The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1896-12-19
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WI 49,, II.

From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, Dec II, 1896.
Republicans have every reason to feel
Gratified at the outcome of the consulta-
tons of Senators and Representative
of the party, which have been a feature
Of the first week of Congress. With the
exception of a few of the silverbolters,
the party and both branches OF Cong
rass are a unit as TO what is to be done
in the near future.
The Republican members of the
House committee on Ways and Means
have once more demonstrated that the
Republican party never shirks its res
possibilities and always keeps promises
made to the people, by deciding to be-
gin at once the preparation ola protect
i've 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 Chair
man Dingley Of that Committee, and no
man is better fitted to direct the depart
ment of the Government charged with
the administration of the tariff law,
should President Mckinley see fit to
make him his Secretary ofthe Treasury,
as many believe he will There are
probably not twenty men in the cOun-
try who are 50 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 it is the inten-
ton to make the new tariff bill the best
we have ever had-nO catering TO favor
tie 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. 1t is in
a sense an innovation for the Ways and
Means Committee of one House to pre-
pare bill for the next House, but it
happens to be all right in this case, as
every Republican member of the pres
ent 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 Republican
opposition.
The Ways and Means Committee has
already held q formal meeting and
assigned the work of preparing the
different schedules of the new tariff bill
to the individual members of the Com
mittee best fitted to handle them, and
hearings of the Representatives of diff
erent 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 neutrality-suspicious. of foreign
goods and the consequent injury of our
own manufacturers aud working men.
This will be done by providing that du-
table goods in bonded warehouses at
the date upon which the new bin be-
comes 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 forbidding
the landing Of any immigrant between
the ages of IS and 60 years who is I'M
able TO read five lines of the L. s. con-
stitution in some printed language, by
postpOning its consideration until Janu-
airy. But the decisive manner in which
these senators, working in the interest
Of steamship companies rather than to
raise the standard of our foreign citiz-
ems, were sat upon by thirty-seven sena-
tors indicates almost to a certainty that
the bill will be passed before the holt |
laV recess