The Press., 1895-11-07
(From our regular correspondent.) Washington Letter.
 Washington. Nov. 4. 189

 revenues of the government, in his annual message to congress, and no member of his cabinet has so far been able to sug- gest any satisfactory solution of the trou- ble. If he ever thought the present tariff would produce enough money, which IS very doubtful, he knows now beyond the shadow of a doubt that it will not. Of course he knows, as everybody else does, that congress will legislate on this subject regardless of his recommendation, but that knowledge does not help him any. He knows also that unless the dem- ocrats propose allowing the presidential election to go by default 1t is absolutely necessary for that party to make some definite declaration on the subject, and that as the official head of the party he ought to make it in his message to congress. For him to recommend rais- ing the needed revenue by amendment of the tariff law would be to acknowledge the error of the democratic party and him. self on the tariff question. That he will not do, whatever he may think. Moth ing is left, then, but to recommend an in crease in internal revenue taxes, and in the number of articles subject to such taxation, or both. He knows that no rec ommendation in that line will be popular, and it is not strange that he should be worried.
 There is but one opinion among repub- lican senators and members of the house who have been heard from. That is, that if the administration gets the money it needs it will be through amendments to the tariff law, placing certain articles now free of duty, which enter into active competition with similar articles produced in the United States, upon the dutiable list, and increasing the duties upon other articles of foreign production, the low du- ties upon which now cripple number of American industries by reducing the out put of our mills and factories. It has been said that the senate will not pass such amendments if adopted by the house, and that if it did MT. Cleveland would veto them. We'll, that is for the senate and MT. Cleveland to decide. The house is republican, as is the country, and it is going to legislate on republican lines, and if it's legislation fails to become laws the people will be appealed to, and they will sec to it that after March 4, 1897, there will be republican senate and president, as we'll as republican house.
 Representative Kirkpatrick, good re- publican who succeeds Hudson, populist, as congressman from the third Kansas district, is in Washington. When asked who was the favorite presidential candi- date of Kansas republicans, he said: II think Mckinley has a little advantage in our state; he has visited us several times and made many admirers. But Mir. Reed also has many followers. The Kansans like sturdy fighter, such as the Maine man has proved himself. We would be well pleased with either of these two. Either can carry the state. Populism is a thing of the past and will cut no more figure in Kansas. My opinion is that next year, seeing themselves in such hope less minority, the populists will support the democratic electoral ticket in return for some favors in the selection of state ticket. Right now there is no talk of such combination, and, in fact, they profess to dislike each other intensely. Whether they fuse or not will be of no consequence to the republicans, because no opposition ticket will have the slight est chance for success"
 How earnest Pittsburg is about secur- ing the republican national convention may be judged by the talk of c. T. Rawls of that city, who is now in Washington helping the project along. He said: "Our citizens have already pledged themselves to contribute $65, ,000, and before the na- tiOnal committee meets to decide on the matter they will have it increased to $1OO,000. About the only charge that is brought against us is lack of adequate hotel facilities, and yet we took care of the Grand Army meeting a little while ago in splendid style. I don't think there is any reason to fear that the delegates and visitors would suffer from poor ac- ) commodations. We have one of the great est auditoriums in the country in our ex- position building, which can, by a little alteration, be turned into convention hall capable of seating 15,OOO people,"
 The $25, ,000 year which Don M. Dick inson, of Michigan, is said to receive from the brewers because of his supposed in- fuence with MT. Cleveland and his conse- quent ability to look out for the brewing interest is in danger of being cut off. MT. Dickinson has been set upon by Mr. Cleve- land in manner that indicates the loss of whatever influence he may have had with the administration. Mir. Dickinson undertook to have two of the new gun Gboats authorized by congress built by a I Detroit firm, notwithstanding the treaty of 1915, which prohibits either govern ment building war ships on the great lakes. Secretary Herbert turned MT. Dickinson down; he appealed to Mir. Cleveland, and now MT, Cleveland has turned him down. It remains to be seen whether the brewers will also turn him down.
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