Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-29
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~, " 49, 49, N1>'4st <Auf1uc -ft.----Ntuul
is again in supreme command OF n
majority of tile Senate. He was ie.
|nient towards Senators Hoar. Spooh
er aud the rest of his opponents,
letting them down easy hy allow,
ing them to report a new tcsolus
tion in place of the Quo offered by
him. But it amounts to precisely
the same thing as If his resolution
had been adopted. Tho tariff bill.
is to be voted upon tho first week
or ten days of September, and as il
special sop to the radical element
tile most dfthe Republican, Senators
have signed an agreement to vote
for tho consideration of the Force
bill in December next This does
not mean that all Of the Rcpublil
can Senators will vote for that
atrocious measure, for II number of
of them have stated TINT, while
they were willing I'd have the bill
considered, they proposed voting
against it, The radical element
hopes to gain four votes for it from
the new Senators from Idaho and
Wyoming.
Senator German was asked what
tho Democrats proposed to do in re-
gard to tho tariff bill. Ho said !:
mo agreement has been reached
us to the c'oSe of debate upon the
tariff bill. When there has been a.
sufficient, if-not thorough and sat
isfactory discussion of tho bill, the
Democrats will agree, i'll accord.
ance with the custom of the Senate,
to take u vote upon it. The ques
ton has already been under COLI
sideratiOn, but no conclusion has
been reached. The proposition for
a closure must como from the Re.
publicans. Mono has yet been re.
ceived. When it comes wo shall de-
eide whether it is satisfactory, if
not we shall make counter PROMO
siLion." Senator German intimated
that in two weeks more, the Demo
Gratis, having shown the most strik.
ing Inconsistencies Of the bill, would
be perfectly willing to have the Re.
publicans pass it, and let tho voters
OF the country, at the Congressional
elections, decide which party was
in the right.
Senator Carlisle presented an ar.
gnment which no Republican Scna-
tor could answer when he showed
by price lists and actual bills of
sale that Certain American manu.
facturers, who are given an increase
OF duty upon products similar to
those manufactured by them upon
their plea that they are necessary
to prevent their being driven out of
business by foreign competitors
arc selling their manufactures in
foreign countries much cheaper
in some cases SO and 90 per cent.
less-than they sell tho Same arti-
Gle in tho United States. Mr.. Car
Isle said he thought, and the con-
sumers will undoubtedly think with
him, that if these manufacturers
could afford under the present tar
iff to send their goods to ioreiM
countries to compete with foreign
manufacturers Of the same article,
and sell them for less than they did
at home, that it would be manifest
ly unjust to the homo buyers to
raise the duty in order to allow
these manufacturers to make their
customers pay still higher price.
No Republican attempted to make
a specific answer to Mr.. Carlisle's
argument-it can't be answered.
"Frotectlon' is the humbug OF the
age.
If, in the face of tic acknowledge
ment of the Commissioner Of Pen
sions that he borrowed $4,000 on
notes endorsed by Geo. E. Lemon,
the king of the Washington pen
sion attorneys, the Republicans of
the committee investigating Repre-
sentative Cooper's charges against
Raum decide to white wash that
official, they will prove themselves
to be possessed of an unusual
amount of "gall,n even for Reeds
henchmen. When this charge was
first made, and before investigation
was ordered, Mr.. Raum and his
friends fnnpntnflIy etatad that nm