Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-06-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular correspondent
wAsHIKGroE. D. C.. June is Isa,

WAsHIEGroE. d. c.. June Is lsas
Delegate Catron, of New Mexico
had the pleasure before congress adj,
journed of presenting strong report
to the house, from the committee %
territories, in favor of the bill admit.
ting New Mexico into the,statehood
The report recalls the fact thai ~
long ago as the forty-third congress
a bill for the admission. OF, New Max-
leo to the Union passed both branches
of congress, but was hung up because
ofta senate amendment upon which
the house did not hayetime to ac,
Mr.. Catron is confident that the bin
will go through all right at the short
session of congress.
/ The Indian bill as finally apreed m
limits government aid to sectarian
Indian schools to the fiscal year he.
ginning July /, next, and provides
that the money appropriated shall be
as far as may be equally apportioned
among the Indian schools of all
denominations.
Chairman Dingley, of the house
ways and means committee, is one
of the comparatively few republicans
in congress who will not attend the
st. Louis convention. Before leav-
ing for his home to- take a long rest.
which he needs, he said, Il regret
that the democratic. friends of the
administration, and the silver men
in the senate, refused to accept the
relief for the treasury contained in
the emergency tariff bill passed by
the house. Anumber of prominent
democrats have told me that their
party made a serious blunder in not
taking that bill which was thoroughly
non-partisan in it's construction. and
passing it through the senate as
promptly as itpassed the house. Sem
ator Hill has told me more than once
that his party associates made
serious mistake in not excepting that
bill. From a party standpoint, he
was obliged to defend the admins
tration and disparity, but there never
has been any Doubt in his mind about
the insufflciency of the revenues.
Not only has Senator Hill admitted
that fact, but Senator German and
other democrats have made similar
statements, Secretary Carlisle, in
spite of his public utterances to the
contrary, has admitted the insult
ficiency of the revenues. | have APP
pealed to. Secretary Carlisle to use
his influence with the administration
and his party in congress to treat the
subject as. purely business propo-
sition and divorce it from the mar
row lines of political sentiment and
false partisan pride. But he could
not bring himself to look at the mat
ter in that light. The administra-
tion's advisers took the ground that
the democratic tariff bill would pro-
duce sufficienttevenue and although
they have discovered their mistake,
they cannot bring themselves to the
point of publicly eonfessing their
error, but insist upon forcing paper
balances and showing a fictitious
surplus"
The report of the house ways and
means committee on the danger of
japanese competition in our market
is an interesting document. The
committee does not think there Is
any immediate danger from that
quarter, and say thai when there is
it can be easily warded off by the
same policy which between 1861 and
1893 proved so effective against the
products of poorly paid European
labor--a protective tariff with duties
high enough to make up for the dit
erence in wages paid in foreign coun-
tries and in The United States.