Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-12-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.
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Wasainqton, Dec. 18th, 1896.

Wustinqton, Dec. 18TH, 1896.
Republicans have every reason TIC
feel gratified at the outcome Of the
consultation of Senators and Repre-
sentatives of the party, which have
been a feature of the first week Of
Congress. With the exception OF tbs
few silverbolters, the party and both
branches of Congress is unit as te
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 sill
yer element in the Senate, led by AL
len, the Nebraska populist, have al
ready been taught that the republican
Senators do not intend to lose any
opportu to pass the Dingley bill
at the present session. These would
be mischief makers started out with
the mistaken idea that the republic
cans were afraid Of the Dingley bill
and that they could so demonstrate
to the country; they may find them
selves prepared to go on record as
the opponents Of increasing the re-
venues of the government before the
short session closes, by being forced
to vote on the Dingley bill.
The republican members of the
House committee on Ways and Means
have once more demonstrated that
the republican party never shirks its
responsibilities and always keeps
promises made to the people, by de-
Gliding to begin at once the prepare
ton of a protective tariff bill, to be
passed at the extra session of the
next Congress. No man in Congress
is better fitted to preside over those
preparations than is Chairman Ding
ley of that committee, and no 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 treas
ury, as many believe he will. There
are probably not twenty men in the
country who are SO we'll posted on
the tariff as Mr.. Dingley is, and this
is especially fortunate both for the
country and for the republican party,
as s is the intention to make the new
tariff bill the best We have ever had,
nc catering to favorite industries, as
the present law does, but equitable
p. election for all, and at the same
time revenue enough 30 meet all the
neo5 OF the government. It is in a
sense an innovation for the Ways and
Means Committee of one House to
prepare a bill for tn next House, but
it happens to be all right in this case,
SIS every republican member of the
present com mittee has been re- elect
ed TO the next House and will be GER
tain TO retain their committee places
because Speaker Reed will be chosen.
The Ways and Means Committee
has already held a formal meeting
and assigned the work of preparing
the schedules of the new tariff bill to
the iadividual members of the COM
mittee best fitted to handle them, and
farent industries will at once be ar
ranged for One Of the mistakes of
the past which will be avoided by the
new bill will be the heavy importa-
tons of foreign goods and the con-
quent injury Of our own manufac-
ers and working men. This will
be done by providing that dutiable
goods in bonded ware houses at the
date upon which the new bill beco mes
a law shall pay duty under the new
and not the old law.
No one was greatly surprised when
certain democratic Senators--sixteen
of them-tried to kill the bill forbid
ding the landing Of any immigrant
between the ages of Is and so years
who is unable to read five lines of the
y. s. Constitution in some printed
language, by postponing it's consider
alton until January. But the decisive
manner in which these Senators,
working in the interest of Steamship
companies rather than to raise the
standard Of our foreign born citizens,
were sat upon by 81 Senators indicates
almost to certainty that the bill will
passed before the holiday recess.
The House during it's first week
passed the regular Pension Appropri-
alton bill, several important postal
bills, private pension bills, and a bill
prohibiting the sale Of liquor in the
Capitol building, and this week an
other one of the appropriation bills
be reported and probably passed.
Senator Sherman, Chairman of the
Republican Senatorial caucus lost no
time in complying with the unan-
i.,nHnrantinrnr of tho nnra,,n To