Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-02-01

hstrOuS 10 tue Onlteu OtatcS. nat
is why l view the situation with
Alarm
The Senate has passed it's tariff
bill, it has been sent to the House
aud referred to the Committee on
Ways and Means, and Mr. Mills and
other prominent Democratic mem
bers of that committee have promis.
ed that it should be reported back
to tho House ut n,i early day so Ms
to give that body nn opportunity of
voting upon it.
a notable feature OF the debate in
the House attendant upon it's refer
enco 10 committee WINS the spec ch of
Mr. Mckinley, Of Ohio, who is be
lieved to represent the views of Gen.
liar, ison. lie made IN appeal TO
tue Democrats to relieve tho present
situation by agreeing to some sort
of 81 compromise which will reduce
tho Treasury surplus by thirty Or
forty millions OF dolnrs What ef.
feet this appeal will have is Of cou So
ut this time Il matter of conjecture,
but there arc many Democrats who
believe that II compromise Will bo CT
foc;od whereby bill that will meet
the approval Of the most conscrvu-
tive members of both pnities will be
agreed to. Ii an agreement is reuch
cd it Is probable that tho most of the
reduction will come from the inter.
nal revenue.
As the end OF The present admin
ist'aiion draws nearer the popularity
Of Airs. Cleveland seems 10 increase,
il that were possible. Saturday nj
ternoom, notwithstanding Disagree
able rain,iorIn. nearly two Thousand
people attended her public reception
Senator Allison has gone TO In
diannpolis to finally settle tho qucs-
tion aJ TO who will lie tiarrison'.,
Secretary Of the Treasury. Allison
is said 10 have declined tho honor
three times 10y letter, bnt Harrison.
still insisted; hence tho present visit.
Mr.. Randall is very indignant at
the reports sent out from Washing
ton rs to his intended action in op.
position to the wishes of the Demo.
cratic members Of the Ways and
Means Committee eli the House in
regard to the tariff bill The fact is
that MIR. Randall will do nothing to
cmba:rass the members Of that com
init Tee.
Frank IIatton, The new editor of
the Washington Post, loses no op
portunity OF booming Malone for II
Cabinet position, but the imdications
are that Mr.. Hation's influence with
Gen. Harrison is very slig It.
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Southern men who arc so quick to
join in the hue aud cry for the most
strenuous restrictions upon immi-
grafton To this country. without re
gard to the character or worth of the
immigrant, would do well to ponder
these sensible utterances which are
taken from an editorial in the New.
York Sur:
Nor should any representative of
NE Southern whites assist in the ell
actmtnt Of law which would opcr.
ate to check the tendency to The in
crease of the white over the black
race in this country, wherein lies
tho best hope Of future safety for the
Gulf States. The importation of ne
Srocs ceased i'll lSAS, but the incom.
ing Of white immigrants should ncve:
he arrested SO long as the blacks are
relatively numerous enough TO con
stitnle IL source of danger in certain
sections of the American republic.
better the existing laws respect
ing immigration, with all their short
comings, than measure which
would cnt us of, in even an npprecia
bic degree, from the exhauslless
fountain OF population and zurich
ment 10 which for forty years our
uncxnmpled progress has i'll large
measure been due"
The people Of the Sonth will never
consent to dispense with such relief
as this, to have taken from thea,
such II remedy for tho perils that
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