The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-13
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, d. c.. I
March 10 1891

most in the Congressional arena.
though just what will be done about
it is as much in doubt as ever. From
the best inform alton l can gather,
after sounding two thirds of the men,
bers of both parties. | think the Nor
rison bill will finally pass the House,
though there are several Democrats
who will vote against it. Some of
those who reinclined to oppose tariff
reduction will vote for this bill be-
cause it really only does what the
Commission said last year ought to
be done. Why the Commission re
commended certain reductions and
then framed a bill which failed to re
duce, is not generally understood, but
that such was the result is shown by
the figures furnished tie Ways and
Means Committee by the Bureau of
Statistics. Six principle classes of
goods were reported on, and ofthese
four showed an actual advance in the
average rate of duty paid for tie first
six months of the operation of the
reduced" tariff. They were glass
and glassware, 0 SO per cent; wooden
goods, 2 10 per cent; cotton goods,
2 Z per cent, and earthen, stone and
pottery ware, 4.3S per cent. On each
of these there was also. a falling off
of imports amounting in the aggre-
gate to $1,374,491. AS to these, at
least, the plea that the Tariff bill of
last session has contributed to the
depression of trade is contrary to the
facts. On two classes of goods there
was a decrease in the average duty.
One was sugars, on which the duty
was cut down 2 II per cent. and the
imports increased by $2,36S,360 The
other was iron and steel, on which
the average duty was lessened 2 IL
per cent, while the imports were re-
duced by $500, 100. The latter
class is one of the most highly and
most unwisely protected of all our
manufactures. Since the trifling re
duction was accompanied by a heavy
falling off in imports, the claim that
the business. has suffered by the
change is untenable.
The subject of providing proper
accommodations for the Compression
al Library is being agitated a god
deal of late, as it has been IN the past
but the chances of getting anything
done still remains slim. The great
Trouble is lack ~ofintefest on the part
of members. The library has no
constituents to please, and differs
widely from q creek which somebody
desires TO have improved for the navi-
cation of scows. Members of Con.
gress take little interest in books, and
have no pride in a library so long as
they can get somebody to coach them
on statistics and historical facts fol
their speeches. What is called the
Library of Congress ought in reality
to be considered a great National in.
stitution, in which she literature OF
the country and of the world is to be
garnered IS a precious legacy to al
generations. 1t is a shame that in.
difference and lack of National pride
should leave it so long without oil
ediice worthy of the Nation and its
Capital.
1t is interesting for Il who don'1
care q picayune which side comes GU
ahead to watch the political chess
playing between Arthur and Logan
The latter has always been success
full in the use of patronage for his
ends, but the President b,icg nov
his competitor has much the advan
tage in that respect. Whenever a Lo
gan man is found in office he is pretty
generally gotten rid of, if there is any
way to do it; and on the other hand
if a Logan man can be won owe tt
the Administration by giving him al
office, it is done. This anxiety t,
secure supporters has caused tn
President to go square back on th'
position taken by him last fall, or
his return from his western trip. H
then said that it was wrong to senc
non-residents or carpet baggers tt
govern the Territories, but of The
Territorial appointments just SEM tt
the Senate, w. F. Fitzgerald, to be
Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of Arizona, is a Mississippian
William NJ. Bum nominated to b.
Governor of Idaho. is from Pennsyl
vania, and John c. Perry, to be Chic
) Justice of the Supreme Court o
Wyoming, is from New York. Fitz
) gerald was a Logan man, and the oh
f ject was to get him away from tn
South, where Arthur is trying hsrc
to get all the delegates. Genera
) Grant has lately declared for Logan
; but unfortunately the ex President
influence, here in Washington, a
least, is pretty nearly gone.
. That regular annual Compression
al side-show, the Woman's Suffrag
; Convention, commenced it's sessio,
here on the fourth instant, with
promise to continue therein for fly
days, or long enough to get thei
work in before the Senate and Hous
committees. Miss Susan b. Anthem,
Phebe C~ouzzins, Lille Devereau:
Blake, and the other fair clamorer
for a whack at the ballot box, are al
e on hand, and, so far, the Conventio:
. has been a decidedly breezy one
Quite q number Of accessions to TIL
I ranks of the sutfragists have recent
ly been made, and among them i
s Mrs. Helen NJ. Cougar, of indiana
the heroine of the celebrated slande
! suit gainst II La Fayette, Indians
nnuSpoper She 6rpw n tnuphir
t picture of that time, which she be
lieved would yet come, when me
' would lie drawn up in still more hos
g tile attitude against the wives, tn
sister, and the mothers of the cour
try; when they would snatch thos
: femme emblems that repre- ent til
virtues from their pedestals, an
Y supplant the Goddess of Libert
with a man having 4 plug hat on hi