Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-19

Pensions While Union Veterans
Lose $4,000 900.
The New York Times, which is rap
idly gaining continental fame as the
most wide-mouthed and thOrOugh-go
inc Of cuckoo organs, is filled with
yirtuous wrath, says the Brooklyn
Times, because Sundry INSCRIPTIONS
Yankee prints have complained that
the south is perhaps unduly repre-
scented in the conference committees
appointed by the senate and the
house-Or rather, by Vice-President
Stevenson and Speaker CriSp-to ar
range the differences between the two
branches of congress in regard to the
tariff bill 1t says:
mo one need be at all alarmed be
cause the republican newspapers have
chosen to excite themselves over the
fact that the membership of the con-
ference committees of the congress
on the tariff bill is largely southern.
The complaint is perfunctOry, and as
it is about the only one that suggests
itself to the opposition the democrats
may we'll allow it to pass without Ell
deavoring to apologize for what could
not easily be helped, and for cond!- !
ton of things that does not really call
for correction. If there is anybody
seriously concerned about what will
happen in the conference 1t may be
assumed that it is the great north
eastern section of the country. well
protected by the Mckinley act which
has managed, by bold manipulation
of the "reYiSiOn" democrats, to secure
so many concessions that the north
western republicans who have just
found out that they have not been con
sidered at all have begun to wonder
why it was that their usually sharp !
ewes did not detect the seltiShneSS that ,
was inspiring the northwestern repub- !
lican senators to demand and fight for
the best rates possible for materials
needed by the northwest, and highest
rates they could get for the things
they have to sell"
The Brooklyn Times, of course, SYM
pathizes wholly with the view taken !
by it's New York namesake. If the
bill is designed, as the Times has
strenuously insisted, Tor the WfeaklnS
of confederate grievances by the ue-
Struction of the industries OF inc
north. why should northern represent
tativeS have any voice in the matter!
"'The lamb thy riot dOomS to bleed
today" is not usually invited to CON
ference with the butcher as to the time
and method of his slaughter. The in
dustrial centerS of the union which
are marked for destruction by the oil, !
receive Just as little consideration.
Here is a list of eight democrats Oh
the committee who will have ever! !
thpg to say in fixing the hnal shape
Of ,hC bill:
Senator Voorhees,. ........ Indiana
Senator Harris. ........ tennessee
Senator Vest. ..............,. Missouri
Senator Jones. ......... 'AfhailSaS
Congressman Wilson. ... West Virginia
Congressman Mcmillan. -. tennessee
Congressman Tuner. .GeofSla
Congressman Montgomery .hehVucky
Voorhees,, the only representative OF
the north on the list, was d good
enough copperhead during the war
and he has never Wavered III MS cou-
federate sympathies. Mcmillan, Iur-
ner and Montgomery make II" DoaSI
in the ngreSsional record OF their
services in the confederate army al
though it is safe to assume that theE
were not idle spectators OF the great
struggle i'll which their states were
involved, but Harris was a volunteer
aid upon the staff of the commanding
general Of the confederate army Oh
Tennessee for the last three years Oh