The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-12-17
Wool Growers and other Producers
10 BE Represented and strongly
Urge Their Claims
CRUSADE FOR MORE SPOILS
PROBABLE ATTEMPT TO REPEAL
THE CIvIL-sERvICE LAW.
Features of Other Proposed Legisla-
tion-Pension Rulings-Batt.e ship
Texas Defended by Herbert.
ecial to the indianapolis Journal.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 16.-As noted else
where the Dingley bill was killed for good
in the Senate to-day. All hope of passing
revenue measure at this session having
been abandoned. the Republican members
of Congress will give their attention TO the
new tariff bill that is being prepared for
passage at the special session TO be called
next March. The bill which will be en-
acted into a law is i'm its early formative
stages in the ways and means committee
of the House. In due time il will be re-
ported by that committee and in all human
probability will become "a law. Chairman
Dingley has put a quietus on all prophesy
foreshadowing the passage of the bill dur
ing the present term OF Congress. He says
there is no disposition to press the bill and
that nothing will be done to urge IL until
a special session of Congress is called 10
consider it. MIR. Platt and Mr.. Sherman
reflected these views in the Senate to-day
and Mr.. Frye did the same.
The demonstration over the Dingley bill
in the Senate to-day was brought about
by Senator Vest. of Missouri. for the sole
and only purpose Of enabling him to man.
ufacture a little campaign capital for his
own use in Missouri. The Legislature OF
that State is soon to elect United States
senator and Mr.. Vest is a candidate for
reelection. He appears to have q walk
over. but he is too experienced a politician
to overlook any points. Hence his mock
attempt to resurrect the Dingley bin and
his hanging up of the confirmation Of Sec
retary Francis. the leading sound-money
Democrat of his State
Members of the House ways and means
committee say to-day the report sent from
here outlining elaborate scheme for
! duty on silver i'm the new tariff bill is mere
| ly a fiction. No such proposition has been
considered in the preliminary discussions
of the bill which the Republicans have had.
| although il has been generally understood
| from the beginning that there would be
| duty on all ores of which silver is a bi-
| product. A member of the committee said:
"A duty on silver would be as useless
a duty on rain water. for the reason that
| no silver is imported into this country. The
| only thing we can do for the silver min
ers will be to put duty on Mexican lead
ore of which silver is bi-product BY do
ing this we will give protection TO the
| lead interests and incidentally to the sill
yer miners. No such scheme as a sliding
| tariff on silver bullion based on its market
price has been thought Of"
| Senator Teller said concerning the report:
lit is a very foolish idea IL ti"'y think
they can catch the silver men by any such
sop as that they are mistaken IL would
| only emphasize the claim of the gold mea
| that silver Is mere comrlot'ty. liz duty
| of 80 cents an ounce was placed on silyeg
| il would not raise 1he price of silver u
| cent The price of silver ~ nxed abroad
where it is used. The only silves that Is
| imported into this country Is from Mexico
| on which people in this country make a
| profit i'm handling That is all right. and
| there can be no objection 10 u. The silver
| thus imported is shipped out again The
| price of silver is fixed Dy the countries
| which use IL for money and in TIE arts
| We don't use more than ten millions In
| arts.
The hearings TO be given to the WAYS
| and means committee on the tariff question
| promise TO attract an even greater num-
ber of business men to Washington than
usually gather during a revision of the
tariff The committee is already over
| whelmed by applications from representa-
| tives of the various interests who are anx-
| ious to present arguments Tor increasing
| the rates. The Democratic members OF the
| committee intend TO marshal witnesses In
| rebuttal to advocate the continuance OF the
| Wilson bill. They desire TO have their side
| of the case included in the printed record
of the hearings. IL will be practically i'm
| possible for the committee TO near all the
ia me limited time assigned to the subject.
| The committee expects that those who ap-
pear will have their arguments prepared u
writing to be placed on file and printed
The National Wool Growers Association
at its meeting here to-day unanimously
adopted the following:
Resolved. That this association favors
| an extra session of Congress soon az
| practicable after March T. 1897. and asks
| that Congress will enact the wool tarifl
bill agreed on, and We declare that nothinG
| less will satisfy the wool growers OF the
| United States fill the measure OF the
| promise OF the most ample protection for
| the wool industry, sanctioned by the votes
| of the people in November. 1896.
| The association will meet I'm Washingtou
Jan T. 1887 TO present the claims OF WOO
growers TO the benefit of the proposed bill