The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-04-09
WASHINGTON LsETER.



WASHINGTON, D. O., April 8, '98.
A wave Of Mckinley enthusiasm
. truck Washington this week, and for
little while II looked like all the oppo.
nents Of the popular Ohioan would be
sw amped, but now things have resumed
thei normal condition-that is. Repub.
lie ans are standing up for their choice,
Just as they we're before that wave swept
o yer. It is admitted, however, by many
of the staunchest supporters Of the other
c andidates that few more waves like
hat would make Gov. McKinley's nomi.
alton certainty. OF course his sup
porters insist that his nomination is al.
eady assured, and some of them are
ev en- saying that they wouldn't be sur
pr Used to see the thing made unanimous
by the withdrawal of all the other can.
didates. The supporters of the other
andidates say that Gov. McKinley's
g reatest danger arises from his great
trength that he is strong enough to
lead the field, but not strong enough to
be nominated on the first ballot.
The House added an amendment to
the sundry civil appropriation bill pro-
viding for the purchase of the Washing.
ton house in which Lincoln died, and
for:the placing of the house under the
care Of the Memorial Society, organized
several years ago under special act OF
Congress.
Owing to disagreement as to which
of the two competing companies should
be given the concession for laying and
maintaining cable from California to
Hawaii, the Senate committee on
Foreign Relations voted against report.
ing.the bill providing for that cable. As
it is known that seven out of the eleven
members of the committee favor the
cable It is believed that bill will yet
be reported. The trouble was that the
seven members who favored the cable
disagreed as to which of the two com.
panies should lay it and the four Demo-
Gratis who oppose the cable took advan.
tage of the disagreement to vote so as to
hang the whole business up, for time.
Senator Oullom, who is the author of
the Interstate Commerce law, will en-.
deavor to overcome the effect of the
Supreme Court decision that no authori.
ty was conferred upon the Interstate
Commerce commission by that law to
compel railroads to regulate their prices
for freight so as not to charge more for a
short haul than for q long one, by intro.
ducing bill to amend the law by spe.
cifcally providing that railroads shall
not carry foreign goods cheaper than
they carry domestic goods.
The third quarter of the fiscal year
ended this week, and the footings of the
Treasury figures for the past months
add the very strongest confirmation to
the lack of sufficient revenue to run the
government, which Republicans, in and
out of Congress have been so long inn
pressing upon the country, and which
the House tried to remedy by passing a
revenue tariff bill. The deficit for the
nine months ending March 81, was $1S,'
819,708. The increase in revenues which
Secretly Carlisle predicted in bis annual
report to Congress has not come and
will not come SO long as the present
tariff law continues in force.
The sugar growers of the country pre-
sented strong appeal-they claim. ar
appeal for the life of the industry
the House Ways and Means committee
this week, for legislation to enable then
to compete with the German producer
whe are paid an export bounty by thei
government, and who are taking advan
tage of the war in Cuba, which has vir
tually shut off the supply OF Cubal
sugar, to crush the sugar growing in
. dustry of the United States, and tc ali
them in that task bill is now pendin
in the German Reichstag to increase tn
export bounty on sugar. Represents
: tives of the sugar growers said the,
would be glad to be at least put upol
the same footing as the Germans, b.
having Congress pass a bill putting
duty upon German sugar OF the sam
amount that was paid by Germany as Al
export duty. They also complained q
the injustice of the with holding of tn
: money appropriated by Congress to pa
sugar bounties. The Republican men
bers of the committe sympathize wit
the sugar growers, and if they had tn
power would gladly do something fo
them, but their inability to do anythin
was made plain by the suggestion {
Chairman DinRley that the delegatio
: should try to persuade the Senate to n
cede from it's attitude of opposition
tariff legislation.
A notable feature OF the debate o
the report of the Election committee
favor of Col. Dupont's right to seat i
the Senate has been the absence of pa
J. kioon ohin II hos huav,. On for tr;otlv