The Arizona sentinel., 1896-12-26
T4sETEGT0E LETTER.
From cur Resala- corts-esntsntl

the consultation Ci senators aNG Representatives of the party. winch have been @ feature of the first week of Congress. With the ez-I ception of the few silyerbeIters the party and both branches of Con grass is a unit as to what is to be done in the near future, Without @ majority in the Senate the party is powerless to force tariff or any other legislation at this session of Congress, but the mischievous sil- yer element ill the Senate, led by Allen, the Nebraska populist, have airead been fought that the Re- publican Senator's do not intend to lose any opportunities to pass the Dingley bill at the present sas- sion. These would-be mischief makers started out with the mis- taken idea that the Republicans were afraid of the Dingley bill and that they could so demonstrate to the country; they may find them selves prepared to go no record as the opponents of increasing the revenues of the government before the short session closes, by being forced to vote on the Dingley bill.
 The Republican members of the i House committee on ways and means have once more demoustrat- ed that the Republican party never shirks its responsibilities and always keeps promises made to the people, by deciding to begin at once the preparation of 8 protective tariff bill, to be passed at the eX- tra session of the next Congress. No man in Congress is better fitted i to preside over those preparations than is Chairman Dingley of that Committee, and 10 man is better fitted to direct the department of the Government charged with the administration of the tariff law, should President Mckinley see fit to make him his Secretary of the Treasury, as many believe he will There are probably not twenty men in the country who are so well posted on the tariff as 1Ir. Dingley is, and this is especially fortunate both for the country and for the Republican party, as 1t is the in- tention to make the new tariff bill the best we have eyer had--n0 cater ing to favorite industries, as the ! present law does, but equitable protection for all, and at the same ! time revenue enough to meet the needs of the government. It is in a sense an innovation for the Ways and Means Committee of one House to prepare a bill for the next House, but 1t happens to be ali right in this case, as every Republican member of the present committee has been reelected to the next House and will be certain to retain their committee places because Speaker Reed will be chosen Speaker of the next House without Repub- lican opposition.
 The Ways and Means Commit tee has already held formal meet ing and assigned the work of pre- pairing the different schedules of the new tariff bill to the individual members of the Committee best fitted to handle them, and hear Iings of the Representatives of diff ferent industries will at once be arranged for. One of the mistakes Of the past which will be avoided by the new bill will be the heavy importations of foreign goods and the consequent injury of our own manufacturers and working men. This will be done by providing that dutiable goods in bonded warehouses at the date upon which the new bill becomes 9 law shall pay duty under the new and not the old law.
 No one was greatly surprised when certain Democratic Senator's sixteen of them-tried to kill the bill forbidding the landing of any immigrant between the ages of 16 and G0years who IS unable to read five lines of the U. s. Constitution in some printed language, by post poning it's consideration until January. But the decisive man. nor in which these Senators, work ing in the interest of Steamship