Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1890-06-12
AFFAIRS AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.


Appropriations Running: Short-GOssip
About Minor Matters.
[From our regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, d. c., June 9.-The
Senate finance committee has been al
most overwhelmed, this, week, by the
crowd of wealthy importers who have
come down here hoping by the half bill
ion dollars. which they represent to awe
the Republican senators into taking GER
tain clauses out of the Mckinley tariff
bill. These gentlemen say that if the
Mckinley bill becOmesa law it will bene-
tit the American manufacturers and drive
the Importers out of business. TO which
member of the committee replies:
"Thatis just what ought to be done; the
importers are of no benefit to any one but
themselves, while the American manu-
facturer benefits. the. whole community
by reason of the large amount of money
he pays out as salaries. The business of
importing might be stopped entirely
without any serious injury to this coun-
try" That is. the whole question in
paragraph. The interests of the importer
and the foreign manufacturer are identi-
cal, and every concession made to them
IuSt SOllllCil taken IRON Ule Amer
lean manufacturer.
The Senate has passed resolution to
investigate the United States Fish Com
mission, and some very interesting facts
can be brought tolight if the right wit
nesses are examined. The Fish Commits
mission is run as an independent bureau,
owing allegiance to no department of
the government except to Congress, and
some very rich stories of the doings
abroad of the SsFish-hawk'' and the
other steamers belonging to the commits
sion have been whispered around Wash
ington for several years.
Ihe unusually large number of allow
ances recently made by the pension office
have caused a deficiency in the funds in
the possession of the various pension
agents throughout the country, and it is
probable that quite number of pension
ers whose claims are now due will be
compelled to wait until after the first of
July for their money.
The House has been stirring up politi-
cal feeling by taking action upon several
of the contested election cases, and put
ting the men who were elected into the
seats which have been filled by the fel-
lows who stood in with the returning
boards.
The House and Senate conferees have
failed to agree on the pension bill, and
the House has instructed it's committee
to stand by the seryice-pension feature of
the bill in the new conference which is to
be held.
Senator Manderson, who has been ill
Tor several weeks, is again filling his
seat. He has entirely recovered.
Senator Sherman has offered the wool
schedule prepared by the National Wool
= sor,
to the Mckinley tariff bill.
Speaker Reed does not weary in well
doing. He has given orders that the
lunch, cigar, bric-a-brac and news-stands-
which have for years disfigured the cor
rldors leading to the House wing of the
capitol building, shall get out by the first
of the month.
line Senate commerce committee expect
to report the river and harbor bill. which
recently passed the House, to the Senate,
inside of ten days.
1t does not require mind-reader to
tell the congressman who, have been rein
stated from those who have been turned
down by their constituents. The last
named gentlemen do lots of smiling, but
the smiles do not hide their disgust.
Several Republican meanbers have been
lost IN the shuttle, whose absence will
cause no Inconvenience to the party
The Maryland Republican state asso-
clatlon has unanimously passed resolu-
tlon endorsing the MeComas anti-gerry-
Wandering bill, and asking Congress to
pass it.
Senators Hale and Cockerell got into a
little discussion about Canada that has
attracted good deal of attention here.
Both senators seem to take it for granted
that 1t is only question of time when
Canada will belong to the United States,
Mr. Hale believing that the annexation
would be peaceably brought about and
that the United States would assume the
responsibility of the Canadian public
debt, while MIR. Cockerell says that pos
session will be forcibly taken and so
much OF the debt as may be held in Great
Britain will be repudiated. A verbatim
report of the debate was cabled to the
British foreign office by a member of
the legation in this city.
Secretary WindOm, having waited
some months for the resignation of Chief
Bell OF the treasury secret service, which
he had asked for, took the bull by the
horns, this week, and gave Mr.. Bell his
discharge. No successor has vet been
appointed, and none may be for some
time, as the chief clerk of the Office has
been made acting chief of the service.
The Republicans of the House have
held two caucuses this week, on the fed
eral election bill and the McComas anti
gerryniandering bill; but no final con-
clusion was reached.
Edward (aged 13) and George (aged
i 10) sons of John Smith, discovered
raft on a small pond while returning
home from school at Middlebury, Conn.,,
last Thursday They bOartled If and he