Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-08-08
HARRISON IN 4 BROWN STUDY
Blaine'S Attack on the Tariff Bill
Causing the President Much
Worriment.
And He is Now Thinking Hard 10
Harmonic Things in
General.
TIE Business of Rebukip@ Blaine viii
Probably be Put Off Till
Another Time.

Another Time.
Republican politicians who have seen
President Harrison during the past few
| days represent him as being in a great
state of mind over Secretary Blaine'S re-
cent course, says the New York Herald'S
! Washington CORES SpOndent. 1t Is not that
| Mr.. Blaine favors reciprocity. The pres
Ident is also a convert to that theory, al
though TO more limited extent than his
secretary of state. 1t is Mr.. Blaine'S
furious attack on the tariff bill that is
worrying President Harrison, and his
embarrassment arises from the fact that
he does not know how to proceed in the
in his letter to Senator Frye,
that there was mot section
or line in the entire bill that would open
a market for another bushel of wheat or
another barrel of pork, has produced
seriously disQuieting effect upon the
farmers of the country. Evidences of this
are forcing themselves upon the president
| daily. The president wishes to allay his
irritation. He wants the republicans to
get together, but unfortunately for his
peace of mind they are drifting further
and further apart. Mr.. Blaine and his
followers want reciprocity. Speaker Reed
and the republican members of the ways
and means committee, together with their
party associates on the senate and finance
committee. with the exception of Mr.
Aldrich, don't want it and say they won't
have it.
Speaker Reed is now preparing StatiS-
| tics to show that none of our reciprocity
treaties have ever been productive of good
results and these will soon be laid before
| the country in the nature of a reply to
! Mr.. Blaine Senator Morrill, of Vermont,
IN his speech upon the tariff recently,
| showed that he entertained the same SEN
| timents when he said: The Canadian
reciprocity treaty demonitrated, moreover,
| the prottlessness of reciprocity treaties
with countries whose products of ex-
change are chiefly agricultural and which
we do not want. They have little or moth
| ing else Tor expectation.
Speaker Reeds principal argument
| against the inequalities of reciprocity
| treaties is based on statistics of the opera
ton of the treaty with Hawaii. The only
product of that country is sugar. The
| speakers argument, drawn from the his
| tory of this treaty, is that though the sugar
y.
! benefit from it. Mr. Reed claims that
practically a bounty of S6000,000 year
is given Sandwich island planters, while
| the entire value of the goods shipped there
| from the United States has not reached
| three millions. Senator Sherman, when
| secretary of the treasury, said that it
would be actually cheaper for the United
| States to buy all the Hawaiian exports
and pay for them outright than to allow a
| treaty so unequal in its benefits to con-
| tinue.
President Harrison Studying.
am able to give you the truth about
the presidents attitude toward the many
reciprocity propositions which are crop
ping out among republican congressman.
He hasn't been browbeaten 10y Speaker
| Reed into casting the executive shadow
over the whole subject. As they say in
some sections of the country. 'On the
contrary, quite the re verse. The presi-
| dent took along with him to Cape May the
draft of the amendment prepared by Sen
| atOr Aldrich, the substance of which has
already appeared in the press. He is IN
clined to think it somewhat broader than
necessary, but will take time to study its
provisions carefully. As Senator Aldrich
did not intend to introduce his amend
ment for a week or ten days yet-until
the sugar schedule is in
sight-the president will have plenty of
time to ponder it. only state an open
secret when | tell you that President Har-
rison preference is reflected on the Pierce
amendment, which proposed to close the
markets of the United States to such
sugar producing countries as fail to recip-
rocate within a year But. recognizing
that it will be difficult to limit the pro-
vision to sugar, he is trying to find how 1t
can be made Just broad enough. When
ever Senator Pierce drops in at the White
house these days-and his visits are not
lnfrequent-he stays to dine, and when
statesmen dine togeth they get along
famously in formulating public policy.
So when you hear anything about the
Reed nOn-intercOurse plan prevailing at
the White house don't credit it. The
president, with his conservative habits
is feeling his way along the path his secre-
tdry of state has blazed for him.
Kicks Against the Reed Program.
Meanwhile the kick against the Reed
program has already begun in the house.
1t was a nice program on paper-the
ways and means committee to report ad-
versely whatever reciprocity proposition
came from the senate, the speaker to bull
the committee report through, and Blaine
from very shame driven from public life
Ine first kick comes from Mr.. Gest. Of
Illinois, a gentleman who has served two
terms without making much Of a STIR.
His friends assure me that though a quiet
sort of person, Mr.. Gest Is also gifted
with sand He was renOmInated the
other day, and IN renOminating him his
constituents improved the opportunity to
testify their admiration for the Blaine
idea. They specifically resolved that they
were for free sugar if they could get IN ex
change therefor a free market for their
-four, grain and other products | am
told that Mr. Gest. In his own quiet way
has shown this resolution 10 some of his
colleagues who have the speakers ear
In an even more quiet way he bas gently
remarked that the resolution accords with
his own notion and that his vote will be
governed by it. Naturally. therefore. he was
panied to hear that the speaker intends
to vote him to the other way. and he feels
called upon to remark that the business
of rebuking Blaine for advocating reei-
procity had better be put off tlll some
other time
am also told that Governor Gear, Of
Iowa. who has been the most fanatical free
sugar champion in the house, Is begin
ming to deplore the multiplying evidence
that the Blaine madness Is once more
rampant IN Iowa.
PARTICIPATING IN THE RACES
His Majesty Emperor william Enjoys Life
| In England.