The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-02-10
MR., CAMPBBLL' EFFORTS
In Behalf Of the Soft Steel
interests Are Successful. Ii
A VERY STRIKING CONTRAST
between the i'rcscnt Ways and
Means Committee and Those OF
Past Congresscs--lIow Carlisle
Differs With Olher Leaders. I
sp.cinl pL,petch % he In.t!llpeneer.


WAsulSGToS, D. O., Feb. 0.-Mr. A.
". W.Camphel had final conference with
tho members OF tho Ways and Means
Committee yesterday. in relation to pro.
posed duties OH soft steel imports.
Tho results Of Mr.. Canpbelps efforts
in behalf OF tho soft steel interests have
been even more favorable than he had
hoped. While the metal schedule has
not yet been fully determined on, it can
be- said that soft steel will obtain juster
consideration than in the late Senate bill,
which, it will q remembered, would
have been Il decided imp rovement over
the present or tho Mills bill schedules,
The tari,l bill, us u whole, is fast near
ing completion. 1t is too early yet to
predict date for its presentation to tho
House, but, IN accordance with the Re.
publican ideas ofOxpedition In the trans
action OF public business, which were
already exemplitled IN the earliest pre-.
scntation Of m appropriation bill ever
known in Congress, this bill will bo in.
troducGd at the earliest possible moment
and afterwards speedily called up for do.
bate. lET.5T
STRIKING CONTRAST.
In lis every feature the Ways aud
Means Committee has furnished most
striking contrast 10 the same committee
OF the past Congresses. Instead OF star
chamber sessions, It's custom has been to
meet in full membership and with open
doors. What one member OF the COM
mit.ee heard all were perfectly free to
hear. Instead Of sncaking OF, with only
the majority membership present. to a
secretapurtment whose entrance is ever
carefully guarded by scryeants.at.arm
Ia place Of meeting has been publicly
advertised, and there it was to be found
day after day, ready aud willing to listen
to all comers. Instead OF formulatingi.s
report as though it were Il "round.robin"
and its trainers conspirators against the
public welfare, this committee will con.
slider its report finally and freely with
every member present who is able to be.
Finally, instead OF exasperating delays,
dilatory tactics and hesitating advocacy
i'll tue House, this bill will be put upon
its passage in no uncertain manner aud
at no distant day. Its advocates will not
be- looking for excuses to furnish their
constituents. Its trainers will not be on
their defense like public criminals. As
in the last Congress, us in the present
one, the Democrats are weighted with
the burden OF proof. AS they failed to
establish their position before the coun-
try then, SO they will even more signally
full to do SO now. This will not happen
for lack Of intrinsic ability upon the
Democratic side, for the forlorn hope will
be reinforced by that distinguished mem.
Der OF the Cobden club, Mr.. Carlisle, OF
Kentucky. But nobody realizes more
clearly than does that astute gentleman
that the present business situation is
not favorable, to say the least, for free
trade agitation. n.-------',+--.rs5 < -
now he DIFFERS.
Mr.. Carlisle differs from the more
prominent Of his political associates in
that he is not a mad crank, as is Mills, Of
Texas; 4 college theorist, rs is Wilson, of
West Virginia, nor devout though
hopeless believer in things that were, rs
arethe Breckinridges. He is not 80 set
in his beliefs rs to be unable to properly
construe the signs OF the times. These
signs have become SO plain that even he
who runs may read. Tho hard-headed
business men from every part of the
country, who have told the Ways and
Means Committee what the business
situation is and what is needed to per.
petuate and to still further improve
that condition, have left no uncertain
IMPRESSIONS behind them.
Yet the great majority Of those who
have been blind to patent industrial
and historical truths in the past will not
repent of their sins even now. Ex-
Solicitor General Jenks, in Il recent in
terview in this city, said that his party
had, until the days Of Cleveland and free
trade, been pull back party, whose sole
policy had been one Of opposition to the
doctrines Of Republ:canism. There arc
at present no signs OF further reiorma-
ton. With renewed zeal, as has been
SO well exemplified in the past few
weeks, our friends, the enemy, have re-
constructed and ampliiied the time. hon.
ored policy of opposition and obstruc-
ton. Learning nothing from experience
dearly bought; hoping for nothing, in.
sp'red by nothing, they will still con.
tlnue to rush in where angels fear to