Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-06
THE POLITICIAN.

The POLITICIAN.
A wave of Mckinley enthusiasm
struck Washington last week, and for
little while it looked like all the op-
ponents of the popular Ohioan would
be swamped, but now things have re-
sumed their normal condition-that is,
Republicans are standing up for their
choice. just as they were before that
wave swept over. 1t is admitted, how
ever, by many of the staunchest sup
porters of the other candidates that a
few more waves like that would make
ty. OF course his supporters insist
that his nomination is already assured,
and some of them are even saying that
they wouldn't be surprised to see the
thing made unanimous by the with
drawal of all the other candidates.
The supporters of the other candidates
say that McKinley's greatest danger
arises from his great strength: 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 Wash
ington house in which Lincoln died,
and for the placing of the house under
the care of the Memorial Society, Or
ganized several years ago under spec
ial 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 For
eign Relations voted against reporting
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 a bill will yet
be reported. The trouble was that the
disagreed as to which of the two COM
panies should lay it and the four Dem
ocrats who oppose the cable took ad-
vantage of the disagreement to vote so
as to hang the whole business up, for a
time anyway.
Senator Cullom, who is the author of
the Interstate Commerce law, will en-
deavor to overcome the effect of the
Supreme Court decision that no au-
thority was conferred upon the Inter
state Commerce commission by that
law to compel railroads to regulate
their prices for freight SO as not to
charge more for short haul than for
long one, by introducing bill to
amend the law by specifically provid-
ing that railroads shall not carry for
'seign goods cheaper than they carry
domestic goods.
The third quarter of the fiscal year
ended last week, and the footings of
the Treasury figures for the past nine
months adds the very strongest confir-
nation to the lack Insufficient revenue
to run the government, which Repub-
iicans, in and out of Congress, have
been so long impressing 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 SIS, s19, 7os. The increase
in revenues which Secretary Carlisle
predicted in his annual report to Con.
gress has not come and will not come
SO long as the present tariff law con-
tinues in force.
The sugar growers of the country
presented strong appeal-they claim
an appeal for the life of the industry
to the House Ways and Means commit
tee, this week, for legislation to enable
them to compete with the German pro-
dncers who are paid an export bounty
by their government, and who are TAX
ing advantage of the war in Cuba,
which has virtually shut off the supply
of Cuban sugar, to crush the. sugar
growing industry OF the United States,
and to aid them in that task bill is
now pending in the German Reichstag
to increase the export bounty on sugar.
Representatives of the sugar growers
said they would be glad to be at least