Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-05-17

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thereby he can keep himself out of
jail Indeed, the populist represen.
tative, Hudson, of Kansas, who was
one Of the volunteer counsel at the
trial, tried to get him hole to
crawl out of by stating that Coxey
and his army intend to leave Wash.
ington as soon as he can get a hear
ing before either a senate or house
committee in favor Of his bills, and
that he has no utilization with other
so.called "commonweal armies" now
on the way to Washington. Coxey
afterwards denied that Hudson was
authorized to say so much. 1t is
nip and tuck between hunger and
the health officials az to which shall
succeed in scattering the COXeyItes.
The falling off in contributions has
brought the men still III camp down
to two rather scanty meals day,
and the health officials want the
camp broken up as sanitary meas
ure, to put the camp in sanitary
condition, or remove the men there.
from. Desertions by wholesale are
| going on, aud unless the food sup
ply is increased the "army" cannot
be held together another week.
Senator Aduch, of Il. l., thus
sums up the result of the democratic
tariff concessions: "There are 400
amendments to the tariff bill, and
an analysis of them shows some
curious results. 32S of them show
An increase in the rates, ranging
from 10 TO 800 per cent. But six
of these amendments reduce duties,
and two Of these are on rice and
two on opium. The remaining
changes are chiefly in the phraseol-
ogy of the bill or the transfer from
the free To the dutiable list. Another
notable fact is, that in nearly every
case where these increases were made
the change was also made from ad
valorem TO specific duties. If these
| increases had been made with re-
gard to the requirements of the diff
ferent industries from protective
standpoint, the bill would have been
a comparatively good one, but they
were evidently made in response TO
pressure from certain senators, and
no such purpose governed those
who prepared the measure. The
height Of the rate was evidently
fixed by the extent of the pressure
brought To bear 10y rebeIious sena-
tors, and the result is that the in
qualities and anomalies of the bill
as originally reported are magnitied
and made prominent in the new bill
formulated by the mysterious CON
ference, whose membership is uu-
certain"
The democrats Of the senate have
concilated the so,called "conaerva-
tives," except Hill, of N. Y, 10y the
amendments to the tariff bill, but
they have stirred up regular hor-
nets nest of opposition among the
extreme free trade senators from
the south, and the final result is as
much in doubt as ever. Senator
Mills, who probably comes rs near
voicing the sentiment of the free
trade element as any one senator,
was goaded into making a few re-
marks that created a sensation on
the. democratic side of the senate,
! BY reference to his recent speech
/ by senator Aldnch. lie started out
| by saying that he was now a little
nearer the devil on the subject Of
the tariff bill than he was when he
made his speech the other day, in
which he said that he was between
the devil and the deep sea. He
said that the bill was no longer
the Wilson bill, but should be called
the German bill or the Brice bill,
and declared, waving his arms in
intense excitement, that the senators
who framed the compromise amend
ments should not shirk their re-
sibility, but should stand out in
the open sunlight and assume the
4 rpsppnEihilify for avery amendment