Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1894-07-06

nprobabit Vill1atiitter 'is radically
from the Senate bill as that does
from the Wilson bill as originally
passed by the House. IN view of
the present position of the free
traders in the house, it will be
surprising if the country knows
before the first of August what the
new tariff bill will be.
Secretary Gresham did his part
to keep the interests of the sugar
trust protected by reporting, in
answer to Senator Hoar's rSsolu-
ton calling for information on the
subject, that the State department
had no official information of the
intention of Germany, or any
other foreign nation to place re-
taliatory duties upon American
products if the present sugar
scedule of the tariff bill becomes a
law. 1t is noted as a coincidence
that Secretary GreSham's answer
made its appearance Just as the
democrats of the Senate Finance
committee were considering the
proposed changes in the sugar
schedule, which would reduce the
Iprotits of the sugar trust.
Senator Sherman is very much
in earnest in his attack upon the
Pullman Car Company, for such
resolutions, which was adopted by
the Senate, directing the commit
tee on interstate commerce to in
vestigate and report upon the ad
visibility of a law for the regula-
ton of the charges made by parlor
and sleeping cars, really is. Mr..
Sherman characterizes the Pullman
Company and the sugar trust as
the two most outrageous monopo-
lies we have. He thinks that the
charges per mile to be made by
the Pullman Co, can be fixed by
law, Just as the interstate com
merce law fixes the charges which
interstate railroads may make for
carrying passengers, and what is
more to the purpose, he says he
doesn't intend to stop agitating
the matter until a bill caryring out
that idea has been reported and
passed. To Judge by the express
sions of opinion by both Senators
and Representatives it will not be
difficult to get such a bill passed.
Senator Sherman says the rate
could be made Just one-half of
what it is now and that the Pull
man Company would still make
enormous profits.
Secretary Herbert has made a
decision that can only be explained
by considering him to be absolute
ly Indifferent to the suffering of
others. He has decided that the
Congressional joint resolution ex-
tending the appropriations of the
last fiscal year for thirty days in
to the new fiscal year beginning
yesterday, on account of the regu-
lar appropriations not having been
acted upon by Congress, does not |
apply to the currant appropriations
for increase of the Navy" and in
consequence orders were issued
on Saturday to suspend 100 men
employed in the New York, Nor
folk and Mare Island navy yards. |
Even granting that the dicision
was technically legal, which is
doubted, is this time to deprive
|, 200 men, a majority of whom
we families, of employment when
y could just as well have been |
X 1T at work! What makes this
. seem all the more heartless is |
t;le suspicion, so well grounded
that it is practically Il certainty, |
that craftsmanship of the rankest |
kind is at the bottom of it. The |
Congressional campaign is about |
to open, and it Will doubtless be
seen when work is resumed at |
those navy yards that no man will
go back to work who cannot be
counted upon to help elect a demo
cratic Congressman.
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