Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-09-14
WASHINGTON CITY NEWS.

inc notb,ho Its members now not
only fear the loss of the houses but also
of the senate, and they are So wide apart
in their opinions as TO what ought to be
done to stop the stampede that they are
d ing nothing, except to advise those
who apply to the committee for help TO
make their canvass upon any issue that
will give them chance to wln. The re-
publican campaign committee Is just
the reverse in everything. 1t is thor
oughly united an6 hard at work. taking
advantage of the fighting chance the
party has to regain control OF both
house and senate. There Is no over
confidence. But every member of the
committee is thoroughly determined
that nothing shall be left urdone by the
committee to help the party win every
where that it has chance to win.
Secretary Carlisle's determination to
appoint commission composed Of Gus
tom house inspectors and treasury Off
,ials, to make regulations to carry into
effect the sugar schedule OF the new
tariff law was just what the sugar trust
wanted him to do. The more compll-
Gated those regulations are made the
better they will suit the trust and such
A commission as Mr.. Carlisle has named
will be sure TO make them complicated.
The agents Of the sugar trust have been
little anxious about the construction
that might be put upon the CONNECTION.
ers clause of the sugar schedule, which
says that refined sugar "tinctured, col
ored or adulterated' may be imPortea
under 80 per cent. ad valorem duty
1t has been claimed that by the addi
ton of little coloring or adulterant or
binary refined sugar could be brought
in under that clause. The question will
probably be settled by Mr.. Carlisle's
commission, and the agents of the trust
appear to have little doubt of its being
settled as hey wish it to be-so as to
keep foreign refined sugar out of our
market, unless it pays the differentlal
duty of one-eighth of one cert pound
in addition to the 40 per cent ad valor-
EN- imposed upon raw sugar.
Senator Jones, Ct Nevada, is unques
tionably the biggest man the populists
have yet caught, but when one comes
to carefully read and digest Senator
Jones letter formally announcing him
self populist 1t will be seen that he
isn't much Of populist after all, In
fact there is only one reason why he is
populist at all. The populists believe,
o. say they do, in the free coinage OF
silver at a ratio of l6 to | by the United
States, regardless of the support or OPP
position of European nations. Senator
Jones has for years believed in that
idea. And that is the only reason he
gives for having become a populist
He does not endorse any of the numer-
GUS 1srns of the populists. The most of
the populsts in congress have an
nounced themselves to be free traders
and the general impression in Washing
ton is that they represent the sentiment
of the populist voters. Now, Senator
Jones is one of the staunchest protec-
tionlsts in this country. Here is his
own definition of the position he occu-
MES TODAY: II abate not an iota of my
convictions with reference to the bene-
fcient influence on American industry
of the policy of protection. A protec
tive policy l regard merely as a means
bv which the people Of the country may
secure to themselves the doing Of their
own work in such volume and with such
complete variety and perfect co-ordina-
ton of industries as to afford unlnter-
rupted employment for all" If this in
dicates anything 1t indicates that Sena-
tor Jones will be found voting With the
republicans for a complete restoration of
the protective policy which gave this
country thirty years of prosperity never
eoualed in the worlds history by any
other country, when tue republicans
again control the Legislative and execu
tive branches Of the government, which
they will do after March A, 1897.
Senator Dubois, of Idaho, is as
stauncb an advocate Of free silver as
there is in the United States Just be-
fore leaving Washington for his home
he was asked what he thought of the
! ,,.;a,, 90 SaDatOr JOnpe He declined