The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-09-04
THE TARIFF TO COME
That Is What Will Come on a Little
Later.
At Least SO Congressman Bynum Says
in a Talk.
OFFICE HOLDERS WILL STAY THERE
Ex-President Harrison Advises Them AL
to Take a Walk as He Cannot See
VIII They Should Stay.

why They Should Stay.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4~-[Special -
Representative Bynum stated to THE
GLOBE correspondent this afternoon that
the intention Of the committee on ways
and means was to push the new tariff bill
to completion as sOOn as possible. He
expressed the belief that the new bill
would be reported to the house within
six or eight weeks. The committee will
have daily hearings until September 30
for The purpose of securing the views Of
various manufacturers and others directly
interested upon the proposed tariff re-
vision, and after that date the committee
will close its doors and rush the bill to
completion. Mr.. Bynum believes that it
would be to the interest of certain manu-
featuring and farming industries in Ne
braska and other states to consent to a
moderate reduction of the duties and
voluntarily inform the committee, rather
than leave the committee to act upon it's
own judgment, as he thinks the revision
would be less than if the committee acted
without any advice from those directly
interested. Mr.. Bynum says the present
session will continue into the regular SEES
sion in December, and that undoubtedly
the new tariff bill will be finally acted
upon by congress in the early part of
next summer. He thinks there should be
no delay in the work, and that it is due
to manufacturing interests everywhere
that the suspense should be ended as
soon as possible.
81 am trying to make business connec
tons here, and propose to make Wash
ington my home This statement is
made by fully one half of the republican
officeholders who are being from day to
day turned out to give places to demo-
Gratis. SO many lawyers and physicians
have entered the professions from federal
offices in Washington that the city is
overlooking and at 10 time during the
past two years nave there been half so
many men out of work as now.
OtfiCehOlding not only becomes a dis
ease in Washington, but it seems to dis
qualify men for business in their locali-
ties. Very few persons after holding
office in Washington wish to go back to
their own homes and nearly all of them
are willing to accept half the compensa-
ton they have received in public life if
they can only remain at the national
capital. Ex-President Harrison, in
writing to an old friend here recently,
said he could not understand why it was
that a professional man would want to
live in Washington after holding an
office He took occasion to advise those
of his personal friends who had held
positions under him to return to their
old homes as O as the democrats dis
pensed with their services. About one
quarter of the lawyers who practice at
the bar in Washington have been con-
nected with congress as members of
that body or as employees of it. Fully
one.half of the lawyers in this city have
held federal office. There are no manu-
featuring interests in the national capital
and the commercial interests are limited
to small retail transactions. The city is
made up of retired capitalists, ex-otffce-
holders out of employm ent, an army Of
Professional men with small practices and
merchants.
1t is improbable that any administra
ton has contributed more largely to the
resident population of Washington than
the one which went out of office last
March, although it seems that about ore
half Of the men who held office under
President Cleveland's first term insisted
upon engaging in some sort of business
here when they were retired to private
life, with a view to waiting another turn
of the wheel and reinstatement in their
positions. Very few of them receive re-
ward for their patience. 1t would seem
that there are several thousand republi.
cans who are willing 10 wait for four
years in order to satisfy their chances
a yain with the offices.
1t is the custom for a man who is turned
out of office in Washington TO call for
the papers which be filed when he was