The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-09-14
(from our Regular Correspondence
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Sept. 10, '9l.

! would oppose any attempt To pu
: sugar on the free list, but would ait
in the passage OF the substitute pro
posed by the Senate Finance Com
mittee, striking out the diifcrentia
duty of one-eighth Of cent poun,
on refined sugar, leaving all sugar,
dutiable al flat rate Of 40 per cent
nd valorcm. Secretary Carlisle still
holds to his original opinion, that
he has no authority to pay out ;
dollar for bounty on sugar, but he
told Mr.. Meyer that he and Presi-
dent Cleveland were both in favor
of legislation providing not only fol
the payment of the bounty upon all
sugar made previous to the taking
effect OF the new tariff but for the
payment upon this years entire
crop Of the difference between the
bounty and the duty on foreign SUI
gar. Had this information been in
the possession of the La. sugar
planters it is probable that they
might have adopted a different sort
of resolution at their meeting last
week. He also told Mr.. Meyer that
his letter to Senator Harris, show
ing the necessity for the revenue
that the sugar duty will bring in,
was submitted TO President Cleye-
land and was approved by him be-
fore it was sent. twas so stated in
this correspondence at the time, al
though the know-it-alls asserted that
the letter was sent without Mr..
Cleveland's knowledge and against
his wishes.
The true inwardness of the al
legged flop Of Senator Jones, of Ne
vada, from the republicans to the
populists is now known. Ii was
merely a republican trick. Jones
is no more populist than he ever
was, and his pretended flop is but
the first move in game which was
to have been secret and which has
for its final object the nomination
and election to the Presidency of
Of Senator Cameron, of Pennsvl-
vania. Jones is the father of the
Cameron boom, and when he found
that the suggestion was very coldly
received by the silver men Of the
on account of Gamer
on's well-known connection with
and other corporations, not
the free coinage Of sill
yer, which was to be the corner
stone Of his canvass, he was disap-
pointed. Then it was that Jones
evolved the scheme of joining the
populists and turning their organi-
.ation into purely silver party, I,
eliminating every thing else from h
nei' platform, and having them en-
lorse the Cameron boom, which he
would induce the repub-
lean convention 10 nominate Cam
ron on a tree silver platform. The
scheme would not have had one
nance out of a possible one hun
lred even if it had been kept secret
Is intended, but now that it has
been exposed it simply has no
nance at all. Men of Don Cam
'ron's calibre have been elected ,
resident, but no man of his associ-
ltions ever has been or ever will be,
although, of course, he may buy I,
nomination if he will pay the price.
This isn't good administration
or sinecures. Secretary III o k G ,
smiths axe has just fallen upon ,
another. Like a great many other
people Secretary Smith was puzzled
when he first heard of the editor Of
he U. ;. Geological Survey. a
title investigation convinced him
hat the said editor was drawing
y 900 year without rendering an
equivalent to Uncle Sam, and
traightaway an order was issued
ibolishing the Office, which, by the
way, was created for the man now
urned out, Mr.. w. A. Croffut, a
'ery pleasant newspaper man with
| fad for mesmcrism, which he calls
Mr.. Croffut's hypno-
isn worked all right on a republic
AN Secretary, but it was a dismal
allure when applied to hard-shell
democrat like Hoke Smith.
Ex-Congressman Breckenridge, Of
Ark, now minister TO Russia, j. still
very much interested in politics.
lie said in the course of general
on southern politics
MY own State has just given an
exceptionally heavy democratic ma
ority, which is a fair indication Of
what the south may be expected to
DO in November. | wish, however.
that the majority had been little
lighter and the platform adopted at
the State convention little better
loo much was conceded the popu-
lists on the financial question. Bet
ter to have had a sound monetary