The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-22
INTRIGUES OF POLITICS.
SHERMAN BOUND THAT ALGER
sHALL NOT BE PRESIDENT.

Mckinley the Candidate OF the Ohio
Senator - Mckinley Shaping the
Tariff BIZ to the Tune of His Buzz
zing Bee-Allison Also In the Great
Free for All.
WASHINGTON, March 9l.-Senator John
Sherman is no longer candidate for the
presidency, but he will have great influence
in tho convention of 1892, the greater, per-
haps, for not being a candidate. This in
fluence will be favorable to Mr.. Mckinley IS
candidacy, in return for McKinley's SER
vices to him, bnt will be most actively em-
ployed in defeating Gen. Alger's ambition
for the nomination. Senator Sherman has
long since ceased to use strong language in
describing the conduct Of Gen. Alger and
his lieutenants at Chicago, but his feeling
toward Gen. Alger has not changed. As
long as Senator Sherman lives Gea. Alger
will aspire to the presidency in vain.
Senator Sherman will use his influence, his
money and the afiidavits he procured after
the Chicago convention about Gen. Alger's
course to prevent his nomination.
WOULD KNIFE HIM AT THE POLLS.
Ii he should by any accident be nomi-
mated. Senator Sherman would help defeat
him at the polls. The strength of Senator
Sherman's feelings against Gen. Alger gives
double significance TO his S6erman's)
pointed allusion to Gen. Alger's diamond
match trust as a typical monopoly which
had been declared by the supreme court of
Michigan against the public interests. SEN
ator Sherman meant that the readers of
his speech should apply to Gen. Alger all
that he said abont the iniquity of trusts
Neither OF the Michigan senators like Gen.
Alger enough to defend him.
BOTH IN THE RACE.
Congressman Mckinley and Senator Alli-
son are candidates for the republican noml-
nation in 1892. This fact should be kept
prominently in the mind of all in consid-
Grafton of the tariff situation. Mr.. McKin-
ley is high tariff man, and could not easily
be anything else. 1t is natural for him to
obey the Ohio wool grower and the Penn
sylvania iron, steel and coal men. Mr.
Allison is low tariff man, and has always
found it difficult to be anything else. It is
natural for him to obey the weary farmer,
groaning under tariff taxation, in his de-
mands for free sugar, for example. So
radical are the differences between these
two republican leaders that when they met,
before the present tariff bill was moro than
blacked out, and tried to agree on rough
draft of bill, they found that they could
only agree to disagree.
GOING IT ALONE.
Since then Mr. Mckinley has not pre-
tended to consult Mr.. Allison, but has gone
on preparing tariff bill to suit himself
and his hackers among the monopolistic
manufacturers, with here and there a tax
on farm products designed TO compensate
the farmer for taxation already too great.
Mr. Mckinley knows very we'll that his bill
can never become law. He knows that
| even if it should pass the House it could
never pass the Senate. He knows that the
finance committee would report another
and very different bill instead of it, but
this just suits MIR. Mckinley and Mr.. ALI
son too, and for that matter all tho repub-
llcan leaders. The tariff is a political make
weight with them. They want its terms to
remain open for discussion in the campaign
of next fall, at least, and they would rather
see the bill fail than not The sufferings Of
their friends, the manufacturers, would not
trouble them seriously.
AT WORK ON THE BILL.
The republicans of the ways and means
committee have SET out, under the protests
and demonstrations showered upon them, 10
revise their entire bill. Both the free sugar
and the high tariff sugar men are hopeful
that they will get concessions, and the
Massachusetts mon express great confidence
in their ability to get the tax on bees en-
tirely eliminated from the bill 1t will
probably be Wednesday Of next week
before the republican committee will report
the bill TO the full committee The demo-
Gratis will let it be reported to the House as
soon as they can prepare their minority
report, but it will probably be the middle
Of April before it gets before the House.
THE SUGAR SCHEDULE.
The republican members of the committee
to-day considered the sugar schedule, and
had under advisement proposition to sub
stitute specific for ad valorem duties. There
was also some discussion upon the rate to
be fixed upon raw silk, but no decision was
reached in either case.