The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1894-06-06

promptly tOok suNauSubo VI "
to lay Vests anti'annexa-
ton resolution on the table, and
the vote was SO to Is in favor OF his
motion. In other words, 30 Sena-
tor, favor annexation and believe
it will come sooner or later, while
only Is stand by Mr. Cleveiand's
anti. annexation policy. 1t was a
great victory Tor Benjamin Harri-
sons Hawaiian policy, and the re-
publican Senators were perfectly |
willing to let the administration
aud the cuckoos down easy by
agreeing TO the adoption of a reso-
luton declaring the Senate to be
opposed to any outside interference
with Hawaiian affairs, and not
mentioning annexation.
No time has been set for the clos
Ing of the debate on the repeal CT
the tax on State bank currency,
which has been going on in the
House all the week, and it may
last two weeks longer. The vote
will be close, but it is believed that
repeal will be defeated.
Representative Black, of'Georgia,
whose only distinction previous to
tnis week came from his having de-
featpd Tom Watson, the loud
mouthed populist whose antics In
last House made him ridiculous,
made speech in favor of the re-
peal of the tax on State bank cur
rency that has given him the belt
for idi0tic 0ratUry. Among other
absurd statements he said that the
u. S, Supreme Court had no more
right to bind the House than the
House had to bind the Supr, me
Court, and that the general govern
ment had no right to enter state
and interfere with its international
business affairs under the guise OF
regulating commerce.
In a statement made 10 the
House immigrant n committee this
week. DR.. Senner, commissioner
of Immigration at Ellis Island
l New York Harbor, said the depart
? ures of aliens now exceeded the ar
}, rivals, and that the falling off in
immigration was due to the opera
' ton of the new laws. due to fid
: die sticks, remarked gentleman
; who happened to hear the state
ment. The falling off in immigra
U ton is due wholly and solely to the
o falling off in prosperity of the Peep
+; lie of the United States. Wher
II men cannot better themselves b.
immigration they prefere to stay d
home"
1t seems 10 be enough for this ad
i ministration for 1t that anything
o was favored by any previous ID
a ministration for it to oppose it. 4
y specimen of this spirit OF c0ntrari
il ness is shown in the letter Of Post
J. master General Bissell opposing
II the bill for government tele
n graph in connection with the Pos
J. Office department, which was thi
week sent to the Con merce com
q mittee of the House. Every Post
II master General for the last fort
e years has favored this telegrap
If idea in one form or another.
" The Senate investigating commit
II tee has been working very hard
n make the people believe that 1t ]
D. the newspaper correspondents VIII
10 have refused to tell the names
y those who gave them informatio
70 in confidence, who are on trial b.
y fore that committee, and not tn
10 democratic Senators and member
10 of the cabinet who are charged wit
Oh a disgraceful and profitable dickel
u ing with the sugar trust. The Sci
W. atOrs may delude themselves wit
IL the idea that the main issue in TIL
II investigation is to decide how fl
ru they man go in their efforts to con
Se pei these newspaper men to viola
l. confidence repOsed in them, but
re everybody else it appears that e
cry fresh effort against the CORE
pondents is but another attempt
N distract public attention from tn
real scandal, and to delay bringiI
out any scandalOus facts until Il
N sugar schedule of the tariff bill sh'
in have been disposed of. If the So
err ar schedule can be passed, and
n. looks now as though it could,
no though the republicans are maxi
M determined fight against it, t
be tariff bill can be passed. The sug
Al. schedule is the weakest spot in
he bill.