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CONGRESS.
The GLOBE AND THE TARIFF-DEBArE IN
THE HOUSE. -IMPEACHMENT OF
THE PRESIDENT &c.

THE HOUSE -IMPEACHMENT OF
THE PRESIDENT &c.
Cores % ndence # Tribune
WASHINGTON, July 9, 1912.
Dear Sir: presume that YOU have before
this observed the attack made by the Globe
upon the able Report of the Committee on
Manufactures of the Senate, recently made
by Mr.. SIMMONS. 1t will, no doubt, be fol-
lowed up by similar assaults from that quar-
. ter and from some of the Locos IN Congress,
unless, indeed, mean time. they are made
to learn that they are making war upon
their own friends engaged IN the various
interests which The Globe thus attacks SO
fiercely. People engaged IN the manufac
ture of cheap shoes and boots IN this coul-
try will not feel very thankful to those who
seek to prevent the passage of law which
discourages their importation from abroad;
nor will those who manufacture low priced
clothing feel any more grateful TO those who
entertain such sentiments as those uttered
in the Globe.
! The plan reported by Mr.. Simmons is
looked upon here as the only effective mode
by which evasions of duties can be proven
/ ted, and the full amount of Revenue and
Protection contemplated by any given rate
+ of duties secured. and though there may be
some slight errors in the values now fixed
in this plan. they can easily be corrected
while the bill is on its passage.
The Globe is welcome TO all the capital
it can make by attacking Report which
in its objects and effects is more truly Amer
ican than any one ever adopted by Gen.
gress.
A plan which carries out so effectually
the very principles so long commended for
by the South, and at the same time secures
Protection to the Industry of all sections of
The Country, North and South and secures
u Revenue, will hardly be rendered unpop-
ular by the attacks ofany party.and cannot
be objected TO by the South itself, with rea.
son.
The debate in the House upon the Tariff
goes on industriously. For several days
past that body has continued in session
from ten A. NJ. until six and, on one eve-
ming, eight o'clock p. NJ, grinding out
speeches under the Hour Rule at a rapid
& TdlG. many dDlC opOOOhSo
have been delivered during that time. all,
or most of which | presume will be written
out and published. The bill is to be taken
out of Committee of the " hole on Tuesday
next, and as MANY Members have shown
great anxiety to obtain the floor, | presume
that the session Of Monday will extend far
into the night The Senate, it is believed,
.har fh.,
bill.
The belief is general here that the hill
will be vetoed, whether 1t is passed in lis
present shape or amend in the Senate by
the substitution of the bill of the Senate
Committee; but even in that case there is
much reason TO hope that mode viii be
devised and adopted which will leave the
country much better provided for than many
seem now TO expect. But of this more at
another time.
Congress appears TO be fully aware of the
existence of an imperative and pressing
necessity of stopping the constant drain of
the earnings Of our people to Europe and
to England, and Of protecting ourselves,
and ofprovIding a revenue, and it will not
be its fault if that necessity be not amply
met and provided for.
A great effort seems to be now making
in some quarters to create the belief that
the President is to be impsoched. &c. &c.
1t is scarcely necessary to say to you that
this is more nonsense. and believed here by
no men of sense. True, Nh. Bolts did
threaten something of The sort, but even if
he intended il as more than joke, | am
sure that name of the Wings considered it
in any other light. The Wing party have
a surer and better mode of attaining their
end than by attempting TO do any such
thing as that. That such end will be at
last attained seems now almost certain.
There is much tribulation just now in the
camp of the Loco-Focos here among the
half dozen Presidential Candidates, and if
they do not soon publish manifesto in the
wav of caveal against the rumored union
between themselves and the Administration,
it will not be because Benton, Buchanan
and others do not wish it.
Yours, &c. w.