Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-07-17
WASHINGTON LETTER.


ger point in the Senate, where the
Republicans are without majority,
there is good reason to believe that it
will receive the signature of the Pres
ident by the end of another week.
THE TARIFF BILL VERY SATISFACTORY.
That the tariff bill was especially
satisfactory to the people when itleft
the house is beyond question, and as
its discussion in the Senate brought
it nearer to the form in which it was
passed by the House the responses
from the country now Indicate that it
is meeting with proper approval.
WOOL AND SUGAR.
The sugar and wool schedules will
be the most important questions be-
fore the conferees, though both of
these have been brought so nearly in
line with the House bill that there
will be little difficulty, probably, in
reaching an agreement. Whether
that agreement affects the House or
the Senate schedule or strikes a COM
promise between them, the country
will be satisfied, because of the fact
that these features of the Senate
schedule or strike a compromise be-
tween them, the country will De salts
fed, because of the fact that these
features of the Senate have been
brought so nearly in line with the
House schedules.
TRUSTS AND DEMOCRATS HIT HARD.
The most bitterly disappointed
men in Congress over this bill are
those who hoped to make capital out
of the cry of trusts and especially
sugar trust. The bill. even as it pass
ed the Senate, destroys this oppOrtu-
nifty, and is accepted by the people
as an evidence that however much
the sugar trust may have controlled
the Democratic party in framing the
Wilson law, it does not and cannot
control the Republican party in it's
Legislative duties.
THE BOUNTY ON BEET SUGAR.
The Republicans were compelled
to abandon the beet sugar bounty
proposition because of Democratic OPP
position. The amendment proposed
to pay bounty of a quarter of a cent
pound during a five years period
from the passage of the bill. This, it
was felt, would insure the establish
ment of the beet sugar industry in
the United States. 1t is by this pro-
cess that European countries have not
only encouraged the production of
beet sugar, but actually established
system which supplied more than half
the sugar of the world by a process a
generation ago unknown. 1t was felt
that this slight encouragement in this
country similar to that utilized in
other countries might enable the far
mers of the United States to produce
the hundred million dollars worth of
sugar for which we are now sending
our money abroad. But the Demo-
Gratis opposed the proposition, as they
do everything which emanateS from
the Republicans, and gave notice that
they would delay the bill by long
and indefinite discussion, making it
probable that months would elapSe
before vote could be had if the
bounty proposition were pressed by
the Republicans. The result was that
the Republicans were compelled to
either abandon the proposition tenn
porarily or keep the country in sus-
penSe with reference to the tariff bill
for months. They therefore deter
mined to withdraw their sugar-bounty
amendment and offer it as a separate
measure in the hope of getting vote
upon it at next session.
WHY THE ANTITRUST AMENDMENT
WAS ABANDONED.
The antitrust amendment was
abandoned for similar reasons. The
Republicans would have gladly insert
ed an amendment of this character in
the bill, but it became so apparent
that it would be made the vehicle for
lengthy discussion and further delay
of the bill that it was found necessary
to make the antitrust proposition an
independent measure rather than de-
lay the tariff for it's discussion.
There is a time for everything; and
the time to attend to a cold is when
it starts. Don't wait till you have
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