The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-05-15
They DIDN'T KNOW WHAT
TO DO WITH TOM pLATT
Republican Senate Committee on
Committees Can Not Agree
Where to Place Him.
BURROWS HAS TAKEN HIS PLACE
Senator Harris Says the Tarir Bill
May he Disposed of by July---
Tillman Wants IL Bounty
on Certain Exports.

Washington, May 6.-The republican
committee on committees will meet
again today and propose its list for a
caucus hat will be called 10 meet early
This COMMITTEES has had a task of no
mean proportions to perform owing to
the number of new senators, and the
aspiration of PLATE of New York, Sewell
and Spooner, all OF whom have preVi-
ously served in the senate and contend
that by reason of this service they are
entitled to special consideration.
Just what to do with Plat is a ques-
ton the committee has no been able to
answer to- its " satisfaction. He
wanted to go back to the finance coln-
mttee where he was when in the senate
as the colleague OF Roscoe Conkling,
1t was not an easy matter to turn down
"A great state like New York on such an
important committee, but this action
was taken and Burrows of Michigan
given the prize. and that, too, in the
race of the most urgen pressure. 1t is
said thai Platt Will finally land in for
eign relations.
Senator Harris of Tennessee, in dis
cussing the tariff bill, said: We shall
not be immoderate in our demands upon
the republicans, All that we ask Is that
we be given sufficient time to go over
the bill in committee and inform our
selves as to what the republicans have
done and offer such amendments as We
believe are reasonable and upon which
we may desire to put the minority on
record.
How much time this would take cam
not now be stated, but 1 do not think 1t
Wbllll l'puiire. y Very 1,tDor ,NhilA or
one thing the republicans and the coun-
Try can rest assured, and that is, there
Is no the least possible intention on the.
part OF the democrats to obstruct the
passage of the tariff bill. We shall an
tagonize the republican measure be-
cause we do not believe ii is Just, or
that it will afford the relief claimed for
1t. But after We have stated our posi-
ton on the floor of the nat we shall.
so far as We are concerned, permit the
bill to come to a vote. LIE the tariff is
the remedy for the ills that now aflict
US, well and good. At all events, we are
willing the republicans should try the
nostium. | am of the opinion that the
tariff Will he cut of the way somewhere
about the 1st of July"
The publication of the fact .has the
subcommittee of the nance committee
intends to put a duty on hides has had
the effect OF drawing to the capitol bust
ness men Interested in the shoe trade
from all parts of the United States. Sev
eral of the representatives OF the i'm
mense shoe factories of Massachusetts,
Were at the capitol in conference with
Senator Lodge and other New England
members. While they have been un-
able to get n satisfaction from the
members of the Subcommittee, they
are laboring with senators in general to
show them the injustice of the PROPOSE
ton from their point of View. There is
little doubt that when the bill gets into
the senate there viii be a mighty effort
to lave hides restored to their old place
on the free list.
Senator Tillman is considering Ii ad-
Visibility of Offering an amendment to
the tariff bill which will provide for an
export bounty on cotton and wheat. He
is of the opinion that this would be of
great benefit to the farmers of the south
and west and YOU be q beneficial
stimulus to the trade that Immediately
affects the communities in which these
two crops are raised. AS a rule, the
southern statesmen are opposed to
bounties in any shape, but the South
Carolina statesman thinks that posi-
bly, this would not be q bad experiment.