Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-06-24
|ROUND- IS GAINED !.
HAS ONE-THlRD OF
THE SOUTHERN VOTE.
Disturbing Fact Among Democratic
Leaders-Thfrty.t Southern House
Mem bers Voted for the DingIey Bill
Tariff Measure Making Progress.
Speed in the Senate.

Speed in the Senate.
&pecial Washington correspondence:
The Senate is making surprising
&peed on the tariff bill. The pressure
which is being brought upon it by the
&ountry has resulted in early and late
&essions, and the bill is moving at
ate of speed, absolutely unparalleled
ID the history of that ordinarily slow
$oing body. To see Senate controlled
by. no cloture rules and NO system such
is that by which the House eXpedltes
Business move at the speed which this
Dne has moved upon u subject which
Ordinarily takes such vast amount or
lime in that body is unprecedented.
Sd 1t is sometimes possible upon sub
jects which have no party bearing and
do not involve vast consequences to OBJ
tain speed in consideration by the Sen
late. But that a body not controlled by
the Republican party, or by any other
Single party indeed, having no rules by
(which debate can be controlled, should
DE able to take up and make the prog
less upon purely party measure, such
as protective tariff bill, that has been
made by the Senate since it began work
zupon this measure, is an entirely I'M
heard of thing. That this should have
#happened within few months of the
aclose of one Of the most bitterly fought
campaigns that the country has ever
seen is the more remarkable; and that
#cause still greater speed is not made
under these remarkable circumstances
can scarcely be accounted for, except
upon the theory suggested by gentle
man recently quoted in this CORE
#spondence, that the state Of nervous
#prostration to which the Cleveland ad-
sministration brought the country has
rendered the people to some degree IT.
Irresponsible and unwilling to measure
things expected by those that have
happened in the past.
The House Schedules Restored.
Nearly all the important changes
made by the Senate committee have
been rejected by the caucus and the
House rates restored. The rice sched-
ule, the sugar schedule, the lumber
schedule and others of those framed by
the House have been restored to the
bill in the Senate, and it is predicted
that the wool schedules framed by the
House committee will also be restored,
and will make the bill entirely satisfac-
tory to those interested. The restora-
ton of the House figures on the sugar
schedules deprives the Democrats OF
their hope that they would be able to
charge that the sugar trust had con-
trolled the framing of the bill.
Many ProtectionVotes from the South.
Nothing has more disturbed the
Democratic leaders in and out of Con-
gress than the fact that a large num-
Der of Democratic members from the
South have, within the past few days
and weeks, cast their votes in favor Of
IL protective tariff, and that no less than
one-third of the members of Congress
from south of Mason and Dixon's line
have either voted directly for a high
rate of protection in the pending tariff
bill, or refused to cast their votes
against it, Thirty-two Southern men in
the House voted for the Dingley bill,
and five others from that section-Pop-
ulists-refused to vote against it, while
in the Senate, as is well known num-
bers Of Southern Democrats and Popu-
lists have voted for either higher rates
of protection than were originally
placed in the bill, or than those report
ed from the Finance Committee.
That this growth of protective senti-
ment in the South is a genuine one and
largely the result Of the development of
manufacturing industries in that sec
tion, is apparent, but the necessity for
eXcusing and minimizing it has led
Mr.. Bryans organ, the Omaha World
Herald, and others papers, to assert
that the protective vote from the South
is cast by men not natives Of that sec
ton, and not representing it's real sen
timent In recent issue, the Omaha
World-Herald, commenting upon this
subject, says:
During the last decade a great deal
of Northern capital has been invested
in Southern manufacturing enterprises,
and it is natural that the investing cap
italsts, after years of paternalism in
the shape Of protection, should still
cling to it. The voices from the South
crying for protection are voices that
have been imported into that section
from protection nurtured New England,
and are not the voices of Southerners.
The protectionists in the South
are those who have left the sterile hills
of New England and wandered down
South to broaden their field of opera
tions"
This statement is interesting and es-
pecially 50 because it is untrue. IT'S
untruthfulness adds to it's interest be-
cause it shows to what desperate
straits the Democratic leaders are fore
ed in attempting by falsehood, as well
as otherwise, to rescue the free trade