upon the subject, up TO the hour of
the termination Of the debate, with but one
solitary exception, took bold and decided
ground against the protective policy, de-
nounoed the Bill as a Wing measure, and
some of them declared that they should adj
! :.
One Loco Foco even went so far as 10 as
sert that the power of protecting domestic
industry was not only not conferred by the
Constitution, either incidentally, or by inn
plicalion, but that it was, IN fact, directly
prohibited by that instrument! Another
Loco, and one of the leading men Of the
party too, denounced the protective system,
as system of robbery and plunder! state
these simple facts that thu farmers in your
State may know villa, they have to expect
from the Loco Focos at Washington. l
have no time for comments at present.
have said there was one exception 10
this general opposition Of the Loco Focos to
the doctrine of Protection. This was Chas.
j. lngersoll of Pennsylvania. He declared
himself in fdvor of protection, but con,ended
that the ioaccr the duties were, the greater
would be the protection! He was the only
Loco who said one word in favor Of the pro-
tec,ive policy, and you may judge for your.
self how much such an ally is worth.
Since the termination Of the general dis
cussion last Tuesday, many amendments to
the Bill have been proposed in Committee
l of the Whole, hut most of them have been
rejected. OF the general character of the
amendments which have yet been offered,
WILL at present, only remark, that those pro.
posed by the Loco Focos wers. almost ,cith
out ezception, designed to diminish the pro.
tective duties, and that these pere resisted
aud defeated by the Wigs.
While the article in the Bill which pro-
vides for duties on unmanutaetured WOO
= was under consideration, four different Loe'
: Focos rose, in succession, and each proposed
y amendments by phieh the duty on WOO
e could be greatly reduced. These amend
ments pere promptly roted doom by III
Wings. think the wool-growers in yon
y State ought to be made acquainted wit
e these facts.
d One or two amendments have been pro
z posed by the Wings, and carried, by whic
,o the duty on Wool has been raised above tn
y rate originally fixed by the Bill. will endea
Of vor to give you a more particular account q
rs these amendments in another letter to-mor
r. row. ! will also state TO you the nature G
ii those proposed b. the Loco Focos, If hav
= time. In great haste. g. w. L.
= p. q, New has jus, arrived that 'h
" Whigs have carried the eiiy Of Now o-laar'