The Globe-republican., 1897-07-01
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Special Correspondence.

The tariff bill, when it reaches the
President, will probably contsin the
House rates on nearly all the i'm
portant features. While it could
scarcely be expected that the Senate
would reject the amendments which
it's own committee had proposed and
go absolutely back to the House
schedule, there is q strong DISPOSE
ton among Senators to allow the
conference committee to restore alb
solutely the House schedules on first
and second class woods, sugar, pot
terry, farm products generally and
many other articles in which the
amendments made by the Senate
committee have proven unpopular.
The bill as framed by the House
committee and passed by that body
was especially acceptable to the agri
cultural interests, and especially
acceptable to Republicans generally
in the fact that it precluded the pos
sibility of suspicion or successful
charge that it was framed in the in
terests of or to the advantage of
trusts of any kind. Whether the
Senate amendments are more
favorable to the trusts or not, the
mere fact that many persons be-
lieve them to be so is likely to lead
the conference committee to restore
the House rates, and there
is every reason to believe that the
Senate will promptly accept them.
DISCUSSING THE HAWAIIAN TREATY.
The Hav allan annexation treaty
continues to be the subject of much at
tention and discussion, and the more
it is discussed the more satisfactory
it becomes and the greater the pros
pect of its satisfaction. While it is
scarcely expected that it will be
taken up for final action at this
session, there is every reason to be-
lieve that it will be confirmed at no
distant day and that the American
flag, which was pulled down in
Hawaii by an ex-Confederate at the
direction of Grover Cleveland, will be
hoisted permanently under the direc
lion of that Union soldier, William
Mckinley.
IT'S BEARING ON THE CUBAN QUESTION.
The fact that President Mckinley
1as so promptly and successfully
carried out this important feature of
he foreign policy outlined by the
st. Louis platform has given add
sional confidence in his wisdom and
prospective success in shaping a
satisfactory policy with reference
% Cuba. The demand for instant
lction on this subject, which was so
'trenuous a month ago, seems to
,ave entirely disappeared, and there
s disposition to permit the Presi-
lent to formulate and carry out his
policy, which. it is believed, will be q
ust one aud satisfactory to the
riends of Cuba.
THE TARIFF BILL BEING PUSHED.
The protest of the people against
Democratic delay of the tariff bill has
,een SO loud and clear that even the
members of that party could not re-
list it. The progress upon the bill
his week has been rapid, SO rapid
hat there is reason to expect that it
will pass the Senate by the end of the
month.
Not only is the progress made
y the bill extremely satisfactory 80
ar as relates to the Senate, but the
prospects are that the time occupied
n conference will be unusually brief.
ordinarily tariff bill is in confer
nee several weeks, sometimes
months. But there is reason to be
ieve that the time occupied by the
conference committee will be as
'rief, comparatively, as has been the
ime occupied with the other feat
Tres of the bill. The fact that the
Senate has restored the House rates
n q large number of cases and has
learly reached the House figures on
he most important of the changes
made by the Finance Committee re-
luces very much the time that the
i'll is likely to occupy in reaching 81
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