The Red Cloud chief., 1897-07-09
pnssreA al the pos, once n Red Cloud, Neb. q
second class mail matter.
WASHINGTON Totes

The responsibility Tor the ISfure oi
the senate d pass the tariff bill last
week belongs to the republican sssa-
tors. Had they been able to agree on
several proposed amendments to the
bill, tho measure would today have
been returned 60 the house according
to en- expectations. The republican II
tors agreed at the hast minute to press
an amendment giving a bounty to beet
sugar, but rs soon as IL was brought
before the senate, Senators Joaes, OF
Ark, and Tellcr Of Colo, informed
them that the senate would remain in
session all the summer before that
amendment would be allowed to pass,
and tAe republicans wese compelled To
withdraw II, but IL was then renewed
by Senator Allen and Is still pending.
Nothing now stands in the way q the
final vse on the bin, but N agreement
among the republicans, asd that will
probably be reached within two or
three days.
Judging from expressions In Wash.
ington, the tariff amendment taxing
Mxnsters OF stock and bonds promises
TO be a popular q with the people.
1t will be paid by the spectators who
deal IL stocks and bonds, who, rs q
rule, do not pay their share Of taxation.
A member Of the administration says
that President Mckinley has almost
decided 70 send o special message TO
congress, asking that Legislation MI.
th0rixing n currency commission be
passed. 1t was supposed that represen.
tation made to the president by soma
tors had caused him 10 drop this idea,
because Of the impossibility OF getting
such legislation 10 n vote, even sup
posing that q quorum could he kept In
Washington after the tariff bill Is out
Of the way and that II majority could
be depended upon; but other influences
have been working to bring about the
sending Of the message to congress, re-
gardless of the probability Of its being
acted upon at this session. This was
not known until the presidents de-
parture for Canton, and as o . as he
gets. back IN Washington, tomorrow,
he will hear fron the senators Of his
party who wish the currency question
left alone for the present,
There is more ~ less growing amoug
.,,hlia .anutnra h.pansn .. .uunus
txrned down NE antitrust amendment
ia the tariff bill, prepared by Senators
Tharston, Davis and %Spooner, upon
hines suggested by Senator Nelson, aud
the amendment has been introduced Ms
a bill by Senator Tsurston. The bill
makes every person engaged In con
,kuoing a combine or trust guilty Of
misdemeanor, aud provides for their
punishment, m conviction, by both
line aud imprisonment at hard labT
Although it was stated by the op.
n Of this amendment in tho eau
Gus that IL was not the matter itself
they opposed, but incorporating it in
the tariff bill, nobody has any idea tina,
the matter will he allowed to &c
through the senate as an Independent
bill,
Senator Wellington, Of Maryland, |
going through what appears " unin
tsrested folk to be n case Of biting hi
W nose of to spite his face, aud hi
face isn't pretty eve at its best. HI
seems to have made the mistake Of &C
cepting as literally true, the fictior
that senators in sympathy with the ad
ministrstion, are allowed to dictate al
the federal patronage given to either,
OF their states, aud to have been led a,
consequence, to give q foolish imita
ton of Ajax defying the lightning, OF
the floor OF the senate, which amuse,
more men than it frightened. Mr.
Wellington ought to know that ever
such Influential parry leaders AS Scua
tors Plat, Of N Y. and Cnllom, q
nnA Minute Cngpwh Cure. cureS